Welcome, everyone! It’s Mindy here with you today and I’m going to share with you my crafty corner which is actually in my kitchen. When we originally moved into our house in 2010, I took over the master bedroom as my craft space. My son was born later that year and was diagnosed with Autism in 2012. He needs (and still does need) constant supervision, which made it very difficult for me to craft. After much experimenting throughout the house, I landed in the corner of my kitchen. This is the central spot for me in my house where it allows me to craft and still be available for the family.
Here’s a look at my space. One of the important things that landing in a small area has taught me is downsizing. Remember, I was in a master bedroom and of course, I’m always adding to my collection. I keep all of my essential items in my space; including my go-to supplies, coloring mediums, and products for design team work. Every month, I go through my stash and take out items that I don’t use as often or products that have retired.
On one side of my space is a window that looks out to our backyard, important so I can keep an eye on the kids. I keep the smaller items like tools and a paper cutter there so as not to block my view. Plus, I love the sunlight! On a pegboard to the left, I keep gels, liquid watercolors, and reinkers.
To the right, I have a shelving unit stocked with ink pads. I separate my ink pads by the company, which is helpful for me when doing design team work. I also keep all of my embossing and black inks in this unit as those are the ones I reach for the most.
Here’s a look at my ever-growing shelf of ink pads! You can never have enough, right? This shelf lines my back wall on top of a Brimnes drawer unit. Inside the drawers, I keep my stencils, watercolor pan sets, colored pencils, and just a ton of other miscellaneous supplies.
The tabletop that I work on is held up by two Alex drawer units. I take advantage of these drawers as much as possible. I keep my adhesive, embossing powders, blending tools, and more ink pads in these drawers.
Everything in my space has a home. Since I have just one table to actually work on, I clean my area constantly. When everything has its own special place, it makes clean-up a breeze!
My large Kallax unit holds all of my cardstock, dies, and stamp sets. Another thing that has helped me immensely is a rolling cart. I keep my Copic markers and upcoming releases in there. I also have some hanging cups on the side for watercolor markers. I will be getting a bigger cart soon, but this works for now.
Even though there are times when I wish I could run away to a craft room (that has a door!), I enjoy where I’m at. Yes, I’m cramped in space. Yes, it’s chaotic. Yes, I get irritated, but this corner also keeps me connected to my family where I’m still involved with them and they can pull up a chair and chat with me.
My area is not glamorous, and I admit, I hid a big pile of stuff that is usually stacked on that back table just to take a decent picture. I hope you enjoyed this little trip into my crafty space and it inspires you in some way! Thank you so much for joining me today. I would love to know, where do you craft? Do you have a private room? Or did you take over a corner of your house like me? Take care and be creative!
~ Mindy
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Love your craft space! I used to work at my kitchen table with product all over the house in any nook I could find. We moved and I took the smallest bedroom. It is getting a bit too cluttered so a change will come soon. Thanks for sharing your space and how you keep it working for you.
I love how you take advantage of all space and the flow in which you stuff all comes together. I have a crafty space in my basement… it’s my happy place.
What a great crafting area. I loved all your ideas. It seems every six months or so, I redesign my area. Before doing so, I spent too much time looking for what I wanted. Things still aren’t what I would like but as you said, space is an issue. I live in a very small, elderly/disabled apartment and half of my bedroom is my crafting area. Also, sometimes I move to the dining room table as the lighting is better there. Thank you so much for sharing all your wonderful ideas. Stay safe!
Love your area! Can you share what type of container you are using to store the small ink pads?
So that’s where all the magic happens!! :D Mindy, you are an incredible designer and from the sounds of it, an incredible mom. I love the crafty space you created and how you’ve made it fit your needs. I think organization is key, no matter how big or small our space is. If everything is in it’s place and the mess is contained, it’s all good! I’m fortunate enough to have a large craft room in my basement, but I often feel isolated and away from the family, so I guess there are drawbacks to having a room all to myself with a door. Thanks for sharing your crafty space with us.
Mindy, You definitely have humbled me. I moved from a craft house to a small craft space and I’m grateful. I tried not to grumble but sometimes it just spills out. I have raised my girls so I don’t have that to deal with which I admire you and any crafty with children in the home. Wow, thanks so much for the tour of your amazing and wonderful craft corner and for reminding me that even when crafting that family should always be in the forefront of anything and everything that we do.
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Great & organized space, it looks like its perfect and everything within reach which helps so much!
love your crafty space – great to be in the center of the the house and be able to keep an eye on your precious son:)
I love your area! I have a large room for my crafting goodies but am working on downsizing because I have so much stuff that oftentimes I feel overwhelmed by everything! I also want to give our granddaughter who lives with us her own room instead of in our room! Maybe then we can have some alone time again! (Hubby and Merry not granddaughter) LOL
***Hubby and ME not Merry!
BRAVO
Chaque chose a sa place chaque place a sa chose/Everything has its place every place has its thing.
Beautiful Craft room, you have done a great job.
Yolande
Your kitchen must be big to have a craft space. This looks awesome. I am using the guest room but it is not solely. Craft room. This is also my prayer room. It houses a ceiling(well almost) to floor shelf that has files and folders nothing to do with my crafts. My daughter’s small table is next to mine. I filled both the closets with my stamps and papers and albums but I may have to clean out one loser if my parents visit me from India next year. I don’t want to say if they visit but like when they visit.
My craft space has always been some sort of shared area. It has moved a lot as we have too. Often it has been in a shared craft space + office + spare bedroom. It was once in the dining room, using the dining room table as my desk. Currently it’s in a shared space off the garage (and it’s winter here so it’s too cold to go in there most days at the moment). It doesn’t matter where it is, as long as you get to have some craft time.
Great craft space! Very organized. I use many of the IKEA things to organize my space too. I’m spoiled, I do have my own craft room which also doubles as my office. Now I’m working from home, but it’s nice if I have a few minutes of “spare” time, I can do a quick crafty thing, like fussy cutting or pulling out the paper I need for the next project.
I have my craft space in the basement. The lighting is always bad, but have become used to it after 25 years….which was when my kids started moving out and I could claim some room for me. It is now expanding a little each year – and is a mismatch of furniture ( dining room table, 2 smaller craft tables, old hutches, 3 different office chairs, plastic bookcases, white cubes in a variety of configurations and a hope chest). I love the variety and memories down here!!
I have a craft room, but I love your organization!
Question that I hope you take time to answer: how and where did you get the set up for filming? I love how you have it set up!
Thank you for sharing your space with us! It’s always fun to see how someone else organizes their supplies. I confess that I was happy to hear you had to move a pile out of the way for the picture! I always seem to have a pile on my craft counter!
Hi Mindy. I love your organization of your stuff. Truthfully i have a craft room but it is not well organized. I am always looking at other peoples craft spaces to get ideas. And i just need to purge a lot of stuff. I was wondering where you get your shelving units and esp the ink pad holders. You have inspired me to get started on that room again. So thank you
Mindy I love how you have made your space work for you and it obviously works, your designs are always outstanding! I am fortunate to have a dedicated studio but the room is right across from the front door so I need to stay on top of the mess. I love seeing how others organize their spaces, it inspires me and I always pick up a tip or two to try in my own room! Thanks for sharing!