Copic Storage

Several of you mentioned in your comments for the blog candy that you would like organizational idea...hee hee hee, did you even look at the picture?  Actually I like to be organized but it is hard for me to achieve,  being that my space is in the garage.  My family lives by the flat surface theory...I am sure that you have heard of it.  If I clean up an area and have uncluttered flat surfaces then someone in my family has to put something on it so that it's not so...flat.



Pair this with my husband and I's frugalness.  We don't heat our garage above 55 year round, so when it is 40 below outside, I have to either stamp with a portable heater blowing on my hands so they will function or I take it inside to stamp.  This winter I went with the take it inside theory and boy did I have a mess on my hands.



Sidenote:  We live in a rural area that does not have Natural Gas as on option for heating our homes.  We have heating oil trucked in every 3 weeks.  In the wintertime, when it is cold, we go through 5-6 gallons a day.  Not so bad when heating oil was $2.00 or so a gallon.  Well, we are now up to $5.00 a gallon and it's SUMMER!!!  So, after much careful thought and consideration we are forking out an insane amount for a Greenwood Stove to heat our house and garage (hubby even told me we can now get a hottub which the Greenwood will also heat).  In a couple of years it will have paid for itself and we will be able to afford that hot tub.



All of this to say that I will now have a WARM area to stamp in year round.  I am just giddy with excitement.  And though I warmed the garage up to 65 for classes, my ladies who wore slippers and sweaters will be even more excited.



So, as I get my stamp room organized I will share pictures of what works for me.



When I went to convention last year I stopped in Salt Lake to spend time with a friend and we went to the new Ikea store.  I sure do love that place, I could seriously live there.  In the kitchen section I saw some cool vertical storage ideas.  Including this little beauty that came home in my carry on:

I didn't know what I was going to do with it, but that didn't bother me, it had so many possibilities and was dirt cheap that I could buy it now and figure it out later.  When I started getting my Copics and my Prismacolor pencils I decided to display them where they would be easier to use.  I sorted them out using the color categories that Copic uses.  This set hangs on my wall to the right of my workbench by all of my inkpads.  I have a another set that hangs to the left of my workbench that holds my tools and items that I reach for all the time.  The hang rails were $1.99 each and the cups were $.99 each.  Not a bad little deal for me.