Hands Up if You're Guilty

[tsunkasapa]

In my work room I have 2 leather workbenches and my reloading bench. If I want to do leather, stuff gets shifted to my reloading bench. If I want to reload, it gets shifted to my leather bench. If my wife would get her stuff out of my room it would make my life better. I MAY just back my truck up to the window and chuck her stuff, then make like the Lone Ranger;  'To the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump'. 

[fredk]

Two questions; 

1. where do you keep your truck keys?

2. What hymns would you like at your funeral?

[Tugadude]

Currently I don't have any dedicated area for my leatherwork.  I do it wherever I can and I try to keep things tidy and clean up when I'm done.  Looking forward to finally being an empty-nester and having  room I can reserve for my hobbies.

[Sheilajeanne]

44 minutes ago, fredk said:

Two questions; 

1. where do you keep your truck keys?

2. What hymns would you like at your funeral?

  Too funny Fred! 

[Charley1]

My wife does machine embroidery, has 2 six needle machines and 1 10 needle machine. Lots and lots of fabric. Takes up a lot more room than my woodwork, leather work, and reloading.

[Bert03241]

Wow and I thought I was the only one with a whole house craft shop.Living room, dining room and both spare bedrooms are just over run with craft stuff ,  Hell my laser is setup in the living  room, and a table outside on the deck. I'm bad really bad, but I'm single. Hmm I wonder why LOL

[Sheilajeanne]

This house was an estate sale. The old lady who lived here before me was into crafts in a really big way. She had three or four sewing machines, and what is now my craft room was her sewing room. Two 15 foot long counters ran along each side of the room. She had a kiln out in the laundry room where she did pottery. She also did stained glass and made lawn ornaments out of metal and ceramic.

There were shelves EVERYWHERE in both the basement and the laundry room. I heard her children filled at least two dumpsters with all the stuff she'd accumulated over the years  when they were preparing the house for sale. I never got to see what they threw out, but I'm sure a lot of it was good stuff from her crafts that they just couldn't find a home for locally.

She was a widow and lived alone unless her family was visiting, so there was no one to complain about all her craft stuff. Wish I'd had a chance to see it before she died!

Here's the board over her sewing area where she kept her scissors and spools of thread. I already took down the shelves that were to the left of the board.

  

Edited May 31, 2022 by Sheilajeanne

[Sheilajeanne]

And THIS is what my leather craft area looked like BEFORE I moved into this house!  (Yeah, I know, I posted another view of this earlier, but this gives a better view of how I stored things.) 

There was a closet to the right of what you see in the photo where I stored dyes, glues etc. plus projects (kits) I was planning to work on, and also a cupboard in the kitchen where I stored large rolls of hide which wouldn't fit in the closet. The plastic drawers contain small things like rivets, snaps, letter sets, lace, thread, tracing paper, brushes and swabs, patterns, buttons, etc.

The wooden things under the bench are Ikea shelves I never got around to finding a use for when I moved into the house.  The room was an addition to the house, had patio doors at the far end, and got damn cold in the winter, thus the electric heater to the left of my chair.

 

Edited May 31, 2022 by Sheilajeanne

[Handstitched]

I started in my Mothers  small sewing room ..it was pretty packed out with materials etc...and then my leather 'stuff' .I couldn't get in because she was sewing, and vice versa.  Something had to give . 

A 20 x 20 workshop. But now thats too small now. 

When messing around with cars in an earlier life, I used to rebuild carbys and other car parts on the dining table...until it was dinner time....damn it, now I have to shift everything.So I guess I'm guilty for using various parts of the house  and furniture for doing 'stuff'...other than its intended purpose    

HS

[johnnydb]

On one hand my hobbies provide all kinds of gifts for others and a level of sanity for me to occupy my time.  

But then at times they make me wonder if I could be a focus of that television show  "Hoarders".  

It's a very delicate balance.