My Creative Space

My creative space had become one giant dumping ground lately, which in turn, made it completely impossible to be creative, so I decided to have a huge clean up.

I went and bought some cheap and cheerful containers, and I've sorted everything so I can find it. I have separate containers for Handbag Supplies, Cutting Implements, Pens Pencils Markers, Pins and Needles, Stamps, Buttons, etc etc. It's still a work in progress but I'm slowly getting there.

I even finally organised for my sewing machine to go in for a service! It had gotten to the point where it wouldn't go any faster when I pressed down on the presser foot, and it was making a horrible noise. Luckily I found a local service that picks up from home and then re-delivers when it's finished and it's cheaper than the local sewing machine shop too.

On my cutting bench - a stack of bibs, cut out and ironed and now just waiting to be sewn up.

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This is........My Collection....

I’m playing along with the 'This is' meme which has been created by Three Buttons (click over to her blog to see who else is playing along). This weeks theme from Hyena in Petticoats is ‘This is …..my collection'.

I had to think long and hard about this one. I don’t actually collect anything on purpose, but upon closer inspection around my house, I found lots of scary collections (so much for my de-cluttering efforts).

My biggest collection would have to be craft supplies. I don’t have a separate craft room to keep them in. My craft room is also the office / study / computer room so it has to actually be kept to a certain standard of neatness (even If that is a very low standard of neatness).

This photo is the cupboard (built in robe) in the tv room. My boyfriends uncle made me the two shelving units. They're on castors so I can wheel them out of the cupboard to wherever I need them (quite ingenious). In this cupboard I have:

Acrylic paints, Oil Paints, Watercolour Paints, Derwent Pencils, Oil Pastels, Various varnishes and Crackle Glazes, Coloured Paper, String, Wool, Fabric, Glitter, Glue, Various Paintbrushes, Beads, Jewellery Making Supplies, Wire Jig, Photo Frames, Pebbles, Pipe Cleaners, Fuzzy Balls, Mosaic Tiles, Broken Tiles, Tile adhesive, Grout, and a Flower Press.



This photo is my half a craft room:

This is where I keep all of my sewing supplies. I have a bookshelf, a pantry unit and some drawers on wheels and I still run out of room. I have coloured paper, cardboard, stamps, paper cutting rulers, cutting mats, scrapbooking supplies, fabric, ribbon, ric rac, sequins, snaps, snap setter, beaded trim, cotton, adhesives, rotary cutters, various scissors, ironing board, tapestry cottons, templates, quilting rulers etc etc etc. I even keep household items that may be useful for crafts such as egg cartons, ice cream containers and even the cardboard inners from wrapping paper / glad wrap & foil (I draw the line at empty loo roll tubes). I also have a couple of bags of pine cones in case I want to make some more Christmas decorations.


The other collection that I didn’t even realize that I had is scarves. It wasn’t until I counted that I realized that I had 16. Before this coming winter I am going to buy a handknitted scarf from Greenolive. I love the texture and colour of all of them but I will have to limit myself to 2. I want this one and this one.

This one is my favourite scarf. I'm not sure where it's from. I was at work one day and one of the girls at work gave it to me as a pressie because she saw it in a shop and thought that I would love it (and she was absolutely correct)!