It's Me, Sarah

Craft Room | Another Craft Room Update

Just a quick post to share a couple of new(ish) photographs of my craft room.

As much as I love my Ikea Expedit unit because it holds such a lot of 'stuff' I don't like that you can see that it holds a lot of stuff!  So I invested in some of the black fabric boxes that Ikea do to fit the squares of the Expedit units.  

Neat and Tidy

After a bit of re-organisation I have the boxes in place and I much prefer how it looks now.  Less cluttered.  Not that the stuff inside the boxes looks particularly tidy at the moment, I still need to sort that a bit and I definitely need labels!  I can't find anything and I have resorted to drawing a little chart of the unit with notes on it telling me where things are.

Cosy Corner

 This is my lovely little corner with my bargain chair from the charity shop.  It cost me (Mark) £30 and then I saw it new for £800.  It's slightly battered but so comfortable, I love it!  I have all my idea books and knitting and crochet books in the little Expedit Unit beside the chair.  My yarn is in the black boxes closest to the chair (6 of them - oops!). 

My Desk

This is my desk.  It has changed slightly since I took this photograph as the trusty old white Mac computer has died  :(  I put the new Mac in the dining room a while back because it seems to get more use in there.  I just take my laptop into the craft room now and it works better because I have much more desk space that way, I tend to take a lot of room up when I am crafting but still only end up with a 8 inch square area on which to work.  How does that happen?  I have my old sewing machine - the one for paper - set up on the end of the desk now so that I can just pull it out when I want to use it (if there isn't a load of scrapbooking stuff blocking it).

Oh and I updated my blog design too.  Much better :)

 

Washi love and a bit of a sort out

I had to buy some washi tape because, you know, it is so pretty!  Also, I thought it would tie in very nicely with my smash book and the tapes that I have from the smash book range.

I have piled the new washi tape up right next to my momiji's which have finally found a home in my craft room.

I have been looking around my craft room lately and getting really aggravated that the top of my expedit unit has been full of 'stuff' but not in a nice way so I have had a little re-organise and although the top of the unit is still full of stuff because there is only so much storage you can fit into a 10 ft square room it looks a lot nicer / neater.  I have stored my scrapbook albums up there and added a few bits of art work to pretty it up.

I hate mess but I also hate sorting it out!  We have had a few weeks of the house being upside down due to new wardrobes being built and I am trying to summon up the motivation to get cracking and sort the house out.  I am starting tomorrow!

At the weekend Charlotte went out to play and came back covered in blood and minus one of her front teeth (a second one!).  I cannot begin to tell how distraught I was, Mark had to calm me down because I totally freaked out.  It was devastating.  Luckily the dentist was open on Saturday (it is one open one Saturday a month) and they were able to fix Charlotte's tooth and although she broke close to the root it is as good as new.  However, even typing this, I am feeling sick.  It was truly awful and I am heartbroken that my beautiful girl has lost most of her front tooth!  She was so brave, I don't think she realises quite what has happened - no matter how many times we have told them to look after their second teeth because they don't grow back I don't think 8 year olds can comprehend that.  I just keep telling myself that it could have been worse, at least she still has a tooth there.

Charlotte has gone to school today telling everyone who walks past what happened.  She is fine, thankfully but she is going on a school trip for a week at the end of March and I am dreading it because she is so accident prone!

Craft Room Video (2 Years On)

Well I have had my craft room for almost two years now and I can't tell you how many hits I get on my blog from people having a look at it!  The craft room posts are by far my most popular posts (sometimes I wonder why I bother blogging about anything else!).  Anyway, it was my turn on the Scrapagogo blog to create a post about my craftroom this week and I thought I would also show the video here so that the visitors looking at my room can see what the room looks like now it is in full use, on a NOT tidy day and now that my supplies are exceeding my space.  I really need to get rid of stuff but I know as soon as I do I will need it (e.g. I used to be really into nail art and only recently threw all my foils, glues and fancy two tone polishes away.  Now I want them back Boo Hoo!).

Here is the video:

 

Enjoy :)

WOYWW (67)

Hi everyone, it is time for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday? again.  I can't believe how quickly that week has gone by.

This week there is precisely nothing on my desk crafting wise as I am in the middle of having a big tidy up.  I wish I hadn't started actually as I emptied the entire room into the kitchen yesterday and although my kitchen is about 15' long I was unable to even see the sink, any worktop or the oven!  It's amazing how much stuff fits into those Ikea Expedit units.  I was planning to have a purge whilst I tidied but I have ended up just cleaning all the units and putting eveything back pretty much as it was apart from a couple of things.  There just wasn't enough space anywhere to actually do sorting, I think I need to do one thing at a time.

So on to what is on my workdesk.  I still have a pile of pizza boxes to sort out, they are full of used Scrapagogo kits and product that has been sent to me to do other DT work.  I need to put the leftovers in the appropriate boxes (i.e. stickers, alphabets, paper, card, embelishments).

I have organised a couple of things.  Ever since I bought the small drawer units from Ikea I have been wanted to use one of them to store loose alphabets sorted by letter - big job.  I have also wanted to label the drawers.  That was the main thing I achieved yesterday so I can't wait to actually do some crafting to see how it works for me.

I also have one of the Making Memories desktop organisers and I tend to just throw anything in it that is laying around, I was beginning to dislike it but I have repurposed it and I love it now.  It is my new letter sticker holder and I love that they are so easy to flick through (all sorted by colour).

Right, now off to tackle those pizza boxes!

Whose craft room is it anyway?

On Sunday morning I walked into my craft room to find this little scene.

I don't mind sharing but this is ridiculous!!  Where am I supposed to scrap, in the kitchen?

I was just resizing this photo for my blog and I noticed the little fairy on the shelf (above Ben's head) and I thought 'I can't remember seeing the fairy on the shelf'.  I have been stood where Ben is this morning doing a layout and I am sure I would remember the fairy being on the shelf!  So, as I am sat at the computer in the craft room, I spun around.  No, there is no fairy on the shelf.  Strange!  So I got up and actually went to the shelf  and the fairy was there among the ink pads - WITH NO LEGS!  I think we have a bit of chatting to do when Ben and Charlotte come home from school and specifically I would like to know where the fairy's legs are.

I am not sharing anymore.  Sulk!