Once In Awhile...

...I come across something on somebody's blog that makes me do a little jiggy dance. I LOVE THIS IDEA FOR A PLANTER! I found it at Cherry Hill Cottage. Take a moment (or maybe an hour or two) and check out her ADORABLE ideas!!!!!

Table And Chair Re-Do

After getting my craft room findished I discovered that I needed a flat work surface that I could sit down and work at other than the computer desk. The rolling cart/work table offers a great large work space but I have to stand up to work on it. I have a rectangular folding table that would work well but...

This is what it looked like. NOT PRETTY!I saw on a blog recently where someone took apart a table like mine and recovered it in oil cloth. (If anybody knows who it was please let me know so I can give her credit for my inspiration.) Update: Melinda found the blog that was my inspiration; it is Dirt Cheat Decorating Diva's. {thanks Melinda}
Anyhoozit, I decided to take my table apart and cover it with some upholstery fabric, (I couldn't find oil cloth). For some reason I really like polkadots lately so that was what I chose.

It really was quite easy to take apart, just unscrew the brackets around the edge and the top came off easily enough. I just discarded the old fake leather and layed the board down on my piece of fabric and stapled it together. Then you just reattach the screws to the brackets. I think I will spray it with Scotch Guard to protect it from stains and spills. (I seem to do that a lot.)

Here is the table frame without the top in it.





I then decided that this old gray computer chair just wouldn't do.

You guessed it...it got a makeover too. Here is the before.





Both of them look MUCH better.






So now I have my sit down work area.


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Finally My Dream Has Come True

I wasn't going to post about my craft room until it was all finished but............

1. The trim around the window needs to be finished...

2. I don't know when hubby will get around to it (he has been working a lot of overtime lately)...

3. I wanted to make curtains to put up, but...

4. My sewing machine died...

5. I can't afford a new sewing machine because the refrigerator in our travel trailer went out and if we want to go on any sort of vacation this summer it needs to be replaced (at about $1,400.00).

Sooooooooooooo, to make a long story short, who needs curtains and trim up to craft anyway?

Poor naked window!

It will have to wait, cause

I can't wait any longer to get back to crafting.

{patience was never my strong suit}

WELCOME TO MY CRAFT ROOM

This is looking from the far side of the room back to the doors.

The view of the other side

The view from the door.

My little music corner. Gotta have some tunes or talk radio going to keep me company.

My work area for doing the vinyl lettering

This is the work table/rolling cart that my son made me. LOVE IT!

Storage baskets in the work table. These make a wonderful place to store things like ribbon. Ahhhhh, ribbon.






More ribbon.








And still more ribbon. I get a giddy feeling just seeing all that ribbon lined up.

I bought this cute ribbon/craft shelf at Michael's.

(Yes, more ribbon.)

More beautiful shelves to fill up.

Jars full of ribbon pieces.

(I know, I know, I have a serious addiction to ribbon. It's a sickness I tell ya.)

These are the shelf units I use for displays at the bazaar/craft show. They make a great place to store stuff in the mean time.
I store flowers in these jars.

Stuff! But necessary crafting STUFF.

Tools and embellishment storage.Office supplies.
Where I store my vinyl.

The work station where it all begins.
The printer and a storage cabinet full of scrapbook paper.

{Can you ever have too much scrapbook paper?}

The 'storage' armoire. This used to be what we had our television in. It makes a great place to store finished bazaar items in. Some of the finished items for the bazaar/craft show. I hope to have this bulging by November with finished crafts.

Lots of places for storing materials in this armoire.

So there you have it.

Do you want to come over and play sometime?

The End.

Just Something I Whipped Up

I found these two cupboard doors at the local Habitat For Humanity Re-Store awhile back. They were stained and varnished and in really good shape. They even had two holes drilled in the middle part that I was able to pull ribbon through. All I did was glue some scrapbook paper in the center then add the ribbon and vinyl lettering. You just can't get much simpler than that.

I have joined the party over at The Girl Creative for Teach Me Tuesday . There are lots of bloggers participating and a whole lot of creative ideas so go check it out.

I have also hooked up with Today's Creative Blog and These Creative Juices blog for more linky party fun.

Craftroom Progress

I am linking up with the Metamorphis Monday party at Between Naps On The Porch
There is progress being made on my craft room. Unfortunately it involved painting...can I tell you how much I HATE painting? I think the look on my face says it all. (I am pretty brave for even posting this picture but I wanted to make a point, I REALLY HATE TO PAINT.) This is my wonderful husband slaving away installing the flooring. He was such a trooper and got the whole floor laid in about eight hours yesterday. I can't say enough about what a good sport he has been by getting this room together for me. I am so blessed.

It is starting to take shape here. I love how it looks.


At last, it is complete. I don't know if the pictures do it justice but it is beautiful.

Here is another shot. That is my husband's grandmothers tea cart in the corner, it is really cute, I can't wait to put everything together in here.

Here is a picture of a very happy me. Progress makes me happy.
Now all that is left to do is put the trim back up.
Hopefully I will be able to post the room put together this week. I am also doing a garage sale on Saturday so I'm not sure how much I will get done.

From Chaos Back to Creativity

After four months of crazily crafting for my bazaar I just couldn't bring myself to go back in a get started again. I knew I had to have an intervention of sorts with my crafting space. Luckily for me my awesome friend Shawn is an orginizational guru. All I had to do was put out the call for help and she came running while pushing up her sleeves ready for the challenge. She not only has a passion for organizing she is fantastic at it.

(The room wasn't really this bad, this is after I had begun the throw out process)

The first thing she had me do was begin on the first wall and go through everything (and I do mean everything) and determine:

1. Did it need to stay in the room?

2. Did it need to go in the garbage?

3. Did it need to go to another room?

4. Did I want to give it away?

There were boxes for each catagory. One of the best tips she had was the box of things that didn't belong in this room but needed to be put away in other areas of the house. My method would have been to try and put those type of things away right then thus becoming side tracked (and 2 hours later return where I started after straightening a drawer in the kitchen, taking a load of clothes out of the dryer, making some phone calls and flipping through the 600 channels on the tv,etc.).

(This is how bad it actually was to start with, stacks of stuff everywhere)

(Stuff stacked under the table too)
(Here is just one of the six piles of stuff purged out of the craft room)

Ahhhhh...ProgressI LOVE that I can see my ribbons at a glance, not stuffed in a drawer. I actully bought this ribbon holder a few months ago at Michael's with my 40% off coupon. Well worth the price!

You can't tell from the picture but these drawers are so organized it makes me giggle. Thanks Shawn.

Don't you just love how tidy it looks?

Here are fourteen containers that were not needed after the BIG cleanout! Impressive, huh.

I can't wait to get back to my creativity.

Ugh! Now I need to tackle my work area in the garage.

(I wonder what Shawn is doing next week?)