I am lucky enough to have a spare bedroom all to myself for all of my crafting stuff - well except for any scrapbooking or card making, that's stored elsewhere. I appreciate the fact that whenever I like I can disappear into my girl-cave, shut the door and generally not be bothered - sometimes for hours on end.
It's only a small room - 9 foot by 10 foot and it has an inbuilt wardrobe. There is 1 small window on a short wall. I have squeezed in a large desk, a bookcase and a LARGE set of industrial shelves (they must be 8 feet long and nearly go tot he ceiling). This space is also where I iron ad I tend to use the ironing board as an extra bench. I am sure I have talked about it before.
When we put in the shelves I did do a bit of a clean up. I labelled tubs with their contents. I got rid of some bags of fabrics and bits and pieces. Things looked tidy for a little while.
But now it is back in a mess again! There is basically only enough space to walk to the desk and back out again - barely enough room to swing a cat as they say. I can't get into the wardrobe with all the items laying on the floor in front of the doors.
I was sewing a knitting needle roll yesterday - a quick simple project - and a set of drawers on the desk was getting in the way.
So now I think it is time I go thru it all properly and get rid of stuff. There are a lot of projects and kits I have purchased over the years that are half buried and not being made up. There are tubs and tubs of fabrics, paints, cross stitch paraphernalia, etc.
So what to do with it all?
I have done a quick count of the things I have listed on the blog - 57. That's a lot. To make it worse, I have even bought a few more kits/boms since making that list. There must be 70 different things!!
I am heading towards getting rid of everything that is not already packaged up - and I mean everything!! Perhaps try to recoup some of the money I have spent on them by having a garage sale.
Considering I have diverse interests in all things craft that's a large garage sale.
What do you guys think I should do?
