has your desk or workspace ended up looking such a mess like mine has
well stay with me for this unboxing here are the mainstay of what i use when i'm diamond painting
i've got lots of variety of different tools and they tend to end up being spread out on my desk
and i got a little bit fed up of not being able to put my hands easily on the correct diamond pen
so we're going to focus on the pens today and i'm going to show you some different storage ideas for
those welcome to stone magpie and thank you for joining me so here's a selection of the diamond
pens that i've collected so far and i'm sick of having them just rolling around on my table
i ended up getting an old beaker that i had from an old picnic kit and propping them in here
and then i thought you know i am purchasing more expensive diamond pens for like these two here
and i feel that they're too special to have in this little tub all shoved together
so i started looking for some storage ideas and this video will show you three different
options that i came up with so i'm interested to try those and see how it might work for me
they are all from amazon i will tell you the prices that i purchased them for
however as we know amazon prices go up and down they fluctuate so you may be able to find
them from a different seller for a different price or the price might change even though
i'm going to put the links in the description box so do check those out if you're interested
the first solution i found was this one and this is an acrylic pen stand
and it comes in a pack of two and this is how it's delivered so they were both in a pack like this
i put these two rods in the dip and i pressed them together
it feels quite sturdy it'll be fine i'm sure i'll give it a quick measure
so from top to bottom it is about 15 centimeters by six and a half centimeters and
as you can see there are different holders so we've got one two three four five six pens
for this one and of course six for that one if you need more so what i was thinking was
as i'm diamond painting if i had my pens laid out it would be easier for me to select
which ones i need to use because i swap my pens to do my abs
or sometimes i just like to have a little change halfway through so i'm going to put my display
stand next to me as i diamond paint so let's see how sturdy it is we'll start with this resin pen
absolutely fine this is my heaviest diamond painting pen from say pluto so that sits
well as well again this is a mid weight um should we try all of the resin pens on there
so they all sit well and i think if i was diamond painting yeah i can take those off
yeah that's fine so we'll put on the basic pens i think it might be an issue with the finger guard
so it's fine as long as the finger guard isn't on that dip bit
um i think you'd have to have a play have a play and see what you think
but it seems well balanced they are staying on it's fine and i think they'd be easy to
take on and off so i think that's quite successful and yeah i would definitely use
that next to my diamond painting to select my pens you may notice that i've got a couple of
new pens here that i haven't really shown on camera before so i've never used these
i do love this one with the little fishies and shells inside and i got these two from amazon
and i got this one from say pluto as well and i've never used this one yet
right so i think that's a good one i'll put that there
next i just couldn't resist i just honestly had to have these oh by the way did i say the price
they were seven pounds 69 for two seven pounds 69 right i couldn't resist these next two
they do make me laugh so i hope that you think they're cute too look
let's have a closer look take them out of their little bag hello little crabby look at these oh i
just thought they were so adorable and again they come in a pack of two you get a red and a blue
oh look and they've got their claws up ready to hold the pen for you
and because i've got my shelly fishy pen i thought it would be perfect so let's put this guy down
and see come on yes he can hold that one let's see if they can hold a basic pen
perfect so there we are if you want a little friend to hold your pens up for you
you can have one oh aren't they cute i love that so
there we are yeah i think he may need a bit of balancing let's try the rainbow one yeah
the rainbow one's fine let's try this resin one yeah so they've hold them held them all so far
no problem oh now let's try my heaviest pen we'll put him on the red one whoa yeah he can
hold that one and this is a heavier pen oh no i don't know if mr blue is as balanced as mr red
yeah the red one can hold it the blue one i think's probably a little bit more wobbly
come on you need to do some muscle exercises
what do you think do you think they're fun i think they're great and they were seven pounds 99
for two i just had two i just had to let's put you over there so i think this is what my
diamond painting is going to look like at the side of the painting i'm going to have these out
let's measure one should we measure mr red
oh so funny so he is five centimeters by three centimeters by three centimeters
there we are if you know a cancer in your family if you
know somebody's a cancer star sign perfect gift
right so we've done two lovely pen displays and
we're coming to the last one now this one is a bit more luxurious than those
it came in this box with the foam inserts so lots of protection
and it also came with this foamy protective sleeve
and this is very luxurious
it has got a glass top hence all of the protection
and i'm holding it like this because i think you may get a bit of reflection in that lid
there we are you can see the leaves on my conservatory top
let's open the lid and get rid of that so it is a wooden case with a glass lid and it's got some
silver hinges it's got the velvety type pen slots and it has a drawer underneath so all together
you would get 23 pens in this case and what i thought was because i'm getting the more expensive
pens now in my collection this would be a good storage to keep away so um if i wasn't using my
pens as often i could keep them very easily in here so that they're not getting knocked about
honestly i would probably keep all of the pens i wasn't using in here and then just take them
out when i was going to diamond paint as you can see they sit really nicely in the box and you can
just put them in when you finish diamond painting if you don't want to keep them on the displays
so i thought that was a really good solution you probably have a lot more collectible pens than
i do so you may well want to fill up all of these slots with your beautiful collectible pens i will
get there i am going to get it filled eventually it might take me a long time but i'm going to
so for now i probably wouldn't use the drawer i'd probably use it oh would i use the drawer not the
lid i'm not sure we'll see how that plays out but isn't that fantastic i think it's a really
luxurious thing to have for your pens and a really great gift idea if you know a diamond painter
and you're never really sure what kit they might like for their birthday
something like this would go down a treat i'm sure let's have a quick measure
so this is 31 centimeters by
21 centimeters and i'll just pop the lid down to measure the depth
by
nearly nine centimeters high so as you can see with the lid down if you've
got your beautiful pens in there you can see them see them through
um this was on offer on amazon when i bought it so it cost me 29 pounds 59 and i think it
was usually around about 40 pounds something like that so do have a look around on amazon if you're
interested in one of these because if this one is no longer on offer there may well be others and
there we have it right well i need to have mr crab holding one and i need to put a couple on display
fabulous absolutely brilliant i love it i absolutely love the selection that i chose
and i hope that you found this video useful too to get some ideas
of what you might like to do with your diamond pens i hope it helped i hope that you enjoy
your own diamond painting and i do hope to see you next time take care everyone bye