Craft Ideas...where art thou?
I know I've stated it before...but for good measure.....I DON'T LIKE EVERYBODY'S STORE BOUGHT HOME ACCESSORIES! I'd rather make/re-make my own!
I have learned that once you start crafting...things just start flowing as far as ideas. I started with picking up a few old craft magazines at a garage sale that looked interesting (and for .05 a piece...what the heck...it gave me something to browse through on a lazy afternoon when I didn't want to tax my brain too much!). Well, that tiny purchase started the whole ball rolling and turned into a full fledged consumption looking for that next "prized possession".
I now have as part of my "craft" supplies, numerous magazines (old and new) where I tag certain pages of objects/ideas that I find personally appealing. I ended up spending two days/nights just going through all the books/magazines I had accumulated to "weed" out the ones that weren't necessary to keep.
I ended up with only 1 1/2 small boxes that I kept. Several of the magazines, I just ripped out the one or two articles or pictures of things that I thought I could adapt to some treasure I acquire in the future and placed those in a three-ringed binder.
I must state, that although some of the basic ideas and instructions came from these magazines, each item I have re-furbished/renewed, ultimately had my own design, color scheme to them.
My whole point in this is....if you look at what's available in magazines and books....it may not be exactly the way you want to craft it, i.e. same colors, patterns, style....but it opens your mind to what you do want and you begin to see promise in things you never saw before, that can be quite inexpensive, or even no-cost to you.
Heck, the craft cabinet I made was given to me by a friend, the paint was left overs from other projects, and any extra boards I used came from the curbside donators. I now don't know if it's a blessing or a curse that I've gone into the crafting mode....family and friends alike are now giving me everything that they don't want (saves them from having to go to a donation drop off place).
I now have all kinds of paint (craft acrylics and regular interior house paint)....I have finally stated that I won't take anything bigger than quart size containers. My garage is FULL of objects ready to be re-done/renewed, from end tables, shelves, cabinets, desks, chairs, old sewing machine (bottom treadle only), mirrors, an old record cabinet (pretty cool....already refinished and I've used it to house mail/gloves/hats at the entrance, and also in the kitchen to house all my baking pans and lids....the dividers in it make it real convenient for all kinds of purposes), old wood house shutters (already made into room divider), and on and on...... I will post some of the pictures as soon as I find them on my hard drive (I always take a "before" and "after")...my computer drive is starting to look like my garage!
So get started on crafting something.....and once you do, you'll find those ideas just starting to flow.
I have learned that once you start crafting...things just start flowing as far as ideas. I started with picking up a few old craft magazines at a garage sale that looked interesting (and for .05 a piece...what the heck...it gave me something to browse through on a lazy afternoon when I didn't want to tax my brain too much!). Well, that tiny purchase started the whole ball rolling and turned into a full fledged consumption looking for that next "prized possession".
I now have as part of my "craft" supplies, numerous magazines (old and new) where I tag certain pages of objects/ideas that I find personally appealing. I ended up spending two days/nights just going through all the books/magazines I had accumulated to "weed" out the ones that weren't necessary to keep.
I ended up with only 1 1/2 small boxes that I kept. Several of the magazines, I just ripped out the one or two articles or pictures of things that I thought I could adapt to some treasure I acquire in the future and placed those in a three-ringed binder.
I must state, that although some of the basic ideas and instructions came from these magazines, each item I have re-furbished/renewed, ultimately had my own design, color scheme to them.
My whole point in this is....if you look at what's available in magazines and books....it may not be exactly the way you want to craft it, i.e. same colors, patterns, style....but it opens your mind to what you do want and you begin to see promise in things you never saw before, that can be quite inexpensive, or even no-cost to you.
Heck, the craft cabinet I made was given to me by a friend, the paint was left overs from other projects, and any extra boards I used came from the curbside donators. I now don't know if it's a blessing or a curse that I've gone into the crafting mode....family and friends alike are now giving me everything that they don't want (saves them from having to go to a donation drop off place).
I now have all kinds of paint (craft acrylics and regular interior house paint)....I have finally stated that I won't take anything bigger than quart size containers. My garage is FULL of objects ready to be re-done/renewed, from end tables, shelves, cabinets, desks, chairs, old sewing machine (bottom treadle only), mirrors, an old record cabinet (pretty cool....already refinished and I've used it to house mail/gloves/hats at the entrance, and also in the kitchen to house all my baking pans and lids....the dividers in it make it real convenient for all kinds of purposes), old wood house shutters (already made into room divider), and on and on...... I will post some of the pictures as soon as I find them on my hard drive (I always take a "before" and "after")...my computer drive is starting to look like my garage!
So get started on crafting something.....and once you do, you'll find those ideas just starting to flow.
posted by J. Martin @ Wednesday, January 04, 2006
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