My Creative Space

I decided to add pictures of my creative space. It's loosley called my craft room but the truth is that the other side of the room (not in the pictures) is taken up as a spare room - bunkbeds for the grandchildren and the usual storage of bits and bobs that go into a spare room.

Yesterday was my day off and since I knew I was spending it with Eliza - our new curate's wife - I decided to get my housework done before I went out. I am also away at a women's christian retreat this weekend and I just couldn't bear to leave it as it was - a mess!

I don't get to see it looking like this too often.

I still think it's crowded and a bit untidy but it's about as good as it's going to get right now. All I want to do is play in it but I don't actually have any free time. I went to my daughters yesterday evening to paint and she now has a dining room thats a lovely shade of blue.

Dave bought these drawers on sale at a DIY store a couple of years back and brought them home to me - how nice was that.






My sister Sherilee bought me the square containers for Christmas one year. They have lots of smaller containers that all fit neatly inside. I am still getting used to the jars for my ribbon.

I keep several baskets on the shelves. This one's filled with punches but some of the others hold adhesives, more punches and specialty craft tools.

This is the typical view inside one of the cupboards. I DO TRY to be organised but it ain't easy!

I try to have basket inside the cupboards for organisation as well. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't

No craft space would be complete for me if it didn't have a trusty computer in there somewhere. I just love to craft using my PC.

I'm not crazy about these wire baskets but my daughter Jessica gave them to me. I guess because you can see through them which looks untidy to me.

This is how I choose to store some of my papers. I helped Dave make this rack!

I bought a rack storage system at a car boot sale for £3. They actually made cubes that stacked and clipped together but I wanted the wire panels to use as shelves for the paper. The entire underside of the desk was made from some nice beech wardrobes that were being thrown out.

I love to recycle if I can.