Some new cards - at last!!

It seems to have been so long ago since I made any cards so I thought I'd better make a couple quick before I forgot how! Hopefully I should get into the swing of things before too long - I've still got a load of sorting out to do to put things in some sort of sensible order but I'm hoping to order a bit more storage for papers and things over the next couple of days (along with some celebratory new stash) so I can get the craft room sorted for once and for all :)






P.S. I haven't forgotten about the blog candy - I'll be sorting it when I order some new stash :)

Update....

Okay - so here's what's been happening on the craft room front (item names are included just in case anyone wants to know what they are)...

Small Expedit unit

On top of the small unit.

Desk (1.5m Vika Amon table top & Vika Artur trestles. Snille swivel chair)

Look - I have legs!!

Well on the way now...

....we went to Ikea yesterday to get the rest of my shelving etc and - yay - they had my legs in stock ....we got a full refund and they gave us the two trestles for free because of the hassle we've had trying to get them :)

It looks fairly organised now but I've still got some shelving to get put up and I need a blind for the window. I also have a lot of sorting to do as I want to try and rearrange what is in each basket/box and put like things together to, hopefully, make me a bit more organised when I'm making cards but no doubt I'll end up putting that off as it will mean everywhere being in chaos again!!

I'll try to get some more pics on later so you can see where I'm up to so far :)

Coming up - Blog Candy :)

Once I have got my room sorted (or as near as) I'll be off on a shopping spree to buy some new stash and decided that, to celebrate, I'd offer some blog candy too so keep your eyes on this space over the next few weeks. I haven't decided whether to make it into a challenge or just a give away yet but will let you know nearer the time :) You never know - if I still can't make my mind up I might do one of each!!

Goodbye trusty old craft area......

Well, it's goodbye to the old and hello to the new -

I thought I'd post an old pic of my craft space for posterity :)

And hello new crafty space......

....We got the unit built and I've put a load of stuff on it - just gotta put some shelves up and buy the smaller unit now - and get my legs!! I've managed to dump about 90% of the rest of my stuff on the floor in here so, hopefully, my old work space can be dismantled over the next week and we can start sorting out that end of the bedroom :)

and this is the stuff that has been lovingly dumped on the floor! See my poor table top sat at the back still wrapped in it's cardboard :( Ikea better get my legs in soon!!

Long time no blog....

....Well, it's been ages since I last posted, loads of stuff has been going on here so I've not had too much free time lately!!

My step-son (Alistair) and his girlfriend (Mel) are expecting a baby boy at the end of October so we have been moving things around a bit. The room that acted as craft room/spare bedroom/general dumping ground is being used for Alistair so he can have a cot and other baby stuff in there and the smallest bedroom (which used to be Alistair's) has been decorated this weekend and is becoming my dedicated craft room - it's not a big room but at long last I won't have to share a room with everyone elses rubbish!!

We went to Ikea to pick up a unit and desk - minus the trestle legs - but that's a whole other story; briefly they said they were in stock but only at the collection centre so we could pick them up from there when we went to collect the unit - when we got there they didn't have any and said that the main store staff should have asked for a physical stock check!!! The general outcome being that when they come back in stock we are having a couple delivered for free (the usual delivery would have been £45!!!!!) so for the time being I have a desk top but no legs to put it on :S

Of course, I HAD to get some other bits and bobs while I was there too.........I did..........didn't I???

I'll take a couple of pics as I make progress in the room and post them on here - that will give me a bit of incentive to get it sorted ASAP!!

Can't wait.....

....to get our flippin' bedroom finished - I can't get to my craft stuff as the spare room is full of my shoes/teddies/other stuff I can't bear to part with because we're in the middle of decorating - it's taken us about 3 weeks so far as my OH hasn't been well so the decorating has been kind of put on hold. But....once the bedroom has been finished I can make a start on sorting my craft space - some new shelving/storage etc which will, hopefully, make me a bit more organised (at least for a couple of weeks) and give me a bit more inspiration :)

Okaaaayyyyy........not the best cards in the world but here are a couple I managed to get done this afternoon - and true to my word, loads got chucked out!!!

Sorry!!!!!

I've only just realised how long it's been since I did anything on here!!! I've been busy at work and absolutely knackered by the time I've got home so I've spent most evenings wishing for bedtime!!

I still haven't got my mojo back so I'm going to try to make the effort today and see what I come up with - I can't promise much though as most of it might end up going in the bin :(

Well, there's only one way to find out, so I think I'll have another coffee then force myself to face the chaos that is my craft area and see what I can drag out of myself.

Wish me luck - and if there's no sign of any cards by the end of the day send in the search parties coz I'll probably be buried under a mountain of card trying to dig my way out!!