Lately, I’ve found that there is too much purple in my craft room. Geez, I never thought I’d ever say that. I’ve found that by having color in the room, it distracts me when I’m creating. I’ve been slowly changing the items that are colored & replacing them with white. Here’s one of the first projects that I changed.
As I’ve said before, I’m a very visual person. And I’m always getting ideas for new projects. I have a huge stack of index cards, full of ideas. But they’re filed away in a file box. I’ve found that when I have an idea that I want to get started on right away, putting the index card on a memo board keeps me on track. When the idea is filed away in it’s ‘proper place’, I can forget about it. Because of that, I’ve made 2 memo boards. One by the sewing machine, (this one has a side that is metal to use magnets & the right hand side is cork) and one by the crafting area of my room (all cork). Besides that, plain brown cork just doesn’t go in my sewing room. 
And I’m not a fan of brown. Purple or lilac is what it had to be to go in my sewing room. (Remember, this is for my room. You can chose any color that goes in your home)
This is how I made them. Continue reading
I was playing around with thumb tacks today. Since I’ve recently made a couple of new memo boards (tutorial coming soon) I wanted to make the thumb tacks match them rather than the plain white ones available in the stores. Since the theme to the new sewing/craft room is in white, lilac & purple, I wanted the thumb tacks to blend in. And naturally, they had to have some sparkle. These could be used in a home office or kitchen as well. Continue reading