Monthly Archives: December 2010

My Craft Library

My Craft Library
My Craft Library
I’ve been out of comission today with horrible back pain. ‘Must’ve picked the grandson up too many times yesterday!

We’re also snowed in! So today, I’ve worked on my craft library. Instead of a database, I used a table in a word processing program. I can insert a photo of the book and shrink it to fit the column. I’m putting the books in alphabetical order by title, and I can add a row wherever I need to.

Here are a couple of good books I rediscovered today:

Another Little Restoration

Another Little Restoration
Another Little Restoration

I have this little jingle bell arrangement that I hang on my mailbox post. The ribbons were really faded, and the berries were long gone. I didn’t want to hunt a new one or try to recreate it, so I grabbed some Sharpies, glue and beads I had on hand. I colored the ribbons and glued on the beads. When it dried, I hung on the mailbox post and I’m pretty happy with it! $0.00!

New Craft Book!

New Craft Book!
New Craft Book!

Don’t you love it when you need just a little something more to qualify for free shipping? I am very pleased with this purchase and may take it to Staples to be wire bound so the pages lie open. I also have this book which is more about small projects than about the stitching. Small projects are right up my alley!

Which reminds me, I’m thinking about scanning all my craft books (and maybe patterns) and making myself a library/database. ‘More on that later.

Craft Project Database

Craft Project Database

I have so many projects going at once, I decided to create a project database. I chose these fields:

Project/Craft/Progress/Needed Materials/Location/EDC/Complete

EDC stands for Estimated Date of Completion. I listed 12 projects I would like to see completed soon. So far I’ve completed two and updated the progress on several. I’m pretty pleased with myself, and maybe this will help with my ADD tendencies.