Organizing my craft room.

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well.

This past week, I started putting my craft room back together.

When my husband had his motorcycle accident last April, 

all my craft stuff was removed from my room in order to make space for other furniture that had to be moved when my husband came home from the hospital.

 Because he is getting better, we have returned a bunch of the medical equipment that he no longer needs. That freed up my craft room again. Yeah!!!

I brought in some new storage units for my craft supplies.

I wanted open storage, so that I could see what I have.   

I got a cube storage unit similar to the Expedit unit from Ikea.

It has 16 cubes in it.

I have four of them organized now.

I made some inserts using foam core board to display my paints and threads.

I used this tutorial for my inspiration for those displays.

I also made an organizer for my ink pads. 

I got the directions from this tutorial.

I also decorated the top a bit.

Don't you just love those hand carved wooden stamps!!

Well, its getting there.

I still have  lot to organize, but it's a start.

Hugs

A table for my sewing room!!! Added another pic..

Well, today I went about town looking for a table for my sewing room.

I stopped at the Habitat for Humanity Restore.

I had seen some table tops the last time I had stopped in.

I knew that they didn't come with table legs, but I thought I could work something out.

I chose one of the table tops.

It was $25.

After I paid for it, the man said he would get the table legs down from the shelf for me.

I was so excited to see that it came with legs.

There was damage to one corner of the table.

It looked like someone had ripped one of the legs off.

I managed to get my husband to cut some pieces of wood for me.

My son Brad is pretty handy, so I asked him if he would help me fix the table.

 He and I worked together for about 1 hour to get the broken pieces off the table top,

and the new wood pieces on.

We put the legs on, and now I have a nice large table to work on in my sewing room.

I still have to stain the new pieces, but I will get that done tomorrow.

I had to buy bolts and the wood that my husband cut to fix the table.

In all, it cost me $45.00 for this table.

I think that's a pretty good deal for a nice solid table.

Edited to add: Here's a picture of my table with my cutting mat, threads and sewing machine.
I'm moving in!!!
Note: It will look even better once I touch up the stain!!

I'm getting there!!

Hugs

I painted my new sewing room....

Hi everyone!

I know I haven`t blogged a lot this summer.

We have been doing renovations and all our extra time has gone to that.

Well, those renovations are coming close to the end.

We have made two new bedrooms in our basement for the boys.

They are all moved in, and settled.

I am all done my part of those renovations.

My daughter is moved into her new room.

I did not have as much work to do in her room.

We only needed to paint.

With that done, I got to work on the last room.

This is the best room of all, my new sewing room.

This room used to be my daughters room.

It was painted a very pale yellow.

That was the color of the room when we bought the house.

Here is a picture of it before being painted.

Here is the after picture.

I do need new blinds. LOL!!

But, that will come at some point.

I really like the color I chose.

It is a Robin s Egg blue by Para Paints.

I only used 1 gallon to paint the room, and only had about a quarter cup of paint left.

I was really worried that I would not have enough.

Now, I need to come up with a work table.

I do not currently have one to put in here.

I have been searching on Pinterest for ideas.

At least now I can start moving some of my stuff into the room tomorrow.

I am getting really excited now.

I will have my very own sewing room.

Yeah!!!!

Hugs

I'm moving......

my sewing room.

I was finding it too confining working in the little 5x8 sewing room.

It didn't have a window, or air circulation.

I wasn't feeling inspired in there.

I had also noticed that my husband was really missing his music room.

He liked hiding in his little room and playing his music.

He had almost completely stopped playing.

And I could really tell it was affecting him.

So, we had a little discussion.

I told him I needed to move out of there and he needed to move back in.

He instantly agreed.

We worked together to rearange our family room in our basement.

It took all day Friday.

We bought a used desk that I could use for my sewing space and set it up.

I worked all weekend and didn't get to move anything over until today.

I like it because I have some daylight.

I can open a window if I want.

The desk is right behind the couch, which is facing the TV.

So, now I can cut, sew, iron, spend time with the kids, talk to them, watch them playing and watch a movie or TV too.

Love it!!!!

This is going to be much better.

I don't like being in my corner all alone.

The only thing is that I don't have alot of space for storage.

So, I'm trying to go through my scraps, cut them up into usable pieces so that I can store them better.

I've been cutting them in 2.5", 2", 1.5" strips.

I've been using my GO! cutter to cut the 1.5" strips.

I've also been using the value die to cut 2.5 inch squares, and triangles to make 2.5 inch HST's.

I've been cutting 3.5 inch tumblers too.

I really struggle to throw any fabric out.

I kinda hord it.

But, I know I can't now.

So, with all the crumbs that I've been left with, I'm sewing them into blocks right away.

Here are some of the crumb blocks.

I don't know how I'm going to use them yet, but i like them.

I'm still moving my stuff out of my little room.

I still have a lot of scraps to go through.

But I will get it done.

I hope you are all well.

Thank you so, so much for all the well wishes for my birthday.

It really means a lot to me.

You are all so sweet.

Hugs



15 year wedding anniversary and my new sewing room!

Hi everyone! I hope you are all having a nice day. It is very hot and humid out today. But I do have one reason to celebrate. My husband and I have been married 15 years today. I am so happy. I love him more and more every day. We are best friends and we have grown closer and closer every year. We won't do something extravagant today. But we will spend some nice time together, just enjoying each others company. I look forward to having many, many more years together, growing old together!

Love you honey!!!

I also started to move into my new little sewing room a couple of days ago. I didn't have a sewing room before. I sewed at the kitchen table and had all my stuff in bins in the living room and dining room. It had pretty much taken over. I have to admit, it did get messy some times.

My husband had this little room in our basement that he used for his guitar room. He had his guitars hanging on the wall and all his music gear arranged nicely. It was like his little sanctuary. He decided that I needed the space more than he did, as I sewed more than he played. So we traded spots. I cleaned up a nice corner for him to put one of his small guitar amps in the living room and put a hook for one guitar to hang on the wall. The rest of his stuff he is storing or got rid of, because he didn't use it.

This room is tiny. It's only 5 feet by 8 feet. But it's perfect for me. I'm just missing a desk to put my sewing machine on. I also need to continue organising my stuff so that I can find things. That used to be a major problem before, as I had everything in big bins. So here are a few pictures. I love that I can have more wall space to hang my little quilts. I'm very excited.

So, It's getting there. I hope to have a desk soon and maybe another storage shelf to put my little bins into. But I'm having fun getting it organized. I'll share more soon.

Hugs

Ariane