WOYWW 823

 Why did I ever start this declutter or cull, call it what you want.  I now have two rooms messed up, a pile of stuff in the kitchen, some in the utility room and I don't see me having any more room in my craft room as I plod on.  The only thing I know for sure is that the dustbin is full of paper as I dumped all my class notes and samples from my teaching days - too old for that malarky now.  Recycle bin that should say.

I didn't even take Monday off when it was my birthday, thank you for all the cards and wishes, it was lovely sitting in bed opening and reading them all.

It's the journal/paint/marker/crayon section that is taking all the time an I am not getting along very fast.  I now realise that the stamp section was quite easy compared with this - and then there is the die collection and all my sets of metal drawers.  Heaven only knows what delights they will disclose.  I sorted my pen drawer out on Sunday and this is what it looks like now.

Each pencil case contains something different- the yellow check one has my graphite pencils in, the one with the blue zip my OHP pens, the eyelash one has black and white pens in and new ones are in a poly bag by the side of it.

This is my cupboard as it stands now.  The blue towel is what I am using to clean the shelves with before I put things back.  If anything needs a good rub to get rid of a mark it's over to the man of the house.  Top shelf far left is a tin with some journals in that have not been used yet or are just a few pages in.  Next is a box full or inks (think Winsor & Newton and some Pergamano I think).  Far right are my Dinkles that have been reconstituted.

Second shelf Kuretake Clean Color (colour wheel behind it), Ranger bags (one for brushes, one for ), pens, Inktense, Caran D'Ache, Promarkers, Prismacolors, Silver tin with all kinds of crayons and pens in.  Behind are some completed journals (someone else can throw them out when I am gone, I can't as yet.)

Third shelf: Two tins full of spray inks (hardly ever used, must dispose of some), black bag with Gesso (clear, black, white), cream tea boxes with card/toppers/backgrounds in, Janet Klein stamps in clear box ready stamped and cut out, Felix boxes on top with Janet Klein stamps in.

That's as far as I have got. The paper cull took some doing and I only kept one or two class notes in case I wanted to make it again.  I did take my 'dumfing' box down from the top of the cupboard and this is what I found in it.  I think someone might have to teach me all over again how to do it.  There's a tool with four needles in it, one with three, three single needles in a pill box and a single one in the wooden holder.  There's a couple of bags of 'stuff' (think one might be a kit) and I have a silver tin lower down on the shelves somewhere with rovings in and one with sari silks in.

That's it folks, online class Saturday so hopefully a card or two next week, so it's off to Sarah's Craft Shed to meet up with the other WOYWW'ers.  See you there.