ProMarker Storage and Mum's Craft Room

After Christmas we had a few days in Norfolk visiting family. We stayed in Mum and Dad's spare room which also happens to be Mum's craft room. As you can imagine I had lots of fun having a good old root around.

I know crafters always love storage ideas so I thought I'd share Mum's ProMarker stand.  I thought it was rather good and I wish I had space on my desk for one.

If you think I'm organised, I have nothing on Mum! You probably think that the pens were arranged for the photo but they were already like that. I was so tempted to twiddle them all around!

You may have spotted a photo of someone familiar. Maya was 7 days old in that photo and it was the first time we met her.

She bought it on eBay and it reminds me of a test tube stand. Each one holds 60 pens and Mum has two of them joined together.

Dad has added an extension on the side for her scissors and rulers.

Whilst I was at it I thought I'd photograph the rest of the room. Sorry about the quality of them but they were taken on my phone and looked OK on the small screen.

These shelves are on one wall and I think she has nearly as much stash as I do. She has a lot of colours in Adirondack ink pads that I don't, so I got out one of her Clarity stamps and stamped them all out for reference. I was almost afraid to use it though as her stamps and mounts are immaculate, not covered in ink like mine. Anyway, I now have a list of the colours that I "need".

Mum loves colouring in so she has lots of things to do that with.

There are a few more shelves on the other side of the room........

.........and a lovely long work surface between them. If that was mine it would have stuff all over it! Dad is always telling me that I need more space to work in as I'm lucky if my cutting mat is clear. 

What a fun place to stay!

Lynne

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ProMarker Storage

I recently labelled all my ProMarkers and it has made using them so much easier.  I started off intending to add coloured dots to the top of them.  Whilst I was doing this I noticed that a lot of the colours looked the same, so I decided to number them too.  I thought that would be a lot easier than writing the names on such a tiny surface!

Now I just look at the chart to see what colour I want.........

then it's easy to spot that number in the box.

The box I store them in is a RUB (Really Useful Box) insert.  It's just the right size and the sections are handy for keeping the colours separate.  This also helps me find the pens quicker.  It is nice and portable too, so I can easily bring it downstairs if I want to do some colouring in the living room.

Maya had to investigate when I was trying to take the photos.  I'm lucky she didn't run off with a few!