Time for a Craft Room Blog Hop!

Instead of reinventing the wheel, I just stole this off of Joni's page: ENJOY!!! Hello everyone and happy Tuesday! Thank you for coming to the Craft Room Tour. I thought it would be a wonderful way to share our spaces, ideas, storage solutions, and make new friends along the way. I do ask that you kindly consider leaving a comment on these blogs/galleries, as we all enjoy knowing who came to visit our homes. ;)Grab a comfy chair and your drink of choice, enjoy the tour. :D
My craft space (Joni's Craft Space over on A Sticky Situation)
Kelly of My Bucket Overfloweth
Angie of My Boat
Nina B. of Crafting in Croatia
Martha of Creating Is Fun
Jen of Say It with Stamps
Ann of Creative Antics
Sue of Sue's Sentiments
Stef H of Glitterbabe Greetings
Crystal of Rustic Daisy
Robin of Robin's Artful Musings
Nicole of Anderson Arts
Jodi of Mommy to 4
Sheri of Paper Crafty's Creations

Have fun hopping around and until next post, be blessed!

Craft Room Tour

Hi All! My friend Joni is just like me and loves to see other people's crafting spaces. So she asked for us to post a picture on our blogs or galleries to share with eachother. Well, I decided to try to do a short video and I FAILED! LOL! The video wouldn't load onto the blog here; I think it's too long. I re-shot it about 3 times, and got it under 1minute, but it still wouldn't work. So I took pictures instead (you should be able to click on the pictures to see them super close). I hope you like them and bear with me to the end cuz there are a few... First up, here's my whole craft corner:

I share this room with my husband and his guitar hobby, hence the black sound-proofing foam you see on the walls! To the right of my desk I store my 8.5 x 11 papers, some embellishments and my TGF stamps on the white shelves. Here's a close-up:
To the left of my desk is my bookcase and another little white storage unit. I keep my stamps and inks on the bookcase. At the top of the bookcase are some finished projects and on the bottom are some albums and my big shot. I keep my 12x12 papers on the white storage unit, and on the snack holder I rescued from being thrown away! Oh, and my little purple Pixie sewing machine is there too. Can you see that ugly beige thing on the floor? That's my transformer so I can plug in my heat tool and lamp since they are 110Volt, and the outlets here are 220v.

And so you don't think my desk is ALWAYS a mess, here's a picture of it right after I finished up the project I was working on:

Oh yeah, Angel was begging for some candy because she knows that I keep my Italian Gummy candies in the little boxes on my desk. Here's a pic of the right corner of my desk where I keep my coloring supplies. They MUST be at hand since I use them all the time!
And here's the left side of my desk. I keep notes and papers and my paper cutter in the little file organizer thingy all the way to the right, my glue dots are in the little box I just made (the project I was working on! I think I'll post it tomorrow) and next to that is my little 6-box dresser looking box thingy (the one I keep my candies in). Oh, and I have to have the tiny clock on my desk or I totally loose track of time while crafting! LOL!

So that was only my part of the room. The rest of the room has David's desk and guitar stuff in it. Want to see? I know some of the family may, but if no one asks, I won't post it all!

On another note, I had a GREAT mail day today and I have tons of NEW goodies to play with! I not only got my Stampin' Up! order with some retired, and some BRAND NEW stuffs, but I also got my Pampered Chef order so I have some cool new tools that I used to make dinner tonight! I couldn't wait to press my garlic and chop my onions! LOL! And I got my copy of the NEW Stampin' Up! Catalog! Good Golly Miss Molly there is some fantastic stuff in there! To be completely honest, I didn't see a ton of stuff in the sneak peak we got as demonostrator's that made me super excited, but now that I have the whole catalog, I love it! Woohoo! Well, I hope you all enjoyed my photos, and my blabber if you actually read it.

Until next post, be blessed!

My Stamping Room & a Finished Card

Well hello blog readers! I know some of you have been patiently waiting to see some pics of my home, well, here's a teaser for you... Pics of my stamping room! Disclaimer: it's NOT done! I have some wall decor to put up and more shelving to purchase. And the room is only about 6.5x7.5 feet big! But it's working for now so... Here is a picture from the hallway: That is the box for our TV (which we have to keep because DH said so, and it won't fit in the attic! One of these days it will be OUT of my room, heeheehee). In the meantime, the box is the temporary home to my Big Shot, my embellishments, and some designer papers. To the right you see my bookcase. Here's a shot of that:

The bookcase is a little crowded right now, but all the papers that are on the bottom will be moved whenever I get more shelves. There are also magazines and some scrapbooks down there. The second-to-bottom shelf holds all my stamps from companies other than Stampin' Up. I think they are too crowded also... Next up is the shelf with all my SU! stamps, then above that are all my inks, and a box full of dies for the Big Shot. The top shelf holds some cherished momentos... And the top of the bookcase holds a few more momentos and a plastic box full of finished cards (from swaps, friends, and some I made too). This next picture is the corner behind my stamping desk:

That neat little rack is a garbage find! It barely fit into our little rental car at the time, but I HAD to have it! I think it held snacks at a gas station, but now it's perfect for my 8.5x11 papers! Well, until I get more papers anyway. Here's the pic of my desk:

You can't tell, but the desk is AWESOME! We got it at IKEA (Yes, there's one just 1.5 hours from here, well worth the drive! It was the first IKEA I'd ever been in, and I loved it!) and the right side of it is 5 drawers. I love my desk! I picked the black top, with white drawers for the right side and 2 white legs for the left side. It works perfect in that spot of my little room. You can see on my desk that things are a little disorderly, well... I had to take a break from stamping but didn't feel like cleaning up. Things are much cleaner now that I'm done for the night. On the wall above my desk are a few things that help inspire me. The center picture is a shadowbox type of picture I found at the BX of a Lily (nuff said!) then there are two black floating shelves on either side. The cards on the shelves are ones that I made (and match my black/white room decor) and two pretty bottles of mini prima flowers. And see that card in the far corner of my desk? Well...

Here it is! I finally finished my rose card. I added a simple sentiment in Gray ink and a ribbon. I had to color the ribbon with my Rose Red SU! marker to get it the color I wanted it. I punched two holes on either side of the stems, then ran the ribbon through the card and tied a pretty bow. I also added some glaze to the flowers in areas that would have been wet with dew if I'd just picked these out of a garden. How do you like the end result? And my stamping room? Leave me a comment and let me know what you think! I still have a long way to go on the stamping room, so any and all advice will be taken and appreciated!

Until next post, be blessed.