My Craft Space

I haven’t really done any crafting this past week I’m sorry to say.  To be honest I’ve been enjoying just trying to relax (not easy with 4 children on school holidays that constantly want to fight and bicker with each other) and reading. However over on Stampin’ Up in Oz we’ve been discussing and sharing our craft spaces. Before I’d share mine I needed to clean it up a little and get my ironing done and out of the way. I managed to get the ironing done yesterday and then while in the process of tidying up the rest of my area I decide to shuffle a few things around.

My Craft space is actually our Formal Lounge room but seeing how we have a main lounge, a rumpus and then an upstairs lounge room we really didn’t need another. Lucky for me…..

This is the view coming up my hallway towards the front door which is just off to the right of the photo.

I have our old dining table which is great to use for classes but also room to spread out when creating by myself. I also have a fold out utility table which is used mainly for my sewing (not that I do much of that anymore).

And this is taken standing at the front door. For those of you that love IKEA like I do you might recognise the Expedit Unit here which houses my fabric stash from back when I used to sew. I think that was prior to my stamping days…. I’ve actually packed up a 40 litre container which I’m donating to my eldest daughters High School next week. I need to clear out some holes so I could display some of my stamping/papercraft creations. I’ve also packed another 40 litre container of batting, wadding and a few extra pieces of fabric so I could have the whole top row for projects. I only had 3 yesterday.

In the back corner are my sewing machine cabinets and a filing cabinet. This filing cabinet has 1 drawer full of patterns and the other is my ‘other’ brand cardstock which my children use until it’s gone then they can have SU card too. The sewing cabinet has my combined Sewing/Embroidery machine & my Overlocker in it. There are 2 Ott-Lites on top which is where I usually take my photographs of my creations.

Now moving back around the room……

This is taken from the far corner of the previous photo looking back towards the front door (to the right). These are 2 of my 3 Billy Bookcases from IKEA which house my ‘other’ stamping supplies, retired SU sets that I just can’t part with or have kept for my girls to play with.  Not too much on here gets used that much anymore. I really should look at off loading it or making an effort to use it more.

Moving to the left of the window in the picture above is the last of my Billy Bookcases. This used to house my SU stamps but I changed it around yesterday and now it only has my Christmas Stamps and Spring Mini sets (until we find out if they make the next IB&C). There is also my SU DSP, Impressions magazines, tutorials from Splitcoast and other places, Cuttlebug and some other bits and pieces.

Moving to the left again is my IKEA Alex drawer unit which houses all my punches, along with other tools, accessories and supplies. The filing cabinet holds the bulk of my A4 cardstock in the bottom 3 drawers and the top holds my business supplies.

The next photo is a full shot of my desk.

This is my workspace after my reorganising yesterday. I now have my the majority of my current stamps on the first shelf. The 2nd shelf has my wheels, card samples, surplus cardstock and the top shelf has some magazines, and other bits and pieces.

The 2 Alex drawer units on either side of my desk hold various things from extra supplies, adhesives, Circle Scissor Plus, embossing powders, glitters, items to make projects (Post-it Notes, chocolates, among other things). Under my desk (apart from my garbage bin) is my in use DSP & 12 x 12 cardstock holders.

On my desk is 2 x 5 drawer file units which I have 6 of the drawers used for my scrap cardstock and is stored in colour families. Don’t ask me what’s in the other 4 as they really need a clean out. Next to that I have 3 magazine holders which contains 2 colour families each of A4 cardstock. This just saves me having to go to the filing cabinet all the time. Then are my Stampin’ Write Markers along with my Copic Markers, my Stampin’ Stack & Store caddy and my Inkpad Caddy. I have my ribbon holders above this too and also the Ribbon Original packs which are handing from the wonderful Command Clips.

Moving to the left again is my computer table and then my embroidery machine. Most of the items on the shelves above pertain to my embroidery.

That basically brings you back to where we started.

I hope you’ve enjoyed checking out my craft space.

I’m just going to finish this book I’m reading and then I’ll get back to creating. I hope to have something to share with you in the next few days. I’ll also be posting about my Sale-A-bration Launch party later today or tomorrow as well.

Till next time…….

Happy Stamping