Danielle Daws

Danielle's idea is brilliant. Learn more about it here on her blog.

Vertical paper holders by Shar

A perfect DIY solution for vertical paper storage.

Click here for Shar instructions.

Craft Storage Video | Tammy Tutterow's happy place - video tour

The very inspiring Tammy Tutterow has shared her space on her blog.

I particurlarly like the way Tammy stores all her Sizzix products.

Including the embossing folders, Bigz dies...

As well as other inky stuff.

I strongly advise to visit her blog where you will find a video tour of the studio and a lot more photos and explanations.

Gurkis DIY Ink pad storage

Gurkiss has design and made this spinner storage unit that stores her Alcohol Markers, Sizzix Bigz dies, Paints, Glitter glues and inkpads.

To see her blog in English click here.

There are plenty of photos on Gurkis blog.

Here for fotos of the Bigz dies.

Click here for the step by step photo tutorial for regular ink pads, but you can easily see how to alter to suit any others.

Here for more photos the Distress ink pad storage.

Anne's Tim Holtz Carousel storage tower

This is incredible. I love it!

For photos and her blog post click here.

Ps: link fixed!

Jo's craft room

Jo from The Crafty Nomad blog has shared her craft room which is full of luscious fabrics and threads.

I particularly love the old sewing machine in the window. And the island bellow.

Celine Navarro's Project Life Storage ideas

Lately this blog should be called "Ikea" Crafty Storage, non the less, Celine Navarro's ideas on how to she stores her Project Life are quite good.

One clue, the name of the Ikea acrylic strorage is GODMORGON.

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!