I am tardy with my Storage Idea Newsletter, sorry about that! This next idea is for storing ribbon. I absolutely love ribbon. Stores have endless varieties of widths, patterns materials and textures. I personally like to organize mine by color so I sort of have a rainbow thing going in one of my wide shallow drawers. I typically store my ribbon on the spool but find that it takes up alot of space that way. Here's an idea I got from an online friend/customer in California. Jessica used an acrylic paint bottle spinning rack to store ribbon. She took the ribbon off the spool and wrapped it around clothes pins then clipped the pins to the rack. I have seen similar grids like this at the container store so the same idea could be adapted to a wall unit rather than something to have on your work surface.Happy Organizing!
I am frequently asked how I store all my stuff. Well, if you've ever been upstairs in our house and have seen my BLOOM room, you know that my craft room is STUFFED and somewhat overflowing into Troy's office area. I am constantly rearranging and reorganizing to make the most out of my 12x10 space.
With the new Stampin' Up! year starting, my plan is to start doing shorter more frequent newsletters. I plan to send a bi-weekly update on storage ideas. Here's the first! For those of you with wall space in your craft area, here is a neat solution for your punches. This idea came from Sharon Rogers, another demonstrator. Simply mount curtain brackets on your wall and place the punch as shown below. The best thing is you can see exactly which one you are picking up because you can see the image on the top. This is inexpensive and easy, no major tools required! 
