A Shoe Tower --- Really?

Where to go for a good looking, holding minimum of 72 cards, easy to lift and move around card stand?

1. Look around for ideas. Find a great idea from Leikkaan Mervi's blog .
2. Shop around.
3. Buy a Revolving Shoe Tower! (£6.58)

Height 84cm (33")
Diameter 28cm (11")
Base diameter 22cm (8 3/4")

This one holds stamps and stuff. I went through drawers and found "few" pots and tubes of glitters and glues, now they all are just there easily to grab. This works perfectly for me, because doesn't need lots of desk space, and of course the price was GREAT :)

Binder rings would be good (as on the pic), but because of they are quite pricey, I might settle with key rings. Argh, it will take ages to twist and curl them around. Well...

Easily holds 72 cards and more if you want to go and show your cards.

Thanks for visiting :)

New Life for Old Mug Tree

New Life for Old Mug Tree 

and more

I like recycling and finding low price solutions for my craft stuff. Here are few ideas. 

Old mug tree. Sentimental value is priceless and of course it is nice. My friend, Andrea gave it to me almost 20 years ago and here it is now on my craft desk.

Those bags, what are they? They are left over CD bags from CD storage boxes and they make perfect stamp pouches.

Glass coffee jars are good flower jars. My friend Sharon saves these particular jars for me and I really appreciate it.

CD storages. 99 pence each from discount store made perfect marker pen carriers and they look cool. Keep marker pens nicely and easy to carry if needed.

CD racks from ebay, 99 pence each. Now they have a new life keeping stamps and miscellaneous pens and markers on order. Biscuit tins holding glues and stickles :)

More recycling stuff coming soon. LP record is a clock on the wall and shoe box with old table lamp is a perfect light box! :)

Wee Craft Corner of Mine

If you have your own crafting place and something is there and here and everywhere, do what I did. Near son's college/university is a nice small (dusty, crowded) house clearance place and this was my first visit there.  Lonely pigeonhole unit was there and after good wondering around, talking about cars and weather, I asked like it really didn't matter or like I wasn't actually interested at all, "how much do you think I should pay for this?"

Answer was "gimme a fiver and it's yours". Well, FIVE pound sterling it was and son did the rest. Dragging it into the car, dragging it into the house and upstairs. Thank you, sweetie. 

This picture is downstairs with warts and all. 

Testing how A4 and 12x12 will fit there. Ok, fine, good enough for me.

After hoovering, polising and arranging. Not there yet, but wow, how great it was to organize my very organized mess, even having this wee moment to see, that it was a proper bargain and oh so great.

Picked few cardboard boxes from Asda (with permission of course). 

I sort of save all pieces of papers and cardstock, but never get a chance to use them, 

because "it's never there!". 

Labels are there and now these boxes are for all those scraps. Good, innit?

My favourite take away boxes, too, filled with brads and eyelets.

I think it was a fiver well spent.

Till next time, thanks for visiting :)