My New Craft Room

Hi all, I haven't got anything crafty to show you (yet!), but I thought I would stop by and show you my almost finished craft space! I've still got to work out where to put stuff, and get more storage.

My hubby went to Ikea last weekend, and put together this fab desk and book shelves, yes it took him all day Saturday and part of Sunday. Anyway, here are a few pics, and for me to see it like this is giving me some ideas for the storage issue.

 So, this table is massive, and also very deep. I think I need some more shelving on the right hand side, and some shelves on the left wall. I was in the middle of going through my dies for a sort out, and they are in piles on the desk. The two purple spotty folders hold all my Serendipity Stamps  rubber stamps, and behind them is where I amgoing to keep my 'tools;, like my Cuttlebug, Grand Caliber, score board and guillotine. In the little purple box I have my hot glue gun and heat tool.

Underneath the desk I have my sewing machine and some boxes of scraps. To the right, in the unit are my embellishments, punches, and rubber stamps that don't get used much - maybe I need a clear out! Then to the right of that, I have a wheely bag that contains some craft mags (another clear out due) and some files with Stamin' Up! papers in. Then there are some more box files full of craft mags, a Next Directory, a Christmas panettone in a big tin and a little drawer unit of miscellaneous crafty items that I really should go through and bin a lot, but I know it will take me hours!

In this unit on the right I have all my Stampin' Up! stamps and punches, and Uniko Studios stamps. On the left, I have a miscellany of stuff - the white box on the bottom holds various note pads and white sticky labels (random!) next to a little bag with decorative scissors and pens, bow easy and some other bits. The shelf above has a bowl of Washi Tape (I didn't realise I had collected so many rolls, I rarely use it!) and the 3 small cubes contain glue and sticky dots, glitter, and scissors.

The shelf above has all my Papertrey Ink stamps, a pot with Stickles, and two tiins of chalks. On the top of the unit are some favourite cards from blog friends, plus a couple of my own which I can't bear to part with! There's also 3 tubes of hand cream, two little pots of die cut shapes, and my cutting plates and embossing folders for the Cuttlebug. I also have my dies from PTI, Serendipity Stamps and Waltzingmouse Stamps here. I need to decide how to store them, and where, I eventually would like to have the top clear.

This is the case I already had, and is where I keep the majority of my papers, and my box of dies. On the top I have four boxes of ribbons and trim and a box of flowers - again I need to get some order and sort them out, they are a mess! To the right of the bookcase is a small desk and my computer.

So there you have it, my work in progress, but it's nice to finally have all my things in the same room! I can see that I need to get some more storage bins or boxes, and I would like it all to look pretty!

This room used to be our dining room, but in the summer we had an extension on the back of the house, and moved our table in there. Here's a few pics of the conservatory, it added some much needed space to the house what with there being 5 of us here we were starting to fall over each other!

I still have my mini Christmas tree on the table, it loves it in the conservatory! I'm hoping it will last until next year!

Thanks for stopping by, and well done if you made it to the end of this post lol!

Pauline