The Expedit saga

I have just posted on my personal blog what I have been able to found out about IKEA's Expedit saga. 

Bad news, it is official it's discontinued.

Good news, introducing the Kallax:

Marleene Craft Room

Marleene has a beautiful Craft room in what I think is her attic. A lot of IKEA elements, including the favourite of Crafty Storagers, the Raskog trolley and a STENSTORP kitchen island.

I strongly recommend to visit her gallery over at Two Peas in a Bucket, but I would like to highlight two great ideas:

A corner kitchen unit that rotates, perfect to utilise 100% of the space.

And that she uses a medium sized square Expedit (UK) unit over a Hemmes (UK) chest of drawers , both from IKEA.

 

Lauren and Jessi's design studio - fabric heaven

The very inspirational Lauren and Jessi (fabric designers) have shared their design studio - which is a fabric heaven. So pretty, just as their gorgeous fabric designs.

Janna Werner's craft room

The super talented Janna Werner posted about her Craft room. 

You can read the full post here.

Ink Pad storage using Media Stix

Kathleen Driggers shares on this video how she stores distress ink pads using media stix.

Katie Adams talks about how she found hers on her blog post about her craft room. Katie stores Stampin Up ink pads on hers.

Sari Hanninen Craft room

I love this room because its a small space well organised.

(Plus you get to hear how to pronounce IKEA's RÅSKOG (USA - UK) trolley by a Finnish person living in Sweeden, I love how Nordic languages sound!)

Sari's blog can be found here.
Enjoy

Big Picture Class

Big Pictures classes are doing this online course: 

Organizing FUNdamentals6 weeks to a fun & functional scrapbook space  

By Wendy Smedley and Aly Dosdall

Click here for more information.

I have never done anything like that, have any of you enlisted and is it worth it?

Craft Storage Most Popular | Alex - from IKEA - the most used craft storage unit?

When I recently had a look through my Pinterest Crafty Storage board to see what kept reappearing.

And the most popular item was the Alex drawer unit from IKEA. (Links for the UK IKEA site, search Alex on the main page of IKEA)

There is of course the tall thin version as well.

There are literally hundreds of units used by crafters and artists, and I cant feature them all but here there are some of my favourite photos of the Alex used to store crafts. ( Click on the photos for the link to their blog post for more photos and/or explanation!)

Anna's is one of my favourite as she has creatively remove the top two drawers to create an extra open tall drawer at the top.

Amy makes it a lovely sewing area desk unit.

I like how inside all these drawers there are extra organisers for smaller items, idea from Caprice.

Anita's used three of them to create a working island. Perfect for those die cutting machine as well as trimmer area.

Ikea Hackers has also a step by step tutorial on how to decoupage with old maps one of these popular units.

There is even a Flickr gallery (highly recommended) and a Hero Arts Flickr discuss groups on the Height and depth of them, Alex wide here and the tall and thin here. 

Or a Splitcoasters Thread on them which again I highly recommend to visit as it discusses the height of the drawers.

Kristina Werner has even done a video on hers:



Well, I have got one of those units and I have to say it lives up to the hype!

Heart Handmade Uk Craft Room Tour

Claire from Heart Handmade Uk Craft Room Tour has shared her gorgeous space on her blog.

Click here for far more photos and Claire's explanation.

Beth

Beth from an Unskinny Boppy shared her updated craft room. It is to die for.
Great ideas and photos.

Click here for the direct link for the full post.

A simple idea

Over at my personal blog. 

Jennifer Mcguire Ink Storage and giveaway!

As usual, Jennifer has great ideas on how to store her craft stash. This time is the ink pads. And Jennifer is running a giveaway too on her blog here.

Charmaine's beautification project

We all like a bit of pretty crafty storage, but sometimes we have to make it ourselfs. 

Charmaine shares on her blog here the process to turn her plain drawers into something more pretty.

Big studio

I love this studio.

You can see more on the Houzz website.

Christine Emberson's craft room

This is what Christine says about her space limitations:

Unfortunately I do not have a window but I made up for it with bright wallpaper on one wall and keeping all furnishings nice and light.

So fear not, no matter how small or dark your space is you can always make it look better.

You can read more about Christine on her blog here and here.