Knitting Needle Organizer

Today, although Valentines, is my normal shopping day. Told DH there was no way I was going to the grocery store. It is also Presidents Day Weekend and the beginning of Parade of homes. We did do a few small errands together and then he left me to my own devices.
Mentioned to D H that I couldn't find my table top and asked him if he had any idea what happened to it. He said no, and a light bulb went off. I know at one time he put a board under the mattress for his back. I mentioned that and he agreed that might be what happened to it. Sure enough when we got home there it was. It was even painted like I remembered. I am very happy that I don't have to buy a new one.
Went back to Lowes to get the hardware for my desk. I haven't been able to find what I bought yet. A really nice young man helped me find the right size hinge for the table legs so the will collapse. He asked me if I had any braces to keep them up when I had the table set up. Hadn't even thought if it. He found some collapsible braces for me. Even though I had to buy another package of hinges, it was worth it for that hint.
I took the paint samples from the craft room to JoAnn's Fabric. I wanted to be able to match the colors for my knitting needle organizer. That is the other thing that isn't working. I have at least 2 sets of most of the knitting needle sizes. I usually have 3-5 projects going at the same time. I made a roll up organizer for them about 10 years ago, but I have outgrown it. I hate having to paw through them to find what I want.
I saw a cool idea from Etsy, but the owner was sold out. It was very similar to what I had already done, but on a larger scale for over the door. This one has a top row for crochet hooks. I probably won't put that one in. I don't crochet much anymore. I will do one for double points, cables, short and long needles.

I'm making the back of it yellow and the pockets will be two different patterns of orange. I decided to bring in a third color after all
I also went to Michael's and picked up the second thread rack.

Pantry Organizer

Five years ago when I started on this craft room I wanted a gift wrapping station for birthday and shower gifts. I had intended to use part of my pegboard for it, but it didn't work out like I wanted. Last week when I was looking for other things I happened on this pin. She used an over the door pantry organizer from Walmart. I can afford this at $17.88 and easy to do.

I ordered one tonight. My Walmart didn't carry them. Did ship to store. I can't wait for it to come in and get it organized. Now I will have a place for bows, tape, tags etc.

Button Jars

I posted a request for baby food jars last night on FB. Got a reply from a friend this morning saying she had some. She has been saving them even though her husband couldn't understand why she was. She said she knew one day someone would want them or she would find a use for them. She said she couldn't wait to tell him she was right.

Went at lunchtime to Lowes to look at paint. I'm thinking of adding a third accent color. I had found the name of the yellow on the paint can, but I didn't write down the name of the green. I stood there for about 20 minutes trying to find it. All of a sudden I remembered that I was just starting to blog when I was doing this. Sure enough there was a blog post with the paint colors in it. I really wanted to do a happy dance in the store.

As I have been moving around in this room I have decided I really don't like the dressers in the room. They don't work for me. I don't like getting in them. I would rather just see the yarn.

Looked around on my favorite place, Pintrest, and came up with an idea similar to this.

I am just going to use it for my yarn instead of shoes. That way I will be able to see it at a glance. I am going to divide it into cubbies like this. I bough white duct tape to find it together and to coordinate in the room. It will also make it stronger.

Came home with the baby food jars and put them straight into a sink of hot water to get labels off. The have redesigned the labels. They are more of a clear sticker now. I had to use a knife and a lot of elbow grease to peel them off. I tried two different things and couldn't get the glue to come off. Guess I will have to buy some Goo Gone.

Counter and Pegboard Baskets

I had asked one of the guys at church Sunday what the best tool to cut my kitchen counter with for my spice rack. He is a general contractor, so he would know. He said he would come over tonight and look at it. I thought I could do it with a jigsaw, or a circular saw. He said not a jigsaw. The blade wiggles to much. He didn't think it would cut a straight enough line.
Our knitting group was throwing a surprise party for our leader Carole. I had to leave before they got there. I asked DS1 to show them where I wanted it cut and pay attention to what they said.

As I was cleaning the other night I had a great idea. I had 3 pieces of wood left over from my spice rack that I didn't have a use for. I realized I could use them on my pegboard as shelves.

After the party I made a quick trip to Walmart to buy the pegs for the shelves and a new thread rack. Found a thread rack at Michaels and was able to use a 40% off coupon so it was only $8.99. Saw a pin on Pintrest that Target hat small metal buckets in their $1 section. Went to check them out. Bought three. One for my rulers and seam ripper, one for pencils and one for my exactly knife and scissor sharpener. Things I just want to grab that are long.

Came home and talked to DS1. I asked him if the contractor had come. He said yes. Asked him what he said and he said he didn't remember. I couldn't believe it. It had only been two hours. He suggested I call. I was really not very happy with him. He is 19, but I swear some days he has no brain cells.

Put up my shelves, buckets and thread rack. The shelves fit perfectly onto the long pegs. I will need to paint them. As I put them together i decided that I ought to use baby food jars to sort my buttons. They would be clear and small. I posted a request on Facebook. There are a lot of new moms at church. Shouldn't take long to gather them.

Filled the buckets and put them on the bottom row of holes. They look really cute. I need to find some small baskets for some of the flatter things like pins, tape measures, bobbins and sewing machine feet.

Put up the new tread rack. I didn't realize that I had so much. There were only a couple of empty spots when done. I guess I need two! I will need to mount more pegboard. I have some leftover, and a mounting strip. I just need to cut it to the right size.

Organizing Craft Room

I have a new friend Bonniejean, who is into crafts like I am. She showed me her craft area and it was ultra organized. Mine has been really bad for the last 6 months. Not putting things away, etc. I finally decided after church today I was going to get started.

Five years ago when I made my craft room, I painted the walls, put up my desk, painted the dressers for my yarn, put up pegboard and then just kind of stopped.

I haven't decorated the walls, or done much at all with the pegboard. I tend to take stuff in there and then dump it. Bad habit. Tonight I decided that I really want to actually finish this room so that I will enjoy it more. Money circumstances have changed some, so I need to do it on a shoe string. Most of the elements are in place. I just need to keep going.

I got my desk almost totally cleared off. What is left are little piles I want to put in baskets, jars etc on my pegboard. I need some organizing ideas. When I originally put my pegboard up cut dowels to put in the holes for my thread spools. That isn't working like I wanted at all. I'm going to see about buying a premodern rack.
 
When I originally planned my craft room I built desk top on the majority of two of the walls. I also saved and painted a piece to use as a table extension, with collapsible legs. It will give me some more room when sewing and laying things out. Not enough room to keep it prmanantly though. As I was cleaning up I realized I couldn't find it. Searched high and low to no avail. DS1 and DS2 said they didn't know. I guess I wll have to go buy a new piece. Darn!