Paint organizing.

If I can’t see it, it doesn’t exist.

I’ve got object permanence. I’m a big girl. But when it comes to stored items my working memory is faulty.

If I haven’t drilled the idea that this object always goes there (an opaque location I can’t see it into) for a good duration of time then placing any objects out of clear sight is an effective way for me to lose them.

Yesterday evening tackled some of my doll craft space to solve the problem of my acrylic paints.

You might be thinking, that’s fine. And it is. I’m never going to put everything in a specific order. I’m just gonna look and grab.

These makeup holders are the perfect dimensions for this volume of paint...but over time I’ve amassed some artists gauche and let’s look how those fit.

Oh, they fit fine but there is no information on the top-most part to indicate what color the paint is. If I fill this rack like that I’m doomed to constantly emptying and looking for colors...as I have been doing for half a year.

My solution was to cut a long strip of paper and paint a sample color from each tube onto it. After the samples dried I cut them and used scotch tape to attach each one to its tube.

I labeled the caps of identical containers of paint thinners and glosses. This is also how my spice drawer works. Identical containers, each labeled, I can visually scan from above.

That’s my tiny fix for today. My space is in progress.

Then I worked on a top secret project. Shhhhh.