Anniversary and... storage.

Today was the anniversary of Andrew breaking his neck... Five years ago our whole life changed big time! We didn't celebrate today, in fact we tried not to dwell on this anniversary at all!!!

Tomorrow we head to Burwood hospital for a week, funny that this visit should fall so close to that dreadful day five years ago.

On to brighter things now...

Here is my entry for week 4 at Crafty Tarts. This was a tough one, we had to create an inspired storage idea. At first I thought this was going to be so simple as I have my ribbon holder that I had made from a handy towel holder...but alas, I could not use that as I had already posted it onto my blog. Hmmmm... after lots of thought and coming up with blanks I had a poke around my room to see what needed a better storage space. Look what I found!!...

this great tangled mess!!

My embroidery threads and laces really DO need a new home!

After poking in corners and under beds I found this treasure of a box that I always knew would be handy for something one day!

The only problem was ..what, and how was I going to go about transforming this old gift box!!First up I drilled sawed and dremmeled

Then I painted and sanded and ...

painted some more.

Next I sawed...

... hammered, glued...

threaded, typed

cut and stamped, glued some more...hammered some more ...until...

FOL LA!!! ... Look at my threads and laces now...all neat and tidy and mounted on my wall , just waiting for me to reach in and start creating!

I still have a little detangling to do, but I'm getting there!
Thanks again Crafty Tarts!!!

Check out the other wonderful storage ideas here, I am going to borrow some of these ideas myself!