STEP 6 - FLOWERS & RIBBON & EMBELLISHMENTS
I NEVER EVER EVER used flowers until my friend Jean and I went to a scrabooking weekend.  She is a flower maniac and one day I needed just a little something on a page.  She recommended a flower and gave me some to use.  Well, that was the beginning of a "horrible" addiction. :)  Thanks Jean!   Then we went to the scrapbooking Expo in NJ and I was hooked on Prima Flowers and then there was a spray to spritz on the flowers!  This is wonderful!


So now that I have these hug jars and containers of flowers, what the heck do I do with them?  I can't throw them in the closet, there isn't a bin large enough, and I can't take them out and shove them in a box or envelope.  Hmmmmmmm, the only thing I could think of is to grab my 50% off coupon and go to Michaels!!!!  What else?  I bought the wall unit with shelves and the ribbon dowel.  I LOVE everything about it!!!!  Except the ribbon dowel.  It is too fat and doesn't fit in the hole of 99% of my ribbons.  I had to but a plain wooden dowel, cut it, and use that instead.  You can't tell so I'm okay with it.


I was also able to put all of my brads, eyelets, and buttons on one shelf instead of a drawer where I never saw them.


In the middle shelf, I didn't know what to put.  I was at my grandparents house the other night and we were talking about the original camera, the Brownie.  My grandfather said he had a Baby Brownie from the 1930s and I could have it!!!! OMG!!!  It is adorable and in amazing condition.  I thought it would be the perfect piece to put on that shelf in my craft room!  Thanks Granddad!


This wall unit is my favorite piece in the whole room!

STEP 5 - TOOLS

As a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator for about 6 years now, I have collected almost every punch they sold.  They take up A LOT of room and are clunking.  Thank goodness they switched to a more streamlined "box" style.  They are much easier to store.  They are the grey ones in the picture on the shelf.  The big black ones I had in the closet just tossed in a metal bin.  I could never find the one I want, would just toss them around trying to move them out of the way, and I couldn't really see in the back of the bin in the closet.  I wanted them out where I could get to them.  I brought a white shelf from my bedroom in and bought adorable little yellow bins from the dollar store.  In the top bin are the regular shapes- squares, circles, ovals, etc.  In the second bin down are the other ones- butterfly, label, flower, etc.  On the third shelf are the new style punches.

I had two more shelves available.  So in the tall one, I put all of my Sizzix Big Shot materials.  On the bottom shelf, in the other yellow bin are all of my Cricut cartridges (I only have a few- I'm a newbie.) :)