Tutorial - Recycle a Fruit Box into a Filing Box

Easily done. no specialist skills required

Tutorial at Hands On Workshop Blog
 

"Now that I’m half way through the year, I’m tweaking and adjusting my office ‘systems’. I’ve discovered that I really like storing my paperwork and tear sheets (pages of mags or print outs) in hanging files. It’s a really easy way to find things, they don’t get squashed, different size bits of paper all fit in, and you don’t have to punch big holes in the document.  The only trouble is, that I don’t have room for a filing cabinet and most of them are pretty darn ugly. But….I found that if I adapted my “Aussie Farmers”  boxes (it’s an Australian grocery delivery service), I could make a neat box for my hanging files".... Read more

Tutorial - How to Make Fabric Files

Takes less space than a metal filing cabinet

Fabric File Tutorial at Handmade Harbour Blog

"It's taken me ages to get round to this project!  Ironically, I think I may have been more organised if I'd already had this made, which would definitely have speeded things up.  My youngest daughter was at my house when the fabric for this arrived and asked what I was making with it.  I told her "a filing cabinet".  At her surprised look, I said "you think I'm mad, don't you?"  "Mmm, li'l bit" was the reply I got.  So, there you are.  Mad.  But just occasionally, a little bit of madness helps create something that works - and here's my filing "cabinet".... Read more

Tutorial - How to Make Colorful File Folders

Dress Up a Plain File Folder

How to Make Colorful File FoldersTutorial at Khadija's Creative Mind Blog

"First I cut the card paper & fold it like a file, then I cut some strips with designing scissors, & simply paste it over the file. Then I cut some slim strips in blue color for fixing between red strips. At the end, I take golden glitter glue".... Read more