Craft Room Makeover!

Towards the end of September, I deep cleaned, organized, and rearranged my craft room. It was a lot of work to clean up! And one thing seemed to lead to the other too. I had done a few sewing projects that messed up the craft room, not to mention the kids love to go in there and make whatever their little heart's desire. Apparently, no one likes to clean up after themselves. Erik bought a new computer since the old one (about 5 years old) was annoyingly slow. At first, all I wanted to do was to put the old computer in my craft room since Erik bought a new one, but my craft room was a huge mess. I cleaned the stuff off the floor, but then I saw that the scrap bin was overflowing so I thought I should organize that, which led to organizing all of my woven fabric, which meant I had to buy some fabric bins on Amazon, along with a small desk and chair for the computer since there wasn't any place to put it.

 

I organized my fabric by knit vs woven, and then by color.

I also ordered some floating shelves, which initially were meant to be more practical than decorative, but when I went to put stuff on them, it looked really bad and sloppy so instead I'm just using them just for looks:

 

 

 I still need to find things to put on the other shelves.

Then I took out all my knit fabrics in the cabinet since there were some wovens in there and organized those too!

 

Just when I thought I was getting somewhere....I just had to put out all my knits!

I even cleaned the surface of the tables using rubbing alcohol to remove the acrylic paint. It took some time and a little scrubbing, but in the end, it worked pretty well! I guess I forgot to take a before and after pic, but this one was taken in the middle. Imagine all the paint gone! 

I was able to get off almost all of the paint. It looked like a new table after I was done.

Along the way, I got a bit sidetracked and made a flag with some old fabric for Ian's room:

I duct taped this to Ian's closet door, but it keeps falling off. 

I also organized my beads, bought a new ironing surface (a wool mat) since the computer was going in the corner where the ironing board used to be. I planned on getting rid of the ironing board, but it is currently sitting in the middle of my craft room, collecting junk. I still have yet to try the ironing mat out. I have been just too busy to do much sewing other than what I have posted for September! My desk and chair finally came, but I haven't even been able to use the computer as of yet and one of the kids already put a hole in the fabric of the new chair I have yet to even sit in!

My new desk and chair with the old computer and printer.