stash busting - I will use my mountains b4 buying more!

Rummer

Susan42 Your projects sound amazing! I would love to see pictures of them, have you posted pics already?

No crafting for me today as I crocheted a bit much the other day and my hands are a bit tender Hoping to get a bunting flag a day finished so that I can get it done and dusted.

craftingmad

Hi all and a big welcome Rummer

It sounds like you are all making loads of progress so massive pats on the back from me

I've had a really busy couple of weeks so havent had a chance to do much crafting as have been busy watching things at my kids school. We have had a sports day, open afternoon, parents evening, music assembly, celebration assesmbly, 2 school trips, a tea party and a very emotional leavers assembly as my daughter is a yr 6 and now finished primary school all in the space of a week and a half!

I set myself a challenge of only using my existing craft stash to make all 8 teachers and teaching assistants an end of year gift and accordingly can now add a further 43 items to my total

These were made up of:-

8 x cards (made by my kids but using all my stash so im counting them)
7 x notebooks (I have a bit of a thing about stationary and had bought these notepads ages ago from sainsburys I think when they were selling them cheap). They already had striped neon covers so I just added flowers to the front for the ladies and a guitar for the male teacher.
3 x set of 6 heart magnets in a matching decorated tin. These were made by simply glueing a punched heart bit of patterned paper onto a heart shaped glass stone and adding a small piece of magnet to the back of each. The tins I have had for ages and I just added some ribbon, gens and a bit of cordinating paper to the front.
20 x bookmarks (I made a bookmark for each of the staff members from my daughter as a thank you). I actually just printed them from the internet and laminated them but I added ribbon to the top of each so used a lot of my ribbon dtash so although it may be cheating I am goibg to count each one)
1 x blackboard easel made by simply painting a mini canvas with blackboard paint and the stand that came with it a pretty colour. Add a piece of chalk and you have a little memo board for a teacher
1 x pot of pencil flowers (8 pencils with flowers pushed onto top abd planted in a decorated tin can
3 x sets of 3 apple clips (made by simply hot glueing sone very old buttons onto paperclips and adding a small piece of felt to the back)

So my total is slowly moving in the right direction and I think that with all my makes and my destashing together with my tidying abd better organisation I am begining to see a small de t in my stash - yippee

Hoping to add pics to my blog later so please pop along and take a look

loopychriss

Crikey you've been busy craftingmad!!! That's a lot of things!!!

I haven't made anything today but I have had a sort through my scrapbooking supplies and sorted out a dozen or so packets of stickers and embellishments for my group leader tonight, so I'm going to count those. I sat there reminiscing over everything, remembering when I'd bought them and the aspirations I had for making scrapbooks for each of the family...... I suddenly realised that even if I gave away most of it and kept only the best bits, if I wanted a certain thing in the future I could source it on ebay or a craft shop as and when I needed it.

I think the biggest hurdle for me over the destashing is the guilt I feel at all the money I wasted buying it. Hubby says not to worry about it, so why can I not just let it all go in one hit???

Tomorrow is another day and I'm becoming more of a minimalist every day, so I may sort out some to put on ebay - if anyone is buying craft stuff any more that is.

12 more gone today = 426 out of 500

bobblymosh

Im back! Ive been following the thread but completely fell off the band wagon!.
I haven't bought too much, but still more than I wanted to lol, So Ive decided im going to start my challenge again and aim for 100 things, hopefully before Christmas (that way I can ask for crafty Christmas presents lol)
Anyhoo do you thing it spurs you on with the challenge if you write about it on your blog?


ps. love everyones projects (apart from the fact that they make me want to buy more stuff)

susan42

Just dropping in quickly

This is the

Coffee Table

Just sorting out pictures for the starting of the village

I`m going to blog the build as I go...I hope

craftingmad

susan42 wrote: »

Just dropping in quickly

This is the

Coffee Table

Just sorting out pictures for the starting of the village

I`m going to blog the build as I go...I hope

Love the table susan42

greentiger

Good job on the table, susan.

craftingmad, you're a powerhouse!

loopychriss

susan42 wrote: »

Just dropping in quickly

This is the

Coffee Table

Just sorting out pictures for the starting of the village

I`m going to blog the build as I go...I hope

Lovely, what a great way to use up some stash! Love it xx

Debrak1

I know this thread has been going for some time and I 'lurk' on a regular basis. Now that I have registered I can log in and post - yey!

I have loads if stuff I want to get rid of from Cardmaking and scrapping stash to balls of wool so here goes!

loopychriss

Debrak1 wrote: »

I know this thread has been going for some time and I 'lurk' on a regular basis. Now that I have registered I can log in and post - yey!

I have loads if stuff I want to get rid of from Cardmaking and scrapping stash to balls of wool so here goes!

Welcome to the thread Debra and well done for de lurking. Good luck with your destash - do let us know how you're getting on won't you?

xx