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And now for a few Personal Notes...
For the New Year, I am trying something different with my 3 times weekly posts....
On THURSDAYS,
I will feature what I cooked and ate during the week, showcasing local
cuisine and a few recipes for things that I actually made...
I decided that on SATURDAYS, I will showcase What I Have Been Up To in the past week, sharing events and places I went to, if any....
On MONDAYS, I will be featuring What I Have Bought or Been Gifted Recently, if anything...
Nothing to share today as I did not buy anything in the past week!!
For
almost 2 weeks, I diligently went through ALL, and I do mean ALL, my
craft supplies, deciding what I was keeping, deciding who or where I was
passing things on to and then reorganize my entire Craft Room....
After cleaning it.....
It was a daunting task but it had to be done....
After all was said and done, I was also able to remove one of the shelf units and rearrange furniture in part of the room....
I took 2 car loads to donate to a local church flea market and when I
went there around 1pm on the first day of the flea market, I was
thrilled to find that almost everything I donated was gone!!
I already shared how I decorated the
Craft Room for Christmas this year ( I did not want to pack it all away and have to bring it out again 3 months later) because of the new furniture arrangement...
I am now going to share how I reorganized the closet and all my "Pretties" in this room.....
To finish up the practical use of the room, I want to share my newly reorganized closet ....
Years ago, to have some storage on the floor, we removed the second shelf in this closet and hung the bar from the top shelf because this was the closet that once housed all my clothes.....
This allowed to buy tiered hangers to hang my clothes on...
Because of my late husband's vast amount of postal uniforms he wore as a letter carrier, he took over the closet in our bedroom that is the exact size of this one....
After Joe passed away, I was able to move all my clothes, out of this closet and the Sitting Room closet, into the 2 closets in my bedroom....
There is only one shelf in this closet, where all my other closets like this one, have 2.....
A box of some packing foam and felt fabric....
I do store a few off Season pieces of clothing in this closet, especially longer ones as my bedroom closet has a double rod, which doubled the amount of clothes I can hang in there.......
Hanging in these bags are 2 wreaths that I need to do some repair work on....
To the left, I store 2 folding tables that can be brought out and set up in the room for extra work space....
And a sweeper....
Tubs on the floor....
Fall and Halloween crafts..
Patriotic crafts....
Ribbon......
I forgot to label this tub that is filled with all my greenery and flowers, even my Christmas ones....
The other side of the closet.....
On the shelf....
White felt and cotton....
One bag hold 2 pillows that I plan on making pillow covers for from Joe's hockey shirts that are hanging next to it.......
I was inspired by what I saw on Pinterest as far as creating pillows from a loved one's garments...
I also hung a bag of Buffalo Snow that I had stored behind my bed....
On the far left side of this closet, is a hanging purse/sweater organizer that I used for my purses.....
I actually have another one hanging in the cedar lined wardrobe of my Mother's vintage waterfall bedroom set that holds some of my shirts.....
Sphagnum moss on the first shelf....
These shoe box containers fit perfectly in this organizer....
Peach trims and grapevine balls....
Sachets, lavender and more glue guns.....
Wood candlesticks and small woods...
Paper rolls....
On the floor of this side of the closet.....
I had a lot of extra ornaments from my Seasonal Trees so I separated them by color and will see if I will use them when the holidays or seasons roll by either on Trees or in crafting....
If not, they will be donated for someone else to enjoy....
Valentine's and St. Patrick's Day crafts....
More ornaments....
As I hopefully, complete some of the projects that I have planned and are now stored in this closet, more space in this closet should become available.....
And now to all my "Pretties".....
In my Craft Room, I wanted to be inspired so I decorated it in a sage green and pink color theme, which I find calming, and added a pretty wall paper border that I bought on eBay.....
I already shared the top of the shelf unit in my post on my Christmas decorations but I wanted to highlight what is hanging from the ceiling and what is on the wall......
A Guardian Angel Wind Chime that I did not want to use outside....
A Thomas Kinkade picture from a calendar that I put in a yard sale frame....
Hanging from a tea cup hook is a sign that I embellished.....
The chandy above my work table......
I disguised the chain on the pink swag lamp with a floral vine......
I then threaded the lamp through the center of an old chandy that I removed the electrical works from.....
A Dollar Tree sign that I embellished hangs from the valance.....
I cut out roses from the border and applied them to the ceiling.....
Beads and tulle....
I bought the swag lamp at the estate sale of a neighbor for $10....
A Home Interiors picture.....
And wall planter....
When it was my son's room, it held DVD's and books.....
Storage was at a minimum as my son's rooms were only 8' by 10'.....
I placed lace scarves on the shelf....
And then displayed a bunch of green and pink items on the shelf.....
Below the shelf is my late husband Joe's Grandmother's antique Singer sewing machine....
On the wall above it, is a Home Interiors picture.....
Fans and sconces bought at yard sales.....
A floral swag I made above the picture.....
On the other side....
Over in the corner.....
On the wall.......
More yard sale finds...
A magnetic board with magnets from places I traveled to......
This is where my son's bed once was and the shelves above it were used to store a wealth of things....
I decided to keep them up, thinking initially when I first converted this room over to a Craft Room, that I would use them for storage....
But I decided to use them to display some of my "Pretties"!!
I covered the shelves with vintage linen scarves....
The top shelf....
A pink birdcage, a bird and a candle light with a shade that I embellished....
A picture of my maternal Grandmother, pink and green Teddy Bear ornaments, an Angel and a heart shaped tea pot....
A Teddy Bear candle sits on top of a pretty box, a bird and another Angel that was a gift from a friend....
Bottom shelf.....
A candleholder, a bird, a doll head ornament and a vase....
The doll was a gift from a friend....
In the center is the amazing mini room box depicting my Craft Room that was gifted to me
by my FB friend Angela, after I gifted her several boxes of craft supplies a few years ago.....
And a treasure I will pass on to my twin granddaughters.....
Another bird, doll head ornament, bird and candle holder....
My late friend Anne Marie gifted me the beautiful doll tree topper....
When I decorate the Dining Room for the upcoming Holidays, I will be moving all my Thomas Kinkade Pink Ladies up to this room, placing them around the room on these shelves instead of packing them away...
The window mirror under the shelves was also a flea market find....
By the door.....
An angel I bought at a craft fair hangs from a tea pot hook....
A Home Interiors mirror with a floral swag....
An antique wash board that I painted and embellished....
Family sign with an ornament hanging under it....
And above the door.....
And that completes the tour of my newly reorganized and rearranged Craft Room....
It was a daunting task, not for the faint of heart for sure, and I am so thrilled it is done for now....
I hope to go through things, which should not be quite as bad, once a year after seeing what I used in the past year and decide again what I will keep and pass on....
I hope I gave you a bit of inspiration for your Craft Rooms...
Because this project and another one that I did not expect to do, which I will share in the future, I did not get to change over my Early Summer Hens and Roos Kitchen to my Late Summer Apples and Sunflowers theme....
I decided that it was too late to do as I will only be changing it over to Falloween in about 3 weeks...
I hope you will stop by to visit again on
THURSDAY for my August Goals Update and to see what my Monthly Goals for September are.....
Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!!
And try to find JOY in every single day!
Thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!
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