The Cutting Table

This is the cutting table and storage of my dreams.

My hubs built it for me yesterday.

I am so excited!

The two cubical book cases are from Ikea. They are the Expedit line.

We saw this set-up in their showroom and I knew I had to have it.

The fabric cubes are from Target. They fit perfectly. Who would have thought?

They are their Itso line.

The red one has tools and commonly used items in it.

Another has kids crafts, another interfacings and battings.

On the other side are all my current projects in some bins from Walmart. They are by Sterilite.

The bottom fabric bins will soon be filled with fabric that I need to re-sort.

:)

I've been busy...

CLEANING! And, organizing. The hubs sat on the couch with me one night and helped me separate all of those buttons! I had some, and then I got more for my birthday from a friend - and it was time to organize them. And, the ribbon below my other friend sat and put in rainbow order for me. (Mostly because I don't care that much), but it looks so cool!

Scroll down and read the next few posts to see what else I have been up to.

Jumbo Clothes Pin Mail Sorter

I saw this tutorial over at Make it and Love it and I had to try something similar for our mail.

Mail that needs to go out always gets forgotten. Things that require action get overlooked, etc.

No more.

This is what I bought. The rest of the stuff, I had.

I used:

Jumbo clothes pins (3) from Hobby Lobby

School glue (and water) for Mod Podge

Sponge brushes

Paint for the board

The board

An Exacto knife

and scrapbook paper.

I had this grand idea to paint the board cream with black and red accents. Then, to go through and paint cream again and 'antique' the edges and see the black and red.

Well, as you can see here. The light edges just didn't look right and the red and black 'highlights' I added were just bad. eww. Anyway. This is while the Mod Podge was drying.

To get the paper on, I painted the clips or board with the glue/water mixture. I laid the clips down on the paper, cut the paper off with an Exacto knife and then Mod Podged the top of each of them. For the board, I had to piece together two pieces of paper, but it worked in about the same way.

After the Mod Podge was dry, I went back and painted the edges of the board black. I also ran a few strokes across the paper for effect. :)

And because Ashley is SO smart, I copied her and added ribbon and buttons. The clips really needed them and it looks great! I can't wait for hubs to get home and figure out how to hang it in my office!

Formula Containers

I have a million formula cans around here. (Okay, not a million, but a few...)

So, I turned them into cute containers for my kids' art supplies.

I use the double-tall containers, but the regular size would work fine.

I spray adhesived the back of scrapbook paper I cut to size and then quickly rolled the paper onto the cans.

I found it easiest to lay the middle of the paper on the can and then smooth in each direction.

When all the cans were covered, I used letter scrapbook stickers to label each can.

Can you tell which letters I made by using pieces of other letters?

Cute, huh!? and it seriously took me like 30 minutes.