Where Bloggers Create Party ~ My Space

I was not going to participate in Where Bloggers Create II at My Desert Cottage, because I don’t have an actual room.  However, a moving of my craft table in the garage {a spot I cleaned up and took over from my hubby, who wasn’t using it except to put more and more crap on it}, made me change my mind.  After all, not everyone is going to have a separate room/studio/office, so I figured “why not?”. 

 A secondary refrigerator moved into the garage and took the spot where I have been crafting and putting projects together for the past 6-8 months.  So after nixing my idea of moving it under these two shelves, hubby changed his mind and moved it under these two shelves {insert eye roll}.  Here are a couple of before shots and lots of pictures are below.

I had already had intentions of fixing up the little area ~ wall and all ~ where I was previously, to make it a little prettier for when I’m in there, and I was thrilled to get the shelves to use for storing some supplies right above the table.  A recent order from Hobby Lobby online got me a roll of black and white Harlequin wrapping paper and a roll of pink and black French wrapping paper.  Ooh la la! 

I started by doing the harlequin paper at the top and I just went the width of these metal shelves.  I then did the French paper in the middle and finished up with the harlequin paper at the bottom part of the wall.  I added some pink ribbon on the front edge of the shelves.

Here’s a full view of my area.  This gives you a little perspective of just how small a spot I have. To the right is the door that leads into the house {kitchen, laundry, exercise room}.  My craft closet is in the exercise room, so it is a few steps away if I need to grab something out of my supplies.

Here are some close-ups of the items I utilize when I’m crafting or working on projects here.  Some of these may look familiar as these were actually some of the first projects I did when I rediscovered my crafting side last year.  You can see my cookie sheet magnetic board.  

This was a jewelry box I found at Goodwill ~ brand new ~ from Target {who has it for $14.99 and I got it for $4.99).  It had a “Love” word on it and I took it off and added the key hole.  I also added some scrapbook paper behind the glass, which is where a picture was intended to go.

My recycled Vanity Fair napkin holder, which now holds some small packages of rub-ons, stickers, and small tags.  Some ribbons I grabbed from the baby shower that needs to be put away.

The previously gold gift basket that had a screen-type of trim around it, now painted brown and holding some of my larger embellishments and adornments.

My scissor holder ceramic bunny, which I love.  This actually had a small thing of string that originally came with it and the string could feed through the mouth area and the scissors would sit on the bunny face as glasses.  The string is gone, but sometimes a small pair of scissors comes in handy so I hung him up out here.

I’ve got tags in the harlequin box, which I need to change out the label to read “tags”, and the purple storage container holds larger stickers, scrap card stock and other larger items that don’t fit in the other things.  I’d like to get something a little more in keeping with the area, but for now it works.

 

Other random pictures of items I feel I like to have in easy to reach areas.  Items I don’t use as often or that are just decorative I’ve put on the very top shelf.

Gotta do something about this open bottom portion.  Some of that underneath is hubby’s crap tools and junk stuff.

That’s a little better!  Much neater now.

This light was already attached to the table and it has definitely come in handy when I need light close-up on something.

 

After seeing the first pictures I took, I had to get rid of that blue plastic cup holding pens, pencils, scissors and such.  I covered a sauce can that was in the recycling with some scrap paper, ribbon and stamped muslin.

I recently added this extra tray I had gotten from the Dollar Tree.  It looks like it will come in handy to hold little items so that they don’t roll off the table.  I also like to keep a pad of paper close by so I can easily write down supplies I need to get or replenish.

Hubby wants to know when I’m doing the rest of the garage! 

Thanks for visiting where I create.  I wish I had a dedicated room for all this {and my decorating business}, but sometimes you gotta make do with what you’ve got!   Don’t forget to check out everyone else’s space over at My Desert Cottage.