Organizing: Cigar Boxes I love having my own little studio, but it’s quite chaotic most of the time because of all of the stuff I tend to hoard. Vintage hardware, old cigar labels, broken jewelry parts, and all kinds of pieces and parts I pick up at flea markets and thrift stores that I know I can find a use for one day in a craft project. But storing supplies in plastic bins out in the open isn’t too attractive, aesthetically speaking. I have plenty of plastic storage, but those are tucked away in my cupboards. My hook on storing with vintage cigar boxes came the day I found and clipped out an image from a magazine of a large parts cabinet crafted to hold around 36 same size cigar boxes, acting as drawers. Thinking I could create my own folk art organizing cabinet, I started collecting cigar boxes over the years to make a cool storage piece. Enter: Label Holder Hardware with Pulls. He mentioned after the sale that they had belonged to his father. I’m now in the process of filling the boxes and labeling each.
7 JEWELRY STORAGE TIPS I recently moved so I took the time to organize all my jewelry. Here are a couple tips and ideas! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Thanks for reading! No Purchase Necessary Junk Drawer Organization Everyone’s got one (or more), but no one likes to share it! Well, I’m going to! Part of my commitment to change is organization, and our two kitchen junk drawers are my number one offenders at the moment! So, I did the most logical thing and dumped both of them out on our family room floor and decided to just start from scratch! After dumping it all out, I categorized all the contents and separate them into separate piles. After I paired items down, put misplaced items in their proper home (in other rooms- mainly the office and garage), and just flat-out got rid of trash, I was able to refill the empty drawers. Items Needed: Extra rubberized carpet pad (top left corner of the picture above)Miscellaneous small tupperwareRubberbands How I used it all: Here’s the final product! I honestly had been delaying this project because I thought I needed some fancy drawer organizer to be effective, but in the end, it turned out that I had everything I needed on-hand! I’m linking up…
ring hoop holder This little project was born out of never being able to find my rings! They didn't have a home so I thought it was about time I made them one. I may just need to do a series on them along the wall :) If you're wanting to make one of these you'll need: A small sheet of foam/rubber, an embroidery hoop, fabric, spray adhesive, a craft knife, pencil, needle and thread and... rings! 1. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Turn An Old Birdcage Into A Desk Organizer Hi Everyone! We are SO SO happy to be back from our little break! We’ll be posting soon about our first show and display booth from President’s Day Weekend. Until then, here is an item that we had in our inventory at the Bay Village Antiques & Vintage Show. It is a fairly simple DIY / Up-cycling project. How to upcycle a birdcage into a desk organizer Karen found this old birdcage, you know where…on a tree lawn! Karen stores many ideas in her brain (way too many for me to ever remember) so when she picked this birdcage up she knew she would make a desk organizer out of it. Spray paintWooden dowel rods – you can buy dowel rods at hardware stores or local craft stores like Pat Catan’s Pieces of scrap wood / plywood. Decorative items to embellish (flower, ribbon, etc) Staple gun, glue gun, wire cutters, hand saw Thoroughly clean the bird cage and remove the bottom pan. Place your pieces of wood on top of the dowel rods, Karen painted the plywood white. We love the way it looks!! Happy Salvaging!
Matchbox holders Home » $1 and Free, cheap crafts, Headline, Office Crafts, Tutorials Mini Office Supply Bookcovers for Matchboxes 14 February 2011 56,178 views 54 Comments by heather I found a photo of some mini office supply matchboxes on kootoyoo, and I was enchanted by them. Maybe it's the dollhouse miniatures series that Rhonda has been working on, or maybe it's just because I love little things. Making mini book covers is addictive! Project Materials: Matchboxes, pack of 10 is $1Glue stick, on handScissors or craft knife and mat, on handPrintable (download here)Paper and color printer, on handOffice supplies to fill the matchboxes with, on hand Total: less than $1 for two sets Printable: DOWNLOAD HERE from Google Docs, or BELOW from ScribdMatchbox Book Covers Printable To Make: 1. 2. 3. Note: If you want to use these as matchboxes, cut off both book page edges so you leave one working strike strip on the matchbox. 4. 5.
DIY Organizer For A Home Office If your working space is a mess, organize it making a paper and newspaper holder of a piece of wood and plastic. For this craft you’ll need 3 plastic bottles, a piece of wood, 3 can tops, a knife, scissors, a screwdriver, a ruler, an awl and some screws. Cut the top of the bottles, don’t deform them; using the awl or a drill make holes in the tops of the bottles. Screw the bottles to the slab of wood and from the other side fix some screws for hanging on the wall. Create a Large Face, Cat Illustration from Stock in Adobe Illustrator I'm not hiding it... I'm a crazy cat lady. When the trend of having t-shirts of large faces of animals, merged into the canvas started, I was going through all the t-shirt design sites to find the perfect one for me. So inspired by that trend, I'd like to show you how to create your own design, from a stock image, in Adobe Illustrator. 1. Step 1 It all starts with a cute stock image. Step 2 So let's bring the stock image over into Adobe Photoshop. I have my crop now, ready to move over to Illustrator. 2. Let's first prepare our document. Then create a new layer, this is where the magic is going to happen. One of the main reasons to have your kitty looking straight on and with the eyes balanced horizontally, is that we're going to mirror the strokes and shapes you add to the canvas. Use the Line Segment Tool (\) to draw a vertical line down the middle of the portrait. Let me explain the theory behind this. Step 3 Did you know you can apply an effect to a whole layer, not just a shape? 3. 4.