Craft Organizing

I know it's far from spring, but my strange urge to cleanse led me to organizing my craft supplies. 

You can see some of my upcycling projects from this post and this post in the shelves below too!

Here are the ribbon holders I made. 

I originally only made one, but then I liked it so much, and I had a ton more ribbon, so I bought a second and painted it in a different shade of blue :)

More organized craft supplies: 

Notice the painted magazine holders in the background? Now storing scrapbook paper, sheets of sticker letters, & pretty odds and ends.

My upcycled storage tins have been put to good use too :)

Finally, I can scrapbook & craft in an organized, much more peaceful space :)

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Upcycling for Organizing

This upcycling project didn't take much time or effort at all. 

All I needed was the items and some blue spray paint.
The first project is a holder to put all my ribbons on, and the second is an old magazine holder. 

Not much work at all, and even less than usual because my husband kept his pregnant wife away from the fumes by spraying them for her :)

Before painting

Getting painted :)

Found some free space in the garage to spray paint old magazine boxes too :)

This is what they looked like when they were all done. Shiny Blue creations.

Why spend unnecessary time on spray painting random objects you ask?? 

This is why (below).... Scrapbooking and craft supplies have overtaken my guest bedroom. 

They are ok to stay there, but they most definitely need to be organized. 

AND what better way to organize then with pretty matching boxes and containers? 

Hopefully this mess will get cleaned up soon!

You can see from the last picture that I tried to start, but then I got sidetracked..... 
Hopefully my pretty new blue creations will inspire me to organize!

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Upcycled Storage Tins

Remember these?? I wrote about them in my post about Garage Sale Finds! The time has come to make them into something prettier :)

I bought the tins for about 50 cents with the intention of turning them into craft room strorage. The cool kids call this upcycling - recycling the items into something fresh and new again. Actually... I'd like to repeat this process with a few other items too so that I can have a very co-ordinated craft shelf one day. For this project I decided I wanted blues and teals in the room. I couldn't find a nice teal spray paint so I bought two different blue shades instead.

I started by sanding down all of the edges so that the new coat of paint would adhere properly.

Then I painted. A very light coat to start!

A couple more coats were added. Then painters tape was used so that we could pray the rims without turning the inside of the box blue. The paint was attached to the inside edge before being painted. The box below is actually standing on an edge of tape (kind of illistrates what I'm failing to explain?).

And ta-da! New colourful boxes :)

Filled with craft supplies (fabrics, washi tape, and clear stamping blocks for now).

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