Starlight Musings

     In the last post, I talked about trying to find something that went with my medium dies to put into the IKEA Gnedby I have.  The thought is to keep similar items grouped together to ease finding things and keep organized better.      What else cuts paper into shapes?      Punches!             The grey box in the picture on the right = my old, quick solution to organize smaller punches.  It's two boxes duct taped together.  The duct tape didn't just keep them together, it covered the labels and made a handle I used to lift it out of the shortbread cookie tin I originally put it in.  Other punches fit on the bottom of the tin and I used this on top with my more-used punches.      Hope you're finding ways to keep yourself sane whether you're stuck - I mean, staying, inside with other people or not. (On with the yammer. . .)      Although the dowel/rack/curt...

     I already had a picture of this idea in a previous post, but thought I'd revisit it to explain the storage idea.  I use an IKEA Gnedby (designed for CD/DVDs) to store my medium sized Sizzix dies.  The unit is deep enough for them, even after I put in scraps of beadboard in the back to give it a detail some other pieces in my craft space have.      I used my Dymo label maker to make it easier to find the die I'm looking for.  I think I'm going to paint it white to match the rest of my craft corner furniture, but don't have the paint and it's not critical, so I'll wait for things to cool off (literally & figuratively) .      Thanks for checking my idea out.  Hope you're doing well and maybe I helped spark a bit of creativity or courage in you to do something with unloved furniture! (On with the small yammer. . .)      Once we moved into our current home, we realized we didn't want to use our Gnedby ...

     As I posted before, I had some extra beadboard. . . and used it to make more pieces in my craft corner seem more like a matched set.      I didn't have a piece big enough to fit the whole back and didn't want to disassemble the IKEA Gnedby unit, so I just measured all the spaces and ended up doing a lot of cutting with the miter saw.  I measured things as well as I could so the grooves in the beadboard would be in the same place on all of the shelves.   (I planned a little ahead so I ended up cutting all the pieces I've used in a few projects all at once.)      For now, I've just placed the pieces in and put my supplies on the shelf.      Thanks for checking out my quick project  - hope you're doing well and hope that maybe I sparked a bit of creativity or courage in you! (on with the yammer. . .)      Sorry I didn't take a "before" pic, but it's not that different.  ...