This post has been so hard to create! I don't know why! So please forgive any poor writing. I'm just so out of practice, I guess! I have had to rewrite and rewrite it! 🤯
A friend asked if I would share what my craft room currently looks like. It's actually more than a craft room, so I'm calling it "craft+". I use the space to store many things! I like to make things. You might've noticed that if you've been here awhile. I'm a bit of a creativity junkie.😉
Sometimes I play on my laptop or watch a video in here. I also enjoy watching the birds at the feeders and bird baths from my window, sitting at the little brown desk that once belonged to my dear mother-in-law, who passed away in 2018. She was a bird lover, too. Yesterday, I saw what I think was a Baltimore Oriole! I've never seen one before, and it was such a beautiful sight to see! I hope he comes back again, so I can take a picture of him to show you.
I've been playing with a zoom lens Hubs got me a few years ago. It's so cool! I'm still very amateurish, but it's been fun catching some close-up bird shots from my window.
One of my off again/on again hobbies is stamping/card-making. I have a stamping blog that I post my cards on. I like to keep a lot of my stamping supplies near me when I work. Now that I'm making cards again I needed somewhere to put it all, or at least most of it. I bought some storage furniture at Sam's Club that would also look pretty in the room. I had actually kind of given up on card-making for a time and thought I'd never do it again. I had put away the 2 big tables that I had used as my stamping area so that I could keep my canning stuff in here because that was my current biggest hobby at the time, and I wanted to display my jars. Home-canned food is so beautiful to look at, don't you think? I didn't really have a good spot to make cards at this point and my urge to stamp was pretty much disappearing, so I figured why keep all that stuff? I got Hubby to sell a lot of my stamp sets on eBay. And I really had no idea what to do with everything else, so I just put it away in tubs. But one day that urge returned. Thankfully, I still had plenty of stamps and stamp stuff to play with!
These drawer units have really been nice. They hold my punches and embossing supplies and glitters and such. I keep my markers on top of the wider one and my dry embossing supplies in the white basket on top of the narrow one. They also roll around, which is so useful.
The tall, narrow one holds my ink pads baby wipes, stamp cleaners, glues, tapes, tweezers, etc. These are my most-used items, so they're the easiest to get to.
As you can see, I have a table (also from Sam's Club) set up in the middle of the room. I really needed it!
This has opened up my whole world! Conveniently, it folds in half and can be stored away in the closet if need be. It locks open and is very sturdy, and gives me so much room to spread out! And I can even keep a sewing machine out all the time for embellishing cards or repairing clothes. It thrills me to no end!
You can see behind it that I keep my home-canned foods, water storage and dry goods on the shelves, which I also bought at Sam's Club. I also keep all my canning jars and lids stored there. These things hold so much! It's basically a Sam's Club room now! Seriously, I never realized how much I got from there!
We store our soft drink collection here. We don't drink much soda. Usually we split one on Friday pizza nights as a special treat. But we like variety, and we like having plenty of offerings for guests.
It's a very practical room, as you can see. We keep the printer and supplies in here as well as the cat box, kitty's food and water, and her perch where she watches the birds with me. 🐦🐦🐦🌞
In the picture below you can barely see more food storage to the left on a third shelf unit. That's where I keep some of our dry goods in buckets. I'm not a Mormon, nor a prepper. I just like to pay less by buying in bulk, and I don't like running out of anything!
Btw, the closet is to the left of that shelf and out of view. I keep the stamps and all of my card stock in there. I'll do a separate post on the closet. It's a tad messy right now and I need to tidy it up and take some pictures first.
So that's my craft+ room! Snug, but in a cozy sort of way.
And to show you what I'm doing in there these days, here are 2 cards I recently made.
I have 4 more cards I've made that I'll try to post soon. Thanks for coming by for a visit! Hope you enjoyed this little tour of my creative spot! Have a lovely day, my friends!
