Craft Room Destash and Re-finding My Motivation

     Hey everyone, how’s it going? Hope you’re all doing well.

     Today’s post is a bit of an unusual one for the blog. It’s not a craft but it is craft related. I guess I’ll start with a bit of a story and it starts back in November/December of last year.

     As regular readers of my blog know, November and December are pretty busy craft months for me. I love making Christmas crafts so I tend to want to do a lot of them in the final two months of the year but I also have an awful lot of card making to do because I make cards that I send out to my family and friends and also make cards for my mom so generally there’s at least 100 cards that I make for Christmas. I really struggled with the Christmas 2017 cards I made for my mom though because I wasn’t enjoying the supplies I was using and I kinda stressed myself out a bit. After Christmas, I decided that what I needed was a short break from crafting so that when the new year came I’d be feeling fresh and excited for card making again!

     Only, that feeling of excitement didn’t really come. I was having a hard time motivating myself to get crafting again because I was struggling with inspiration. I made a few cards back in January over the course of one day and that was somewhat of a struggle. I don’t think I really made anything at all in February (other than crochet) and March has pretty much been the same in terms of making. I loved my craft room but for some reason it wasn’t inspiring me anymore.

     Do you ever feel like you just own too much stuff and it’s a bit suffocating? I feel like I’m having a mid-twenties life crisis and need to declutter my life and so last week and into this week, I’ve been busy decluttering my craft supplies and I can honestly say it’s made me feel a lot better! Really, between organising my craft room and watching a lot of random craft videos on YoutTube, I’m finally starting to feel motivated again.

     I’ve been crafting for several years now and you know how easy it is to build up a stash of supplies that you then forget you have. Well, with this organisation and decluttering spree, I’ve taken the time to go through everything I have in my craft room and see what I have. I have tons of stuff that’s perfectly good to use but my tastes have changed over the years and say, paper packs that I was once inspired to use no longer inspire me anymore. If that’s the case, what’s the point of having them?

     I did throw out and recycle a lot of stuff but there was still a lot that seemed too good to through out. I mean, just because I’ve used two letter stickers from a full sheet of them, why would I throw that out? Or all the paper – they may be from different packs but they’re still good to use. I might not use them but someone else might have fun with them.

     With that in mind, why not send the stuff to people who might use them? I did a bit of a Christmas supplies de-stash back in November over on Instagram and it seemed to go down well so I figured I’d bring this de-stash to my blog seeing as I have so much I could send people (really, I filled two whole drawers with stuff I could send to people!).

     Basically, I’ve organised a number of packages filled with supplies I can send to people. There’s selections of floral and nature themed papers, selections of alphabet stickers, a few packets of random die-cuts, a lot of half used paper and card packs…I even have a big box of clear stamps I could send. I haven’t photographed everything but hopefully the above pictures will give you an idea of what I’m on about!

      So, are you interested in getting some free craft supplies? That’s it really. If you are, feel free to shoot me an email (you can find it in the ‘contact me’ section in the menu bar). Or if you have any questions about what I have to send, you can ask away in the comments below.

      Depending on how many people get in contact with me, it might take me a while to send things out just because of the cost of sending packages to people. I’ll probably compile a list of people who put their name in for destash items and randomly pick two or three each month until everything is gone.

     I do have a variety of items and styles so if you have a preference, say, you use stickers or die-cuts more than paper or prefer floral themes to geometric patterns, you can mention that. I can’t guarantee I’ll have anything that fits your exact preferences but if I do, I’ll try send it your way!

     But that’s all for this post. Sorry it’s been a bit long, rambling and incoherent at times – I’m writing this quite late at night!

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