Works For Me Wednesday - Art Table

This is something that has helped our family so I thought I'd post it in Works For Me Wednesday.  Although I do scrapbook, lately and only occasionally, this table is primarily used by the kids during and after their schoolwork.  Everything is in one place.  There are a lot of containers to place items, so things stay neat (although not necessarily neat within the containers).  Before, we had art items in the laundry cabinets, school room, office, and bedrooms.  Now when there is a project or even when inspiration hits things are easily accessible.  As I said, it hasn't always been this way...take for example one of the areas where we used to store art items - the laundry room cabinets.    

I had an idea of what would work and a look I wanted.  I found the furniture and baskets at Ikea in different departments.  Ikea's my favorite store because of the options and affordability.  The table was under $100.  The rail system which I love, came from Lisa & Becky.  The ribbon spool holder is really great especially if you have girls who wear ribbons everyday.  
All the containers are flower pots which I already had.  It's easy to pick up after a project even for our 5 year old since she knows where each item belongs.  

Oh look, there she is enjoying an art project with everything at her fingertips :)

We place finished items we want to display on cork boards I bought at Michaels in a 4 pack.  Under $10 I think.  We (the girls in the family) each have our own board marked by our initial.  Looks like I better work on something.

It's also convenient just to have everything in one place even when the numbers exceed the four stools.  We have an art class with another homeschool family.  When they come over we set up another table along side this one and still everyone has access to what they need.  

This is what works for us.