How to Organize Your Craft Room (or Any Room!) with “Green” Ideas

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

We have some fun and easy ideas for organizing your craft room with items you already have around your home.  So don’t throw out that spaghetti jar or paper box! Take a look at what we did with items one might normally throw away or recycle! It will cost you little or no money…and you’ll be taking some small steps towards crafting in a more earth-friendly way!

Items we used in this episode can be found here:

Download the Episode 3′s accompanying PDF pattern here.
Chalk Markers
Chalkboard Paint
Clear Contact Paper
Double Fold Bias Tape

If you don’t want to use chalkboard paint, then we also like this product:
Chalkboard Contact Paper, 18″ x 6′

So here’s what we had “before”….

And then here’s the AFTER!

The beautiful pink fabric box you see in the photo above was created by the amazing Carla C with the use of her pattern, Case Study: Basic Boxes.

Thank you to this week’s sponsor, www.YouCanMakeThis.com for making this episode possible. Visit “You Can Make This” to instantly download patterns and instructions for clothing, home decor, jewelry, crochet/knitting, crafts, scrapbooking, and more.

We’d love to hear from you! What kinds of things do you do to repurpose, reuse, or upcycle? Let us know by posting a comment below.
Have a wonderful week everyone!
-Kim & Kris

A Few Favorite Finds at CHA – The Craft & Hobby Association Convention

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

We just returned from Los Angeles where we had the opportunity to attend CHA! This is THE place where you will find all of the latest and greatest tools, supplies, and inspiration for all things crafting! 

Our local NBC affiliate, Studio5, interviewed us through Skype about a few of our “favorite finds” from the conference. Naming “just a few” is not easy to do when you are surrounded by over 800 vendors who are showcasing! It’s like being a kid in a candystore! :)   So this week we are bringing you that interview!

Watch the blog throughout the next couple of weeks because we have even more to share — plus a TON of giveaways!

 

Here are a few more photos!

Paper and fabric  flowers adorned scrapbook pages, wall art, jewelry, accessories…you name it! It’s a definite trend that continues! Gorgeous!

 

 Come back tomorrow as we’ll tell you in more detail about those 3 very cool products we shared with Studio5!

One of them just makes you smile.

One helps teach a new generation of crafters…our kids!

And one goes hand-in-hand with the mixed media trend that is so prevalent. You’re going to love the possibilities it will create in your crafting!

We have more photos to share and a whole lot of GIVEAWAYS!!

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And just so we don’t leave you this week without a fun project to download, here’s one for Valentine’s Day!
Click here to download a FREE VALENTINE PATTERN we created for you! Enjoy!

(Although we made this with a needle-felting technique, the same pattern would look darling with an applique method! Have fun!)