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Home from home - a closet stamper

Today, I thought I would share my US crafting cupboard with you. I don't have the luxury of my own craft room here in the USA, but my husband has "allocated" me a cupboard in the study.

I have slowly been kitting out the cupboard so that not everything is hidden away in boxes (and impossible to find) and this is what it currently looks like.


If you are wondering, George has converted one of the bedrooms into a study but all the built-in cupboards are fitted out as wardrobes. A little strange I know, but over here you are not allowed to call a room a bedroom unless it has a fitted wardrobe (or closet as they call it here).


The top shelf has all my Catalogues, card stock, designer series paper and Stampin' Trimmer . I bought myself a white caddy to hold all my Washi Tape.


The second shelf down has an organiser that I purchased to hold my punches, Stampin' Write Markers and my Blendabilities. It has two drawers in it that hold my ribbons as I only bought a metre or so of each with me from the UK.

I've not found anything to hold my ink pads. I'm still on the hunt and have my eye on something. I just need to check to see if it will fit in the gap that the stamp sets are currently occupying. I've used this shelf to display some of the projects that I have made this trip. I'll share a couple more of them with you over this next week. Although you can get a sneak peek from the photo.

The rest of the shelves are a work in progress (actually a total mess) but you get the general idea from the photo at the top.

My only problem now is plucking up the courage to use the desk as it is really shiny and I would hate to scratch it. Think I might have to go find a large cutting mat or something similar. The one I have is really tiny and I'm not the neatest of crafters. I'm one of those people that the more space I have the messier it gets and looks as I can start and hold multiple projects in the one area. Think I'm going to have to work smarter and neater - that's so not going to happen!