The X-mas gift-giving holidays is over along with a few work deadlines that required after hours attention throughout November so now this new year I can focus back on de-stashing again. Earlier this month I redecorated my room to look less like a college hodgepodge of mess and more my crafting cave with a visit to Ikea. Took me an hour putting it all together by myself. It has made my room look much more organized and so the next few weeks I'm going to have to look through everything to find all my knitting projects and eventually organize my yarn to make destashing it easier.
See all that pretty new, spacious room? Step 1 in making my bedroom my own crafting cave! Off camera but you can *kinda* see in the mirror reflection are the boxes of unorganized video games, bins of unorganized yarn, and my nightstand covered in stuff....still a work in progress but eventually I would like to see in my dream of dreams either a cute little desk or a nice comfy chair in that corner by the lamp to do my reading and/or knitting. I didn't realize it until now but I MISS having a desk from back in college when almost every dorm room had one. I forgot how useful those were to crafting along with just surfing the web, reading, and writing at was.
I like how all my knitting, gaming, and fiction and reference books all have their own little shelves and my magazines have their own little racks. There are a few of the shelves that are kind of decorative space holders where I stashed make-up, random DVDs, and my dolls but eventually those will be transitioned into just space for my books in storage and possible where I'll add more of those black boxes. Inside the black boxes on the shelf are where I plan on storing ALL my yarn and knitting projects. So far only one of the boxes actually does store yarn, the others are empty and its just a matter of time before I go through all my yarn and organize by weight from lace yarn descending through fingering/dk to worsted and eventually bulky.
It's odd thinking that I put so much effort into organizing a crafting cave...but now that I'm a working adult and Ikea makes it so ridiculously easy and affordable in my budget...frick, it makes me happy to actually have a room that reflects me and not bare bones functionality (aka originally my warped plastic moving bins and wire rack book shelves). Debating drilling hanging hooks into the side of the shelf so I can hang my ukuleles too so they can have their own personalized zone. Still some time and I definitely want to give this project a lot of time over the year to pick out the RIGHT pieces to put together my craft cave and not just throw together everything all at once. :)
(...the only downside is if I move anytime within the year is moving all this stuff up and down stairs....hmmm, whoopsies...)
