Trying to get organized!

OK, first off the room remodel stalled over the weekend, just to much other things to do or get ready for. There will be a update in a few days, with hopefully painted walls!

Sunday was sewing day with the Nine Patchers Quilt Group at the Kluthie Building in Beecher City.  The other girls worked on quilt projects, some personal stuff, and some worked on Charity quilts. it was kind of a mash up kind of day. We also talked about our upcoming quilt show (I’ll talk about this in another post) I however am still without a sewing machine that doesn’t eat fabric so i decided to bring along my supplies to get my Cricut Cartridges organized.

I had been looking online for some better storage solutions that a shoe box and cam across a post about using a Snapware Ribbon box and some plastic canvas to make a great little storage container. I was lucky to find the ribbon box at Joann’s for 50% off and used it to make my “old” storage box. Old meaning it used it for like a week before i “improved” on the ideal and made a new one. This was the first time i have purchased Snapware, it’s not available locally so it takes a shopping trip to find. I must say i became a fan rather quickly. looking at the many boxes available i could see a number of ideals for organizing the my numerous crafting and sewing supplies!

The Ribbon box worked well only it would not hold the same amount of books as it would the cartridges. in other words it held all my cartridges and only half the books. At first i thought i did something wrong but nope, apparently a lot of people that use this storage method dispose of there books and just keep the overlays. Sorry Peeps, but I NEED MY BOOKS! The ribbon box just wasn’t going to work for me. So i picked up another Snapware box, this time at Target and decided to give it a try. it took a little trial and error to figure out how to cut the canvas but I think it turned out pretty good. i made enough spaces to hold Fifty carts, more than i own so i have room to grow. In the other portion of the same layer of the box i took some plastic canvas and made a tray that will hold my Cricut tools, Extra blades, and such. This also served to hold the cartridge divider in place and not sliding all over the box! Well it will hold them as soon at i can get to them, right now they are stuck somewhere in my bedroom closet! The second layer of the Snapware box is for my Cartridge Books and Overlays.

yes the box will probably be pretty heavy once its is full, but it’s OK as i do not ever figure i will be taking them all with me if i join in a crop or travel to a friends house to scrapbook. I’ll keep my little Ribbon box to use for that! here are some photos of the completed box, let me know what you think!

The Completed Box

 

Still have room to buy some more!

 

Even more room for Books and Overlays!

 

Both layers of the open Storage box