Scraproom Vlog -shelfs challenge

Don't you just love when you get those "have to reorganize it now"-feeling a Friday morning just before you leave for school of work...  Well I have though about my shelfs before but yesterday morning I just had to do it that day...

So here is the before, not to bad but things staked on each others stresses me out. Also I'm afraid an album will fall on my head when I craft.

 The after is much better! With a very limited space you have to have a "make -do" attitude but I'm very happy with what I accomplished with on the time-35 min.

It has a lighter and airier feel, I could take away more like the gold box with stamps I hardly ever use but then I feel, I've spent allot of money on those and honestly the space that they are taking up is not worth that much... But yes, one day I will most likely sell them.
For now it feel better and I can keep crafting!

Love Julia

Organisations tips

 Through out my years of crafting, painting and scrapbooking my space have chanced allot. I move things around to find the "perfect" spot only to move it a few month later.  What is "perfect" now and suit my process my not be the case in a year.

 But here are a few things that works really good for me now:

In my space me desk is  facing a window with a rolling cart on ether side. On my left I have more scrapbook stuff and on the right one I have more mixed media and paints. 

On the middle shelf I have worked out this system that works nicely. I have 7 cheap lunchboxes with clear lids, in these I have die-cuts and embellishments stored by brand and type. It´s so easy to pull out and the the left side where I only have 3 my trimmer fits perfectly! (My no 8 box holds watercolor tubes in the other cart) In between these boxes there is a space so here my art journal lives with a work in progress album about Wiola. I really like having it close, just to pull out when I want to work on it, 

Moving on to my desk...

Here I try hard to keep it clean (try being the word) So that on the left side I can have new things. For the moment I have parts of the "Hello Love by Crate Paper and how doesn't love glass dishes? I do and I thing everything looks prettier. I also have a wooden box with my essentials.

 I love to find these old glass dishes at second-hand shops and they look so cute filled with goodies. Here I have embellishments from "Hello Love" as well as stuff I have die-cut, made myself and things I thing would go nicely with the new stuff. 

 I love my grey wood boxes and in this one I have what I would call my "essentials". Stuff I reach for all the time like photo-corners, letter sticker and doilies. And here is a good way to trick yourself, by placing thing I don't normally use or things I want to use up in this box. 

 Just in front of me I have my tools, my fancy brushes, photos, a planner and a notebook.

 In my other grey wood box I have tools that for me, is "can't-be-without".

A 12"/30cm ruler, 4 scissors (they each have a job and my others are on the left cart, I have happen to like scissors) They of coarse there is a craft knife, tweezers, stapler, stamp-blocks, wet glue and tape. I also have 3 misters. One is Heidi Shine- "Gold", a self-mixed silver and one with just water. 

On top of my right cart I have place this try meant for the kitchen drawer with space for knifes, forks and what else. Here I have the stuff I reach for in the "messy" way, I also have my heat gun and hot-glue hanging from hooks just above. 

So here I have gesso, white paint, mixed media brushes, ink pads, roller stamps, glitter and baby wipe. The best part about this is the roller stamps. I can easily see them and pick which one I want to use. 

That was a few of my best organisations tips  that I have in my space that I think, if you would like too. be easy to fix yourself. 

Love Julia