'WOYWW - 28 Aug 2013 - Tidy, Tinkering and Tips!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,

I've been enjoying the summer weather here in Chicago, but now I'm hoping to post more regularly. This week for WOYWW, I thought I'd give you a peek at my desk when it was tidy. This was just before my hubby and I went on vacation/holiday to visit his relatives in NY state last week. 

I was tinkering around - because I needed to reorganize some of my supplies -  and cobbled together some storage containers for my Stickles, Distress Stickles refills, Studio medium and more. I did not want to pay moola for a solution.

STORAGE TIP
So the trick I used was to take the caps off of my spray ink/Glimmer Mist/Dylusions bottles, turn the caps upside down and glue them into some plastic trays from my stash.

FROM FAILURE TO SUCCESS
My 1st attempt, was not 100% successful...I had glued (E6000) the caps too close together so when I inserted the upside down bottles they didn't quite fit. No worries - I popped out most of the caps and spaced them a wee bit further apart.


These trays now sit on my work table in shelves within arms reach - they were too far away before I discovered this solution.

These pix show my second attempt - success!

 The black tray shows a few empty caps, just begging for new supplies!

 

 

 The clear bead box stores some Lumiere metallic fabric paints.

 

 

 

YOUR TURN

How do you store your Stickles and small bottles? Do you use a store bought solution? Or do you like to cobble together solutions from your stash and stuff found around the house?

 

Thanks for stopping by - I'd love for you to comment on this post, or any of my other posts. And please become a Follower if you aren't already - goodies for Followers coming this Autumn!

 

 

For a peak at other fun workspaces, click here for WOYWW!

 

Peace,

LuLu

Virtual Summer Studio Tour!

 by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

 

Hello World

Howdy and Welcome,

Now that the evening temps here in Chicago have dipped to freezing, it's once again time for me to move my art studio with wet supplies back inside the house to my 'winter studio'. What a pain to move the art studio twice every year - but I've almost got it down to a science. (The front porch is not heated, so the art studio is moved inside every fall and back to the front porch every summer).

I wanted to show you what it looked like this summer. These are the 'before' pics. The 'After' pics are coming in a few days.

Fan and top of drying rack 1



Work station






Wet work carts

Wet work turntable

Black under-table cart with gessos and texturing pastes
(Cart from Tar-get, love it - best cart to fit under tables!)

Drying rack 2 on second table

Pile of at work in progress for Sep 2011 show and storage cabinet

Looking north at second work table
with my friend Jane Sassaman's spectacular art quilt covering the intereior window wall
 (This side of the porch is shaded by a huge pine tree, so there is no direct light on my quilt)

Long south view to the other half of the studio

Storage on south side of studio for paper, mags and books

Door to inside 'winter studio'
You can almost see the entrance to my jewelry studio to the left of the red fan

Thanks for visiting - please leave a comment and come back soon!

Peace,

LuLu

Celebrating my 1st year Blogoversary with a give-a-way!

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How to organize acrylic paints stash

I don't have a LOT of acrylic paints. But one way that I organize my most often used acrylic paints is in the top 2 drawers of a rolling cart. The long skinny bins I found in sets at JoAnns. These bins keep the drawers categorized and also keep things from rolling around too much.

Tube acrylics and Claudine Hellmuth paints - stored bottoms up for quick access. Ranger Dabbers, Golden FLuid acrylics and Making Memories.

My other, least used bottle and tube acrylic paints are kept in bins in the large middle drawer of a 3-drawer rolling cart.

How do you store your acrylic paints?