Urban Makers

Happy Thursday!  Lorrie here, and I am pondering how to store my ever growing stash of fabric.  I have been a papercrafter for years and set up my room as a papercrafter.  I started sewing just a few months ago and now I am struggling with what to do with all of the fabric, interfacing, trimmings, etc. that have already started to gather.  I turned to Pinterest for a few ideas.  I love this set up by All People Quilt .  The fabric is covered so that it doesn't collect dust and it is protected from getting sun bleached. or this idea from " Indulging My Creative Side" blog.  How gorgeous is this!  I would love to be able to see all of my fabric and have it organized like this beautiful set up. I could look at fabric storage ideas all day.  It makes me happy to see all that yumminess just waiting to be used to create something beautiful.  The problem I am having is my room is full of papercrafting supplies, which I am not re...

Hello and welcome back. As I was preparing for " Thrive in your hive " today, I scanned various organizational ideas, I looked for some fun organizational idea in my craftroom to share with you... and nothing was inspiring me.  This led me to redirect this post. Thriving in your hive sometimes means kickstarting your mojo.  When I want to craft, but just don't know what I want to create, I find browsing Pinterest, looking through a magazine or even just sifting through my supplies will usually spark an idea. I have been inspired by the Target flyer in Sunday's paper.  Take a look at this photo.  Immediately, I think about making a card with some sort of green background and a pop of orange, or perhaps a green fabric tote bag with a cute poppy red iron on design. Or this image.  Wouldn't it be cute to make a card with 3 lemon slices going up the side or across the bottom (I know, these are blood oranges). This photo reminds me of that ne...

Hello everyone!  It's another Thrive in your Hive Thursday.  Today, we are talking about craftroom organization.  We all create more efficiently when our craft rooms are organized.  However, organization is a very personal perference and depends on how your crafty mind thinks. Do you organize by color?  When you're crafting do you think... "I need something blue"?  You might be a color organizer.  This photo is from a Cricut event I went to.  It's organized by color.  Color is how I think and how I organize. Maybe you're a organizer by product?  Perhaps you keep all of your acrylic paints in one bin, and all of your stickers in another, and all of your embellishments in another, etc.?  Organization for you may look something like this: Perhaps you are inspired by themes such as Halloween, Christmas, Summer, Floral, Stripes, Polka Dots, etc.  You might organize like this: There are so many ways to organize...