New storage cubes arrived for the attic craft space! Assembly tomorrow!
Apr13
Category Archives: organization
Apr9
It Beats Dyeing Easter Eggs!
I decided to tackle a little organizing as my Saturday before Easter project. This is the right corner adjacent to my new desk in the bonus room over the garage. I’ve been calling it my craft space, but actually, much to my husband’s dismay, I have craft spaces all over our house. This one is going to be my jewelry making and scrapbooking space.
I found some shallow shelves at Michaels in Winston. The Park Road, Charlotte, store doesn’t have them. This is my husband’s torpedo level and my new favorite tool.
The container holders are Jetmax, and I found them at Tuesday Morning about a year ago. This is all very white. I will photograph it again when I get those shelves and containers filled. And, of course, that table won’t be bare for long!
Apr1
A new desk for my craft space
I ordered this from the Container Store. There’s one in Charlotte, but I didn’t want to load it, lug it 90 miles, and unload it. I had it shipped. I did have to maneuver the top up the attic stairs to the bonus room. I was really proud of myself until I opened the carton and found damage. My stairs are thickly carpeted so I think this happened during shipping. It wasn’t too bad, and I surely wasn’t going to wrestle it back downstairs. Gravity would’ve helped, but still… I sealed it with some white glue the best I could and left it to dry.
I decided to tackle assembly on Friday. The online video was very helpful.
The first two legs were a piece of cake.
The second set was a drawer frame. It was a little bit harder, but I got to pound it together with a rubber mallet. This would’ve been a great afterschool activity when I was teaching!
I had to wait till yesterday for Kent to help me set it upright. It’s very heavy.
Ta Da! The stained glass was a gift I bought myself as an act of faith during a recent health scare. I have a weird tumor in the marrow of my right thigh. It’s benign (PTL!) so sure enough, I’ll get to enjoy looking at my little stained glass window a while longer!
Nov12
While we’re talking trash…
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I love these rectangular Gerber Baby Food containers for bead storage. Peter James is eating all table food these days, but I managed to save and wash several while he was in the baby food stage. (It’s also interesting that http://www.monarchwatch.org/ likes to use these containers for housing caterpillars and hatching their butterflies!) I’ve been doing a little organizing of my primary craft space, today, and I am also glad I purchased this umbrella-photo-keeper-thingy at the Container Store. I couldn’t find it on their website, but here’s one at Amazon: 
www.amazon.com/Umbra-Fotofalls-Metal-Desktop-Holder/ It’s great for clipping up parts of an upcoming jewelry project!
Nov2
One of my better ideas!
I store different craft projects in these cardboard suitcases. The one above is my newest; pretty, roomy and 50%off! Most of them are by Punch Studio and were purchased at Michaels or Joann.
Oct7
‘Love this ‘book!”
I picked up this book at Michaels and was delighted to find out it’s a magazine! It is a tremendous source of inspiration! Here’s a link: http://www.wherewomencreate.com/
Aug27
A Tiny Setback!
This morning, my newly organized bead box fell off the couch (where I shouldn’t have left it!) Luckily, only one box of pink beads exploded on impact! They had quite the trajectory. It reminded me of CSI (craft scene investigation!) Eighteen minutes was the time it took to contain the area!
Aug26
Organizational projects finished!
Well, two of them, anyway. I finally got my giant bead spill sorted, and I think I’ve catalogued every one of my craft books!
Apr3
An attempt to focus on and finish things
I created this database to help me keep track of all my UFO’s (unfinished objects!):
I saved the database as a template and tried to change it to a pdf with no luck at all. It was not among my list of supportable files. If anyone knows how, please let me know. I tried to post it here to share, but that didn’t work either.
It’s easy to copy the fields, though. Most are self-explanatory, but ECD stands for Expected Completion Date. (I wish I could remember whose blog I got that idea from so I could give them credit.) Anyway, that helps me set a goal for finishing. It’s alright if I don’t make it. The craft police don’t come after me, and I don’t beat myself up. It’s my database, and I just go in and move the date up.
Somethings I may never finish. My grandson, PJ, is walking now, so felt baby shoes are ridiculous for him and maybe a little dangerous. I had an idea to stitch the brown ones I started for him so they’d look like little footballs. I might do that as an experiment, and if they turn out okay, give them away. I started to say I planned on deleting that record, but I think I just changed my mind!
I made myself a couple of rules: No more than 12 active projects at a time. I can start a new one when I finish one. (There’s my motivation!) When I have 24 records, then I delete the 12 I’ve finished and start again. I need to be sure and congratulate myself for completing 12 things, maybe with a trip to Michael’s, or even better, Beadlush! I’ll have to blog about that little shop later.
So, I’m off to see if I can email my database template (since I can’t post or pdf it!) Later.
Apr2
Hot Diggity!
Michaels had these “TicTac-like ” bead storage boxes and I was able to use my 40% off coupon! Half of them have a divider in them; a great place to store one or two larger beads leftover from a previous project.