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Brad and Ribbon Storage


Howdy everyone, are you ready to get your craft space organized? Well my friends, we are here to help you! If you are like me, you are invested with a sense of renewal after the holidays and want to make everything around you nice and tidy. Today I want to share some of my favorite storage supplies and ideas for brads and ribbons.

I have serious issues with both of these craft supplies. Serious issues. When we first built my studio I ordered a custom built cabinet just for my brads. I am not making that up.


I loved this cabinet, but it turned out that it was just too large to fit into my space. When I rearranged my room I had to move it out, which made me very sad. I trimmed down my brad collection considerably and bought this very handy storage box from Best Craft Organizer and it is just as handy, but a lot smaller. It has 8 drawers and they are the perfect size for holding my brad jars.

The little jars are from the jewelry department - they come 24 in a little clear box for around $10. As you can see I group my brads by color, so I can just pull out the drawer and there are all the brads in that color group.

Sooo, once I got my brads tamed, I needed to move onto my ribbon. I had drawers and boxes of ribbon. I tried that system where you rolled the ribbon up and put it in the little boxes so that you could pull out a little at a time, but I was not very successful at that. My ribbons are not uniform in size, so they never fit in the little boxes. So I had some in and some out. I ran across a fabulous product at the LSS one day call The Ribbon Ring - I have been in love with this thing ever since. I bought one. A week after it came I ordered 6 more, plus I don't remember how many refill kits.

A set comes with a ring and the little plastic tabs you see here. You thread your ribbon onto the tabs and put those on the ring. Super easy. Again, I have mine sorted by color - I ring per color.

This photo only shows half of mine - as I said I have issues with ribbon. There are several things I love about this product:
  • portability - just grab the rings, toss them into your bag and go
  • viability - I can see in one glance every single ribbon I have, so I will use them
  • space saver - I have hundreds of ribbons stored in a few inches of space
  • but best of all,, when I am working on a project I can grab my ring, throw it on the table and drape the ribbons across my project to see which one works the best before I take it off the spool/out of the little box/unpin it and have to rewind it. Best feature I swear.
 
They come with little orange dot stickers that you can add to the tabs to remind yourself that you have more of that ribbon. I decided it was easier to just tie a knot in one end to remind me there was more in my overstock bucket.

So there you have it - my brads and ribbons, contained very neatly within their space, organized by color and so easy to reach for and use. What are your plans for organizing your space this year? Be sure to stay with us all month at Craft Storage Ideas as we have more fabulous ideas coming.

Anita

5 comments:

  1. Oh My ...that's a whole lot of brads!I really like the ides on the storage though...even though I'm not even close to that point yet lol

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  2. Awesome idea for ribbons! Great blog series Anita.

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  3. I just redid mine onto this system a few months ago. I ran out of tabs and need to order more!!!
    It is sure a great system for all the reasons you list
    I do my brads in the little disks the same as you but wish I had your slim drawers. Mine are in the Michaels 3 drawer units which means I have them in double layers...uggh...should research your drawers!

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  4. What a genius idea for ribbon! I have never seen one of these, but I'm on the hunt for one now..my ribbon is all tangled in a storage box at the moment! Thanks for the great tips!

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