My Craft Room MAKE-OVER!

Hello~ Happy Tuesday! Today I am taking 2 exams! ICK! I'd much rather be crafting...but today is my only day at school this week so I can't complain at all!

I hope everyone is ready to FINALLY see my craft room all MADE-OVER!!! However, to fully understand how excited I was about this transformation first I have to share some "before" pictures. I am embarassed to share the before pictures...and even to think that I actually was able to create anything in that disaster is beyond me!

So here are the before pictures *as I go red with embarrassment*

As you can see my hubby's bowflex was in our extra bedroom. Living in a small 2 bedroom apartment there is NO room for a bowflex....so after 5 years of me and my mom asking/telling hubby the bowflex needs to be moved he said ok. I no longer have a clothes hanger (as I hung lots of clothes on the bowflex)....but that is PERFECTLY fine by me as I have an organized and fuctional craft room now! :)

Before the make-over, I stashed as much of my supplies under the bowflex, as I had no room for storage containers. I used baskets that would fit under the bowflex, but they soon got over full. When I created, I never could find what it was that I needed because everything was buried.
My desk was attrocious! I had about a 12x12 inch space to create on and most of the time I just used my scor-pal on my lap instead because it was easier! All of my newer items always ended up on my desk so I could *somewhat* find them.

AND NOW FOR THE MIRACLE:

The new craft room! Doesn't it look WAY better without the bowflex in there! Yes, there is even carpet! Hubby and I laughed as we were like wow there is carpet in here.....who knew! You couldn't see it before. LOL!

And the desk is now workable! LOTS of space to create! I still find myself using my lap and have to yell at myself to use the desk!
Here you can see my Copic home. The gray box on the left houses my Twinkling H2Os and Smooch. The black organizer on the right is home for my momento and versamark inks that I use all the time. As well as my stamp scrubber, Cuttlebug plates, Shimmerz Sprays, and other items I use frequently.
Here is my flower display! I took all of our DVDs off of the DVD rack and put them in totes for now, as hubby and I hardly ever watch movies. I thought the DVD racks were perfect to display my flowers....it's WAY easier to use them as I can see exactly which ones I would want to use for my project. I love having them in eyes view! The white totes on the left house my ribbon and some papers (some papers are also in crates under my desk, and in one tote next to my desk.) Can you tell I am a HUGE Jimmie Johnson fan? He's my boyfriend...lol! And boy what I SUPER EXCITED Sunday when he won the NASCAR Championship for the 4th time in a row making NASCAR History! YIPPY....Go Boyfriend!!!!
A close up of the paper and ribbon storage. Paper is on the right. Since I took the pictures I added another 3-drawer 12x12 storage rack. On the left is my ribbon. The ribbon is organized by color families. The bottom drawer is for white, black, brown, silver and gold. The middle drawer is red and pinks, and the top drawer is all other colors. The small gray organizer on top of my ribbon storage is the home for all my charms (I took this from hubby's gargage...it's a bolt and screw holder thing.) I still have to create labels for the drawers, but at least my charms are all together now. My Jamone Sew Mini is behind the charm house.
And finally is my catch all storage. Bottom drawer is home to my Basic Grey 6x6 pads, then is my tulle drawer, then the catch all drawer (which houses my pearls, brads, bling, rhinestones...all the extras). Next is my raffia drawer, and then my rubb-ons and dimensional foam tape are in the top of the bigger tower. One top of that tower is another 3 drawer tower which is home to my roses. In the pink bin is my glitter and snow embellies. The mini black tower is home to my flower soft, and sponges. The blue and green holder on the floor to the left is the home of all my ink pads and some wood block stamps.
It feels so good to *FINALLY* have my own space. I am so happy that my hubby helped me move the bowflex so that I can have my own room....all I share with now is hubby's desktop computer which is in a corner of the room, and of course the laundry baskets....but I can handle that! Before I couldn't wait until the day we could build our house so that I could have my own craft room....But now I'm no longer in a hurry.....I'm just happy to be organized!

A special thank you to my mom and dad for coming and helping! My mom was a HUGE help in helping me find homes for everything!

Thanks for stopping by!

Craft Fair Bound

Exams are done! YAY...hopefully my grades come back good, lol! Now let the fun begin! My Mom and I are headed to a local craft fair tomorrow to try and sell some of our crafty creations! I'm excited, I love seeing people smile over our work.

Last weekend was my hometown's craft show and we did pretty good with our booth. However I didn't have shelving to arrange my cards, they were all one level on a table and hard to see....after telling my hubby about my table problem, he came up with this brilliant idea:

I had these stands that hold small boxes, and asked hubby if there was anyway that I could make shelves for the stands. I was thinking cutting cardboard or something like that, but he had WAY BETTER ideas than my cardboard. Today he went to Home Depot and bought some Lexan....which to me is clear plastic....to hubby it's high grade plexi-glass. Tonight we cut the pieces that we needed....YEP, I even helped him! :) I'm very happy with how it turned out! (Sorry the picture quality is crappy....I took the picture quick with my phone.) I will take some *better* pictures of my booth tomorrow to share with you all!

On another note, I want to send a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who is coming forward and donating prizes to my special blog candy! You are all angels! It's so wonderful to know so many caring and generous people! Everyone in this crafting world is truly amazing and I am so glad to call you all friends! :)

Here are some more amazing people that are helping out the Anderson Family:

Lorie Ames is putting together a memorial for Henry to raise money to have trees planted at the Zoo that Henry loved to go to! Please click HERE to go and read more.

Melissa at Pink Cat Studio has created a special digi stamp and is donating the proceeds of the sale of the digi (minus paypal fees) towards the tree memorial as well. Click here to go and see the stamp! I bought mine last night and can't wait to create with this cutie!

Katie of Paper Makeup Stamps also has a cute Snow Angel stamp in honor of Henry! Click HERE to go and see this one! I have to go and purchase mine! Proceeds are also being donated to the Anderson's.

Thanks for stopping by!

Copic Home

My Copics have a home! YAY! I was so excited when Mr. UPS showed up today with my Magpie Nesting Storage System. I first saw this used as a Copic holder on Paper Craft Planet. Diana Gibbs was so kind to share pictures of her craft room and when I saw her Copic holder I knew I had to get me one of them! This is way easier to grab colors from too! I just love to sit and look at all of my pretty colors! Now I just need to get me some small white circle stickers to put on the ends of my ciao markers so I know what marker is what number.

My crazy week of school is almost complete! Just one more day of classes til the weekend! Woot Woot! Hoping to get me some craft time in and get some fun projects together to share with you real soon! Hope you all have a GREAT Friday!