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This week's workout is to go through your collection of glues, tapes, glue sticks, spray adhesives and other small sticky items. These essential items come in a diverse and wide variety, so they tend to get stuffed in drawers, on shelves, in baskets and other random places. Their odd shapes and sizes can also make storage challenging. But, we have found a number of options that just might work for you and your space. We are not including fusibles and stabilizers as that is your homework for another week, so don't dive into those items just yet.  

Ricky has a drawer dedicated to sticky stuff. "I find it it interesting that my most favorite drawer is called Sticky Stuff. If it sticks, it goes in that drawer—including sticky felt-feet that go on bottoms of nicknacks to keep them from scratching the furniture. The drawer is more organized than is shows in the photo, because I pulled things up to show what lives in there."

Clean and Clutter Free Options:

1. Upcycle a waxed paper box to hold your washi tape collection (Homework).
2. Coffee pod storage drawer can hold over 100 washi tape rolls.
3. Jen at Pretty Neat Living uses labeled Stockholm Photo boxes to hold items in her studio.
4. A pink rolling tool cart from the hardware store offers lots of drawers to hold all of your sticky items in one place.
5. Short on storage space. Four Generations One Roof uses baskets to compartmentalize a dresser drawer in the living room. 
6. Keep everything sorted by type (Honey We're Home).
7. Make 2 Style keeps everything in an Alex cabinet from Ikea.

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 Visually Stimulating Options:

1. Katrina from 3 Birds Design keeps all of her glues and adhesives in a basket for easy access.  

2. Happy Scrappy uses two rolling craft carts to store her essentials.

3. Turtles and Tails uses an old shoe cabinet to store her adhesives.

4. Polished Habitat uses a basket on a shelf to hold all of her adhesives.
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Creative Work Spaces:

If all of these ideas weren't enough, we want to share two creative spaces that offer a great variety of ideas for keeping an organized, clutter free, and inspirational place to spend your time. Remember, this is YOUR ultimate goal for this year; a place where you LOVE to create.

Jen's worktable and studio space for inspiration.

Nikki gives great tips for keeping your creative space under control by breaking areas into zones