WOYWW # 142 .... & A Finished Layout!!!

Hello from a rainy and rather chilly Dorset! Perfect weather for staying indoors and scrapbooking!

I have had a few days break from my little blog. There's no particular reason for the lack of posts apart from it was half term last week and I was enjoying spending time with H. She is such great company and growing up so fast, I wanted to make the most of our time together.

Anyway she is back at school this week so I'm back at my craft table again. It's good to be back!

So for those of you who are here for a nosy at my craft space - this is how it was looking earlier this morning!!

This week I've taken the photo from the other side of my desk so that you get a glimpse of the units and shelves behind me where I store my stash! To the right hand side of the photo is a pile of letter and alpha stickers. I had to have a good rummage through them to find enough letters to make a title. There are so many sheets with just a few letters left. My fabulous Martha Stewart butterfly punch is there again. Will I ever tire of it?

I've actually managed to finish a layout today!! Woo hoo!! I started off following a sketch by Jules Dix which was in Scrapbook Magazine, issue 61. My finished page looks quite different though.


The photo is H and my niece L (the two of them often get referred to as "the girls") on a walk in the forest just over a year ago. My journalling is about their lovely relationship and how they are very close and enjoy each others company sharing lots of fun, giggles and happy times.

My supplies included: MME Miss Caroline papers and stickers, a Ranger tag, MME Kraft Funday twine and Prima pearls.

Right,I must get on over to Julia's blog to see what all the other WOYWW participants have been up to this week!
Thanks for stopping by!!

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WOYWW #140

Wow, Wednesday again - doesn't a week go fast?!! Happy WOYWW!! If you have arrived here from Julia's .... hello, welcome and thanks for popping in!!

Anyone who follows my little blog will know that my craft space is currently undergoing a much needed reorganisation and as part of this I have been going through my ever increasing pile of stash and having a big clear out and tidy up so that hopefully I'll spend less time trying to find stuff and more time actually crafting!! So, I thought you might like a nosy in some of my storage boxes and baskets!!

On the right is my fab little "cake stand", now standing on my lovely new Ikea Expedit unit, which makes a great place to keep my punches (these are just my favorites and most used punches - I will admit to having another box full as well!!) and the top tier holds some of my tapes and adhesives. Not sure where the others are .... probably still in my craft bag!!

The smaller of the two circular boxes (aren't they pretty?) stores my buttons and the bigger box is currently empty!! It used to have small packs of embellishments and odds and ends in it, but I've cleared it out as it was a complete mess and I've not yet decided what will go in it!! 

I have 4 sets of these little drawers and love them.  I keep my gems, pearls, journalling  cards/spots/tags, chipboard shapes, nestabilities and journalling pens  in these 2 units.

Oh my!! What a mess this basket is in!! This is the next one to be sorted. It is currently full of sheets of stickers, rub ons, embellishments and goodness knows what else!! This basket is where I used to put my new purchases and favourite embellishments and I kept it on my table so that it's contents were close to hand and more likely to get used. Just lately, it has got so full and untidy I tend to avoid it going near it because if I pull one thing out everything else falls out!!

I hope you've enjoyed just a little peek at some of my stash, I'm off now to make a cuppa and have a look around some more of your desks!

Craft Space Reorganisation - Part 1

I haven't posted for a while because there hasn't been an awful lot of crafting going on here just lately. One of the reasons (apart from everyday life and work keeping me busy!!) for the lack of crafting is that the reorganisation of my craft area has finally begun. I have been wanting (and needing!) to do this for a while now. You know how it is when the stash starts to take over the house and you can't find anything - or is that just me?

Anyway, my lovely hubby finally agreed that I needed some decent storage so we took a trip to Ikea. We also wanted to get a desk for H's bedroom and some storage, something a bit more grown up than the toy shelves and boxes she has had until now. I won't go into how long it took us to fit all the boxes, containing a desk, shelves, chair and a expedit 2 x 2 unit, into our medium sized car!! And still leave room for 3 people!!

So, I have built H's desk and chair ....

It's now been moved upstairs to her bedroom, where she is enjoying using it for her colouring, writing stories and drawing! She loves it!

My Expedit unit ....

We just have the storage shelves for H's room to do!

I've started to sort through my boxes and bags of stash and next week, I need to go through the rest and fill my new unit. I'm finding stuff I forgot I had.  I'm so looking forward to getting myself organised, at long last!!

I'll show you some more pics when it's all done!

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I hope you are having a fab weekend, thanks for stopping by!