This Weekend, In My Craft Room

Greetings, blog friends.

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Friday night at dinner, I told Doug, "Tomorrow I'm doing nothing but art. All.Day.Long."

 

"Good for you," he answered {knowing he'd be playing in a golf tournament most of the day and I would be home and happy in my craft room}.

 

 

I had a mental list of the things I wanted to make over the weekend, but first I needed to get my craft space organized before I could begin. Well, one thing led to another and instead of creating art all day on Saturday, I proceeded to clean out my craft room closet instead.

 

I really should have taken some before and after photos of the closet, but in my defense I really hadn't planned to completely empty, sort, purge, and re-arrange the items in there - I was supposed to be creating something! By the time I realized where my day was going, I was knee deep in it, my camera was buried and I was on a roll. No time for photo taking...until later.

I ended up with a full box to donate {and/or swap}, another box of garbage/recycle, a small stack that I think Carrie will want, and a nice and tidy craft room closet {all except for the very top shelf  because I ran out of steam}.

And although I didn't necessarily create something tangible, my day was spent surrounded by my stuff. All those things I've been collecting to use on a project someday. All those things that inspire me and call to me. I loved every minute of Saturday.

So many tools...so little time...

There's something about being freshly organized that's so inspiring. Later, I found myself standing in my craft room, just soaking it all in and enjoying the sights. That's when all these photos happened - in the afterglow of ~sigh~ "The closet is organized and I'm so inspired but now I don't want to make a mess..."

 

So I took a bunch of photos of shelf space and called it a day.

 

{cross stitch piece made by a dear old friend of mine...squirrel belonged to the mom of another great friend...} 

 

And on Sunday? We mostly took it easy around here, and I made cupcakes to take to work today.

 

It was a lovely weekend, friends.

Simply lovely.

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