If your crafting table is anything like mine, it’s covered with stuff. I try to tidy up every now and then, but when I’m under a time crunch or am struggling with a card, the stamp sets on the table grow and the ink pads jump out of the caddy onto the table. The stamp sets allegedly live in a bookcase in a different room and I craft on the kitchen table where I have great light. I try to allow other people to use part of the table sometimes!  Whilst my parents were over for the Christmas holidays, it was hard for my father not to notice that I need a bit of help with my organisation. So he suggested a few little boxes with shelves and wandered off to the basement with my brother. After a design decision (one box with a back and one without for now) a couple of boxes appeared after a few days. This sounds as if we kept them in the basement until they was done, we didn’t! We were busy with other things too – walking, cooking, eating and improving my pool playing – my father’s rather good at it.

So here’s the first box. As you can see it’s perfect for holding the blendabilities – I just cut off the plastic at the ends leaving the small tab for ease of removal. I haven’t decided completely on what else to put in here.

Here’s the next box. We decided it was easier to remove things horizontally and these are items (dies, embossing folders, 2 colours of envelopes and pre-cut envelope liners) that it would be handy to have access to from both sides of the table for multiple crafters.

Here’s my newest box (it’s still drying really) so that I have somewhere official to put my stamp sets in progress. Hopefully this will help me losing them in clear sight on the table. I am also thinking that I may put the DSP stacks in here but they may end up in the first one. Anyway, I’m thrilled with how useful these have been already in helping me not lose things. I think that they did a great job. I know that I’m very lucky in having a father and brother with the time and the knowledge and tools – plus the inclination – to do this for me.