I spent 10 hours in my craft room today, with a carafe of coffee and a will to be able to use my craft room again. When I started, both of my countertops were piled sky high, and there was a mountain of stuff outside the room, and the floor was once again covered. Here's a hint of where I started today:
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I'm not done, but I do have space to work again, and there is far less on my floor. It may not look a whole lot different than I started with, but lots of drawers were re-arranged and hopefully it winds up being more efficient. First, the shelves at the entry contain albums and books. That stuff was mostly on the floor or randomly located throughout the room. A lot of the other stuff that was displaced from those shelves got purged.
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Next, the ribbon ladder was moved in order to make room for a decorative stamp display. Below the ribbon ladder is where the circuit used to be, and it was basically the end of the usable space. But now that the circuit is moved and some other junk was cleaned up, I have double the usable counter space.
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With the stamps gone from the sewing area, I was able to move my sewing supplies to a more convenient location. The floating shelves used to have stamps, and now they mostly are just for displaying photos that make me happy. The CD racks that used to have UMs now have little bins that have notions, needles, and other small sewing things. I'm not happy with the bins though, because they don't use the space well. But I'll deal with that some other time. That ribbon drawer is the next thing that needs to be tackled. All of that loose ribbon is going to fit in that drawer, or be purged.
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And here is where the stamps all went. I bought document boxes to use as drawers, and I haven't finished putting those together yet (because they all require cutting down the height by an inch). But the stamps are sitting in the box lids, letting me know that everything will fit. I found another old CD rack to put the UMs in, and I'm happy enough with those sitting out how they are for now.
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Here is the new WM display. It's a fingernail polish rack. It doesn't hold much, but I wanted a way to have some of them out on display, and this did the trick.
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So that's about it. I have a whole bunch of stuff for the recycle bin, and a pile of containers that will likely go to goodwill. I need to organize that ribbon drawer and finish cutting and assembling the document boxes for the stamps. But at the point I stopped, I finally felt like I had room to breathe in there again.