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Photo An upcycled spin caddy from a 3D filament spool to hold soldering and lights supplies

To make miniatures, I find it necessary to acquire a lot of tools for various specific applications. Here are some of my favorite ones that are store bought. They are not ranked in terms of usefulness but they have been working very well for me. As the titte suggests, I plan to have two more blog posts on mini-making tools, the next one will be Tools that I custom made and Part 3 will be on tools for making dollhouse lights. I will include the sources or links where I purchased them, if I remember. :)

Choosing Indiemade.com to host my online shop instead of better known brands such as Wix, Godaddy, Shopify, etc. is because I love the name "Indiemade". It represents rather well the essense of products made by independent artisans and crafters.

As a DIYer and maker of all sorts, I use painter's tapes a lot. I simply need to organize them better rather than allowing them to stack on top of one another. Each tape of a specific width deserves a dispenser on its own so it can be ported to whereever my project is being worked on. However, painter's tape dispensers are quite expensive, IMHO. I should be able to make some on the laser cutter fairly quickly at a much lower cost.

While my craft room is not getting larger as my craft interests keep growing, the only way to increase storage for supplies and tools is to expand upwards. I can associate my expansion plan to skyscrapers in cities. Since I built a smaller chest of drawers a few months ago (last photo) and really find it useful, I decided to build a larger piece with four tray drawers to tame portion of my hordes. I can also use it as a print stand so that the same real estate is to double its capacity.