Making it Ours: Craft Room Accessories

*Remember how every now and then I’m sharing my adventures of home improvement projects?  Here’s another one for you!  I hope you enjoy the ongoing series!*

Hi everybody!  I’ve been working on several little things for my craft room lately.  I’ve been using it for a few months, but I’m tweaking things to how I want them to stay.  In fact, my husband and I are in the process of building me a brand new craft desk with 2 cabinets and plenty of counter space!  I can’t wait til it’s done (although it will probably be right before or right after the baby’s born, and who knows when I will have a chance to use it. :)

The first thing I made, was a brand new pin cushion.  I had been looking for a container to use for a few months, and never found what I was looking for.  My intentions were to follow this tutorial to make a cupcake pin cushion like Care did at Obsessively Stitching.  I never could find the right container for he right price.

My husband and I were at DI one Friday evening, and I saw all the glass tea cups and dishes.  I instantly bolted to that isle and started going through them.  My husband surely thought I was crazy that night!  I found this little tea cup for 50 cents, and snatched it up!  Then the next week,  I got some purple fleece and made my pin cushion.  I wanted to make beaded pins like Katy did at No Big Dill, but that project was going to put too big of a bulge in the budget.  So I found these pretty pins at Joann’s (armed with a coupon of course!) and love them.  It’s nice to have something fancy sometimes.

I also made a Cell Phone Charger holder.  I used the tutorial from Ashley at Make it and Love it found here.  It was a pretty slick project, and I like having a place to stow away my cords when I’m not charging something.  And I love that it matches my craft room! :)

This is the latest project I’ve done, and finally last week I hung it up!  I used a canvas as the base, and then I cut out the letters and bunting using my Cameo.  I took a remnant of a purple undershirt, cut it into a strip, tied knots, and attached it to the back of the canvas for easy (and cute) hanging.  I found this printable here via pinterest, and decided I needed my very own in purple.  I love how the letters ended up not very centered, and the words aren’t super straight.  It reminds me that perfection is not key, but the joy of creating is!

Well, that’s all for today!  Hope you have a wonderful Tuesday!

~Lynette~

Craft Room: The Grand Reveal!!!

Hi there everybody!  I told you I would do it, and I did.  How's that for awesomeness!?!  As I was taking pictures, I decided that I would show you a few pictures of the room today, and on Monday I will have a detailed post about everything I did, where I got it, etc. etc. etc.  Otherwise, this post could be SUPER picture heavy and long.  And who really has time to read a long post anyway?
If you missed the before posts, check out here and here.

 When you walk in the doorway, this is what you see!  Isn't she so pretty!

Desk/Work Space, Sewing Table and Chair, Shelf and Wall Art!
(Gone are all the shelving units and globe lights!  The shelving was eating the space away!)

A view of the door and small window and new curtains.

A closer look at the shelf (I'll show you each item next week, don't worry!)

A close up of my wall art.  I absolutely love it!

My craft cabinet, sitting next to/behind the door

An inside look of my craft cabinet.

 Here's a look at the 'other,' corner of my craft room.  My sewing table and sewing machine (Bernina 1008--love her!) and shelves for extra fabric/stuff I'm working on (or supposed to be working on).  The pink and brown tote is my paper stash.

Sorry for the squished-ness of some of the pictures.  This room is only about 8.5 ft by 7.5 ft, so it's tricky to photograph.  I love having a small room though, it's easier to keep clean.  I have plenty of other house space to spread out in for large cutting projects and such, but this room is just right for everything else.

Thanks for reading, and come back Monday if you'd like some more details.  If you have any specific questions, let me know in the comments and I will address them in the next post!

~Lynette~

New Addition!

Well, I saved my pennies, and I bought myself a Bernina!  I ended up with a used machine that had been teaching high school students how to sew.  I got a great deal, and it came included with sewing classes!  I am so excited!  The case it came with was boring…it was plain white.  So I got busy, and with a LOT of help from my mother-in-law, I was able to come up with this…

Isn’t she pretty?  I put pockets on each side so I have a place for my camera (for tutes), my foot, scissors and stuff!
I used one of my decorative stitches on the main body pockets.  Here’s a close up for you.

That’s what I did ALL DAY yesterday!  What a job, but it turned out fabulous!  Now my sewing machine can go to class in style!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for some refashioning bliss!

Dollar Tree Pin Cushion

This is one of my completed over-Christmas-break projects. I have been without a pin cushion up until this point, and I was finding pins ALL over the floor and everywhere (NOT a good thing), so I found this tutorial from Make it And Love it and used it for my inspiration.

I found a package of these

at Dollar Tree (a package of 2 for $1.00)

 These were also at Dollar Tree, a whole package for a $1.00!

They're felt, and I just cut the flowers off and have several more flowers for future projects.
Love the bright colors!
(Material was from a bag of scraps I snatched up at the DI for $2.00 a few months ago).
What I did differently from Ashley's tutorial:

I sewed up the material roughly on the bottom of the cushion instead of hot gluing it, because I knew it would be easier for me. I just put some hot glue at the bottom of my dish to secure it. Being that my dish was probably deeper than the one in Ashley's tutorial, I should have made my material square a tad bigger to fit all the way to the bottom, but it's still functional, and pretty cute!

Now I just need to make a 2nd one so I can have one on the floor where I'm cutting out, and one by my machine so I can pull out pins as I'm sewing!