New blog and Social Media accounts

 Hello!

Welcome to my new blog and set of social media accounts.  I figured it was time once again to dip my toe into the digital world and stop being a hermit!

My old blog is still available but as I haven't posted in two years I figured it was time to start again. If you want to check out some of my older work then go to www.allthingspurpleandsparkly.blogspot.co.uk 

As my profile says, I've been card making for a very long time, I started making my own wedding invites, with a bit of stamping and embossing and it all went from there.  A small shoe box grew to a plastic tote box, to a set of shelves (I can hear fellow crafters nodding!) and suddenly the dining room wasn't big enough and I converted a bedroom with a small desk.... and this continued.  We even moved house and I adopted a bigger craft room, but before long I couldn't find anything, brought duplicates because I forgot I already had it, and general had a mess everywhere, which made me sad and I lost my crafty mojo for a while....

My lovely and extremely understanding husband, Matt stepped in and told me if I designed my perfect craft room, he would build it...

After multiple  trips to Ikea, and browsing you tube/Pinterest for hours on end, I finally came up with a design that would hold everything I need as well as space to grow, but would be organised, and tidy.

The result is my beautiful pink craft room.  Its not glittery per say, but it does have glitter everywhere as I cant resist a bit of sparkle on a card!  Crafters out there know that once the glitter tub is open, its also everywhere (including on the dogs fur!)  hence my new name of 'The glittery pink craft room'

Here's a few photos (it was in use for projects at the time so still a little messy) but you get the idea....

This is my desk space.  on my right I have some Alex drawers and a huge pegboard with all my essentials on it (as well as some grab items on the desk)

Here is my wall of goodies.  these are billy bookcases filled with cardstock, paper kits, stamps, dies and other crafty bits and pieces.  the pink chair is extra space when people visit, or if Harry wants to join me for some colouring fun! 

This is the view back towards my desk.  You can see I used a KALLAX unit underneath it to store fabrics and mixed media items.  behind my is a bigger Kallax unit with ink pads, Copics and other alcohol markers.  Also on here is my 12x12 Papers and in the cupboards there is a variety of inks and other goodies.  On the inside of these cupboards I have magnetic sheets to store those dies I use all the time (mainly circles and rectangle dies)

Right at the back behind my door you can see a spice rack I use for storing ink sprays, glitter glues and nuvo drops, and along the left hand side, I have a bank of ikea drawers with kitchen cabinets above.  My trolleys I use for storing more stamps and the one with the top doubles as my scan and cut station. 

Stop by again soon as the inspiration will start to be posted of the pretty things that get made in here.  If you want to follow me, the link is on the right of the page, I'd love to see you and any comments you have, I read every one (even if I don't answer them) and it truly makes my day when they light up my inbox!. Also I have linked social media pages on the right,(Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest) if you're interested. watch this space......

lots of crafty hugs

Rachael