A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station



gift wrap organisation A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

Jen from IHeartOrganizing weblog had a small space obtainable, just wide enough for a book case and she got to planning! Using dowel rods and some serious organising, Jen managed to develop her own, entirely organised gift wrap station! With straightforward to pull out present wrap and ribbons and effortless access to bows a lots!


organized ribbon in gift wrap station A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

I enjoy this glitter ribbon and I’m positive Jen has explained how she manages to maintain her ribbon from unravelling. I bet you I would have this present wrap station look like a bomb internet site in much less than a day.


gold dowel rods for ribbon and gift wrap A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

This looks like a genuinely basic idea for producing a present wrap station and I would bet this is a billy bookcase. It’s attainable it isn’t ^_^ it just appears like the small peg holes obtainable for shelves. Despite the fact that most self assembly furnishings looks like this these days!


diy washi tape organiszation from i heart organizing A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

Jen created a marvellous tutorial for this washi tape organiser which will be obtainable on her blog ^_^


organized gift wrap storage from iheartorganizing A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

I like that polka dot present box! I bet it’s from the container store (I can’t get those things right here in the UK). I also like the white box beneath the washi tape. Is that an ikea one? It looks like the kassett variety but there are very limited sizes accessible…although I haven’t looked on the site for a whilst. I’ll go quickly!


hanging scissor storage A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

Considerably like my own property (exactly where the colours seem to match my blog) Jens residence and storage seems to be the identical! I am going to steal this hanging scissor storage idea. It’s also good not also ^_^


organised boxes in gift wrap storage cabinet A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

These huge wicker baskets are excellent for storage but I am really guilty of just throwing factors in the baskets and losing them successfully until I choose to have a clear out! I’m so jealous of these organisational skills!


organised gift tags and ribbon A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

Really, the one organised basket I do have is filled with containers like these but they’re Muji divided containers and hold all my distinct pens and pencils for drawing. And excess stationery since I’m a stationery fiend.


organised magazine files A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

I like these sturdy magazine files and how they’re all appropriately labelled! The last magazine files I got have been the least expensive accessible from Ikea and didn’t really last extremely long. They became extremely battered and bruised quite swiftly! Element of me wants to get some sturdy magazine holders and one more element reminds me I should clear through my collection and make some space! I will figure it out ultimately I’m certain!



organising paper and bows with magazine files in large wicker basket A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

This is a fabulous idea to have yet another pretty basket filled with magazine files for effortless access to big ribbons and present toppers! As they’re delicate there is no straightforward way of storing them and this way, you get all the space required and keep them within effortless reach.



organized storage neon gift boxes A Creative DIY Gift Wrap Station hand made stuff

And of course a small gold vase to match the spray painted dowels! I’m extremely impressed with the white labelling of the neon boxes, I have to verify once more to uncover out how this was done!


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What I'm Working On

I can't find any picture mats at a reasonable price so I've decided to use some old ones I had in colors I don't use any more and paint them. Soooooo this is what I'm doing today.

The "artist's" work desk. ;-)

The mats that used to be dark brown and beige are now a caribbean blue and a leaf green. Shopped my house and no money spent! My kinda deal, chicks.
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Random Thought:

Do not go lightly into the night; tromp on its b*tt!

Being Creative with Dress Making

First of all look at these shoes my daughter gave me because they were too big for her. (Shortest woman in my family but biggest feet!) Well, they fit my left foot just fine but the right one is just too big. *Sniff and sob*...... I made these adorable little bows for them and wore them to the optometrist the other day with dark blue slacks and a bright red blazer and did I turn heads!! I am not a fashion plate by ANY stretch of the imagination but I certain was colorful that day especially with a PINK shirt underneath the red blazer. But I think I'm going to have to sell these shoes on ebay!!! I've tried to find them in a smaller size so I could have one fit the right foot properly but no luck. I think I looked like a duck walking in to the optometrist's office in them but I got the royal treatment, I tell ya!! It pays to go "dressed" a bit even here in Idaho! *Smile*.......~*~

Day #1
I love this fabric. It's silky polyester in a true bright red with white polka dots. I needed 5 3/8 yards to make this simple A-line dress. I have that much.........but it's in 2 pieces. I'm going to have to get creative with it. So today I've pulled the cutting table into the living room (I still can't extend it in the craft/sewing room) and trying to figure out how I can cut it. It might be in there all day! Hubs will take me out to dinner tonight for sure as .................well, just because I'm telling him to actually! This is really taking a lot of thinking and creativity. Maybe I'll cut it off a bit higher above the knee, find another silky polyester in coordinating fabric and sew it on the bottom. I've been thinking of taking a ribbon and sewing it down the middle on a piece of fabric while twisting it as I go.


Then I found this at a fabric store and thought of using this as a ruffle around the bottom. But..........

Then things went awry and the "FUN" began! *Sigh*........

I've had this pattern for many years and it's a simple A-line dress. You can sash it if you want. Anyway, having made it several times I thought I'd just breeze through it with the modifications I mentioned above. When I got through cutting it out of those 2 pieces of fabric I had a lot left over and couldn't figure out why.

I put it aside for a day and then picked it up this morning (saturday) and began sewing. I knew I was in trouble when the 2 front pieces didn't match. I had inadvertently cut all four panels out the wrong way. No need to explain here just believe me when I say I messed it up royally! So what to do???? I made half of the dress with the right side out and the other side with the wrong side out. If you think this is easy to understand or even explain to you, I don't even wanna hear it, chicks. Try sewing all the pieces together and realizing you're using BOTH sides and......well, just trust me, it ain't easy!

Now, I hate to throw away fabric and a friend suggested making something for a child to wear and sell it on ebay to recoup my money. Nope, I love that fabric and that is all I could find. I called around to every fabric store in this area and beyond. I tried finding it on line. I went to a popular seller on ebay and websites looking for that fabric. None to be found.

Day #2
I also realized that if I used the "ribbon embroidery" fabric above it might look too weird. As if!! I had already started ripping the leftover fabric into strips because there simply wasn't enough to cut out any more dress panels. So I made a ruffle. So the right side in the pictures below (my left as I have the dress on) is the "wrong" side of the fabric and the other side is the "right" side of the fabric. Photos below are during construction.


The finished dress. I plan on wearing it to church on sunday. I'm sure I'll get stares, but I shall hold my head up high and just tell them it's a "blogging experience" or better yet a "blogging experiment"!! Trust me, I did NOT do this for a blog post but you know me well enough now that there would definitely be a blog post about this fiasco.

With the ruffle, which I like actually, I now look like a FLAMENCO COURT JESTER! I have no shame, I tell ya. Hold me back here!!! *Sigh*
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