Purging & getting creative
We’ve been in The Lodge almost 5 years (can you believe it?!). There’s a bedroom downstairs that the previous owners used as an art studio. There is linoleum instead of carpet and the closet doors were taken off. So this has been ‘the craft room’ since we moved in - except there’s been no crafting. It’s been more accurately a storage room - for all the miscellaneous crafts I’ve done over the years, the random boxes that needed to be gone through, stuff that had no home. It’s also been the cat room / sick room. Nothing like linoleum to catch puke, diarrhea and all manner of pee & poop. Needless to say, it’s not real inviting for the creative spirit.
So we’re having guests in august, and we’re going to need the daybed that’s in the craft room. Well I can’t very well stick someone in there with piles of boxes and a faint aroma of basement & cat pee. This called for some serious cleaning and along the way purging. I have gone through every stray box and here are my organizational categories - trash, recycling, toxic trash (yes old paints & goop), thrift store, sell and finally keep. I gave up a ton of craft stuff and some old keepsakes - a bag of Bejart’s toys & leashes and my old Pentax 35mm camera (that baby took great pictures back in the day!).
The back of my station wagon is packed full of goodies for Value Village, and my craft room is starting to really take shape. I’ve got myself a sweet little nook inside the open closet that I had painted Chinese red, complete with desk and cork board, a place to hang my fancy ribbons and old cigar boxes filled with stamps, glitter, jewels & seashore finds. The daybed now has a cover and I’ll be filling it out with some pillows & such. My grandmother’s old dresser has been repurposed to house fabric, drawing supplies and old photos. And the old leather suitcases I collected are tucked neatly under the daybed now packed with candle making, stenciling and soap making respectively. Oh & it’s all labeled!
I’m not sure what magic will happen here, but it looks (& smells) much more inviting.
So we’re having guests in august, and we’re going to need the daybed that’s in the craft room. Well I can’t very well stick someone in there with piles of boxes and a faint aroma of basement & cat pee. This called for some serious cleaning and along the way purging. I have gone through every stray box and here are my organizational categories - trash, recycling, toxic trash (yes old paints & goop), thrift store, sell and finally keep. I gave up a ton of craft stuff and some old keepsakes - a bag of Bejart’s toys & leashes and my old Pentax 35mm camera (that baby took great pictures back in the day!).
The back of my station wagon is packed full of goodies for Value Village, and my craft room is starting to really take shape. I’ve got myself a sweet little nook inside the open closet that I had painted Chinese red, complete with desk and cork board, a place to hang my fancy ribbons and old cigar boxes filled with stamps, glitter, jewels & seashore finds. The daybed now has a cover and I’ll be filling it out with some pillows & such. My grandmother’s old dresser has been repurposed to house fabric, drawing supplies and old photos. And the old leather suitcases I collected are tucked neatly under the daybed now packed with candle making, stenciling and soap making respectively. Oh & it’s all labeled!
I’m not sure what magic will happen here, but it looks (& smells) much more inviting.