Thread Cabinet

A friend of ours made this cabinet for me years ago for my birthday. It is a very cool thing to have because it protects my very favorite threads (well, some of them).
This is what it looked like before:

My husband and I added drawer pulls. They are wooden spools that I painted and stained to look like spools of thread. They look like actual spools of thread! I needed knobs on them really bad, so I am totally thrilled to have this project done--about 15 years behind schedule. LOL

I can really load a lot of thread in here, especially in the drawers. Not a big fan of leaving my threads out in the open where they can collect dust, so this works well for me. Other
threads are stored in plastic containers.
 

Bedside Book Bag

I've been working on some odd projects here and there. Just so many clever ideas out there, so try to do something new now and then.  One pocket holds my Kindle, and the other my favorite magazine. I should have done this a long time ago!

Organizing Buttons

Nothing earth-shattering here, but I did get my buttons all sorted and put into little jelly jars. No expense here, since I already had the jars in the pantry, scraps of fabric (who doesn't??), and some interfacing. I'm sure you could use cardboard or scrapbooking paper, but I just sandwiched some fusible heavy-weight interfacing between fabrics that matched the color of the buttons in the jars, pressed, then stuck them in the rings. As you can see, it was super easy. I did use pinking shears around the edge of the fabrics so it wouldn't fray. I like this clean, crisp look better than poofs of fabric sticking out of the lid.
I know how random this post is, but just had to stop and do some organizing. Drives me nuts when I have to dig for things...like a turquoise button among 500 other colors.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!!