Ha summertime, it is quiet in blogland… a perfect moment to do a confession
My own room has always been chaos as far as i can remember. No matter how hard i try to keep things tidy, when i’m on a creative wave my desk grows supplies on it. (Oh and my shelves and floor too sssht). When in 2006 a Dutch magazine “Scrap!” had a competition to find Hollands Most Messy Scrapper, i won. I know. One could argue about how honorful that title is but people, The prize? Lots of cool supplies to organize supplies. My husband immediately regretted his words “Honey, when you enter this competiton and IF you win, we will turn your messy scrapcabinet into a scraproom upstairs”. Ha! I remembered that! So we cleared out a room, painted the wall orange and got going. To this day I am extremely happy and thankful for all the handy storagematerials i received! However, those handy instant storagesupplies are not what this post is really about, so they are not in the pictures below. Creating a home for supplies was also challenging. Because I needed to adjust it to my personal way of creating and being able to find the supplies i am looking for. And that actually was so much fun to do. It challenged me to think up new ways of storage and i wanted to stick to a small budget. To feel creative i need to really see the supplies. Transparent storage. This goes beyond practical: Seeing all those colors makes me happy too! And being such a fan of alphabets: stickers, cardboard or stamped ones, it sometimes took me ages when plunging through a full alphabetbox, only to find i had previously used up the letter “R” for instance
Here’s a few of my homemade organisation systems, which cost very little!
Letterstamps, kept in metal containers, with paper wrapped around it and the letter stamped on it, they are the empty babymilkcontainers we had for our son, they are aprox. 15 cm tall.:

Chipboard letters, kept in little plastic containers, 30 cents each (Zeeman for the Dutchies)

Mini-eyelets kept in medicineboxes, Monique did a fun post about this once also!

Yes, cleaning your ears pays off. I am always happy when we finish the last one and re-use the plastic container haha

Ok, we prefferred fresh vegetables for our baby but after the occasional “oops, he’s hungry and we are not close to preparing dinner yet” the jars ended up in the dishwasher. For buttons…

Or those tiny bits of leftover-ribbons

Candyjars (Xenos for Dutchies)

Stickers and rubons find a home on Ikea bars with little clips to hold them.

Litlle metal buckets, also Ikea

Stamps, kept in A4 transparent envelopes (Hema for Dutchies)

Well, hope you found this tip helpful. Maybe you are more into structuring supplies by color, which Liesbeth did an awesome post about once too!
Happy scrapping!
Mandy










































