a few details from the Cubbyhole...

Just a few more details from the Cubbyhole today...

Here is something hidden behind the cute brown flowered curtains on my built-in shelving...

Copic storage...it's not completely anal...but it was $11.99 at Target last year and it works awesome, is cute, and portable...plus...there's still room to buy more markers :)

These drawers are under my long (9") desktop...there is another one full of neutral colored ribbon...but that's not nearly as pretty...  

The ribbon is wrapped around pieces of illustration board (it's like really sturdy cardboard I bought at Staples) cut to fit inside of the drawers.  I just staple the beginning of each piece of ribbon to the board, wind and pin.  There is a ridiculous amount of ribbon stored in a tiny space...plus they are just happy drawers to open! :)

PTI ribbon doesn't have a nice neat home yet...still looking...I can't seen to take it off it's spool...The colors just look so beautiful all lined up...it seems a shame to hide it in a drawers!  

And there is a another box full of just Christmas ribbon...yikes...I may need to join Ribboners Anonymous...

...and here's an example of why I put curtains up on that shelf!!  NOT PRETTY!!!!!  The baskets are cute enough, but the contents...holy snap...what a wreck!!  I know there are cute ways to store twine and sticker sheets...but this works for me and they are easy to get to...so, as my son would say..."ePiC fAiL" aesthetically (he wouldn't say aesthetically :)   )  but the functionality is good...plus...really...it's BEHIND the curtain!!  

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A few DeTaiLs...

Here are a few detail shots from different parts of my cubby....this is what the desktop looks like when it's clean...probably the first time since it was installed that I could see these letters :)  I guess I should have cleaned the glass before I took the photo....oh well, too late now...it's completely covered in ~CrEatiVitY~ again....


The jars in the back hold misc embellies...I'm really horrible about using them...I like to buy them cuz they are soooo pretty...but can never figure out how to put them on my cards...

This is just a shot of the ~INSPIRE~ letters on my wall...I still love how the white letters look against the "Bon Jour Beige" of the walls...

The little candy jars underneath are filled with non-Papertrey buttons in ROYGBIV order...

Here's my Making Memories shelf...full of all things glittery and sparkly...and misc hoopla that had no other home but I could stuff...jam...shove...fit in those jars up top...

This is a wooden shadow box that I picked up at Michael's forever ago...I painted it brown and put in a chunk of my aMuse stamps...I love having these stamps on display...I don't use them that often, but they are hysterical and I smile every time I look at them...plus, the box fits really well on that crazy shaped wall....

...and last but not least, here's a picture of the boys I love...the hubby and son on Halloween (you have to love a man that will wear a costume to coordinate with his son!!)  The boy a few years ago...I just love this picture,( maybe because it was taken back when he had baby teeth and didn't back talk!)...and an autographed photo of my soul mate...I love you Mr. Clean!!!

I have a bunch more detail pictures to post...I figured I'd  better take pictures of everything  while it was clean since I don't know when that will happen again! :)  

I just don't want to bore or overwhelm anyone...or invite calls from my family heckling me for how anal I am...with a ton of pictures all at once...I'll put up some more tomorrow.

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Here's the CrAfTy CuBbyHoLe...

So...I'm starting an all CrAfTy blog...now my family won't have to wade through pictures of cards and packaging and cookies to find a shot of my son. :)

Besides...I've gotten back into actually making things again instead of just collecting supplies...not that there is ANYTHING wrong with being a hoarder...oops, I mean collecter...but I kinda like to make things sometimes...I find it uses up supplies and then I have room to buy more...funny how that works....

I thought the best intro...and a good way to explain the blog title...would be to show pictures of my craft cubbyhole.

This area used to be a storage/crawl space that was where the octopus arms of our heating/AC pipes were...a few years ago, we found someone willing to take on making it into an inhabitable area...weeeeelllllll....it's really only inhabitable if you're a hobbit...the ceiling slopes something WICKED!!! It works for me because I'm a little height challenged...it also has the side benefit of keeping my 6" tall husband out most of the time :)

Here's a picture as you enter the space...it's off of our upstairs loft/family room...this wasn't originally supposed to be my space, it was where my husband had his desk and computer...but when he saw how much crapola...ummm, I mean how complete my selection of customizable goods, craftable items, and hobby supplies was, he graciously gave it up and moved across the room...thanks hon...YoU RoCk!!



That's Mack lying on the desktop...I share this part of the space with him...and my son...Connor does his homework here and that's a small portion of his legos...he might be a squidge over-indulged...I think it's an only child thing...that or maybe my parents didn't buy me enough toys when I was a child and I'm making up for it now...anyway...12X12 paper cardstock lives here, along with my Cricut, themed patterned paper, spare empty scrapbooks, paint, and assorted tins and containers waiting to be glitterized and prettified.



On the wall to the left (you can still see kitty's head on the bottom of the picture) are more of the white storage cubicles (from Target...eons ago) holding patterned paper by color, unfinished scrapbook pages, chipboard, rub-ons, punches, and more items that need embellishing to make them gift-able. Papertrey felt lives in big ole candy jars on top along with Cricut stuff and a Making Memories carousel that holds misc. stuff and dies that don't fit with the rest of my die storage. Up above is an AwESoMe shelf that my super handy (at times) hubby built...it is ginormous and I love it!! It's kind of PTI-land up there...patterned paper pads, cardstock, ribbon, buttons...it makes me happy to look at it :)

In the bins are border punches, Cuttlebug folders and plates, christmas ribbon, and Fawn Lawn and Paper Smooches sets. The jars on top hold small snippets of ribbon...ok...sometimes it's big pieces I'm too lazy to put away correctly...it's a bit of a stretch, but I don't use them that often, so it works.



This is continuing along that same wall and you can tell by the WaCKy architecture that we've actually entered into the altered area...those peaked shelves are RIDICULOUSLY deep...seriously...like 2'...I have crap behind crap stored in there...hence the decorative curtains...they hide a multitude of sins! That adorable bird cage thing holds my stamps in CD cases...all PTI...but someday I may buy something else :) and there's plenty of room to grow!



Here's my desk...it's a giant glass covered slab of wood with some supports on top of even more Target cubbies...ceiling here is reeeeeeeally low!! Like...you have to pull out the chair, sit down, and slide in low...look how clean the desktop is! oooohhhhh.....aaaaahhhhh....it's only like that because I moved 9 piles of stuff out onto the couch to take the picture!



Here's the next wall....you can totally see just how angled the ceiling is here...there are weird bump outs and nooks because all those octopus arm pipes had to go somewhere...that's also why the shelving on the opposite side doesn't go to the floor...the curtain you see hides a deep hole that houses my cutters and Scor-Pal. The contractor thought I was nuts when I told him I wanted him to put that in...and he was NOT happy about drywalling in there...



Here's the last sliver of wall that leads back out to the beginning...that's my cute son and hubby inside the O....

Okay...so there's the tour...I'll post more details of storage later.

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