hello.

Sunday, already?

I'm blogging live and well, I have tons to do but as the true dedicated Paper Crafter that I am, I crafted this morning:

This skinny card is chock full of Crate Pretty Party...love that line.   I teamed it up with The Twinery/Peapod {my FAV} and a strip of Love my Tapes {fabric} for texture...no stitching on this one:)

I was inspired by the latest retro sketch:

Seems like between DT assignments and prepping for my carpet install, I haven't crafted for fun.  This had to be the morning to do that...I needed it.

The carpet guys {3 of them} arrived around 9 am yesterday...I was so very fortunate that the weather cooperated because they did the cutting out in cul-de-sac {my apologies to my neighbors!}.  They didn't leave until after 9 pm.

Although they are coming back this afternoon for a bit more finish work, it is basically done...

WHEW

Okay, it was nothing like moving from one home to another but think of it ladies, what if you had to move your craft area to a different part of your home?  Those that know me....know that I have a ton of stuff...like an embarrassing amount of stuff.  I'm making this a learning experience...

Check this out...

Here is my main storage in my crafty hallway

{oh yes, that is a paper pieced owlie on a canvas that my boy made for me a couple years ago} 

It is 2 bays of closets that = 15 feet of storage

{it runs the length of that wall}

As you can see in the left closet, I still have schtuff on the top shelf {I didn't have to empty it since it didn't need to be for the carpet install} but the right closet did have to be completely emptied.  

I have challenged myself to go from two closets down to one

GASP

The thing is, I said it out loud to Darin and the kids {what was I thinking?}....well, when the boy says:

"What do normal people store in those closets?"

**Sigh** I thought, grrrrr...okay, I'll make the left one be a linen closet.

I also have removed 2 bookshelves that were overloaded with crafty stuff that would be housed on the right side of the picture above...are you doing the storage calculations?  That equates to a loss of a ginormous amount of storage.

I'm trying to live the "less is more" mantra...you know, we all have those "go-to" collections, right?  We all keep alot of other stuff that we've collected...."just-in-case".  I'm on-so-guilty of that.  

Ugh, this has become longer than I intended BUT bear with me since this blog is my journal too...I have to/need to/WANT TO reduce my amount of schtuffs....as I type this {downstairs at the kitchen island} I look around myself and I should be truly disappointed in the amount of stuff I have....all my upstairs is now downstairs and it has been a really horrendous situation.

I'm banking that if I document this, I'll stand by it...I've promised myself to donate a majority of my schtuff...I've already selected Childhaven as my major donation site....oh jeez, they don't know what they are in for:)  I've also contacted a local Assisted Living Community AND my kids' former 3rd Grade teacher...She always brought art into their classroom and I had the opportunity to volunteer as the Art Docent in their classrooms....it's a perfect way to "pay it forward"....every child should have art in their classroom.

Okay, Okay....that's the dealio peeps...if you've made it this far, you are such a trooper:)

How about you?  

Are you a hoarder, like me?  

Want to jump on the friendly bandwagon of simplifying our crafty lives?

Now I'm off to organize some piles:

keep

toss 

donate

Thanks for listening.