Transformation of an Office

For a long time it was a boring office but served its purpose, and of course over time and with a growing family it filled with paperwork and crap. I was also studying and starting my business so it was a multi-functional room.



Then I turned it into my craft room! for a while there, it was also a scrapbooking shop!!! I had people come through!
But largely it was a joint crafting room and office, with my computer for working/studying/playing and my craft stuff all out for scrapbooking. It was so wonderful having all my craft stuff out but my collection was growing at a phenomenal rate!!



The biggest thing I loved, other than having everything on display, was my Inspiration Board, which was covered in pictures and pretty things including achievements (like the first ever magazine I edited) and flowerws and photos and other things to make me happy and inspired.




Finally, with the revelation of baby 4 on the way, it was time to pack it up. Half my scrapbooking stuff is now in a wardrobe, and the other half is packed at my parents place. It took me a month to accept this, and a few tears, but I accepted that I wouldnt have the time to dedicate to my craft and my eldest needed his space more. So we turned it into Kaden's room....

Inspired by blogs....

I read alot of blogs... its how I love to spend some quiet time and I love that I get so inspired by blogs.

One thing I totally struggle with is finding time to do all the crafts I love, to put into action all the ideas I have and the masses of tutorials and blog posts I have bookmarked.

One of my favourite blogs is http://ashleyannphotography.com/blog/ her latest post about her goals really got me.. and I want to try a similar system. I always have goals and lists in my head but rarely in writing and if I do I lose the bit of paper. I think I want to turn a cork-board into our family goal board. Have a place for my weekly, daily, and my kids goals.. Give myself one project to finish each week, and a home organisation goal each week to and of course one goal to do with each child. Maybe they might want to pick a goal for themselves to work on to.

Might work on making a board tomorrow (will have to steal my inspiration board by my desk but I can replace that soon enough). I shall think of something.

Ezekiel finally has a single bed now so I have converted the toddler bed into a 3 sided cot and am going to use it in the lounge as a reading spot and store toys under it. I want to make some cute cushions, bunting and art for the wall above it. Its going to be a cute wee spot for the kiddos.