A little piece of my space!

I am back!!! I didn't pick up a tatting shuttle for almost two weeks...which is soooh unusual.

I have so many things to blog about that I don't know where to start. Things which get to the top of the list get superseded.....which has just happened.

Krystledawn has asked us to show our tatting space. Well normally my space/s are so cluttered that I wouldn't show them to anybody.

BUT

This week I have been seriously trying to declutter...not very successfully I might add!!

When we were coming home on the ferry hubby was reading bits out of the sunday paper. One article said that we should try to get our personal possessions down to 100.....150 if we really must....and that includes clothes......as a special consideration women could count shoes as one item!!!!

So that means I can count my tatting stash as one item too!!!! Don't these people have a life!! Doubt if I could get it down to 1,000 items.....could you???

I spent the entire day yesterday cleaning and tidying my study.....for a purpose I must add. Weeks ago I bought new curtains and it was going to be all of a job putting them up.

Why is that so hard you ask...well my desk was covered in so much clutter, and all around it too. Because my new curtains are eyelet curtains we had to move my desk a few inches away from the window to let them hang nicely. My cupboard and worktop are commercial quality and weigh a ton so I had to empty them first. We even had to move the curtain rail along a couple of inches. I ma just having a love affair with eyelet curtains. These are a lovely shiny material with flocked squares added. The walls are white even tho they look grey.

The result is stunning...to me anyway. The room faces north west and the old curtains made it very dark....it's like being in a new space. I can even cover up part of the huge window and still have plenty of light.



This is my study...as in where my computer is and all my books except my tatting books.
It used to be the integral garage of the house. When the house was built, if the living space was over a certain size it attracted some sort of tax (I think), and so integral garages were common ready to convert to living space if needed. You can almost see through the net curtain to the driveway coming straight towards the window...which used to be the garage door.

Lets move a bit closer..



Closer still..



This is just one of the spaces that tatting spreads out into. I don't tat here, but I
do keep my Hand Dyed Threads and gear here and catalogue and keep the recipes. I also block my tatting here and have lots of current tatting and patterns at the ready for scanning and blogging.....it all looks way too tidy..it wont last!

It's really the space that I use to make cards and do scrapbooking. See the big cupboard....that's entirely filled with card making gear. It's so tidy that it's hard to remember what I have got and to find what I want...I am much happier with horizontal filing...that is all over the floor!!



There is no longer enough space for scrapbooking supplies so they have spread to piles on the floor.

To the right of the desk is another desk, lots of shelves all full of previous craft stuff....and then on to my computer and desk...then more craft storage shelves...all too untidy to show yet.



To the left is my piano and more shelves, this time book shelves....



If I tidy the rest of the room I might just show you more. I spent most of my time in here...so you will be able to imagine me at my computer.....must get back to decluttering............