Organizing and Re-Organizing...

It seems like a lot of the blogs I follow have been posting about cleaning and organizing their crafting spaces...

Must be a human instinct for the New Year...

Well...I'm human, and and am going full-throttle with the organizing and re-organizing of my craft space...

This past weekend I think I finally solved my Distress Ink foam pad storage issues...yes I had issues...oh, so many issues...

I used to store the tiny pads in a small plastic box, but the pads kept getting each other dirty and I could never remember what foamies went with which ink pads...

Oh what is a crafty girl to do?

First, let me explain that I became addicted to these ink pads about a year or so ago...I have all 36...it's a sickness...

In order to make sure I knew what each color looked like, I made my self a little color chart...

Each page of the chart has a different color on it, inked from dark to light and then stamped with an image (I love this dress stamp, it makes me happy!)...

This way, when I want to match a color from a project...say orange...I can put all the orangey pages next to my patterned paper and see which ink pad matches the best...



Clever...no?

So back to the foamies...the first issue was keeping the pads separate so they don't get each other dirty, the second issue was getting them labeled...

I used small plastic baggies (from the jewelry section at Michaels), labeled each color and slipped a foamie into each baggie.



I punched a small hole in the corner (and used reinforcements)...



Alphabetized them and slipped them onto a large ring...



So easy! The two rings hang together at my desk, and now when I need a foamie I know it's not contaminaed (ewww!) and it's easy to find!