Whatever takes my fancy....

Radiotherapy ~ Day 23 (9:05)

Earlier this week I showed you a glimpse of my little craft room .... and I had so many lovely comments about it I thought today I would show you a bit more.
It really is tiny, no bigger than 6'x7', hardly bigger than a cupboard but I am lucky enough to have this space all to myself ... and it is filled from floor to ceiling with all my stash.
I reclaimed the room from being a bit of a dumping ground laughingly called 'the study'
.... and redecorated it about 18 months ago. I stuck rigidly to a colour scheme of cream, red and
olive green. If something didn't fit that scheme it wasn't out on show!

We already had the computer desk and storage units in an 'L' shape, and I bought these white shelves very cheaply from IKEA ...  I store little flowers and ribbons in glass jars.... the small ones are spice jars from Ikea and the larger ones are recycled coffee jars.

I used K&Co papers to recover some old books and files,

and old boxes and tins were smartened up with a lick of paint.

Magazines are stored in wooden boxes again from Ikea.

An old cork noticeboard was painted and recovered to match the scheme, and IKEA hanging rails were

put up for extra storage.

Originally there was a place for everything ...

I love these red pails from Lakeland ... they were a set of three and I use them for storing inks and stamps.

Wasn't it lovely!
When it was first done I used to stand in the doorway just looking at it because I loved it so much.

Now... lots of your comments praised the tidiness of this room ... and it was ... tidy ... back then
... but I need to confess that ... today ... 18 months later ...
it looks like this:

It is full of so much 'stuff' ... I can't actually see what is in there!
Sorting this mess out is top of my list of things I need to do when I'm feeling ready to return to my real life (instead of the slow motion world I'm occupying right now).
Who knows ... maybe then I'll be inspired to start crafting again!