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Friday, September 26, 2025

Looking Back at Old Posts: My Crafting Space

While editing a recent post, I noticed the thumbnail of a much older post that really caught my eye.


This photo says so much.

Looking Back at Old Posts: My Crafting Space. Here's my craft and sewing space from over 13 years ago in a complete state of messy chaos.
It's a photo of my old craft and sewing space at it's absolute worse. Such chaos, but I absolutely love it.

Looking through it all, I can remember so much. For almost every item in this picture, I can remember exactly why it is there and what project it was for if any.

Examples:


Looking back at Old Posts: My Crafting Space. Here's a doll dress I made ages ago.
The scraps of black and white striped knit fabric were leftover from the t-shirt to dress I made for my nephew's Cabbage Patch Kid doll when he was little (see T-Shirt Redo for a Doll, a Tutorial).

Looking back at Old Posts: My Crafting Space. Here's a cute porcelain doll wearing a blue dress with a matching lace headband.
The porcelain doll in the up right corner wearing a blue dress was a doll I found at a thrift store. I gave it a makeover before this (see Prettied Up).

Looking back at Old Posts: My Crafting Space. Here's a Bratz I made over. It has a pretty pink dress with lace, and it's hair is done up in a curly updo. There's even lace earrings.
Next to the doll is a Bratz doll that also received a makeover (see Pretty in Pink).

On the desk is a purple pencil box I bought at a back to school sale from Office Max. I was using it for sewing supplies, I later switch to using if for actual pencils and erasers, and now I use it for small electronic items. That's right, I still have it over 13 years later. Those things are built to last.

The chair was given to me by a friend from church. She gave me a ride home and just happen to have it in the trunk of her car intending to drop it off at a thrift store, but offered it to me instead. The desk came from a neighbor, similar store.

Above the small white drawers, you can see a cat face. That's from cute paper book cover I got in high school for my textbooks. I kept it for years before using it to cover an aluminum can to make a pencil holder. 

Looking back at Old Posts: My Crafting Space. Here's a basket I decorated with ruffled lace around the edge a lace wrapped around the handle. It's full of spools of lace and ribbon.
Above the chair, you can see a basket covered with lace. It's a basket I save from being tossed. I decorated it with lace and used to store my lace and other trims (see Decorating and Launching).

And that's just a handful of memories.

Makes me want to go through all my old photos and posts, maybe there's a few more memories to share later.

Look forward to it.


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