Looking for an idea on how to store your silk flowers? An over the door shoe bag is a quick, easy & inexpensive way to solve the problem!
If you are a crafter, you probably have a lot of bits & bobs to store including a lot of silk flower stems. I know I do! I also have limited space in our home. I had to get creative when searching for a solution on how to store my silk flowers.
When I was a florist, I had a large workroom with plenty of storage. When I first started working on the downsizing process, I thought all my designing days were behind me so I didn’t really keep many of the things I might need to store silk stems in.
Once I decided to start the blog and start designing/crafting again, I quickly realized that I needed a way to store my silk stems so I could readily access them.
While searching on Pinterest one afternoon, I noticed that someone found a creative way to use the back of a door as an out of the way storage solution! I thought it was brilliant! They were using an over the door shoe bag to store their silk flowers. I quickly ran out to the local store and found just what I needed. I brought it home and hung it on the back of my office door.
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It wasn’t long until I had it filled up!
I love how it hangs on the back of the office door so it can be out of sight when I am not working with the flowers. Since I am more of a visual person, I like how I can see what I have at a glance.
For longer stems , I use a combination of metal containers, wooden carriers and sap buckets.
The buckets can be displayed inside an old box.
Isn’t this a pretty way to store your longer stems?
We recently had some renovations done to our home. It was the perfect time to move the silk flowers out of the living room and into my office!
For even more ideas, check out my friend, Marieza’s post Storage Ideas for Seasonal Decor
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I love your storage solutions, Kim! The shoe bag is genius! Thank you for the mention, I appreciate it.
Thank you, Marieza! The shoe bag works get since I am really low on storage space!
kim,
What a great idea. I always struggle with storing my flowers. I’d love to share this on my Sunday, Dirt Road Adventures if that’s OK.
Thank you, Rachel. Yes you can share it on the Sunday post. that would be wonderful! thanks so much!
Great idea! And the pockets would probably even work for the longer-stemmed pieces if you slit the bottom of the pocket and let the longer stems just protrude down behind the row of flowers below it. (Maybe reinforce the slit with duct tape to keep it from splitting.)
That is a great idea, Mary Jane! Thanks for sharing that! I will have to try that idea! Brilliant!
Love the way you store your flowers. I use galvanized buckets for flowers too.
Thank you , Kim! I can never have enough buckets or flowers it seems!