Some Storage Schtuff (ribbon, ink, paper, & little bits)

I've been turning my living-slash-dining room into a stamp room. (Well, there's nowhere else, so why not?) I do think about stamping 24-7 anyhow; I even dream about it, lol. :0)

My storage solutions are no where near some of the pristine things I've seen in some stampers spaces, but...here are a couple of affordable storage ideas I thought I'd share with you:



Do you put your ribbon in a drawer and forget
about it? I tend to, so I thought I'd use this wire judy to display snippets of it. Now I'll be able to see some of my favourite ribbon at a glance. :0)









I love SU's ribbon keeper but the ends flopping around were making the obsessive compulsive side of me frusterpated. If that bugs you too, you can just stick a piece of double-sided tape along the outside front bottom & the ends will behave.


I must be really forgetful, because try as I might I can't remember the order of SU ink colours. I can't tell you how many times this trick has been convenient. I just cut colour strips out of an old mini. Matching ink families are below, & I reference the strips.



A CD tower makes a handy little stack of drawers for embellishments. I liked that this one had little label hardware, so I know what's where. I use containers inside to divide things.













I also forget what accessories I have, but this cork board serves as more than a reminder of supplies. You can move stuff around on it to see new combinations in one glance. I have such little space that I need to make use of the horizontal areas too. (to make it, I just bought a big corkboard at an office supply store and painted the back. I made button push-pins, so it'd be perty) :0)



What are your favourite storage tricks?



P.S. Susan asked what I have my inks in (and I have no way to email her. So I thought I'd answer her here. It's actually just the boxes they came in butted up against each other (I bought some sets piecemeal so they are stuck in between the boxes.) Wish I had all of the boxes or a fancy smancy inkholder, but this does the trick for now. :0)