My craft corner.

I’m happy with how my craft supplies look now that I reorganized them.

On the one wall is my magnetic board, which I use for planning. There are large stencils in the black file holder, which is standing on top of a Butcher’s block from  Ikea. The pine TV stand was a thrift store find.

In the winter I work upstairs in our home office, so I have more natural light, it is warmer than my Craft Room, which is in the basement and I am closer to my family. I repurposed an Ikea bookcase that we had for my workspace. We have had the bookcase for a few years, so I don’t think Ikea sells them anymore.

On my left is my Råskog.

The black metal rack was another thrift store find. On the top shelf are art sets. The plastic containers on the second shelf are for ephemera, embellishments, stickers, etc. The third shelf is for medium, see the next photo for the contents. 
I use the glass sheets to cover and flatten my projects in progress. 

Some of my mediums like watercolour paints, acrylic tubes, markers,  paintbrushes, etc. are in a clear plastic container. 

My Råskog.

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I keep books, sketch pads, watercolour paper, etc in magazine holders. 
The next shelf holds Art journal albums.
The files are used for planning.  

Strathmore® 300 Series Mixed Media Pad	Strathmore Watercolor paper.	Memories of a Lifetime: Florals & Nature -Inc. Sterling Publishing Co.
The old Fashioned Happy Anniversary book—Sterling Main Street.	The Old Fashioned Party Invitation Postcard Book -Sterling Main Street	Memories of a Lifetime: Borders & Frames: by Inc. Sterling Publishing Co.

My family photos in albums are on another metal shelf. 

These are some of the scrapbooks I have completed. 

More of my scrapbooks and Art journal albums.

My favourite craft supplies. 

Where do you craft, I would love to see? 
Did you develop any of your ideas or find any of mine?

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Where I create. 

Favourite Bookmarks.

I recently made a private page on Google Sites., for my favourite bookmarks, which I find very handy. I can click on the Icons and it takes me to where I want to be. I can easily edit them and add or remove them as I wish.

What Is Google Sites and Why Use It?

There is a very good tutorial on YouTube on how to do this. Google Sites: Insert Social Media Buttons!!

This is the same way that I added social icons to my Google site. 

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A better Homepage. 

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Camper Art Kit.

This is my bag for supplies and tools, which I pack in our camper. It is esepeciily handy when it's cold or rainy outside. As I am doing mostly art journaling, watercolors, acrylics, etc. at the moment, I haven't packed scrapbooking supplies like photo-corners, etc.

The open bag shows most of the contents. There's lot more room.

Grey bag with adhesives fit in the front pouch of the big bag.

Red pencil case fits in the big bag's side pocket with Sharpeners, pencils, erasers, etc.

These and more fit in the big bag. 

Left to right: Blue lunch bag (see seperate list}, Green lunch bag (see seperate list} Chinook Waterproof Map Case 27 x 22 cm with Silicone travel pouches with Silicone Bottles (see next photo.) 

Front: Pink pouch with rubber-stamps, inks, etc. water-container, patterned pouch with short rulers, etc.

 

 

Silicone travel pouches with Silicone Bottles (filled with Gesso and Flesh colored acrylic paint), white acrylic paint (used for primer)  Modge Podge by Plaid (the small bottles are sold at Dollar-stores), stamp cleaner, white out, a dropper, Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Distress Ink Reinkers – Dried Marigold, travel containers with acrylic paint, etc. In a Waterproof Map Case to be safe.

 

Ephemera, stickers, acrylic stamps, plastic clipboard (used with acrylic stamps), notebook, index cards, eye-shadow applicators, shipping tags, re-reinforcement rings, paper napkins, wet wipes, etc. fit in the green lunch bag

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Blue lunch bag with Side pockets: Sticky notes left pocket, notebook right pocket, index cards front pocket. Main pocket: Water color pallet, Pencil cases with Acrylic paint in tubes, pencils, tools, coloring pencils watercolor pencils, pens, paintbrushes, etc. See next photo.

Pencil pouches, watercolor palette, palette, stamping supplies, etc. fit in the blue lunch bag. I find it handy that the pouches are see through, the same size and flat, The pencil pouches are from Dollarama.

Mists and sprays in water proof travel pouches.

 

I use a Fiskars Scrap Book Craft Bag Case Album Tool Tote for my books, big stencils, card-stock, 

patterned papers, etc. 

 

 Index cards in side-pocket.

Tissues inside pocket.

 

Sketching paper, coloring books, reference books, collage papers, tracing paper, watercolor paper, courier bag (see next) journals, sketch books, card-stock, etc

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A 15" x 10.2" (38.5cm x 26cm) courier bag holds, a cutting mat, traingle, long rulers, plastic scalloped rulers, big stencils, etc. (see next photo)

 

These and more fit in the courier-bag. The cutting mat protects the stencils from breaking.

Left to right: File with inspiration, spiral portfolio with sketches, Inspiration, lessons, etc. I do a lot of planning using index cards (I.C). As we mostly camp off grid, I have to plan very well. I download many of my inspirations on my tablet. 

Working on the dinette table.

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My Creation Station.

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun”― Mary Lou Cook.

Organizing Family Photos.

My interest in Genealogy started with my Father, who interviewed my Grandmother in the old age home, before she passed away, about her family.

My Grandmother  had an incredible memory and kept a lot of photos, documents, negatives and mementos, which my Dad passed onto me.
 

I scan the original in color, even if it is monochrome, then I save a copy as adj. which I work with, otherwise I have to scan the original again, when I go overboard with Photoshop, which I have done.

He kept meticulous notes which I copied.

Notes copied from my dad and the symbols he used.

 

 I have stored the original photos chronologically into archival safe photo albums, including as much info as I have. The photos are numbered and copied onto a list. Many photos had no information, which left me with some Orphans. 

I use a K and Company-SMASH Collection-Pen and Glue Stick-Black, which is Archival and acid free.

 

Photo Restoration Click above for more info.

I have printed restored copies of most, they are in the same albums, with notes that they are copies. I also sent many of the copies to my father. If there is information on the back of the photo, I scanned
that as well.

   

 Original photos and copies in an album, when I have scrap-booked a layout, I print a copy of the layout and include it with the photos. I used some of these photos in my "At the Beach" layout. 

 

Original photos and copies in an album, with a print of my "Family Gathering" layout.

   

I turned a copy of the photo into a sketch and added numbers, to identify the people in "Family Gathering".

   

 Photograph with information included taken from my "Pose" scrapbook layout.

 

I keep small photos in Sport Collector sleeves.

I also had problems with printing small square photos, as they were cropped, due to the ratio. Some Kodak Picture Kiosks have a print full photo option, but you have to select it.

 

One of my albums with negatives in sleeves. I also have boxes filled with negatives.

 

 I scanned most of the photos and negatives on an Epson Perfection 1260 Flatbed scanner, which was my first scanner and has a 35 mm adapter for slides and negatives, but unfortunately Windows does not support the drives anymore. The back up files are on external drives and in the cloud.

 

We have a good camera and a light-box, but some of the old negatives are thick, so that does not always work either.

 

This is a photo of a negative on the light-box. The camera is mounted upside down on a tripod. You can unscrew the plate at the end of the center column and slide the tube out, reverse it and feed it through from underneath. I use a remote so that I'm not blinded by the light from the fluorescent tubes. The negative is inverted with Adobe Photoshop.

Digitizing Negatives Without A Scanner, Using A Digital Camera

I think Drugstores and Camera stores can also scan negatives.

 

 I print the most important documents, family trees and information and file them according to surnames.

I use free online family trees like Geni.com and I belong to many Genealogy Facebook groups and pages.

 

Through research and sharing I have discovered many interesting things, that I did not know. There are so many stories. I don't think my mother knew her mother's real names. Once I discovered my grandmother's real names, I could trace the families to the progenitors. I was even able to find more photos of her and her family online. There is also sad history about wars, concentration camps, prisoner of war camps, death of siblings, etc. Our grandparents never spoke of this as it was too painful. We have to gather the good and the bad before it is too late. All and much more was discovered through research.

How to create/Make Secret group in FaceBook

I have secret Family Facebook groups, which I share photos and info with. My son is admin too all. I have received photos and information through these groups.

 

 I have a free private blog at Wordpress, which my son is also admin, I have uploaded most of my photos, documents and info to this blog. It is searchable and a great help.

 

I have scrap-booked many of the photos, which I photograph and share on my blog, Facebook, Instagram, Scrapbook.com, etc.

 

I use Pinterest to keep track of my Genealogy links.

I have added some photos to online family trees, but I have found that some people download them on their computers and upload them to their own family trees on other sites, so I have added a copyright symbol to them.

Related.

Genealogy Links

South African Genealogy Links.

Technology for Genealogy (Facebook)

Genealogy Scrapbooking Creations (Facebook)

Copyright Fundamentals for Family Historians

Organizing Genealogy 

Organizing Photos for Genealogy

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