Showing posts with label storage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storage. Show all posts
Monday, February 6, 2012

How I store my nail stuff

I thought I would do one of these posts today because I have no mani to show, due to me seething over yet another broken nail...on my good hand, of course. I have wrangled it using ye olde teabag, just hoping it holds for longer than 30 seconds. I have also had to nub two nails on my right hand so far down due to splits and peels that I made them bleed. Oops! Someone just cut off my fingers or something!

Anyway, he we have my helmer. It isn't very full but if you ask my bank account it'll tell you I am working overly hard on changing that.

I stuck things on some of the drawers to correlate with the contents, 'cos I'm crafty y'see. Or not. The boxes on top hold my nail art toys.


Drawer 1, Barry M, Models Own and Max Factor. I put little labels on the Models Own since you can't tell what is what. Then I thought maybe I should have just turned them upside down. Oh well.


Drawer 2, OPI, China Glaze and Illamasqua. 


Drawer 3, Calvin Klein, H&M, Accessorize, Nails Inc., GOSH, Rimmel, Collection 2000, 17, NYC and Revlon. AKA a hot mess.


Drawer 4, Poor lonely one off polishes. I must buy them some friends of their own kind. :(


Drawer 5. The bore drawer. Sponges and cotton pads and general crap that will be booted out when I need the space.


Drawer 6, Top coats, base coats, treatments, stripers and nail art pens. 


Inside the mysterious boxes...nail art brushes, files, dotting tools, some useless items


Fimo, stamping plates, nail wheels, gems, decals, stuff stuff stuff.


And that's that. How did I live before the faithful helmer came into my life eh?
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Jewellery Storage Solutions

Today I have a non-nail related post to share with you - jewellery storage ideas.

I'm always looking for ways to organise things at home. We have so much stuff that things can quickly become cluttered. I don't mind organised clutter, although I need to have everything in it's correct place. I don't like things to be stuffed away in boxes where I will totally forget about them. Things don't need to be put away, they can be out, as long as they are nicely stashed and organised! I know, I'm a freak!
I currently have a little wooden box in my wardrobe, but most of the time I don't even bother to rummage through it. It makes it hard to pick what to wear in the morning when I'm half asleep and in a hurry!

I went to Primark yesterday to browse the accessories section and came across this hanging jewellery organiser:


Jewellery boxes are pretty but the large one I like is really expensive! So this cheap plastic hanger made sense! It's double sided so you can fit lots of jewellery into either side and the see-through pockets let you look at everything you have in one go and quickly decide on what to wear with the day's outfit! It's also foldable in case you want to stash it somewhere out of sight and roll it out when needed. I know it's not very pretty to look at compared to a jewellery box but it does the job pretty well.

I'm still having a little problem with my long necklaces though because I like to see them hanging! I was browsing the Internet for DIY/ cheap necklace storage solutions and came across these. What do you think? How cute is this painted tree branch!? I need to go outside and see if I can find myself a nicely shaped branch!

source: jewelryclassroom.com

source: apartmenttherapy.com
source: ths.gardenweb.com
source: http://thesweetestdigs.com/2010/09/16/project-files-jewellery-frame/
source: http://makeupandbeauty.com/jewellery-storage-ideas/
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