 Welcome to Monet Cafe. I am excited to bring you a product review video of a product I think every artist can use. And if you haven't subscribed yet, I hope you will. There's lots of artistic learning and lots of fun. Let's get started. Hello and welcome to Monet Cafe. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and I'm bringing you a product review video today that I'm excited about. It's from a company, Arteza. I have loved working with Arteza. They have great products. They've provided products to me over the years to review and I'm really excited about this one. It's an organizational product which should work for artists no matter what medium that you use. Now many of you may know that my mother passed away. It's been just weeks now and she had had a stroke and I was going out to help my family. They live about three and a half hours from me and I packed up many of my art supplies but I did it rather quickly and found out that she had passed before I could get everything out there. And so the world just turned upside down. I know many of you know of this loss and this heartache. So I came back home. This is my first day back home in my studio and I knew I needed to pack some more things up. I just didn't have everything I needed. So once again these storage caddies are going to be so awesome for me. So I want to thank you guys too for many of your messages. I can't explain how much it meant to me and how much love I feel from so many of you on this YouTube channel, in our Facebook group, Monet Cafe Art Group, and my patrons from my Patreon page. God bless you and thank you so much. So I'm literally being an art gypsy like I've had to do many times in my life before. And you know it's actually there's some positive things about having to downsize and take your show on the road. So hopefully this will help you and hopefully this product will help you too. I think these products could be used not even just for art. There's just great little organizational products for you to use. So I am excited to bring you this and I'm going to get started loading this up and it should be very helpful and practical. Oh and one other thing I'd also like to thank the company Love in Faith. It's a t-shirt company that has provided me some t-shirts to wear in my videos and this one in particular is the first time I'm wearing it and it says consider the wild flowers how they grow and it's a verse from Luke 12 27. Now my mom loved flowers. She was just like a botanist. She was so good with planting flowers. So this is a very special shirt for me and it happens to be my birthday today. So anyway, well I held it together as long as I could for that video and now I have to do a voiceover. So I just thought I'd share some of the other t-shirts from Love and Faith. It's love in faith dot life by the way, but I will have a clickable link in the about section of this video if you would like to get a t-shirt from Love and Faith. Love that company. All right let's do this product review. All right and now I have my little camera gadget. It's called an Osmo that I use with my iPhone camera that can actually follow me. So now you can see me walking around my studio here, but I have a lot of things on shelves. I love open shelving to make things easy to get to. My books are falling over, but I need to gather up some books. I have some acrylic inks, some other pastels. I have my shelf here with pretty much my studio pastels here and let me let my camera follow me down here. I have a lot of things in baskets, sketch books. I've moved a lot of these already to put into the baskets, but it should be fun seeing what things I can gather and put into the storage bins. So let's go. I better stand up. So let's take a look at these organizational products from Arteza. The first one is called storage caddies. Now this comes in a two-pack or that's how they send it to me anyway and it has a white and a gray. I'd like to find out if you can get them in just white or just gray. This may have been what I asked for, but this is the storage caddies. And the other one is called two, comes in a pack of two carry all baskets. I like this wooden handle and I like how they fit down on top of each other. So I'm going to open these up and see how much I can fit inside of these. So here we go. I haven't even opened them yet. First, I will be filling up the storage caddies. Once again, this is a two-pack set. I do love, like it says, how it's easy to clean and store. And I like the efficient organization, how you can stack them on top of each other. So these are just very practical. Here you can see how they fit on each, on top of each other with the handle. Also, there are five compartments inside and in that front section there, the middle portion comes out to make that one big section. If you'd rather just have it large in the front, you'll see me do that in a minute when I'm adding products to these. Now I was just randomly throwing in all kinds of things before I tried to get any order to it. I even put Bob Ross down in there. But this is just giving you an idea of how much you can actually fit down in these storage caddies. There you go. You can see how you can make it one big section by removing that piece. All right, now let's look at the carry-all baskets. Once again, easy to clean and store. This one has three compartments and it has a bigger compartment in the back for things like books or paintings. And also incredibly practical. I like both of these products. And here I am filling up some of these storage carry-all baskets with random products. I did like the back section that had space for books, for even some pastel supplies. And in this one I put some watercolor palettes. I put eight containers of acrylic ink so it fits a lot. I was very impressed with how much I was able to fit in these bins. Also too, of course, we can fit our paintings, pastel paintings, whatever paintings you have. It's really handy for some different sizes. And also it's just so easy to carry with that nice wooden handle as well. And of course, lots of books. This happens to be a book that I made for my mom with her photography. She used to love to take photos of skies. So I made her a book with some of her favorite Bible verses. Now, here's some of my sketchbooks, my drawing pads, and just so many different products you can add to the storage caddies or the carry-all bins. And I am definitely going to be using these a lot. I know I'm going to order some more of them. Super handy not only to take your art places, but to keep things organized in your studio as well. So here's a little photo of some of the things I packed in my fun little storage bins, which I will have available as clickable links in the description of this video. But I wanted to show you one other practical storage option that's worked really well for me over the years. Often you see my pastels laid out my studio palette of my pastels laid out in a line on one of my shelves. But you probably didn't know that it's part of a drawer storage system. And it really comes in handy when I have to go somewhere and take my pastels. I bought this at a store that I would say is equivalent to a Hobby Lobby. Those are my neutrals. I have one drawer just for neutrals. And it's called Southern Hospitality where I live, but it's like an art supply store. So if you could find anything with a little drawer system, it's really a great way to not only use the drawers to lay out for a studio pastel palette, but to put them away to take them on the go. So I hope this video was helpful for you for some storage solutions. I will have clickable links for these products in the about section of this video, along with a clickable link for some of the t-shirts from Love and Faith. So thank you everyone for your love and kindness, beautiful heartfelt messages during this trial with the loss of my mother. And as always, happy painting.