Another fabric bowl & what's starting to look like a craft room ...

 

Hello on what's been a beautiful autumn day.  Bright blue clear sky, a chilly start but warming up in the afternoon.  I've been on a long walk around a local nature reserve, not wanting to stay inside when it's so lovely outdoors.  

In the last week or so, I've been finishing this fabric bowl, and have started making another.  

But mainly I've been having a bit of a change-around in my house.  I've hauled furniture from one room to another, clutter-cleared cupboards and bagged up things for the charity shop, and generally hoovered and cleaned all those dusty corners.  

I'd finally made a decision about turning the dumping ground of the front bedroom into a craft room.  It's taking shape, though it really has taken some effort.  

Larger pieces of material are stacked on shelves, grouped into colours.  Lower down is my Sissix machine and die cuts, and at the base of the shelving are beads and jewellery making supplies.  There's also space for a storage tub of crewel wool and another of ribbons & cord.  

This corner's home to a huge roll of polyester quilt wadding, plus storage tubs of cardstock and envelopes, and an old laundry basket full of brown paper and packaging materials, most of it waiting to be upcycled or re-used for postage.  

I've strung up this 'washing line' and used mini pegs to hang felt and embroidered birds from it, plus other little dolls and oddments.  

There's a padded leopard's head, a tweedy bird and my Woman of a Certain Rage doll, complete with scowling face! 

This is a small quilt I made, and it's good to display it on the wall instead of leaving it folded up and out of sight.  

I love this crazy lady with her hair standing on end as if it's full of electricity, and also her gold embroidered angel wings.  Though what kind of angel she'd make I couldn't imagine.  

Another wall hanging, this one made for a church display on the theme of 'creation'.  

There's so much stuff on top of shelving units and wardrobes.  This will never be an Instagram-ready craft room.  Nothing matchy-matchy or aspirational here.  But if it can be a useful, practical space that'll be the main thing.  

Right, that's all for now.  Oh, just more thing.  A very silly paper doll I made today, to go inside my mammoth junk journal.  She's got a magazine illustration for a skirt, a chocolate wrapper bodice, foil from another chocolate bar for her collar, and stick-on gems for her jewels.  She's all dressed up and raring to go!