Out with the old...
I cleaned my office today and I'm still not done. I had all holiday break to do it, but there were so many other fun things to do, of course. I wasn't sure how I wanted to use the space either. My office, which was originally a girl's small bedroom, has seen so many changes over the years. When we first moved in, I had a card table and old desk and some shelving units for my model horses.
Then I splurged on Billy bookcases from IKEA for my books and model horses, a new desk, some over the desk shelving, an ALEX drawer unit, and another IKEA computer cart. The computer cart makes a great printer stand and there's room for file folders underneath where the computer would go. Last year or the year before I added another ALEX drawer unit for my Pazzles die cutter. Well, I'm e-cycling the Pazzles because the company is no longer functional and the machine won't talk to my computer anymore. I bought a Cricut (something I swore I'd never do!) because most of my customers use Cricuts. In hindsight, I did well with the furniture I chose and thinking modular. Our house is the three bedroom model; the two bedroom model has a bigger master bedroom and bigger second bedroom. I know this because my neighbour with that model used to be my co-worker ;-D
If you recall, I graduated from art college and have been tossing, recycling or rehoming a lot of things since April and I just put off the heavy duty chores of pulling almost everything out of the room to vacuum. Once again, I can't believe the amount of recycling I'm doing. Tomorrow I'm going to sort my paper scraps into colour families.
In case you're wondering, what's on my shelves if not books and model horses? Well, there's still three shelves of model horses and one Benno unit full of books. I have my "good" crafting paper organized for die cutting and my rubber stamp collection as well.
Since the passing of my dear, sweet Muffin, I'm no longer beholden to crafting where he is. I can close my closet door and actually use my office without having stuff fall on me! Aw! Poor Muffin. He was just not one to sit nicely while I worked ;-D
Then I splurged on Billy bookcases from IKEA for my books and model horses, a new desk, some over the desk shelving, an ALEX drawer unit, and another IKEA computer cart. The computer cart makes a great printer stand and there's room for file folders underneath where the computer would go. Last year or the year before I added another ALEX drawer unit for my Pazzles die cutter. Well, I'm e-cycling the Pazzles because the company is no longer functional and the machine won't talk to my computer anymore. I bought a Cricut (something I swore I'd never do!) because most of my customers use Cricuts. In hindsight, I did well with the furniture I chose and thinking modular. Our house is the three bedroom model; the two bedroom model has a bigger master bedroom and bigger second bedroom. I know this because my neighbour with that model used to be my co-worker ;-D
If you recall, I graduated from art college and have been tossing, recycling or rehoming a lot of things since April and I just put off the heavy duty chores of pulling almost everything out of the room to vacuum. Once again, I can't believe the amount of recycling I'm doing. Tomorrow I'm going to sort my paper scraps into colour families.
In case you're wondering, what's on my shelves if not books and model horses? Well, there's still three shelves of model horses and one Benno unit full of books. I have my "good" crafting paper organized for die cutting and my rubber stamp collection as well.
Since the passing of my dear, sweet Muffin, I'm no longer beholden to crafting where he is. I can close my closet door and actually use my office without having stuff fall on me! Aw! Poor Muffin. He was just not one to sit nicely while I worked ;-D