If you're an extreme crafter like me, you probably have a ton of tools. Scissors, rulers, rotary cutters, odds and ends that are useful but hard to store. You don't want to have them just sitting around because that's a lot of clutter, and I don't know about you but I don't have much room as it is. You also don't want to put them in a box or a drawer because you'd be pulling them out every day, and that's a pain. So let me show you a cool trip I saw on the internet that works for me.
Tada! The curtain rod organizer. Now I can hang my tools right above my craft table and everything is there right within reach. What I used was a very cheap curtain rod from Walmart, which was less than $5 and came with all the hardware needed to hang it. It took less than 10 minutes to hang this up!
I thought long and hard about what I wanted to use as hooks to hang everything, and what I ended up deciding was 12 gauge craft wire. It's very soft and easy to work with, but thick enough and strong enough to hold everything. I just wrap it around the rod a couple of times, and leave a hook at the end to hang things on.
Now I do have one special hook on my curtain rod for a pair of old fashioned all steel scissors. They're pretty loose scissors, and they fall open if I put then on a normal hook. So what I did for them is I made a loop with the wire and rest the scissors in the loop.
Cheap, fast, an easy! That's my favorite kind of organizing tip :) So how do you guys store your scissors and other crafting tools? Have any good tips you want to share? I'd love to hear!
Great tip!
ReplyDeleteI once bought an inox dish drainer which was too large for my sink. It had a separate rod with hooks to hang the wet cups from the drainer. Since the drainer did not fit on my sink, I use it for ripening fruit in the kitchen marquee. The rod I fixed on the kitchen wall and hang kitchen utensils on it :)
That's a great idea, Bella! I could always use more space for kitchen utensils.
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