Craft Storage Ideas Planner Blog Hop

Hi there, readers! Thanks for Hopping along on the Craft Storage Ideas Planner Blog Hop! You should have come from Kimberly’s blog.

We are so excited to share some great ideas for keeping your planner both organized and fun along the way. But first, I want to share some FANTASTIC PRIZES we will be sharing with lucky commenters along the route!

Craft Paint Storage

Today I am going to start off my Craft Room Organization series by sharing different ways to store all those craft paints. So get your paints out of all those random bins and hiding places and find a better solution to keep all your painting goodies right where you need them. Here is some inspiration from around the web!

Beth at Unskinny Boppy shares her beautiful craft space and wonderful paint storage. The Ikea Fintorp rails and buckets are a wonderful way to customize the storage you need while using up some vertical space. Not to mention it makes a lovely display!

Jen at 100 Directions shares how she used some Ikea towel bars and dowel rods to add this fabulous paint storage on the outside of some cabinet doors. If your cabinet doors are wide enough you could even mount these on the inside for some hidden paint storage that still lets you see at a glance what you have.

Beckie at Infarrantly Creative shares this amazing DIY door on casters. The front is what you see here, and once you open it up you can see her wall mounted ironing board. It's so beautiful it looks like a paint display at a store!

Carla at Carla Schauer Designs shares how she turned some spice racks normally used in the kitchen into awesome crafty paint storge!

Laura at Finding Home took a look around her garage and found this amazing wood tool box to store her paints right on the work table.  

Tracy at Tracy Weinzapfel Studios shared how she turned something you would never think of using into a wall of wonderful paint storage. 

Last but not least here is my paint storage solution that I shared over at Craft Storage Ideas.

Now I challenge you to organize all your paints in order. I would love to see your solutions! Share a link in the comments or tag KraftingKreations on instagram or Pinterest!

To see the other topics in the Craft Storage Series click here.

Do you have some awesome creative craft storage ideas you would like to share? If so add your link here! The only rules:

• It must link directly to the post, not your home page.
• It does not have to be related to the top of this post. The linkup on this post is the same as the linkup on all the Creative Craft Storage Series posts. 
• Link up as many different ideas as you would like.
• Links show up in a random order.

An InLinkz Link-up

10 Reasons You Should Organize Your Craft Supplies Now!

So why should you stop what your working on (or quickly finish up the current in process project) to organize all your supplies? Keep reading to find a few reasons that came to mind.

Something Exciting!

Guess what?!? No really... guess. You may or may not have noticed something new in my sidebar to the right. Okay, okay. I'll give you a hint. Here is what I'm talking about...

I'm a contributor on the Craft Storage Ideas website! Yay! (insert silly looking happy dance here) HERE is the post where I was officially introduced. I am so absolutely totally and completely excited about this opportunity to join the fabulous ladies at Craft Storage Ideas! So I will be sharing a variety of craft room organization tips and roundups and such over there and here!

I challenge you to get your crafty spaces whipped into shape one week at a time so you can find your supplies and spend more time creating than you do searching for things. My blog series on organizing your supplies won't start for another couple of weeks, but today you can check out my post on Craft Storage Ideas by clicking HERE.

Let me know what you think about the post by leaving me a comment either here or there. I love to hear your opinion!

Dressed Up Desk Organizer DIY

I scored this fabulous desk organizer at a flea market recently and wanted to dress it up a bit. The dark faux wood was just not doing it for me. So I took some Krylon Gloss White spray paint and went to town. I didn't get a before picture of it, but it is exactly like this one that I found on Etsy. But I managed to snag mine for just $5. 

It has some great leaf detail on the front that looks like carved wood. Such a fun pattern and texture as long as you can see past that ugly faux wood coloring it originally had. 

So after cleaning it up with some soap and water and letting it dry I sprayed several coats of Krylon Gloss White spray paint until it was nice and covered. I think it was four or five thin coats. 

I took some retired designer series paper and cut it down to 3" long, then cut it to the width of each of the sections in the organizer. A little bit of DecoArt Decou-Page did the trick to glue down the patterned paper. Then I coated the entire thing with about four coats of a Krylon gloss sealer. 

Now it just sits pretty holding lots of my tools on my work table! I love being able to give new life to things that might otherwise end up in the landfill. 

Have you been working on any upcycling lately? Or DIYing any garage sale finds? 

DIY Upcycled Sewing Desk

My upcycled super cute and functional garage sale sewing desk is finally done!

For the last several years this is where I have been sewing when I do sew. It's just a cheap plastic folding table with a set of plastic drawers to hold some of my fabric hoard stash. This nice large table also ends up as a catch all that requires 20 minutes of shifting stuff around so I can sew. It also had the tendency to bounce up and down if you started sewing too fast.

A few weeks ago I scored this old sewing desk from a yard sale for only $10. It was sturdy, didn't wobble at all, but needed quite a bit of love. If  you follow me on Instagram you may have already seen some of my in process photos, but in case you didn't here they are! This is what it looked like right after I brought it home. I love the shape, size, and details, but boy it definitely needed some love and sand paper.

It had house wire wrapped through the holes for drawer pulls! Um... I guess it works, but not for me.

So I took it all apart and sanded everything down then filled the holes in the drawer fronts with some wood putty. After the wood putty dried I sanded them again and added just one hole in the center for the drawer pulls I wanted.

Then I got to painting. It seemed like it took FOREVER to get this all painted! I think it took me about three weeks from start to finish. Remember, I work full time so I really only had a little bit of time in the evenings to work on this. But I was so excited to see it complete.

Here it is with the desk portion all nice and white. It took two coats of primer and two coats of Behr Ultra Pure White. This is when I started to really get excited.

And this is what my craft room looked like for three weeks while trying to get this finished. Yikes! What a mess! With very little room to walk around everything too...

Are you ready to see what it looks like now? After what seems like 5000 coats of paint.... here it is!

Here is the materials rundown.
Behr Ultra Pure White

Behr Iconic Sky (drawer fronts). Such a pretty shade of light aqua.

Behr Deep Blue Sea (inside/sides of drawers) to add a fun pop of color. Here you can see my magnetic bowl with my pins that I picked up from the hardware store in a set of magnets. I gave the rest of the kit to my husband. I just wanted the little magnetic bowl. Also a pretty green bowl to hold those thread ends that you clip off as well as other random trash while working away.

I just can't get over how much storage this sweet little desk has in it! I can fit all of my sewing essentials with plenty of extra room.

There is even one large drawer on the bottom right that I have tossed all my fabric scraps in. 

These adorable drawer pulls from HomeDepot.com (this is not a paid advertisement. I just love 'em!)

The white paint was left over from another project and the two shades of blue I bought to re-paint my craft room and I just haven't done it yet. So you could kind of say it's left over from that right??? I'm going with that route.

It is just paint, and it will wear naturally, and I'm totally okay with that. I love how much storage I have now instead of just those three little plastic drawers.

You can't have a great DIY project post without a before and after.....

Now I can't wait to start sewing more!

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