My Craft Area

I finished "sprucing up" my craft area for this week's challenge. Here are the pictures:

BEFORE

 

I had these 2 cupboards full of random craft supplies- no rhyme or reason to how things were put away. A month ago I pulled a lot of it out to "organize it" ... and then I got busy with something else. (You know how that goes, I am sure!) So the cupboards sat nearly bare (unless you count the "stuff" that got shoved back there when I needed a quick place to stash it!)  and all the stuff I pulled out to organize sat here:

all on and around my craft table!!! (This is so embarrassing!) I had good intentions of organizing it, but I had very little time to do so. And because my craft area is in our loft right at the top of our stairs, everytime someone came up stairs this was a perfect dropping point for anything in their arms. (I am not pointing fingers at my family because I did it too!) But because of this, my pile to organize grew every day!

When I finally cracked down and went through it all, I found trash sitting right next to the waste basket, I found dirty laundry, and craft supplies I forgot I even had. I also realized how much ribbon I have! Holy cow, my ribbon addiction is a sickness, really.

So here are the after pictures!!! I am so proud of myself!

 

My fabric

 

My organized cupboards

AND (drum roll please...)

 My craft desk!!!

How much ribbon does a girl need?!?! The container to the left of my desk (as shown in the picture above this one) is also full of spools. I love ribbon, what can I say?!?

And one thing I have been doing for a couple years now is I keep my glue gun plugged in at all times into a serge protector. That way, when I need it, I just flip the switch on the serge protector and my glue gun starts to heat up right away, rather than pulling it out of a drawer and pluggin' it in every time. Look!:

All right there and ready to use! 

That was fun! What does your craft area look like???

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