CASology Simple Studios Blog Hop

 Welcome to the CASology Simple Studios Blog Hop!

The design team members are sharing our creative spaces today! If you didn't come here from the CASology blog, you can go back there to start and make sure you hit every blog along the Hop.

After years of working at the kitchen table and transitioning from a closet shelf to a full armoire of storage space, when we moved into this house my husband and I finally had a shared office. Initially we had a pretty even split of the room but all added storage was for me and suddenly I controlled about 75% of the space. 

Don't feel too bad for him.  He moved into a much bigger room with a TV and couch and also uses 75% of our master bedroom closet space. 

This photo from the door gives a nice overview of the room including the pup's second bed. In the before times she would always sit in my doorway when I was crafting and was thrilled when I brought in the bed so she could join me in the room. Now that we're rarely home alone she isn't spending as much time here.

One early, smart decision was to remove the closet doors so a 4x4 IKEA Expedit storage unit would fit along the window wall. This holds all my paper, most stamps, dies, embossing folders, stencils, Zig brushes, colored pencils, stamp platform and extra adhesives.

I might rearrange the categories every now and then, but have found Jennifer McGuire's fridge bins and storage pocket idea to be a winner. 

A favorite storage find is the pencil holders for my Copic markers. I hunted these down in several HomeGoods over at least a year and love that I can store the markers by color families. And I love how pretty they are on my desk.

 

My desk rarely looks this clear, but I don't keep anything other than the cutting pad and my paper trimmer here full time.  

When my husband left the space, I added a second desk so I could bring in the computer and sewing machine from another room. This table became the new home for my Big Kick and a bin of paper scraps. All scraps are organized by color and stored in stamp storage pockets.  It is amazingly easy to keep tidy!

My most used tools and adhesives are stored on another favorite, the IKEA rolling cart. It fits nicely in the corner and rolls over to my side when I'm at the desk. I love this thing so much that it gets to go on retreats with me.

The two drawer units behind my desk store all my inks and the bottom drawer holds 12x12 papers from my scrapbooking days. They came from Fred Meyer's at least 15 years ago when we lived in Washington.

Although Stefan was happy to leave the office to me, he was even happier when he realized my other crafting supplies squirreled throughout the house would all fit in here with him gone.  The timing was good as our son wanted to get rid his bigger Expedit so we ended up trading it for my smaller one. You know I was a little sad about the color. 

This one holds knitting, cross stitch and sewing supplies as well as paper crafting items like rubber cling stamps, buttons, washi tape, twine, punches and paper pads.  

Everything is always a work in progress as I try to balance the need to keep things neat and tidy with not forgetting what is tucked away out of sight. I hope you have enjoyed this look at my space and let me know if you have any questions.

The next stop on the Hop is Milka!

I hope you hop along and comment at every stop by Thursday, February 25th at 11:59 pm CST for an opportunity to win at $20 gift certificate from Simon Says Stamp! 

Jacquie