Well, the cull is still on. A slow process which is making a mess of my craft room and a mess of the spare room - I have to find somewhere to put the stuff I take out of my craft room don't I? So crafting is on hold again apart from doing my Thursday blog page which can be done anywhere (or will have to be).
Maybe if I show you some photos of the craft room in all its glory mess and the spare room which is now known as the "dumping room" but hopefully only for a short time en route to the garage.
I've decided to put all the rubber stamps (and polymer) in a big box (and others when the big one is full) and store them in the garage for 6 months. If I don't need them at the end of the 6 months then I will get rid of them. I am just bothered I have been a bit too hard on some categories and may not have enough of a particular category so in 6 months I have time to put some back. Ready for the photos?
This photo shows 3 cubby holes that are now empty having had ink pads in them before. What is going in them next?
The shelves on the left have my paints and journal in plus lots of other things that don't be used much.
This bookcase fits those sets of drawers in so nicely but it is easier to use the old silver boxes to store stamps in than these. However the bottom set is being used for some stamps that are on A4 sheets. The photo below shows the gap where the grey sets of drawers used to be housed. Guess I will eventually get rid of all those Martha Stewart Punches too. The white boxes have cut card/toppers I've made in them - they were what my 'surprise cream teas' arrived in that I kept treating my other half to to thank him for helping me when my back was at it's worse.
This last photo is in the spare room where everything has got dumped that has been taken from my craft room - mainly ink pads and stamps,
The table is ideal for crafting on and it goes in the garage, underneath are household boxes leaflets for appliances etc), boxes of fabric, my sewing machine, knitting wools etc. That big box on top of the table is full to the brim with rubber/polymer stamps as are the silver tins and the black ones - in fact most of it is stamps. You can just see a Prime box, back right - that has ink pads in as has the chocolate box underneath.
My back has been bad (seeing chiropractor every two weeks) since Christmas so this is a difficult task to do but one only I can do on my own. Chas comes in handy for lifting now and then but that's the reason it is taking so long to do this. Once done it will make life so much easier but in the meantime I will do bits of crafting one way or another.
Hope to see some nice things on some desks as I go snooping via
Sarah's Craft Shed. See you there.
