SYNTRYZ Stitches

  Another great time saver has been my new snip/trash cans. After we got everything together and I started sewing in my new room - I wondered where to put my trash cans that I put my thread snips and other small trash in. Now in my old room I had many small pails on the floor by my feet and I was always dumping them over when I went to step on my pedal. Since Dad had been collecting the free magnetic strips from Harbor Freight it gave me an idea: Why don't we attach the magnet to the trash can so I can hang them and also be able to remove them for dumping. Dad added 2 belt buckle blanks that we had in our stash to 2 Dollar store buckets and my problem was solved. We attached one to my cabinet and one to my table and I'm tempted to add another.

Pretty girls like to sew   On the other side of my room from my smaller sewing machines, I'm leaving my 2 larger ones out on their new counter. We got the 2 cabinets from the IKEA clearance sections, all put together with premium door fronts and hardware, I paid $75 for one and $55 for the other, plus the counter top is leftover from our kitchen redo, originally got that on clearance for $50. We had these in storage for over a year before we started to redo the sewing room and they ended up fitting great. Plus I found my 'Pretty girls like to sew' print that my niece had sent me several years ago, I had been saving it for the sewing room so now it's nicely displayed.