On the way to craft room organizing - a collection was found

I am still in the throes of organizing -
, while I have come so far --I have to mull
over every file and item in my studio - so I
still have a long way to go -- For a multi media
person - which I found out I was - lol, everything
is a potential art item to glue or paint or alter in some way
-and you may not need it this month , but will be perfect
for a creation next spring - Therein lies my problem ,
so many thing s - that fit just in a thing category .
It is easy to organize things that are seasonal - but
all items are not created equal --so how to find them ,
when I need them -- So I started collecting the
beautiful boxes from around my home . Who knew I had so many
'and I sure am all about loving them . The little sweetie in
the first picture is on one of those -- owie things -- a plant
frog -- how were they named that ??? Well as i started
going through things ( bags and boxes ) realized I have a small
collection of these also . I do love them , and can display
my fav cards - tags ( I am a tagaholic and an ATC lover )


as you can see i have several here - and I
have several bitty ones also .

These are some of my favorite boxes , all in the
room are filling up with supplies . I have been
a collector of things for years - This square box
on the bottom , came with Anna Griffin paper and
supplies - Then I found another in green with same supplies
at a flea mkt - lucky me !! - These are on the big shelves
( the top three shelves look good - but the bottom two have
bins that need sorting) -- had to get some things in place , for
there is no space to walk -- all the items are crying out to me
to create -- such lovelies -- once lost , in all the cluttered stuff .


This is a view of the small shelves , you saw in previous posts.
Also used some garden things to display tags --Just getting started with that
Remember I am a tagaholic -also won a contest at an Archivers
during a scrap there . Everyone had to make a tag and the winner
won all the tags -- WOO HOO !! - I won and was I happy -- will show those
later - It was near Halloween , so while others were doing
scrapbook pages , I was making cards and tags lol --
SEE the bare worktable on the left - had an ugly green plastic tablecover .
I use ink , spray ink - tattered angels (love that glimmer )
also make paste paper and other messy things with utee -
so It was in need of going bye bye _ Have been following a site
with great ideas --- Nestor --of "Nesting Place -blissfully domestic -
She has a great home and Ideas and does -- "Window Mistreatments "_
Ya gotta see it to understand -- well today she was covering her craft table
and so the plastic had to come off --It also made me feel better ,
she showed beneath her table -- ya know the place old crafts
go to die lol- Well it reminded me of someone I know intimately lol.
So now where did I put that old lace table cloth , with the hole ---- would be great around the
bottom and so chic !and I am trying to let nothing reside under there -
Only my footstool - for I am vertically challenged at 5 ft. and - my feet
hardly ever touch the ground . Ok enough blabbing
Have a great Evening -- Blessings -- KAthy ♥♥ - GA

Viv's pinkeep swap - I am a Lucky Girl ?--

Ok this is the senior moment --i was talking about below
I constantly forget that blogger -loads first pic as last -etc --
very frustrating ( this pink pinkeep is my swap for carol-she
likes pink, green . glitz. sweet things also) -Sorry Carol . wanted your adorable
gift to me to be first -- Ok you know I am electronically challenged -
I am self taught - and my doublespeak -is- I don't know what I don't know !
( sometimes there are easier ways to do things
but I don't realize it - just doing what I know or understand )-is that clear ??lol.
The blogger thingy says you can move pics around
I am so nervous about getting them on at all - SO ANYONE -- please tell me how
P. s. also the spacing on my blog -like double spaced -- did I change this somehow ?

How sweet is this ??? I was lucky enough to have

Carol of http://sassafrasandlulu.blogspot.com/

as my swap partner for Viv's pinkeep

swap - Visit Viv to see the other wonderful creations posted at http://vivoutonawhim.blogspot.com/.

I totally adore this precious Rose pinkeep ,

Sorry my pics do not show the crystal candlestick

that she created it on . Look see the strawberry one

- for some reason I am now obsessed with these ,

altho my collection in now only two .

I bought my first one not too long ago , and did not mention it

( course sometimes I have a senior moment- so maybe i did - lol )

Yikes I have a hard time thinking that of myself -

How did this happen , a girl in her prime suddenly

gets a note in the mail from senior citizens group ??

sorry the ranting sidetracked me from my mission

hmm a senior moment ? -- I am looking for more

They are so sweet -- I have a vignette planned with these ,

oops guess you have found my secret -- I love pretty ,

and I am unorganized in my craft room (working on it tho )

but everything needs to be useful and tell a story also -

so can you believe it - I bought a mini "PINK ! "

sewing machine to sew my paper creations --

and I have it all planned -- Cute little black dressing table

a wonderful $15 yard sale find - will become my sewing table

at the end of my " real " workspace table . Not ready yet tho

to show it -- the said work table is piled high with all

the things I want to sort -- very fave things ahem -that were in

all the "STUFF " i talked of organizing in previous posts .

I am getting there - but years of patterns and books ,

wood items and paints, plus the files drawers (most hated

chore )-is quite a job Don't mention books here -or mags

that is a whole other-huge- subject . Categorizing is a confusing thing also ,

for all things. I guess I am a mixed media artist ?? - I love paper crafts '

and altering anything - using paper, stamping , metal etc .

As far as stickers , etc. have always had them in rubbermaid drawers

with a label - but the pile had to be searched through - Thought of making a notebook

the ones - two or three in. wide ,with further categories -flowers ,

vintage , holidays ( have lots of christmas - halloween ) so may

break that down further - within a heavy duty pocket card or freezer -zip lock bag

that i will grommet- What ideas do you guys use ???- would love to do a blog or posts on organizing ideas --don't even know how to do those link things -

Blessings ,Kathy- Ga ♥

Organizing - Part ?? Right -brain -Left Brain ?? - Country or Chintz??

I need to check with Dawn of Feathered Nest -- I bought this at
her shop last year -It is not signed - love the pen , ink well
and cabinet card -She was not the there the day I bought it .


This tin was a sample I designed -for Bible school last year ,
can you believe it - I did this craft with almost 500
children - They did the outside - and we had the inside printed
at the church office .



It's all about the blue shelves - I think I mentioned them in a previous post - In a galaxy far far away -or eons ago lol !-well, I was a decorative painter (crafter) at the juried shows in and around the Atlanta , Ga. area - That was about 12 years ago . All the constant work ( can I say thousands )took a toll


on my hands and you get burnout -at least ,I did . How many new ideas can you come up with ??


My customrers were wanting something new each show (while thankful ) quite a process .


Where is this heading ,you say , well that was my Country period --hence my blogger name "CountryChintz "-- My hub and I went antiqueing, every month at Scotts in Atl. and to the Heart of the Country -show in Nashville every year --and amassed a ridiculous amount of STUFF -while I still love it -- styles change and as you see I am in my "Chintz "period now lol .


But with my organizing -wanted to put the blue shelves in with my type trays and all the heritage styl e tags and those things that I love and collect,now - victorian children's toys and books , were a fave of mine as well as bears - bunnies etc . To be truthful -I've never met a book I didn't like (just joking - only good books need apply )--I read somewhere a quote from a DAD --


" To never trust someone who has no books in their home " - As a child , I was not given books - but when I went to school ,books were my favorite passtime and constant friend ,and are still today -


with books , they become a companion , teach , take you on journeys and please the eye among other things - Of course my most beloved is" God's Holy Word " - so I wanted to give a glimpse of these shelves in progress ( never quite finished lol ). Still sifting , sorting , and rearranging --wow moved one group three times , yikes !- pics in no particular order -- Holler Uncle !! when the organizing saga is driving ya crazy --- Kathy _GA

Studio decorating - The pink saga continues ****

Gotta' get this better organized , just make day by day progress.It is cute and YEAH !!!
most of all PINK- These are the shelves I got for $12 at
willie world -see the pink trim ! But gotta' quit playing and get to the stuff
below - Gotta ' get my priorities straight , Right ! You cannot imagine
the amount of "STUFF "-in the staging area around this room .
With the many irons I have in the fire -just have to take time to smell
the roses and create a few things also - as this is not a quick fix ,
also my 60 year old back says -- Take your time Honey !!




Well girlies , the big cabinets are in place CLAPPING and jumping


not a pretty sight - lol -- just not with all the shelves


It seems the regular sized things that hold up the shelf ,will not work


so hub got some from his cabinet guy today , but now the holes have to be


modified a little . So I wanted to post anyway - they are K and Company


cabinets that I bought when our local scrap store was closing


Then just a reg bookshelf on the side . But the sweet little "THANG " I


am using for the tv. is a baby changing table . I bought it for $20


at a flea mkt. several yrs ago - It fit in my antique booth at our local flea mkt -
we kept scissors and pricing things easily at hand in the bottom


The gorgeous fabric and trim were already on there -- and really


fits my shabby romantic look that I like . The green trim matches perfectly


with the walls - It was what my oldest son picked out ( I got the big room now


feel really spoiled ) when we decorated last before he got married 3 yrs ago.It is Ralph Lauren Paint


- he has great !!! but expensive taste -- So not changing it at this point ,


besides we have 10 foot ceilings and so takes a lot of paint -- This room is almost


square so can fit a lot in -- and I have ! just too unorganized - still


working on it -- will update as I go --I keep all my sizzix dies in the bottom of the


cabinet . ANd while not totally practical from a storage point of view - I sure do


♥♥ LUV! it . Tv was not centered either -- and sorting


hundreds of mags and books will take a while . I think I will get hub


to run a shelf to join the two and hang something decorative over the tv




AS you can see I still have to sort boxes and stuff ,


I totally changed where my table was in the room


so will reconfigure all my things i "GOTTA "


have near lol -- And as per prior posts I am


all about the decorating and inspiration part


BUt I am first about the ---convenient to


creating part -- TOOLS must be near


ya know -function comes first





*************** O>K> major Question


Please let me know how you store your paper
I went today to look( lots of paper , you would think I scrapbook
-- NOt -- It makes my scrap friends laugh--I have the 12x12 drawers from
wal-mart- but always have so much crammed in , always looking
for the right paper , even tho were somewhat categorized
I have some of those plastic dividers hold 400 sheets

but for the kids( for Mission crafts ) I buy the big


packs at Jo ann's with a 40 %off coupon-- Does anyone


have the wire ones like Hobby Lobby that have 23 shelves

Don't know it they do well or not ??? I have one that came from a scrap store,


slanted shelves for 12X12 paper-- does not work well - for cardstock etc --
doesn't hold much and always sliding off .


O >K any ideas will be appreciated almost 2 a.m. here in the deep south
I have been on Olympic time -my body clock is so mixed up now
but you do know Michael Phelps would not have own without me cheering him on
lol -- BLessings-Kathy - Ga

Organizing -- a small glimpse of beauty amidst the "STUFF"

OK, just wanted to show you there is progress .

When these shelves went in "I " had to play at decorating

just a little - these are some of my favorite things

I have created or collected . My jar fairy from

Dawn, of Feathered Nest , is my first purchased

altered piece -- sorry the pic does not show it well - can't

do a close up -lol the table it sits on , which will

be my main work space -Is totally covered with

files and STUFF- waiting to find it's home.

The shelves require a little tweaking --

maybe a little Pink-(fav)background paper.

What ya think ?????

Yesterday , worked at the church all day on

my new ministry (Volunteer Connections Team )

at church -- brand new - takes lotsa prep to get it off

the ground -- also entails coordinating all

volunteers for big events at the church --

of which we have several on our plate already -

Will post more on that later . Lotta great ideas !

WELL! on the way home had to swing by one

of my fav stops ''WILLIE"S "- Goodwill to you guys ,

a thrift store . I found a great set of shelves from

a dresser top for $12 - it is painted white and the

edges are trimmed in "PINK " -perfect . They will reside

'I think " next to the set pictured above -

Then if work goes as planned today -will get HUB -after golf to

move the big cabinets in( which have been in my entrance hall for months )

We have an old victorian house -- with a wrap

around porch - so everyone comes in the side door

nearest to the kitchen ya know - very convenient- for

a home with 3 men

who always made a bee -line for the kitchen first , to see what's cooking

or get juice or a cookie -(uh scratch that - a half a cake is more like it )

I still miss the boys(men )- they are -24married -2yrs

& 28-married 3 yrs , coming in every day --but their happy homes and my

sweet new daughters are a joy to our hearts -

So gotta get cracking -lots of sorting and moving to do

be ready -- Still have to move out a chest of drawers

belonging to my oldest son - He will move it to his house ,

they are great and perfect for a little boy ( wishing for more

grands - either type will do -lol )HUB had his cabinet

man make them -with heavy duty drawer guides , still in

perfect condition .

LOtsa doings here - youngest son just got a new truck

he is so proud -- every country boy has gotta have a truck ,

don't ya know . Of course my darling Grands -finished the

firt week of school , last week - so early -G-DAughter

is in middle school this year (6 th )grade -time flies . Grandson

also like his teacher --always a plus .

Blessings __ ♥♥♥- Kathy

Blogger Messes and room messes with playing in between

Scared to touch anything -- really been posting a while now -

Anyway -- still organizing -- which as the back got tired --on WEd -thurs and fri and

sat. -had to create -- but as you can see - all the pulling out and rearranging -yikes

I feel -- like Karin ( of creative Chaos ) what a mess -total CHaos --but in the midst

of making ready for cabinets -- created this mess - But the results were finding creations and playing with an old printer box --can't wait to finish - will be several days -I only showed some of the clutter --Blogger - making me crazier than I am , need to get to bed -church early tomorrow at 8- Kathy - GA

What's with blogger -?? or don't push that button !

What's with blogger -?? or don't push that button !

WHEN LAST WE MET -HMM!wed??- orgANIZING ?? CREATING?

Just a quick post of things around the studio
this was done months ago -- with Ms Teresa 's
wonderful -poem download --trying not to be
all about symmetry here . But just can't seem to
get away from pink and my new fav thing
seambinding -- it has that softer look -
I love to tea dye it also - gets that wrinkled look
so vintage and I love these yummy colors .
Still organizing (yikes ) where did all this stuff come
from - Like Christmas -- need not buy anything
(like that will happen ) Been buying things to organize with
at fleas etc -- SO -lunch more sorting and off to
church later today -- Been working on a new ministry
we will be revamping and organizing (yikes ) that
word again --The latter will be more rewarding-since we
get to help people find their gifts and serving place
within our large church -- VOLUNTEER CONNECTIONS -
here we come !!!! __ Blessings - Kathy

How sweet - Terri - from http://primtiques.blogspot.com-- sent me this special sparkle award award .
There are so many fav's of mine --some have already recieved this award . so tho I love em
I won't repeat -- so will award to
1. Humble -Heart -http://humble-heart.blogspot.com- a new blogger and very special friend ' before she had a blog 2. _ VIv of out on a whim http://viv's-whimsy.blogspot.com and last but not least 3. Blissful Elements- Ms. Kris herself -wonderful banners and c.d 's - lots of inspiration http://krislhurst.blogspot.com