Paper Tea Cup to hold my stick pins

I just want to share a quick project that I made to help organize my craft room.  I recently participated in a stick pin swap with some of my friends from the Cricut Circle.  For each group you participated in you made 20 sets of pin, then sent them in for swapping.  At the end you recieved 20 sets of pin (one of your orginals and 19 created by other crafters).  I participated in two of the groups, and got back 40 sets of pins (2 or 3 per set).  They are all so unique and lovely.  The problem was, I had two gallon size bags full of these goodies and I really needed to get them organized. 

I cut this cute tea cup using a cut file from SVGcuts.com and then added the flowers vines that were cut using my cricut and the Artiste Cartridge.  I really loved the combination of the cricut and SVG cuts.  After assembing the cup and saucer I covered a styrofoam ball with some scrap fabric and then used it as a pin cusion.  I really love the end result. 

Another day of organization- glitter and inks

I have been on a bit of an organizing kick this week, starting with getting the new shelves up.  Today I worked on organizing my inks and my glitters.  I know that should be a small task, but it seems I have become a bit of a glitter collector lately.  While, I already two bins of glitter full, recent additions to my stash have required me to purchase two more containers (YIKES).  I have the glitter grouped by basic colors. 


For containers (nearly full) of glitter.  6 stacks in each with 5 jars- so 30 jars per container, and 4 containers = 120 (if it were full) unique glitters :)


A closer look at the container- purchased at Michaels $8.99 retail- I used a 50% off discount




 I seem to be lacking in selections for Red, Orange and Yellow glitters- theses are some of the empty spaces I have in the collection.


Silver, some of the white, gold, bronze, brown, and Black.  I could use some more selection in the brown/bronze family too.

And now for the inks.  I have a variety of CTMH inks (not all of them just yet).  I love the tower that CTMH sells, but my OCD was getting really irritated with how to organize the inks.  I had originally placed them in there in the order that they are found on the ink organization checklist, but found that it is difficult to know where to put them away when I am done.  So, today I sat down and typed out a list of the colors, formatted them onto return address labels with the help of MS word and an Avery add on.  Then I was able to print the labels and add them to the organizer.  Now it will be easier to know just where to put the inks when I am done with them.