Transformation: Disaster Zone to Functional Beauty
Today’s project was the craft “room”. Since moving, a year ago this past August… so August 2011… to our new apartment in Vancouver, I de-constructed our craft space in our last place and moved it into a sort of ‘storage” mode here. It just never became a priority. It resulted in the quite the chaos in both my crafting table area and my closet space.
The fabric and supplies for my quilting, costume making, scrap-booking and more were shoved in every nook and cranny I could find. The boxes were never really unpacked, they just got dug through when I needed something or just avoided all together. Sadly, not much has gotten done in the last 17 months since our move in the craft realm I’ve had a few great projects but nothing to the magnitude of what was done before.
So today was the day. My mom came by to help out with the project. We moved everything out of the “Harry Potter” closet up to the loft which is half craft area and half my daughter’s room (this space is huge, think 25 ft long..). I’m so grateful to Mom for helping out since my neck is still super sore (ugh!) and she wasn’t feeling great either. But together we got it done!
The finished product:
I hung some great little burlap flags I made back before Christmas above the area and put two Raggedy Anne dolls my Grandma gave my daughter before her death.
My mom showed up with the great bobin holder she had gotten many years ago at a quilting expo with my grandma. She said a little man was making them and selling them for $23. I remember it hanging in my parents house as long as I can remember. I’m so happy to have it now 🙂 
This is now a great functional space and my daughter has already spent about 2 hours creating paper doll dresses out of all the scrap-booking paper we found. I can’t wait to see all the projects that will come out of this space!
Left Brain, Right Brain 