Note to self: I must have a bigillion Prisma pencils such as this,
organized and gradating in every color of the rainbow.
I MUST have shelves, upon shelves, upon shelves of orderly craft supplies, neatly displayed for easy use.
{via Pinterest}
I WILL have a craft/laundry room one day. Is this not the best idea ever?! I can imagine spending hours in there doing “laundry.” This would be my happy place and the husband would never suspect.
Genius.
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Or even this sweet little nook will do. Just as long as there are lockable doors.
What’s with the crafty spaces, you ask?
I had a busy weekend working on La Petite Maison projects. And I have to say that it is really coming together! So exciting!
But I digress.
I spent 5 hours making a coffee table. Well, the first time that is. Let me explain.
After holding the sides of the table to allow the glue to completely dry, I set it down on my makeshift work area. I admired my work briefly before my five-year jumped on top of my bed, slid on my silky sheets and landed with a thump, like a giant on top of my masterpiece.
The second mishap was due to my husband not being able to see the tiny acrylic coffee table. In what seemed like slow motion, I yelled, “NOOOOO!” As his shoe kicked it clear across the room, breaking in several pieces.
Needless to say, I would kill for a craft room. One where I could leave sharp things out and just lock the door! One where I can create while sitting on an ergonomically correct chair without my back-breaking! A space where everything has a place and where I have no worries!
Sigh.
So currently I am stalking Martha. Here is her craft space.
Can you imagine what madness goes on in here? I imagine that behind doors and inside drawers are the most spectacular things. I am like a kid in a candy store just thinking of it. I can smell her lavender-scented drawer liners and can feel the stacks of beautifully organized paper. I am weak in the knees!
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Watch out Martha I am watching you.
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Me too. I think she has multiple stalkers – for multiple reasons! At first, I thought you actually had all those pencils. Do you? That would be the MOST AWESOME thing EVER! I too, yearn for a craft room/closet/nook/secret hidey-hole of my own. Someday, my kids will grow up. And they WILL move out. Then I can use one of their bedrooms – don’t say anything, I’m sure they think their rooms are going to by shrines that I maintain precisely as they left it. But alas, Joey’s room will be for crafts, and Maddy’s room will be for yoga. Anyway, I remember seeing this craft room issue and thinking, “there really is perfection in this world, and its name is Martha Stewart.”
Oh, I wish the pencil display was mine! Can you imagine how disorganized it would get with kids!? It would drive me crazy. I never thought about the fact that my kids will move out one day. So i will have my own craft room, one day 🙂
Yes, one day. But even before that, there will be a time when the kids cease to be concerned with “your stuff.” Of course, I had many, many art supplies for the kids when they were little, and organizing them was always a challenge. Would it be child abuse to raise a child that replaced each and every pencil in its proper position? That wall of pencils is a work of art itself. As for me, the best I could ever do was train my kids not to eat their crayons!
I think it may be a little “Mommy dearest.” You know…like wire hangers 🙂
Oh, I’m totally with you. Our attic is currently being renovated (for 11 months now), so hubby works at the kitchen table and the dollhouse and I alternate from the dining room table to the coffee table. Good thing the coffee table is just IKEA, because it is destroyed. Destroyed. Poor thing could only take so much X-acto and glue and paint. If we ever actually finish the attic renovation, I’ll get a corner for my crafting area.
Those dreaded renos. They always take so much longer than planned. But the end result is so worth it!