Craft Room Tour

I am keeping busy, but lately it seems like I have had so many special orders that I cannot share with you yet so I thought that I would share some photos of my new craft room.  My new craft room is 5 feet longer but 3 feet narrower than I had at the condo.  Three of the four walls have a ledge so it limits bookcase type storage.
This is where the ladies sit to make their cards.  I have 4- 6 foot tables together which seems to work perfectly.  You can see I am all set up for one of my COME STAMP WITH ME TUESDAY CLASSES.  The walls are painted REVERE PEWTER but I think it looks a lot like Sahara Sand.
This room has three of these day light windows and 14 canned lights.  The builder was shocked when I told him I needed 14 lights in there but I want it nice and bright for the ladies so they can see well when they stamp.

 We chose to carry the same flooring downstairs that we chose for the main level.
I'm so thankful that I was able to take my IKEA cabinets with me because they store my punches and steel ruled dies perfectly. The smaller rack on the left is a nail polish holder that I got from AMAZON and it fits my reinkers perfectly!

This book case is the perfect depth for the clear box stamps. We got this bookcase from church after the pastors wanted to update their space and remove several bookcases.   This is my retired stamp stash.  I added some hooks on the wall for customer orders

These are the two bookcases that I took with and was able to put them side by side which makes it look really nice and organized.  You can see more hooks on the wall for other items I like to keep handy.  I use a paper storage file on the wall for my current 12x12 Designer Paper.  I have another one that is attached to the side of my book case that you cannot see and I use that one for business paper. (orders and receipts etc)

The workstation that Dale made for me is still so perfect for stamping.  Even Gracie's artwork survived the move. I decided to have the lower IKEA cabinets go behind my work station instead of under the ones I showed you earlier. I thought that I would be hurting for space because I had to leave behind the giant storage drawers that Dale built for me, but they were bolted right down to the cement.  I keep my 8 1/2 x 11 card stock in the lateral file shown on the left with a normal size file next to it with my printer.  The smaller file holds my retired In-Color card stock.

I thought about cleaning off my work station for the photo, but that wouldn't be real life.  A messy work station means I am working hard for you, preparing classes and other great projects.

This is the lower half of the IKEA cabinets.  At the condo I had them directly under the ones that hold my punches, but I love having them separated giving me space for cutting, etc. My current stamps fit nicely on the ledge as well as my ink storage that Dale made for me.

The ribbon holders are also from IKEA.  I have 3 bars instead of 4 now, but I didn't want to reach so high to get anything out.

Thank you for joining in on my "tour", I hope you enjoyed it.  The space is nice and open with an inviting feel for everyone who enters.

Dale had even worked at getting the basement bathroom working so that the ladies do not need to go up stairs to use the spare bathroom.  As of the 14th we have been here for one month.  I think that we accomplished quite a lot in these 4 weeks.

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Christi

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TBT & a Craft Room Update

Over the weekend I was spending time cleaning up my work station and ran across this card idea from Margaret Raburn.  Knowing that I was needing some more children's cards at the store I thought it was time to make it up.  The retired stamp set is called I DIG YOU, perfect for the little boy in your life.

I teamed it up with the Stacked With Love Designer Series Paper Stack.  This paper stack has been so versatile and I have loved working with it.  It comes in 4.5" x 6.5" and is in the Occasions Catalog.  Click HERE to check it out on my on line store. The Occasions Catalog only goes through June 2nd so better snatch it up now!
Now for an up date on the progress of my craft room... Check it out! This is my new 12x12 paper storage system!!  My handy hubby made this according to my desires and it is PERFECT!! It will hold absolutely EVERY 12x12 paper I own, plus a little bit more!

 This amazing new storage system is on wheels so that I can pull it forward and get to my other storage shelves that Dale made. The back storage shelves are used for items that I don't get to often so it works out perfect.  No wasted space here!

 The pieces used on the edge to hold the paper in (each shelf is on a slight angle because it is easier to view my papers) are cut from a corner protector, like what you put on your wall corners to protect them from  chipping or when you have wallpaper on one wall and the other is painted.  I think you know what I mean.  It works perfect because it already has adhesive.   I labeled each shelf with my handy dandy label maker.

Another great addition to my craft room is this Nail Polish Holder that I found on Amazon.  It is perfect for all of my ink refills.  No more digging through a basket to find the color I need.

Not too many projects left before my craft room is complete! 

I will continue to keep you updated.

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Craft Room Update

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Thought I would give you all an update on the progression of my craft room. With all my new storage it still feels like there is never enough, but I have been shifting things around so I am going to love it.

 Tempting Turquoise Wall - of course

 One of my gals teased me and said that Dale was building my coffin! - well, that's about the size of it.

 I'm enjoying filling up all my new storage space

This is what this space looked like nearly 4 years ago when we moved in.

The bookcase will eventually be hidden because Dale is building a storage area for my 12x12 paper that will be on casters so that these shelves will still be accessible.

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Christi

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Construction has begun

My hubby promised me that when we got home from Florida he would start the construction in my craft room for the storage area under the stairway.  I thought I had a picture of the huge cluttery mess I had under there just waiting for this day - BUT - you know me, I forgot to double check, therefore no BEFORE picture to compare it to.  This is the space that is under construction

The box you see contains the drawer glides for the cabinets that Dale is building.  This space is pretty deep - 40" to be exact.  You will see how we utilize every inch the best way possible as we progress in the construction.  This will be no quick project because my hubby has a full time job at the church as well as his thriving Soap, Candle, Lotions and more business on the side.  I will need to be extremely patient.  Did I ever tell you how talented this man is?! Well, now you know!!
all the items on this table and the metal rack were all tucked under the stairway, plus I have a BIG pile hidden in his tool room, but you DON'T want to see the mess in there.

I shifted my work station a little bit to make room for construction.  You may remember it from a post way back when Dale made it for me.  Oh, yes he did!! We designed it after a kitchen island, but it is much bigger.  (6' 4" x 2' 9").  It is actually clean, believe it or not! Normally it is stacked with projects in the making, but we hosted a dinner down here for our prayer group from church (13 people), and I had to make a good impression.

The sides were designed just deep enough to hold my 31 File Totes.  This is how we came up with the width of the workstation.

It has shelves like this on both sides.  You can see my little mover cushions under the corners because this puppy is HEA - VY!!
Day one and the cabinet is in the making

Only one bump to his forehead when one of the boards fell against him.  (no stitches but a couple pretty good gashes), seems like we can't have construction without an injury.
Well, check back each week to see the progress he makes.  When he is all done (yea, there is one more project after this one) I will do a video so you can see it all.
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Christi

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