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About this same time last year a friend of mine posted a link to the following page or something similar: 20-things-to-do-with-toilet-paper-rolls. Now I'm always up for a challenge and love thinking out of the box and recycling, so doing something along these lines was just up my alley....

I really love no. 8 Cable Storage and since cables can be a nightmare I opted to tackle this one!

You may have seen my post on my mola desk tidy. The different drawers hold paper and notebooks, I have for USB keys and memory cards and one for cords and cables: iPhone, camera cable, cable for my label machine etc...

I decided to paint the inside of each roll black with plain acrylic paints; super easy and dries in no time. Then in keeping with my mola theme I cut out swatches that fit the size of the tube and mod podged over the whole thing to make it stick and give it a great finish.

Originally I had printed the labels for each roll contents in white onto the mola design, but it didn't stand out nicely, so I opted to print labels with white text on a black background and add them on top of each roll.

In German there is an expression I love for jumbled up cables: Bandsalat (translated Cable salad). Well, no more "Bandsalat" on this desk. Every cable is in its space nicely tucked away! And how perfect is this, a toilet paper roll fits perfectly into a drawer!!!

If you're looking for more toilet paper roll inspiration check this page out on Pinterest.

Have you made anything fun with toilet paper rolls?

mr. postman

We buy stamps and I store them away somewhere, and of course when it comes to mailing a letter, it's impossible to find them....typical!! So I decided to create a space for them to "live" where I'm sure they won't get lost in other papers on my desk!

My dad smokes cigars in different sizes and regularly keeps the small cigarillo tins for me, so I have a little stash that was waiting for me to transform them.

Now, what better to decorate a stamp tin with than with...stamps! I found a stash of old stamps, placed them in warm water to unglue the bits of paper they were stuck to and sorted through them to chose the ones I wanted to use.

Lucky for me the stamps fit perfectly to cover the tin lid. A couple of coats of Mod Podge and hey presto....

 

 
So now I know exaclty where they are when I need them! I'm still contemplating attaching a magnet to the back of the tin and I could stick them on my magnet board behing the front door for very easy access....

any other uses for cigar boxes or stamps??