Craft Room Updates

Well it has been hot hot hot over the past couple weeks and I haven't had a lot of time to craft but I did have some time to do some craft room reorganizing :).
My craft room organizing was nothing big but I did reorganize a closet in the back of my room that was full of clothes and boxes from our move from four years ago which I finally pulled  apart and dealt with.  It turns out that most of the stuff in the closet was able to be donated which freed up a lot of room for me and  my craft stuff...lol   
There were some boxes that did remain so I stacked them on the left side of the closet which freed up the remaining middle and right side!  We had a broken shelf in the garage which was going to go to the dump, so I brought it in and fixed it. Now it is sitting in my closet holding a lot of the stuff which was jammed in amongst everything else in that overstuffed closet .  I wish I had a before picture but I do you have an after picture, I have just been in love with how the closet has turned out!!

Another area of my craft room that changed last week was my cubed shelving. It previously held our printer on the top of it which has now been relocated my husband's portion of the downstairs, which has left it free for me to pull out my beloved Cricut machine. 

Over the past two years it had been on a shelf and was really difficult to use but now that it's out and ready,  I can't wait to get using it once again.  I also took some time and rearrange two shelves so I could reorganize all of my Cricut cartridges in a way that I can see them and have them ready and on hand :)

One great final edition has been this car air freshener from Bath & Body Works. I really love all their candles, hand creams, soaps and well just about everything...lol.  I went there looking for a small candle for in my space but I have always been very cautious about candles so I was really happy when I stumbled upon this cute little thing:

It smells just wonderful! Our whole basement smells just like Sweet Pea... It smells just like the candle without any of the danger ;) (I'm just really worried that I'll forget to blow a candle out)

Thanks for stopping by,

 Cheryl

Getting Organized!!

Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on getting some messy/crowded parts of our home organized. Today I was putting some of that organizing energy into my craft room.

Today's focus was on getting my paper all organized and put away. Most of my coloured card stock is 8 1/2 by 11 Recollections paper. I have always brought it home, put it on the shelf in the bag it comes in and that's how it has stayed. I open the bag and just pull out the pieces that I am going to use.
I have tried to put the bags that are close in colour next to each other but it's hard to keep the colours together when the packs have a lot of different colour combinations in them.

I have seen a couple of videos on YouTube lately of 8 1/2 by 11 paper storage and it inspired me to do something similar.
Today I went to Staples to see what kind of magazine, paper storage bins they had. I was not that impressed but only because the bins that  I was looking only came in black...lol
I went to a few other stores and the selection there was minimal and expensive!! I did not want to order anything on line, I did not want to pay the shipping and I really really wanted to complete this project today!  
I wound up going back to Staples and got some magazine bins to find out that they were on sale :). I got 8 bins in all and was able to organize all my 81/2 by 11 organized and grouped into colour families.

Here is how it all turned out:

and here are all of the bags and labels...

I wish I had of taken a picture of the before but I was to excited to get started...lol  I am really happy with how it turned out and I am really looking forward to crafting with all of my organized paper :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

My Die Storage Solution

I have a corner in my basement that I have been blessed with and able to turn into a craft corner. I have had fun over the last year getting everything nice and organized and just the way I like it.

I am a very visual person so I have been creating storage solutions for almost everything from my paper, stamps and inks in places and containers where I can see what I have.
I have seen many videos on YouTube about die storage and lately I has seen some crafters storing their dies on their wall with various forms of magnets and that got me thinking about how I would like to store my dies.
I had fun creating my die storage and getting all of my dies out and where I can see them!!
Here is a video from my YouTube channel where I show and talk about my die storage solution:

Well I'm glad that tomorrow is Friday, I am looking forward to the weekend!!! I hope you have a great night :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl