I’ve seen all these awesome pictures of craft rooms floating around the Interwebs lately. Whip Up featured some spectuacular rooms recently that make me pine for a steady income so that I can ravage IKEA and organize to my heart’s content. At the beginning of January I completely cleaned and organized my craft room and posted the pictures on Flickr. I look at those pictures and just sigh. I wish I were the type of person who is able to simply put things away after use. Instead I tend to let things simmer, pile up, and expand until I have a mini-meltdown and clean everything at once.

Things are in another expansion phase right now. I have a feeling that after posting this I’ll be overcome with shame and having major cleaning session tomorrow afternoon. I’m the messiest person I know, but boy do I love to organize!

The left side of the room is obviously the space I occupy and use the most. Definitely could stand some de-cluttering.

This is my spinning corner. I just hung a calendar set from Jess Gonacha, but my arrangment isn't doing so well. The brown boxes used to hold all my yarn.

I did get the chance to reorganize the closet this week. It may not look like it, but things are much easier to reach and my books are better arranged. The yarn is now in clear plastic containers- much better than cardboard boxes.

I love how these clear containers wrangle the yarn and display it so nicely. No more cats in the yarn boxes.

So there it is. The craft room in all its messy glory. I’d love to see pictures of your craft/creating rooms and want to post a few of them. I love finding new inspiration for this room because, in turn, it inspires me!

And since I said the other day that I’d include stuff about my cats, I have a picture for you of Stinky. This cat has the quirkiest personality of any cat I’ve met. She’s such a nut. We’re always finding her making funny faces or odd positions. Here’s a recent pose on our bed:

Lovely, no?

I hope everyone’s had a great Valentine’s weekend. I’ve been battling a slew of various illnesses over the past few days including a stomach virus. The poor boyfriend took me to the Highland Bakery for breakfast and I ate my pancakes and bacon and promptly got sick when we got home. I was so sad because he’d been looking forward to treating me to a Valentine’s breakfast all week and I was looking forward to the Highland Bakery’s super crunchy bacon. Stomach virus aside, it’s been a nice day and I have to share the Valetine from Anenome Letterpress on Etsy I gave Jason- it’s so nerdy!

Brilliant.