WOYWW - My Promarker Storage Solution

Time for another 'What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday' - if you haven't checked it out before, be sure to hop over there, it really is great to nosey around other peoples work spaces without the danger of being arrested for loitering....... and check out Julia's blog at the same time, she is so funny and talented too.

I have spent the best part of two days getting my Promarker storage sorted out, I really needed a compact way of transporting them to the US when I fly back next week. I got the idea HERE - thanks so much Nicky.

So I set off in search of the CD box, I tried Curry's first. I was browsing the storage and a salesman came up to me. He watched as I opened boxes and peered inside, 'none of them are big enough' I said

'You have a big music collection then' he said, obviously impressed.

Well, no actually, a couple of Neil Diamond, some Billy Joel and a smattering of Michael Buble - if you are laughing, that means you are the same age as my kids!

So on to computer world where I found this little beauty

A professional DJ's CD case - I got respectful looks, and a few disbelieving ones too as I marched proudly out with my find..........

I printed out the excellent blank chart from the Passion for Promarkers blog - thanks girls,

and stuck that to the lid. The placement of the pens is in the exact order shown on the chart, you can get 7 markers in each sling file, and it would probably hold 9 slings on each side, but they would be a tight fit, so I stuck with 8.

I needed to identify the colours from the top, so I bought some 4mm sticky circles from Staples, coloured them with the appropriate ink and stuck them on. I had a feeling they would peel off, so I covered them with glossy accents, which acts as both a glue and a varnish......

My chart has a complicated sort of filing system, known only to me, basically the CD sleeves had numbers on them that I didn't notice until I was half way through, so some of the pinks are in sleeve 14 and so on................ The crossed out ones are the ones I use most often, for skin, hair and so on, I have ordered one of Letraset's wallets to take these. The greys are going to live in two of the little rubber thingies that Letraset sent me. I am lucky enough to have the complete set of Promarkers, so I am really pleased with my new storage. Edited to say I have had a couple of emails about storing the pens vertically, here is what Letraset have to say on the subject:

Regarding storage, Promarkers can be stored both vertically or horizontally. The ink molecules are so fine that ink is evenly distributed throughout the marker even when stored vertically

Well, I started, so I better carry on with the cruise saga. So on we sailed to the highlight of the cruise - Rio de Janeiro. We had booked to go on an excursion to visit the statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooking the city, and Copacobana and Ipanema beaches. The trouble was the oh-so-efficient cruise staff had forgotten to book coaches for the excursions. So we all milled aimlessly around the ship for an hour or so, then piled onto the coaches. You take a little railway up the mountain, unfortunately the oh-so-efficient cruise staff had forgotten that as well, and we didn't have tickets, so we had to hang around the foot of the mountain for almost two hours, by which time, it had started to rain. We eventually got to the top, to find the 30 metre tall statue shrouded in mist, honestly, you couldn't see it, I stubbed my toe on the base of the thing, peering through the fog. Of course the legendary views of Rio were non-existent as well. At one stage, the mists lifted momentarily, and there were joyful cries of 'ho, ha, ah' (think Japanese accents for those), and the clicking of a thousand cameras, until the mists shrouded us once more. We queued miserably for another hour for the railway to take us back down, and onto the coach, which drove at a hurtling pace past the beaches - oh, so that was Copacabana.......zip, blink and you missed it
to be continued...................