And the search goes on

o you ever have one of those days when you simply cannot find the craft item that you desperately need to complete a project and you know you have one, but just where it is escapes you totally at the moment? 

I have recently been lucky enough to actually move into a purpose built workshop to do my crafting in (purpose built actually means that my motor racing husband took over an industrial unit which had a tiny office in it which had to be re-built bigger - and I managed to talk him into building upwards at the same time!!! Mine, all mine!!! And already full to bursting point! But I digress!) 

So I moved all my craft materials over to my new work space and started to organise them. This was the point that I realised that I did not actually have enough storage space already! So lots of my goodies are still stored in a pile of about 18 archive boxes at the end of my office, which is fine - until I need to find something! 

Yes I do realise that if I marked the outside of the box with what was in it, it would be a better system than un-stacking and re-stacking every time I need a particular item, but each box is filled with so much that I don't think I could fit it all on the outside!! 

So my present system stays until I can work my way through the boxes, using the supplies up as I go along! 

But isn't it always the way that you never have everything that you need, or it isn't quite the right colour or shape etc., so you just have to go shopping again for the right thing. All the other bits you come back with just fell into your basket or had such future potential that you simply had to get them now, in case you couldn't find them again.

Does this sounds familiar?!!!

And now I can buy on the internet I am positively dangerous!!! 

There is also that wonderful feeling when you finally source something from America that you can't get here yet and it turns up on your doorstep a week later! Quicker than some UK suppliers too!! That new item can really turn your craft into something really special and can give you the selling edge over your fellow crafters. 

ooh, the thought of new items has got me going now! Will have to leave now and go surf!! Look out credit card, could be a long day!!! 

 

Jude