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 little organization

Hi everyone,

It's been a busy day around here.

It's my oldest birthday today.

He is 15 years old.

I can't believe it.

Kids grow so fast.

So, we celebrated tonight with a nice dinner.

My in-laws came over and celebrated with us too.

I was busy organizing this all afternoon.

But this morning, I went to Home Depot after dropping the kids off to school.

I had seen these large basket that clip together for only $2.99.

I thought they would be perfect to organize my scraps.

Remember this picture!!!

These are some of my scraps.

They fill a large black garbage bag. LOL!!!

I know!! I know!!

It's a lot!

I had brought them to my sister's to make little quilts in September
 and had put them in a large garbage bag.
 They have remained in that garbage bag ever since.

I used to have them in a large wicker laundry basket,
 but it was so overflowing and
I couldn't always find what I was looking for
without dumping the entire things.

So, I bought 10 large baskets and
here is the start of my scrappy re-organization.

This is about half the garbage bag sorted.

Ahhhhhh!!!!

I have a lot of work to do.

The thing I like about this system,

is that I can see what I have.

If I need a little piece of something,

 I just go into that color basket and grab something.

I'm the type of person that gets inspired by the fabric itself.

I usually impulse buy a fabric because I like it,

 then decide what I'm going to use it for when I get home.

 One good thing is that I haven't been buying much fabric lately.

This is so hard to do.

Because there are so many wonderful collections I want to buy.

But I only have a small sewing space.

 If you recall, it's only 5 feet by 8 feet.

 It's like a walk in closet.

I have so much stuff in this room,

I can just basically walk in two steps,

and sit at my sewing desk.

That's it.

No more space!!!

I could barely get this picture,

because I couldn't back up. LOL!!!

So, it's time to organize.

Now, I'll be able to see what I have and make

mug rugs,

 scappy quilts,

 place mats,

table runners,

pot holders,

zippy pouches,

etc.

Back to work for me.

My scraps are calling.

Hugs

Ariane