{Holy Mess of a Craft Room and a Little Project}

I keep seeing all of ya'll bloggin about your organizing ventures, and honestly, I need to be organizing, but I just wasn't feeling it. One of the worst area's in my house? My craft room/office...PATHETIC! Seriously it was embarrassing. I had to step over piles to get to my computer many times daily. Did I care? Not enough to do anything about it..... until today! Why today? A few things. First, I needed to sew up a birthday gift for one of my preschoolers, and well, you can't sew if you can't get to the machine and the chair to sit your butt down to sew. Second, third and fourth..... I had a friend call and want to borrow some punches and there was NO way I was letting her see that room, I still haven't finished Ann's Christmas banner, yes Christmas (I'm a slacker friend) and lastly I've had some requests to make and sell my banners, can't even consider that when you can't find the table to make them!

Told you it was BAD!!!

and the closet was pretty sad too!
During the process..... I think that's the first time there has been nothing on the table for years. I took out 3 full bags of garbage! Unfortunately when I clean, the mess spills out of the room into the hall, so that was one more mess that I had to deal with!

Ready for after pictures???

Yippie! You can see the floor, and the table and the computer desk! That pile next to the sewing machine is mending/projects. There are also a few projects on the stamping table.

The closet.... I still have some things to go through, but it's MUCH better!

Remember the gift I needed to sew? It was clean enough in my room that I got it done tonight! I've been making these crayon rolls for each of my preschool kids birthday's, plus the nieces and nephews too. There is a great step by step tutorial for them here. They aren't very hard (just don't look too close at my lack of sewing skills). I changed things up a bit and used a button and elastic loop closure on the last few. I thought it might be easier for little hands than tying the ribbon. I also made a little one inch card stock template (show in the top picture) to help me measure where to sew my lines easier!

I really should just move on to the next room and keep organizing/cleaning till I get the entire house done, but now that I have a clean space, I'd much rather play in the crafty room!