I have a room and I need the time

I finally have my very own craft room.  Before I had a corner in our computer room and most of my stuff was "organized" in the closet.  It's so nice to have my own space because since it's not such a public area I'm able to have my creative mess.

And yes it is a creative mess. I know where 90% of my stuff is located and I work better when I am able to spread out. This is also a space where hopefully the kids will stay out of. I have a child proof ball thing on my door so far it's kept the little ones out.  Woe be the day they learn how to get in, then we'll have to invest in a lock.

Here is a before

 

(Such a mess! Which is why moving to the basement was needed so badly)

Moving day



And a after of what my space looks like.  

The walk in closet.  With a built in cabinet perfect for 12x12 items! 

The space isn't 100% finished.  The electrical has to be worked on which is why there is ugly extension cord running through the room and I want to add fun things to the walls. Pictures, Saying, shelves for magazines and fun stuff like that. But's it's a work in progress and things cost money.

Crafts in Progress

I thought it would be fun to show a "few" projects that I'm working on. I'm netorious for starting things and not finishing them.  So I'm setting a goal with myself to work on all my unfinished projects throughout the month of may.  That includes all holiday stuff that I wanted to get out but never finished.

Above is a picture of my "project" boxes.   A lot of random items that are just getting stored away. 

Below is all of my projects pulled out of the box and organized a little bit.  I'm really excited to start my new goal this coming month.  And the upside of it, I won't have to spend any money because I already have EVERYTHING that I need!

Here are the unfinished projects I will be working on

"A Crafting Bucket List" if you may.

1. DI Find - Upcycle into something cool.  Maybe a chalkboard for the toy room.  Still undecided.

2. Zack and Gavin's names for their rooms. I started this project last summer. 

3.  Wooden Easter Bunny from 2 years ago I think.

4. Ribbon Board.  I just never got around to doing the criss cross ribbons. 

5.  I Spy Bags. This is from the last Craft Extravagansa that my ward had, so hopefull it gets finished within the same year.

6.  I just realized this is actually two projects and I may be missing on piece.  One is a block of wood that had the 4 season's on each side.  The second is a welcome sign that has wooden things dangling for each season.

7.  All I have to do is mend this poor snake for Zack.  Grandma bought it for him and I started noticing the entire side coming ustitched; so I had to put him away.

8.  Witches Boot - Halloween project

9. Fabric for Pumpkins

10. Wooden Turkey.  I've had this guy for well over 3 years.  About time he got finished!

11. Fabric for a skirt I want to make.  This is actually round 2 of a skirt I've tried making before.  Let's hope this one turns out better then the first.

12. Beanie/Hats for the boys.  Found on a website to upcycle old sweaters.  I found a sweater at DI to practice on. 

13.  Pillows for the Playroom couch.

14. The sheets are fabric for a comforter I want to make and the foam and gray fabric are for a backboard. 

Updating Ugly Sign

I've seen a lot of upcycling on the web. I'm not quite to that point in my crafting yet. Not that I don't like it, I just don't have the vision yet. So to start small I updated a Happy Easter Sign that I had recieved probably as a Bunko prize.

When I put the sign on my mantel the colors were so blah that you hardly noticed the sign.

So to fix that; I went from BLAH

To Wow

What I did:
Painted the letters all white (front, back and side). This took a few coats.
Painted the fron the colors that I wanted
Inked the edges to make it pop (can't really tell in the pictures)
And eventually I'll add some ribbon to make it cutsey.

For letting me paint my letters Zack got to paint his gun.

Bib Apron

This was one of the easiest projects I've worked on in a while.  And I loved the outcome! 

I found the post about the "Bapron" on U-create. If you still haven't been to their website then you need to go... right now..! That site is a wealth of knowledge and different skill level.

Here is the actual tutorial on how to make the bib aprons. I made the aprons for a fundraiser for our Young Women so they could raise money for Girl's camp. I'm not sure what the they actual went for, but any donations totally helped that night.

I made mine so they could be a set.

A set for a boy,

and a set for a girl.  I'll admit when I showed my husband the first one I made and it was a girl's color I saw fear in his eyes.  I think he thought I was going to announce something to him.  Luckily for him I just like making girly stuff and wanted to make the girl bibs first.

If you've taken a look a the tutorial welcome back :).  I pretty much followed her instructions and pattern to a "T".  I made my bias tape to be the 1.5" size.  It was perfect and so so easy.  And I am 100% a fan of making bias tape now.  I love that you can make it to match whatever you are working on.  Goodbye buying bias tape! 

Here is a view of the back of the bapron. 

And if you think that the Bapron is only for babies you're wrong.  Zack had to try on one of the baprons too.  So here is a picture of my 3 year old and my 1 year old sporting the bapron.  Such good models.  Oh and trying to get them both to look at the camera... impossible!