Week 2 - Done!

Gosh, there was a table underneath all that stuff!

Now there's a place for books in my bedroom, the place I read the most.

 And all my crafty stuff finally has a home!

The whole living/dining room looks bigger without all that stuff. The bench and chair went to my brother, the other table got taken apart and thrown out, and these new cubby style book shelves from Canadian Tire are a perfect fit. I also got new drawers for paper, a card organizer I turned into marker storage for my Spectrum Noir pens and a few boxes for the less pretty craft supplies. All in all, I'm pleased with the results.

I can't wait to mess up that table with a project!

Week 2 - Start - Organize my craft area

There is no finished post for Week 1 as it was create the blog and the post would have been very short. Here's the blog! Post done. 

In deciding what I wanted to do for week 2, I looked to my crafting area aka my dining room table:

Quite the mess eh? 

If I am ever going to get anything done, I need somewhere to do it. Last year I went around my apartment and cleaned and organized every area starting at the closet by the front door and working my way around. Guess where I stopped. It's quite intimidating and I got busy working on my trailer to do much at home.

I had this old table my Dad made me when I was a kid sitting in front of this bookcase he also made me when I was a kid, surrounded by more stuff. The table was outside on my balcony and I replaced it with a nice tile one. I brought the old one inside to get rid of it but it kept being a handy place to craft and do things because the other table was a mess.

The plan for Week #2 is finally get rid of that table, move the bookcase into my bedroom, getting rid of the chair and organ bench I have in there, and create a craft storage area where the bookcase was. It's a good project to do this time of year because one, it's cold and miserable and usually dark outside and two, all the organization and storage solutions are on sale everywhere in January. As for the cost for all the new storage gear, BC Hydro just sent me $75 for reducing my energy usage by 12% last year! Go Team Power Smart!