{"id":613,"date":"2015-02-18T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2015-03-05T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T22:57:58","slug":"happy-accident-a-storage-case-for-the-diy-alcohol-inks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Happy Accident – A Recycled Storage Case for DIY Alcohol Inks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alcohol ink storage from recycled floppy disk cases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sometimes it pays to clean out your closet, even if you’re avoiding something you should be doing instead (preparing\u00a0tax info).<\/p>\n

So, I’m pretty\u00a0sure what possessed me\u00a0to do my more-or-less annual computer\/office supply closet purge and reorganization. If it hadn’t happened\u00a0just after I made the alcohol inks from Sharpies<\/a>, this idea would probably never\u00a0have occurred to me.<\/p>\n

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Old floppy disk case open, before disassembling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These\u00a0cases for\u00a03.5″\u00a0floppy disks<\/em>\u00a0(!)\u00a0have been sitting around, surviving many<\/em>\u00a0sessions of clearing my closet chi.\u00a0The “floppy” part will\u00a0give you an idea of\u00a0just how old\u00a0they\u00a0are. I had four\u00a0of them.<\/p>\n

Every time I went through the closet, I thought\u00a0“There must be something I can do with these.” FInally, that day has come.<\/p>\n

I tried using them to store other things, like\u00a0old earbuds. But if I can’t\u00a0see them, I tend to forget they exist, and these cases are opaque (not to mention 90s computer beige). So most of my storage solutions need to be translucent or really visibly labeled.<\/p>\n

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Old floppy disk case with cover removed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To create the storage setup, all that was needed was to pull the covers off, line the cases up and drop in the ink bottles. I had made 23 inks and filled\u00a0another bottle with some alcohol for quick cleanups. The 4 cases each fit 6 bottles, with a little wiggle room and the color chart fits behind the last row.\u00a0Perfect!<\/p>\n

Two of the lids, which I never thought I’d use, surround the 4 rows of bottles, keeping them a bit more likely to stay upright.<\/p>\n

The cases were one in front of the other, but separate. I was worried about the bottles tipping over, especially because of the mess alcohol inks can\u00a0make. The caps are a little unpredictable, too.<\/p>\n

That’s where a clear plastic case from the annual Christmas Ferrero-Rocher splurge my niece, Kayla and I do for each other, came to the rescue. It’s another one of those “I could use that for something” pieces that tend to pile up. It\u00a0fits the whole setup like a charm.<\/p>\n

Now I just need to get in gear and use the inks to color some polymer clay. More on that soon.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes it pays to clean out your closet, even if you’re avoiding something you should be doing instead (preparing\u00a0tax info). So, I’m pretty\u00a0sure what possessed me\u00a0to do my more-or-less annual computer\/office supply closet purge and reorganization. If it hadn’t happened\u00a0just after I made the alcohol inks from Sharpies, this idea would probably never\u00a0have occurred to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,21,4],"tags":[29,25,26,30,23,31,41],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-it-yourself","category-recycled-material-ideas-for-art-and-craft-projects","category-tutorials","tag-alcohol-ink","tag-art-supplies","tag-craft-supplies","tag-diy","tag-recycling","tag-sharpies","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chirphopstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}