Gift wrapping station

I actually had an OK system for storing wrapping paper and ribbons but somehow it always tangled or ended up on the floor and there was no room for boxes and bags. A few years back I came up with the idea to have a rod for the ribbons and it worked very well until I moved all the wrapping stuff into the office instead. Instead of horizontal it was now vertical - made a mess:

While cleaning my son's room I found an old thing he used to store books in and it was perfect for what I wanted to do and more important - it fit PERFECTLY in the little space behind the door.

I mounted a magnetic knife holder from IKEA for scissors and small containers also from IKEA. 

The wrapping paper was sorted and actually stayed as it was - I used another thing from IKEA which originally is for storing plastic bags. 

For the ribbons I had a small challenge - I wanted to be able to remove the ribbons easily for replacement or for big wrapping projects where I don't want to run back and forth for ribbons (like wrapping 72 small presents for the advent calender at Christmas). But I found two small hooks and I cut the rod I used earlier to size:

Since I didn't want to fix the hole from the previous ribbon holder I found a bathroom hook that was left over  for silk ribbons or bags etc.

On the shelf all the tape is and the extra ribbons. The black and white containers - also from IKEA - fit perfectly on the bars across and they contain extra tape, small to and from cards and other misc. stuff. 

I love the finished result and as our exchange student said: I envy the next person who comes and live here who get to use it (I guess with Christmas over she doesn't expect to do much wrapping :) ).

Organizing the shelves in the corner cabinet

The pins I look at the most right now are pins about organizing - could be that I am dreaming but is does feel great when every thing is all neat and in it's place.

My first project was to organize my corner cabinet in the kitchen. The whole shelf can come out but it rarely does so stuff tend to pile up in the part closest to the door.

The top shelf was supposed have onionchopper, strains, measuring items, shredders etc. and the bottom shelf is my tupperware shelf. Notice all the space in the back??

First I emtied all each shelf and purged ... found several items that do not belong to us and a few things for the garbage - the kitchen is only a few years old so I already purged a few years ago.

I bought two things for this project: Curtain wire and four Samla containers from IKEA.

I needed some dividers to seperate the items on the shelf - hence the curtain wire:

 

I cut them to size and screwed the little hooks in - I used a pliers to open the hooks to fit.

Then I sorted: The items we use the most in the front and other items in the back.The Samla boxes I used for  the smaller items.

The shelves ended up looking like this:

The last thing I need to do was to figure out how to store my Tupperware bakesheet - it always fell of the shelf or was in the way. I ended up making two small loops of the curtain wire and attaching them to the holes in the cabinet that was already there. From the bits and screws that was leftover from the kitchen remodeling I found these two little things:

Then I added the loops:

Love it!