I've spent the past 3 weeks on the excruciating task of de-cluttering, sorting, and re-arranging my sewing/fabric space. This room has been many things over the past 9 years we've lived here and it's new purpose will be school room/design studio (which sounds fancy but is pretty accurate I guess). It was incredibly trashed since I barely had time to sleep with all the sewing-to-fill-orders I did before and after Christmas. I tried my best to avoid looking at the floor since it was just piles of sewing detritus and there was no time to deal with it. But I finally dug in and have spent hours picking through fabrics, pattern pieces, oodles of spools and way too many lego pieces. It's now time to put everything back but in it's new place and that's the fun part.
I wanted to store some of my smaller items (bobbins, appliques, buttons, etc) in jars with spray painted lids (which I still may do for some things) but as I was finishing up at IKEA today I saw these lanterns and BAM, it hit me. I set my jars down right there (I already had them in my cart) and grabbed some of these fantastic lanterns which are only 1.00 more apiece. They have them in white, silver, yellow, turquoise, orange and hot pink. I picked up yellow and turquoise for now.
I stuffed it with my little crocheted flowers and strawberry appliques and closed the door. Simply cute.
It looks right at home on my new shelves and I'm patting myself on the back for finding an unordinarily cute storage solution.
