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As the holidays approach we are all overwhelmed with so much on our plates. I'm not just talking about turkey and ham, I'm talking party schedules, work holiday parties, baking cookies and of course buying and wrapping gifts. Since living in apartments my storage situation has gone from massive (Atlanta) to null (Chicago). Therefore my wrapping paper "station" went to the back burner - whomp. 

Before this week my wrapping paper conglomerate looked like this: 


Previously, the under-the-bed storage container worked for us. Now that we are in our forever home, it seems too.. "on the run" to me. We needed a more permanent home for all of my gift wrap that I so adore.  


 I also noticed this was easy for me to shove random things into such as: contact patterned shelf liner, posters, ribbon remnants and yes, a mini Christmas tree - I mean where else would you put it? 

The new home for our wrapping paper STATION is now in our basement on the back of our storage room door - subject to change. 


Kindly disregard obnoxious floral wallpaper. 



Here is the setup we chose from the Container Store - they had a display at the store and we took a few out and added some that worked for us. The nice thing is it can work for anything in the future so we had no regrets spending the money on this system:) 

The final results?


Ta-Da

It is now off the floor and not collecting dust bunnies under our bed! 


I used some "S" hooks that I had to hang scissors - I hate when I can't find all my supplies when wrapping gifts! Tape is also on the top shelf. I will slowly be adding ribbon to my collection as well. 



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In the next year (2015!), I will be dedicating my spare time to getting myself re-organized (yes, in fact, I did say this last year and the year before...). I will take you on this journey with me if you are willing:) We all know I am an organizing fiend - so this, I'm sure, does not  come to as a surprise. I plan on doing one project a month and doing a fun step by step post about it for you all! 


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This week I just made a huge step at my vintage furniture shop - Vintage 202! I added my childhood friend and designer Courtney Schrank to my team:) We are so excited to bring some really cool pieces to the table and get some great feedback from you guys! Please "like" us on Facebook and share our page with your friends to get our name out there - Thanks for the support everyone! 




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