Postby Sunny » Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:37 pm
A little at a time I've been reorganizing my craft area. Most of the supplies are scrapbooking. My work area is a closet that measures roughly 10 feet by 3 feet. There is a 4-shelf unit at one end and 4 fixed shelves on the other end. The work surface I use is a computer desk that has two attached shelves . On the long wall above the desk are two more fixed shelves that the pictures are stored on. There's a little floor space left over for a small plastic drawer cart and I use three sets of stackable drawers on the shelf unit.
I have about 10 years worth of pictures to work with, along with the old pictures from my youth and before. So far I have sorted most of the pictures into "photo boxes" (the shoebox size with pretty prints on them, or plain black or white).
We have a bookcase in room that I keep my crafting books, magazines and photo albums on. When we moved some furniture around in the house we put a buffet with the shelf hutch in the room here and I'm using that to store the paper and some of the gadgets.
Of course, the main objective here is to have a work/storage area that is clutter-free, easy to work in and easy to clean up. I think the key here is to use as much of the same type of storage boxes, stackable drawers, etc. as possible to give a neat, uniform look. If I need to, there is enough room in the main room to set up a card table at which two or three people can work.
My next project will be to make an album for my dgd15 of some of the pictures she took on her trip last week. I have pulled out some paper, stickers and stuff to use when she brings a cd of all her pictures, hopefully this weekend when they come for Sunday dinner.
It's nice to see what others here have projects they have been working on.
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. --- Francis of Assisi