Defunkifying the Desks

I am doing a total room organization again.

I am running out of space in my small craft room, so figured since we are in Lockdown with a stay at home order, now is the perfect time to do it.

I am going slow and steady and will post my progress and would love if you joined in!!

I am starting with my desks. 

The reason being that I we will need a nice area to organize and tackle all of our other supplies on.

Plus the desk is the first thing you see in my room and a clean desk screams "Lets create!"

I have 2 desks in my room and even though my room is tiny, I wouldn't have it any other way. Each desk serves its own purpose.

If the desks were cleared off, you would be able to see them both in this photo, lol.

This is my stand up desk.

I made this desk out of 3 bookcases and a large piece of melamine board for the top.

I like to stand up when I craft, so this desk is used for  when I scrapbook, art journal or make mini albums.

I have too much on this desk...not only do I need to put my supplies away but I also want to only have things I need at hand on here.

So I had to find another place to store all of my journals that I don't use daily.

I also have this tool holder that I picked up from Ikea a couple of years ago when I was in Winnipeg (sadly we don't have an Ikea here and the closest one, is 8 hours away).

I pulled everything out, and boy did I have a lot of pens and pencils. I took out the extras and reorganized the tools that I am keeping.

I had also added black foam core "X's" to the bottom cubbies so the tools wouldn't fall over and get lost. (I did his when I bought it... if it looks familiar).

Now look how clean and inviting this is!!

It's just screaming "come and create on me!!"

Plus a perfect area to organize my other supplies when I get to them.

Now onto my second desk.

This is an old teacher's desk. I love this desk as I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up 😁

Plus this desk is perfect for when I work on my writing journals or when I colour, as I like to sit down when I do these things. 

Again I had to move my journals to another area in my home as they were taking up to much space on this desk.

Look how great it looks!!

I love colour and love to be surrounded by it.

So I kept out all of my colouring mediums because they just make me happy💗

Now here are both of my desks side by side.

How inviting!!!

I have created a few projects since I have cleared and re-organized my desks and they look just as great now as when I did this last week....go me, teehee.

If you would love to follow along and share your progress, let me know on here, or come over to my FB group "Tracys Treasures Shares"! 

I hope you all have a safe and creative day

Tracy 💗💗💗

Who doesn't love organizing?!!

I think I need a change.
When I made this desk and organized it, I loved it.
But now I am realizing that I don't have enough room on my desk to spread out (which I usually do when I create...believe me).
What I have been doing is bringing my projects in the rec-room and working on my pool/craft table.
But then end up going from the rec-room to my craft room to get supplies and not always putting them away.
I want to mostly work in my craft room, unless I have my friends over, then we always craft on the big pool/craft table.
This photo is an older one, from when I had just put my desk together and when it was actually clean 😯

In order to make more room on my desk...everything had to come off.
Then to figure out what I want to put on my desk, if anything.
I decided to keep my Copics on my desk. I don't seem to colour as much anymore and I miss it. I figured if I had them front and center on my table, maybe I would colour more.
I also added my tool carousel, or spiny thing as I call it, as it houses so many tools.
Look how much more room I have now!!

I then decided to should go through my spiny thing and clean it out and pair down my tools.
Like seriously, how many pens does one person need!!
Ok, ok, we need a lot of pens, but I don't need them all to be in my spiny thing.

After cleaning off my desk again, I added my paper trimmer as I use that a lot as well as my scrap tin and a candle as I knew cleaning out this room is going to take a long time, so I might as well enjoy a relaxing scent while I'm at it.

I then decided to tackle my stamping area.
I don't actually stamp here, but I store all of my inks, embossing powders and stamping supplies here.
I still need to organize my tag tray you see there...it is a mess.

Last job for the evening was my inks.
I hadn't labeled all of my inks, so figured I might as well complete the task and finish labeling them all.

Oh right, I also organized all of my letters for my Letter Boards into a container.
I am really happy with my progress so far on my room....but I have so much more to do.

I am going through my whole room and decluttering what I don't need, which is difficult for me as I bought most of what is in there for a purpose (at one time).
I do find it easier to gift my friends my supplies...as a matter of fact, I just gifted one of my friends 2 full muti-coloured ink pads and I am happy that she wanted them :)

I will share me progress as I go along.
I was going to do a messy room video....but I think I have more of those than of organized room videos, teehee.

Hope you all have a very Creative day :)

Tracy :)