New Year & a Re-Vamp

For some un-known reason to me last night I decided I wanted to change my craft room around. It's actually not a room as such it's an area, it should be where the dining table is, a normal person would have put their dining table in here, but I am not all that normal and HAVE to have my Craft Space, and my Craft stash has by far out-grown the box in the cupboard. Anyway .... after the kids went to bed I put my muscles into action and started heaving furniture around and got stuck in a corner and woke up with several bruises this morning! I have done this once before at night when we lived in Pukekohe, you can read about it HERE. But at least then I had Jason to help me move the furniture around! At 12.30am I tattled off to bed with the most major pieces of furniture moved and the place looking semi done. I heard Riley say when he got up this morning "Holy" which is what he says when something amazes or surprises him at the moment, word of the moment I guess lol. I spent the rest of my child free time during the day sorting and tidying and putting away. And now just over 24 hours after I started my Craft Space is done .. and I LOVE it!! So here are the Pics

BEFORE .. and rather messy I might say! You can also see more pictures HERE




DURING .. when I was thinking OMG and was trapped in a corner for a while and had to climb under the table to get to the light switch when it started getting dark!!!





The way I left it when I went to bed this morning!






AFTER .. it looks sooooo good!!!! I Love it!





As I was re-arranging and tidying I also did a HUGE clear out, made a list of all my UFOs and my goal is to get them ALL finished! So now I'm off to start one hmmmm which shall I do!!!?????

Before ... During ... After ...

As promised the Craft Room Pics ....
BEFORE >>>




DURING (as I was saying "OMG What was I thinking!") >>>




And AFTER >>>





I am VERY Happy with the end results! Also that it didn't take 10 hours to finish (I really thought I'd be working on until the wee hours of the morning!)

Stuff ...

As promised here are a few pics of Scrapping and crafting I have worked on ... Oh and not to forget my new CRAFT ROOM!!!







These are three canvases, a clock for my Craft Room and a Halloween House

My Favourite LOs lately ....







I have also decided to be brave and submit a couple LOs to Up2Scrap again so fingers crossed there

And here is my very well used Craft Room ...

It worked!!!!!!!!!!

Moving my scrapping stuff into the living room is the best idea I EVER had!! I have sat down this evening and whilst watching a DVD with my darling husband have completed TWO layouts!! Since my ink hasn't arrived yet (please let it come tomorrow) Nic suggested doing the LO's and add the pics later so that is what I have done!! On one anyway!! I'm quite impressed with my efforts tonight!! Especially since I haven't done much in a while!! See all it takes is a warm room and good company :)

Moving Scrap Space!!

It has been getting cold!!! I mean it should be it's Autumn almost Winter even. It has been bad for my scrapping though. Been in the garage is FANTASTIC in the summer, nice and cool, and I can just open the garage door and let the cool breeze come in. Well now it's FREEZING in there. Over the last few weeks I have hardly even ventured into my scrap space, it's just been too cold. I miss scrapping though, so tonight I had a brain wave!!! Move. So I did. I Moved my table and the most important bits into the living area. Now I can scrap, watch TV, be close to my hubby, kids and computer and most of all it's WARM!!!!

So expect to see ALOT more stuff from me now!! I have had word that my photo printer ink was posted to me yesterday so the first thing I'm going to do is use some of my new Halloween Goodies!!!!! Bring on the Orange and Black!
I'm so excited if it wasn't so late I'd start now, but I must be patient. Tomorrow isn't that far away!!!