Organizing my Supplies

I love seeing how other people organize their things because I'm a super neat freak, and I have a LOT of clay to organize! I don't know how everyone else organizes their clay, but here's my little treasure box. It's just a little Caboodles box from Target and I love it because it reminds me of Hannah Montana's secret identity box.... hah I like that it's all in one place and it's portable so I can just grab it and head straight to the couch to make some little clay creations!



On each side I keep the clay separated by color... kindof. It's an attempt.



In that last drawer I keep nail polish, because I haven't gotten around to buying real glaze and so far it has worked just the same! It just smells infinitley more like acetone than any Sculpey glaze I'm sure.



On the bottom I keep a tile for a clean surface to work on, a bag with all my tools, a cup to cover unbaked sculptures with so they aren't super dusty, and some paper towel. Sculpting is messy! I also keep a few papers down there with tips on how to sculpt certain things like hands and feet and limbs but honestly I got them in art class and put them in there with the intent of using them and they still haven't been unfolded. Someday perhaps! The last thing I keep is a little compartment box with all my little scrap pieces of clay. I make a lot of my own colors by mixing and often I have leftovers so I just keep them in there so they don't go to waste and I can use them again. I also keep things that may come in handy for sculptures like toothpicks, tin foil, beads, paperclips, little metal washers, buttons, yada yada yada yada.



These are all of my tools, but truthfully I only use the ones in the second picture. Most of them are tools I've gotten with Sculpey kits and that I've bought or received from Micheal's, and I just really like feeling like an official artist with all my fancy tools. Even if I don't use the majority of them.





The long stick one was actually a cleaning tool for guns, but it works so well for literally EVERYTHING! The little ones do everything else and are just sculpey tools that we bought from Micheal's.

That's it! I hope it's not too messy and that it gives someone ideas maybe? Yep