A happy crafter I have a space!!!!!!!

Can't quite believe its been that long since I got along to blogging again. To be honest every time I logged on and looked at my fav blogs & site my lack of actually doing anything blog wise was like the "elephant in the room" !

I've found I spend so much time admiring everyone elses creativity and wishing I could think of things that I never get around to doing anything at all. I compulsively ( and yes it is my disease) want, need and buy lots and lots and lots (if huband reading this - all at remarkably affordable/bargain prices), loving rearrange storage boxes, stroke lots of paper that all I end up doing B***er all.

Had gotten so fed up of myself and my excuse of having no crafting space (everything in afore said storage boxes under bed & in former clothes cupboard(charity shopped clothes to make room for craft items....) that I spent a weekend clearing the garage out. After 8 trips to our local dump - (the man at the wood bin asked me if I wanted a cuppa I was that familiar by the end of the day) and a few happy hours therapeutically smashing former flat pack furniture with a hammer that I finally had a space for a very old and bowed desk that could house some of my craft stuff. I could never call it a studio or a craft room. I simply have a desk in my garage but boy oh boy do I feel lucky. Its a space of my own that admittedly is very cold at night (no heating), I do have to clean every time I use as its soooo dusty (A Victorian Cotswold stone wall) and concrete floor and in

winter I know I will have to bring in my card & paper BUT ITS A SPACE :)))))) that I can leave messy if I want. I have only only photo to share at the mo as the rest of the garage was really awful ( I also keep my tumbling & ironing in there as well ) but will pluck up the courage to take a few more later.

On the top are all my ribbons & flowers in good old Ikea glass jars & the wicker basket hides all my SU stamp sets. Hidden as it has somehow filled up over he last couple of months.... not admitting to number but a lot less than my friend & upline Jane!

From the left some of my more used sizzix dies/Nestabilities/Cuttlebug folders. On the the little shelves ( which are as bendy as they look!) which are all SU related and hold my ribbons/brads/Buttons and the last little hole up there is for O&S (odds & sods!)

On the desk itself the blue draws house my clear stamps, some pen markers then my bday prezzie the ink caddy thingy with gaps to fill, some storage boxes with not sure what t do with stuff but need to hide it away things! My tool box, one side SU & the other all my other essentials of the moment and my lovely scor-pal.

I'll "do" the cupboards later as this is really probably too long a post.

Have decided to "do better" and will be back later & more regularly with a card

Have a lovely day

Dilly