The Crafty Bachelorette

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Tippy Tuesday

Slap a crown on her and I think she could be royalty.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Tippy Tuesday

Tippy and I are watching my sister's dog for a while and they seem to be getting NSYNC! Speaking of NSYNC, have you all heard Justin's new single? :)

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

I'm sure you're like, "Whatchoo smokin? Pretend baby?" Yup. So hear me out. ~~I'm sure~~ I hope there are many many people out there that have a room that is a hazardous area quite like the room I have here.

But then they find out they're pregnant and they have to whip that room into a nursery in 9 months. Well I've lived here for 2.5 years and call this room my craft room. Tell me, what about this room is crafty? More like crappy!

Yes, you will see my Expedit bookcase from IKEA that I bought for this room in hopes of getting organized. But what did I do? I used it to throw more crap on!

So here's my plan, I am gonna give birth in 9 months. Mark this down, on Oct. 9th, 2016....just kidding! 2013, I'm gonna give birth to a beautiful, bouncing, organized, functional craft room! The good news is, I've made a little bit progress since I took these pictures. I'm gonna tackle this one small project at a time and I'm gonna drag you along in the process. Lucky you!

I can't explain the anxiety this room causes me (and the injuries because I hurt myself every time I try to walk over something). Just today, I was looking at the closed door and was thinking that I can't wait for the day that I want to go in there and actually do projects. Every time I go in there, I get so overwhelmed that I don't get much done. But one small project at a time, one small project at a time. I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what kind of color scheme I want to go with. There are so many color combos that I'm falling in love with right now. Decisions, decisions. What do you all think?

Woah, I just got reeeeal nervous knowing I have a deadline now. Eeek!

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Tippy Tuesday

Me and......batman??

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

That's a Wrap!

Happy New Year! Y'all making any resolutions this year? I know of one New Year's resolution I need to make is to blog more. We'll see how that one goes....

I have a really quick organization post for ya today. While I was wrapping my presents I had a huge mess of wrapping paper, tissue paper and all kinds of other stuff just hanging out in my living room floor for about 2 weeks. Yes, 2 weeks! Oh, trust me....that mess was driving me B-A-N-A-N-A-S. But once I wrapped the first couple of presents, I didn't want to put it all up only to drag it back out again when I bought more presents to wrap. I even had the cable guy come over and he had to step over my mess too. Oh well.

You may remember back when I did this post and reorganized all my wrapping supplies. Well, after almost 2 years, my system just wasn't working. The bags that I kept the tissue paper in ended up being a pain in my ba-donk-a-donk. I wasn't about to put away all my wrapping stuff until it was nicely organized and made me smile a big ole Tippy smile (with bottom teeth showing only). So I sat in the floor and folded each piece of tissue paper individually. Yep, it took forever....just ask my lower back. Then I was left with all of this.

I remembered that I still had an accordion file box from my days as an interior design student that I used to file all of my magazine tear-outs and other design ideas. I even found a left over piece of a carpet sample. Boy oh boy, has my style changed!

I organized them in the file slots (color coordinated, of course) and I smiled.

I smiled like this.

Mission accomplished. I still haven't mastered organizing my ribbon and wrapping paper but once I figure it out, I'll show ya. I was more concerned with the tissue paper since I seem to have a butt-load of it. So how do you all organize your wrapping supplies? Maybe I can steal one of your ideas. :)