Craft Closet

So we've lived here ...........ah, around six years I think. A very small two bedroom mobile home.

I've spent these last six years moving things around, back and forth, here and there, trying to find the right place for my hobbies and crafts. I scrapbook albums. I have tons of photos and supplies. A cart full of papers and a cart full of stickers and accessories to create each page of photos. I like to sew. I have my sewing machine, materials, supplies. I have magazines full of ideas and inspirations for these hobbies.

What I didn't have was any space to put all of this! I used the dining table to sew and scrap. The sewing machine sitting on a Tv tray next to the table. The scrapbooking carts stuck in the corner by the dining room table. The sewing supplies stuffed in various places like the hutch and any other spaces I could find.

I used the second bedroom as a room for my five grandkids to play and sleep over. The closet I had filled with their toys and the top shelves with blankets and sheets.

WELL, now the grandkids are older and mostly sit out here and watch TV! My youngest grandchildren like to grab what they want to play with out of the bedroom and bring it into whatever room I may be in such as the front room or the kitchen. SO, I have spent the last four days creating MY craft closet!

I took everything out of the room and piled it onto the floor and sorted through and bagged up THREE bags full of stuff they kids don't play with and also some clothes of mine that was in the closet I don't wear.

I then rearranged and pulled the dresser out of the closet and the one shelf that was in the closet.

I then shortened the shelf that was in the closet and now have the few toys they play with on those shelves.

I moved the big cabinet out of the closet, took out the board games that were in it and they are now in the dresser.

I then filled the big cabinet with my sewing machine and supplies and I'm able to lock it up when not using them.

THEN, I went into the garage and found the five wooden shelves that used to be on the wall and cleaned them up. Then screwed them up into the corners of the closet.

Then moved the little desk the old computer used to be on (which we don't have anymore) and put it in the middle of the closet.

WA-LA-----------------my craft closet!

I then went to the store and found some crates to fill with my materials and put them on the shelves on "the sewing side". On the other side are my scrapbooking carts and albums and supplies.

Everything is up out of reach or locked in the cabinet so the little two year old can't get into it and the other grandkids WILL know not to touch them. The rest of the room is still theirs when they are here! BUT, when they are not here I can now go into ONE AREA and find ALL of my hobby/craft supplies!!!!!! OH, I also bought a 4 foot table that folds up and it is also in the corner of the closet so I can use that to work on!

I'm still not done! I want to make new curtians for the closet and the window and a slip cover for the bed.....................NOW ALL I NEED IS TIME TO USE IT!