My Craft Room

I have an entire room in my home dedicated to my crafting obsession.  

It used to be our 'den' or computer room. But, we both have laptops and rarely use the desktop so when my boyfriend converted our basement into a recording studio for his hobby I decided I would take the den for my hobby and make it my craft room.  It's pretty cool.  I try to keep the place organized and I make sure I have TONS of lighting in there.  

Here is an image of the main table that I do most of my work at.  I also have a closet in there which has items in it and some storage drawers that are full of fun things to use in my projects. I just wanted to let you see where I do my work in case anyone was curious! 

It has pretty much everything I need.  Ideally I would like it to look like this...(Minus the carpet) But I think we're a ways away from that. We'll see though!! 

Do you have a craft area? Any tips for mine? Or what about any MUST HAVE items I should get for my craft room?!

'Create' Wall Art

Once I put the melted crayon art on my wall I realized how empty the wall of my craft room were. So I decided to make something else for the wall above my craft table. I wanted it to relate to crafting and to motivate me or remind me why I have that room in the first place. After thinking about it i came to the conclusion and this piece of wall art should just say CREATE. It is after all the name of my blog, what I love to do and it defines the purpose of that room!

Here is my how to for my 'Create' wall art piece...

SUPPLIES:

• 5 Different Colors of Acrylic Paint
• 5 Correlating Colors of String/Yarn
• Glue
• Cardboard
• Scissors
• Scrapbook Paper
• A Picture Frame
• A Paint Brush
• A Pencil

DIRECTIONS:

1) Take the piece of cardboard and the pencil, draw bubble letters in the font that you would like your word to be in. I wrote Create and did it in curly-ish font.

2) Cut the letters out!

3) Paint each letter in a different color with your acrylic paint. Let them dry. (Here is a link about acrylic paint, it's so versatile and one of my favorite things to work with... About Acrylic Paints)

4) When your letters are dry wrap them in the yarn/string in a scattered spaced out way. Similar to how you wrap your headphones around your iPod.

5) Fit the scrapbook paper to the frame and frame it. I removed the glass pane from the frame because I wanted 3D letters.

6) Glue the letters to the frames piece of scrapbook paper.

YOU'RE DONE!

here is mine...

What do you think? What word would/will you do?!