Craft Rooms & Organizing

Book Shelf Bike Rack

Urban City Bike Shelves turns utility into functional art! These handmade bike racks double as a bookshelf in tight quarters, while still showing off your sweet ride. This would be perfect for a city dweller’s studio, and for people like me trying to de-clutter.

How-to: Zip Tie Basket

I’ve seen a some awesome stuff getting made out of zip ties lately, and this basket made from zip ties, by an Instructables user who goes by BladeFyre Studios, is a truly pragmatic application for those little plastic fasteners. After all, if you’re going to make things out of zip ties, you’re going to need […]

Tips For Staying Organized

I always appreciate getting a peek into how other folks stay organized to see what tips might apply to my own daily routines. Moorea of Moorea-Seal has a nice guest post over on One Pearl Button summarizing how she stays on top of her blogging, jewelry-making and personal goals. Related: How-To: Organize Yourself to Get […]

Stunning Collection of Notes and Lists

Salon.com has a post up from Imprint, detailing some of the outstanding pieces in the Morgan Library and Museum’s current show, “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations.” I will confess to being a compulsive note scribbler. Sometimes they help me stay organized and on track, but mostly they just serve as […]

Good Old Pegboard Organization Systems

Image by Lajos Geenen, Readymade There’s a good reason why pegboard has been around forever, and is such a common solution for organizing tools. It’s inexpensive, easily painted, and so simple to customize with a variety of readily-available hooks. DIY Life has a nice round-up of ways to use pegboard for crafty and cooking storage. […]