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How to store your diamond painting drills

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If you follow a few diamond painting Facebook groups you will see some cool and carefully thought about ways to store diamond painting drills.

For me, I have kept it really simple. I have two small containers. The first one is for all the drills I am working on in my current project. 

I use a container which holds miniature containers. The container which I bought from AliExpress.com also includes white label stickers. Generally, the diamond paintings have similar numbering. So I place the label and code on the small container. Cut open the satchel of coloured drills and pour it into the container. I complete this for all the drills that come in the diamond painting pack. 

Then when I am ready to use a colour, I pour the drills onto the drill holder and start diamond painting. When I am finished with that colour I simply pour it back in the container. 

Now, I hear you ask why do I have a second container? 

Well to be honest, it’s a kitchen container that I wasn’t using. I bought little satchel bags for the left over drills from a project. I like to keep them incase I don’t receive enough of the one colour in a packet. (Yes, it does happen). 

Sometimes if I am working on two different diamond paintings, my first project is using the container and the second project I am using the little satchel bags for each colour. 

So I write the number and code and S for square drill or C for circle drill then place it in the satchel. I fill it in order of the number. One side full of spare square drills and the other side full of circle drills. 

For me, that’s all I use for drills. But I do envy other people’s cool ideas.

For example, a couple of people posted this huge holder of drills. What they do is, they buy a tonne of diamond paintings and before they complete one, they empty all the drills from every packet into their huge holder of drills. You can even buy more than one to ensure you have enough to hold it all. 

This sounds good and if diamond painting is your main hobby, this may be a great way to store your drills. Also some projects the drills come separately so this way they can’t get lost. 

I also like the idea that you have the drills in a place that you can sit down at a table and start diamond painting immediately. Whereas because I use my table for everything, I have to remove all my craft supplies from the table each time I finish time on my craft. So I have to have storage for my supplies and have them near each other so I remember where everything is. 

AliExpress also sells a book, where you can add your drills to. 

Also, if you really want you can buy one colour of drills. This is handy if you are doing a huge diamond painting project. Especially if you buy more of the main colour. 

Well, I hope this blog post helped you get some cool ideas on how to store diamond painting drills. Hmm, I think I will go do some diamond painting now. 

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