To begin...

A friend (codename: CaLynn, Site: a case of the crafties) told me once, quite some time ago, that I should start a craft blog.  Hers is all nice, organized, and she shares links to her inspirations/gives credit where credit is due.  I say this because I hope you don't expect mine to be!  haha, at least not the first couple of posts.  I, unfortunately, have lost a lot of the linkage to the inspirations for my older crafts, but if I find them, I will update.  Anyway, point is that I'm going to share a lot of the stuff I've made, and going forward, the stuff I make.  I know a whole of 5 people MIGHT read this, but I hope those 5 enjoy what I gots. :)

Lemme start with my craft space, which is itself a collection of organizing DIYs (and some store bought stuff).  In 3 parts, the center (and where I do all my work) looks like this...

Here, you can see my main craft table, it tilts, though I've never found a need for the tilting--not yet anyway. Ikea-bought legs (in the as is section :) provide some storage underneath, and the top is just an unfinished piece of plywood.  Also, note the Silhouette HD that my boyfriend (codename: TJ) got me for christmas.  Also, my DidItMyself (made by my very own imagination) coffee can organizer.  It is simply: 1 curtain rod (mid-grade, pretty sturdy), 8 repurposed coffee cans (with a hole drilled into the very top), and those useful S hooks that you can find at your local hardware store.  There's also an Ikea-bought basket that I can't see myself using much longer and will probably be replaced by more coffee cans.  Now, I've considered covering the cans with scrapbooking paper or possibly painting them, but for now, and I think for permanent, I'll be leaving it as is.  I like the metal  look.  I sort all my tools by craft: cutting things, sculpting things, painting things, etc.

If you were sitting at my craft table, to your right and left you'd see this and this:

Which is just me utilizing every inch of space I have for hanging things like my level, my rulers, my dremel, etc.

Now, part 2 of my craft space is my main storage:

What you see here is random stuff on top, paper things in those paper boxes, fabric and the obligatory "misc" bins, AND repurposed wine crates.  Each of those little green suckers is designated to a particular item-type or craft-type, including (but not limited to): my buttons, my stamping stuff, scrap jewelry, jewelry supplies (jump rings, o-rings, etc), etc.  Crammed between the wall and the shelf, you'll find poster board, canvases, and foam board--big things that fit nowhere else.

And a close-up of a few of my boxes:

And, last but certainly not least, is my other craft table--used for placing things that are done and need drying (note the cooling rack) and of course used for more storage:

It looks cluttered, but most of it is pretty organized.  A sewing machine I rarely use because I suck at sewing, the cooling rack with some old clay-creations that never even made it to the painting stage, more wine crates that I made into a bookshelf type thing (stores everything from paints, spray paints, chemicals, glues, quilling paper sorted by color in those cigar-boxes, nails, screws, hardware, stamp pads, etc etc etc), and lastly my AC Moore-bought ribbon holder which supports my collection of old and new small bottles which themselves hold itty bitty things like beads and brads and googly eyes and other stuff.  phew, that was a mouthful.




Time for closeups!

I mentioned to TJ today that I think I spend more time organizing my craft area more than I actually craft... it may or may not be true.  I go nuts when it gets all cluttered though, so I spend a lot of time re-sorting, organizing, and finding/creating new storage options.

Well, this post alone took a lot out of me, so I hope you enjoyed it!  Expect more, eventually.  For now, I'm going to go read, and if you wanna know what, it's this: