My craft room/studio is in a major state of disarray at the moment, after I decided to buy a new bookcase to store all of my supplies, and am in the process of moving it all around.

I’d been toying with various plans to rearrange things in there, and had been trying to track down a cube-style bookcase with enough compartments to hold my stuff. I managed to find a pretty close match at IKEA, and despite my extremely mixed feelings (leaning towards mostly negative) about the place, I went to the nearest one on Monday afternoon and bought said bookcase.

(After the whole experience, I am quite sure that I won’t be returning to IKEA in the future though. Something about the way they arrange their stores makes me feel dizzy whenever I go there, and the products themselves are overrated and a pain to construct. Perhaps it’s doesn’t help that I’ve met a few insane IKEA fanatics who disturbed me with their obsession of the place, including knowing all the cutesy names given to the products they’d bought there. The whole corporate whore thing just isn’t for me. Sorry, but corporations and products won’t love you back.)

Anyway, after finally getting the damn bookcase put together, I had to move everything out of my craft room, and that wasn’t really fun. Not just for the fact that it all had to be carried out, but more for the realization that I have just too much stuff. A few times, it felt like carrying everything out to the dumpster would have been a better solution, but of course that would have taken more effort (all those stairs!) and several weeks worth of garbage pick-up.

Enough room was finally made and the bookcase was shifted into place, so that left me with the task of sorting through everything and finding a new place for it. I’ve gotten through most of it by now, but there are still piles here and there that need sorting. I’m hoping to get the rest done before Friday, as there’s a rubber stamp meetup that night and I want to have some sort of project put together to take with me.

Despite all the physical work involved in moving things around, I think the hardest part has been in weeding out some items that I no longer need or will probably never use. I’m getting a lot better at it, having realized that I can’t use and don’t need all of this stuff, and would rather pass it along to someone who will actually use it. Now I just have to figure out how to do the latter, especially since it’s probably not worth the effort to list it on eBay or somewhere like that.

So, I guess I’ll start by opening it up to anyone reading this blog. If you have any interest in craft items like scrapbook paper, stickers, rub-ons, blank books/notebooks, empty tins (for altering?), tissue paper, confetti, and so on, please let me know and I will be more than happy to send you some. Just send me an email with your full name and mailing address included, as well as any particulars about what you’d be most interested in receiving. You don’t need to send anything in return (unless you really want to!); I’ll just be glad to give this stuff to someone who will actually use it.