Ten years ago my husband made me a lazy susan color pencil holder similar to the one in the Color Pencil Solution Book by Gildow & Newton. I continuously use it and since I have recently added some new brands of color pencil I had asked my husband to build me a second one with a few additions. As you can see the carousel is two levels high and spin separate from each other. I work with solvents and asked that he drill out spaces for the containers. I have the woodless pencils and realized just how fragile they are. I put them in my original lazy susan pencil holders (sharpened end straight up) and accidentally (ever so lightly) grazed the top of the pencil and it snapped! I knew right away they were not going to last if I were to store them as my Prismas. That is why I had my husband route out indented trays on the bottom level of the carousel.
I also learned how to be patient with Micro Excel on the computer and was able to create professional looking labels which I can slide out anytime I need to.
If you look really close toward the center of the holder you'll see what looks like smaller pencils. They are actually wooden dowel rods that I made to look like colored pencils and are glued into the carousel. The last hole of each spoke is drilled all the way through and is slipped onto the color pencil dowel rod. We have made several spokes for each brand of color pencils that I have, so they can be changed out easily.
It has taken about a month to make this but now that he has the correct tools and design he is hoping that it should be fairly easy to make another.
Sometimes I think I get more excited about the new toys for my color pencil than I do about the drawing. I must admit though, it makes the process a lot more fun!
8 comments:
That is so cool! You guys should make more and sell them! I envy your organized studio. It looks very nice and I love your repurposed storage. You are so creative!
Thanks Beth! I'm trying to convince my husband to do just that. His comment?..."Two starving artists in the house? :)" Well dear, maybe, but happy!
I hope all is well with you. Have you increased your Hearthome inventory for Christmas?
Fantastic, Dianna. Market this for sure.
Still working on my husband Holly! I think the more he sees cp artists interested the more he'll consider doing it.
This is very interesting! It looks like so much fun to use!
Thanks for sharing Dianna...this is something that my woodworker husband could definetly build for me. One question...how many pencils can it hold? I have so many, that I would end up needing more than one carousel.
Thanks Colette! This carousel can hold 144 pencils...all my Prismas plus...!!
This is great! I bet you could market them through the different colored pencil sites and organizations!
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