Hi there! I've been wanting to share this "before and after" for a while now, but wanted to wait until my new craft space was the epitome of perfection. Well, I realized that's never going to happen and that it looks pretty darn good right now, so why not share my favorite room in the world with my crafty friends? Here's what the room looked like BEFORE:
There wasn't much going on in here "before". Just a spare room that housed our family computer and odds and ends that we didn't have a real place for. I'm so incredibly lucky to have parents that didn't mind me taking over this room. My mom still uses it as her office as well, so we're good about sharing. :)
It took a lot of work and lots of lifting (my mother and I did it all ourselves), but I think it totally paid off. I feel happy every time I walk into this room. Here's the AFTER:
The room is mainly taken up by the desk which houses all of my stamps, tools, inks, edge punches, small paper scraps and miscellaneous items. Then you can see my patterned paper and cardstock holders to the left and right of the desk that I got at westendwire.com. On to some close-ups:
Here you can see my framed cover of Paper Crafts magazine with my gift bag on the cover, my bulletin boards (for submissions deadlines, inspiration and need-to-buy lists), my jars of Papertrey Ink buttons, my QuicKutz squeeze handles, ipod docking station, cutting mat and rotating container for essentials.
Here's another shot of the main part of my desk. I love the "K" that my friend Jenna got me from Anthropologie!
Here's the right side of my desk, which houses my QuicKutz Epic 6 and Revolution (you can see it peeking out from the left side) as well as my little tool box that houses my Cookie Cutter alphabets and chipboard letters and such. Up above that is a little shelf that I have birthday cards on given to me by lovely friends and fam. :)
This is the messiest part of my craft room, but I can't not include it because it houses some of my favorite embellishments. On the bottom shelf I keep my magazines and books. The shelf above that holds boxes of finished cards. The second shelf from the top is my favorite because it has 3 custom-made boxes (by my awesome mom) that perfectly hold larger items like American Crafts Thickers, medium-sized embellishments like K&Co. stickers / American Crafts Flair and a small one that holds tiny things like BasicGrey pearls. I don't know what I'd do without them.
Well, I hope you enjoyed this little tour of my craft room. I love seeing other people's creative spaces, so I hope you've enjoyed seeing mine! I'd love to see pictures of your space - just comment with a link! Thanks for stopping by :)
<3,
Kalyn