Craftroom is finished

Come on in. I am so pleased to have my room back freshly decorated and with a new carpet. The walls are pale grey instead of lilac. The radiator has been painted grey and of course I have my upcycled old pine bookcase, see yesterday’s post.

Stamp files looking prettier using up papers and labelled with a Brother printer. The box has my Christmas stamps in it.

Some of my treasured things on left of the top shelf.

Main desk

Above the smaller desk where I also use the laptop. My cross stitch taking pride of place.

Every space is filled.

My lovely unit from Storage 4 Crafts, a place for everything and everything in its place.

 My new trolley, they don’t do it in purple or grey so I choose another fave colour. I have wanted one of these for ages and didn’t think I had room but it fits in that space and can be wheeled to my desk when I want to colour,

Craftroom update

On Wednesday we picked up the new carpet for my craftroom and yesterday we started clearing the room again. This morning we emptied out the rest and the carpet fitter is coming at 11. I had this old pine bookcase in my room to store my stamps and I am delighted with the makeover.

Graham painted it using Frenchic paint, which so many people on Facebook have been recommending. He used an orbital sander then sugar soap before brushing two coats of paint using Frenchic alfresco greyhound.  I look forward to seeing it in the room which has been painted pale grey instead of the lilac. The grey looks lovely with the purple blind, chair and bunting. I will share some pictures at the weekend.

Happy Birthday to me and a look in my craftroom

Happy Birthday to me today.   I chose my presents from Graham, a pair of burgundy ankle boots, a Gorjuss Girl calendar and diary and the new hardback Elly Griffiths' novel.  We started the celebrations on Sunday when as you may have seen we went out for a meal and to the theatre. Today we will be going to line dancing class at lunchtime as usual as I don't want to miss it and tonight we will be enjoying a M&S meal at home with a bottle of wine. We have something planned for later in the week which I will tell you about on Sunday.

So I thought I would share one of my noticeboards in my craft room with you today just for a change. The fabric heart was given to me by a friend to remember her Mum who was one of our best friends. She died a few years ago from cancer and the heart is made from one of her favourite dresses. The butterfly brooch I added because we shared a love of butterflies and I bought it from a cancer charity. 

I have a lot of my favourite things on this board, photo of hubby in Florida, Pooh bear, Gorjuss Girls, used book tokens including a special edition Harry Potter one, tags friends have made, two cards from Faye which inspire me to improve my colouring and a butterfly tag I made at a workshop at a craft show. I don't know if you can read the kraft tag but it was attached to weekly organiser from a friend and it reads "For the most organised person I have ever known." 

Craftroom update (lots of photos)

As promised yesterday here are some photos of my updated craftroom now it has all been sorted. I just have my stamps to sort, they are all neatly filed but I think there are some I will never use again so time to sell them. So this is my lovely new unit which I am already finding so much better to use with everything having its own shelf. No more moving things to get to the things underneath.

This is my beautiful box I bought in America in February.  The light wasn't very good but it is even lovelier in real life.

This shows how narrow my room is as it is the smallest bedroom. I love the light and being able to see what is going on outside. It is plenty big enough for my needs with a place for everything.

My purpose built shelves with all my punches nicely to hand.  The magnetic files on the left hold all my dies and my stamps are stored in files with punched pockets in the bookcase underneath.  The coloured drawers mainly hold paper and card.

At the end of one of my shelves are some of my precious little things. 

My main desk with my magazine and DT work hung up. Yes it is always tidy as I like to put everything away after a project.

My Copic bag which sits underneath my desk, personalised with a Gorjuss Girl luggage label.  I keep the Copics in square mesh baskets which means I can get out the colours I need each time. It saves a lot of space on my desk as I used to have them all on my desk n a wooden unit.

My other desk with my Sizzix and trimmer which are easy to move when I use the laptop here.

Lastly one of three partitioned boxes holding all my ribbons.

I hope you have enjoyed your tour of my room. I always love to see where people craft.  I have updated my craftroom page making it easier to refer back to.

Changing storage

Whew what a tiring day yesterday.  This is my new storage unit which came in lots of boxes with lots of polystyrene amongst the wooden panels. Very well packaged and hubby was most impressed with the build quality and how easy it was to put together. So this is the storage unit it replaced and this one has now moved into the space in the spare room which previously held a chest of drawers.

As you can see there is a lot of wasted space and there are boxes on top of boxes which is annoying. Every time I want to use the box on the bottom right I move the stamping platform to the left, then I want that box and move it back again.

This is the new unit assembled without the shelves. Look at the floor behind Graham! The beauty of these units is they are purpose built for crafting and it comes with enough shelves to fit 4 litre really useful boxes all the way up each side.  As I already had some boxes which I hoped would fit I bought it without the boxes and without doors as my room is narrow and doors would just be annoying to open all the time. I need quick access to things.

So this is a work in progress. I need to buy some more boxes and sort out some of the things which are stored on the other side of the room but I am so pleased by how much space there is in it. I didn't think my coloured box drawers would fit but they do perfectly. As you can place the shelves where you like we were able to fit my stamping platform into a narrow space on the right.  Once it is finished I will take some more photos.  I am so pleased with it and can really recommend Storage 4 Crafts for quality and service.

My lovely new Craftroom and a winner

Here it is, my lovely new Craftroom. It's been quite difficult to take pictures as the airing cupboard is just inside the door on the right so it's hard to get far enough back to fit it in. I had the shelves specially made and how wonderful to have all my punches at hand instead of scrabbling round in a drawer as I had them before. The coloured plastic drawers you can see are part of an 11 drawer unit from Hobbycraft. It has all colours in it so I swapped them around so that the pinks and purple are at the top. These house my papers and card.

The small drawers hold all my Promarkers, conveniently situated on my desk.

The teapot, cup and cupcake string with pegs is the item I bought at the Royal Norfolk Show. Only £5 and just perfect for holding sketch and challenge details.

Here you can see some work from Crafter's Companion on my desk and a view of my lovely new purple chair which is so comfortable and comes with loads of adjustments. Expensive but worth it.

The other side of the room with a smaller desk and a cupboard unit which was in the room before and is perfect for housing lots of stash.

As you can see I have a thing about pretty storage boxes. 

2 handy noticeboards as a reminder of things I need to print and days to post DT cards. The one on the right holds a large e-mail from Sara at Crafter's Companion detailing lots of launches for July. The wall at the back is the side of the airing cupboard. CD rack and laptop conveniently to hand and away from the crafting desk.

I am so happy with my room after 5 years of working on the dining table and having my stuff all over the house. I'm sure I won;t have everything in the right place but need to use it and see how it goes. I hope to finally have some time to make something this evening now it is all sorted.

And the moment you have been waiting for, dada, the winner of my candy is..........

That's Shirley C aka Nannieflash. Congratulations Shirley, e-mail me your address and I'll get your goodies in the post to you. Welcome to all my new followers. I do hope you will continue to follow me I have another small candy to give away to celebrate my Craftroom and I'll post that above.

Celebrate and Craftroom update

What a contrast in the weather today. Thank goodness it has been cooler than yesterday and much fresher with a good rain this afternoon. Didn't like the thunder and lightning though. Last night was so hot and humid it was hard to sleep.

I've used one of my older LOTV stamps for this card which my friend ordered. I used Papermania Blueberry Pie papers and some lovely spotted ribbon and flowered card candi. I thought this card would then be suitable for either male or female.

Challenges:
Delicious Doodles Cute and cuddly
Dream Valley Ribbon
Crafty Cardmakers Spots and stripes
Oldie but a Goodie Anything Goes
Willow Sketchie Great sketch

It's lovely to know that so many of you are interested in my craftroom so here's the latest pic. The blind and shelves are up, painting and electrics all done and the desks and chair are coming on Thursday. The shelves are designed mainly for punches and jars of flowers which is why they are so narrow. Isn't the bunting gorgeous. I bought it at a craft fair. I've started to move some stuff into the cupboard on the other side but most of my stash is still downstairs so Thursday will be a busy day moving it all and having a good sort out. We're off to the Royal Norfolk Show tomorrow so won't be around but hope to have a bit of time to catch up with you on Thursday before the desks arrive. I'll take more pics once it is finished.

Craftroom Progress

The craftroom is progressing well. You can just see a little of the lilac on the walls. All of the paintwork has been undercoated and glossed and some of the walls have been painted. The wall on the left was a darker peach so had to be painted white to make it easier to paint lilac. I have had some new lights put in, a dimmer switch and plugs. I'm having some long shelves made so hope they will be ready next week.

As you can see I keep Hubby well supplied with refreshments. Here he is taking a well earned teabreak.

The painting shold be finished at the weekend so I can start to sort out and move in. The blind is being fitted on Monday. Hoping that the desks will arrive next week and I can then move everything in there. I'll show you some pics when it is all finished.