October Overhaul - Craft Room Clean Up

Amie from Pinkapotamus and Amy at Whole Wearing Heels are hosting an October Overhauling party to get their crafts rooms organized and start getting projects made. I decided to participate because my craft room (better known as Sparty's Room) is in a constant cycle of semi-clean to messy. 

Here's the deal:

Week 1:   Share your messy craft area!

Week 2:  Clean out your craft area so that it is organized and neat and share your progress!

Week 3:  Make 1 project from your existing craft stash!

Week 4:  Share your experience, what you created and how happy you are NOT be embarrassed by your craft hoarding anymore!

I have been pretty busy lately, so I'm a week behind. But, I did get to cleaning up the mess that was Sparty's Room. So, here are the before and after pictures.

Super embarrassing...

So much better!

 And here's another look at the shelf Handy Andy built me, getting even more use than before.

Now I just have to try to keep it this way. How do people keep their craft areas clean when they are working on projects anyway??

Thanks for stopping by!

Organizing My Office/Craft Room

I've been crazed for the last several weeks and haven't had much time to do any crafts, so I will share an ongoing project that we've been working on...

Our craft room [better known as Sparty's Room] is generally treated as the catch-all for craft stuff, school stuff, financial stuff, etc. Over the last several months it has become a monster. I took some pictures of it a while ago, but I can't find them now...they must have gotten lost in the abyss that was Sparty's Room. Anyway, one afternoon, Handy Andy and I were talking about how it would be better if we moved the oak book shelf that was in Sparty's Room and replace it with a wider, taller shelf to hold all my crafting supplies.

At that point Handy Andy said his signature line "I can make you that!" And he did. Literally, less than two hours later, the book shelf and books were relocated to the living room, and he had crafted a huge shelf for Sparty's Room. Did I mention my husband is amazing? Okay, good.

After that, I headed to Hobby Lobby to get some boxes, baskets, containers, whatever...to hold all my junk. Check out my clearance storage containers if you missed it. Aside from those, I got several photo boxes to store scrapbooking stickers and such, a big paper storage binder, a few miscellaneous containers, and a big basket all on sale [that's how I roll]. I also used some jars to hold some random things.

I finally was able to organize all my crafty stuff into one place, and it is beautiful. Did I mention I'm a little OCD? Yeah, I love to organize. Anyway, here are some pictures of my lovely shelf in all of it's organizational glory...[sorry about my crappy iPhone pictures, my camera is broken again]

 

Now all I need to do is get the rest of the room cleaned up and we'll be all set.

Hope you're having a good week!

 

Clearance Storage Bins

Happy Thursday! Just in case you missed my guest post over at Hating Martha on Monday, I wanted to share it with you. Normally, I wouldn't recycle a guest post this close to the original post, but I am traveling this weekend and just have not had time to put anything together! Also, I think I'm going to change my Thursday posts to general projects instead of specifically doing a Pinterest project. I don't want to be tied only to Pinterest projects to share with you on these days! So here's a non-Pinterest one...

My current project is trying to organize my home office/craft room. I have a lot of junk supplies so I'm using many different types of containers, and I'm trying to be as cost-effective as possible. So, while I was in Hobby Lobby the other day, browsing the clearance section (aka Heaven), I found these:

These perfectly-sized bins were less than $2.00 each, but not quite the look I was going for. I decided on a black and white theme for the storage, but I couldn't pass on the price, so I snatched them up! I got them home and went to work with some black & white scrapbook paper and Mod Podge.

First, I peeled the fake "chalkboard" labels off of the bins. Then, I cut strips of the paper and brushed a layer of the Mod Podge on the bin, layered the paper, and then finished with a final coat of the Mod Podge all over.

Here's how they ended up:

Now they match my organizational decor! I didn't cover the insides, since they will be filled with supplies, but I think they look a lot better. This just goes to show you that you can make pretty much anything work for your room when it's the right price!

I hope you're inspired to browse the clearance section more often!

P.S. I never heard back from Patti, the winner of the lovely handmade headband from The Grant Life, so I had to pick someone else -- Sorry Patti! The lucky second chance winner is...#3 Erin who said:

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