Ceri - Recently new to your channel and I'm already addicted to your creativity. You've led such a varied successful life and I could listen to your stories while you create beauty forever and a day. Your craft room is so impressive - very practically organised. You have so many strings to your bow. Absolutely adored the beautiful flowers, lamps, fairies' houses - just everything. So many videos of yours I'll have to catch up. Thank you so much for sharing your artistic talents with us. Australia - Annette. 🦋
Ceri, I love how organized you are especially with all the hats you wear. I adore your videos! I am new to the world of Junk Journaling and have enjoyed your tutorials which are very newbie friendly as well as someone who has been journaling for awhile ❤️
Ceri, what a wonderful creative space, it's great that you know what you need to work at your best. You did a great job to keep the camera straight and thanks for the inspiration.
I love the size of your room ! Your very organized which helps lol my favourites is the file cabinet , vintage lace and doilies and those keys! You have a lovely room to create! Take care
Thank you so much Ceri, it is grand, I am reworking my craft room. I just today, took stamps to Salvation Army. I cleared 5 shelves - from my book shelves. I am no longer keeping small scraps of paper. Not going to house trash. Nope getting things in order and labeled!! Thank you for the inspiration- to - keep pressing on..
I’m afraid you would flat line if you saw my workshop. My husband is a leather worker and I’m a papercrafter, so the workshop has a wall down the Center with sliding doors. It is somewhat organized but it’s a constant work in progress. I was/am a seamstress, then a quilter, beads, then sea glass art, I like thrifting, now paper …so now the workshop is remnants of all :-). Thankfully I’m now retired. I don’t think I’m capable as brig as retired as you are but I wish I were. Thank you for sharing your wonderful craft studio.
I have learnt that people can thrive in disorder I just know that I can’t, it matters not the surroundings you create in, just that you create. Have a fun year.
Thank you for sharing your well organized craft cave. I also shut down amid visual chaos. The challenge is real and ever evolving, as you say. I’m impressed with all you accomplish. You seem to know and accept yourself well. Very admirable, Ceri. 😊
Loving your sewing cupboard and the old type writer very cool...all round a good work room. The litte extras you have made fill it with personality too which I like to see
Really enjoyed the tour. I'm 72 & my space will never look like that! I'm retired sorta but have no excuse to not be a neat crafter. Thanks for sharing your lovely area. Love your channel.
47:59 ... another face! Left of your hand. Too funny. Omg how inspiring are all these organizational examples. Comparing what doesn't work in my area with new ideas from yours, thank you so much. I know it must've took some effort to arrange this, so appreciated 🥰
@@CeriGriffiths we never are! So much influence, it's like a gathering of the minds 🥰 I was looking through books bound for the dump, and ran across 2 childhood favorites... The Secret Garden, and Bridge to Tarabithia, the latter having my favorite teacher's name on the inside cover. It's from her classroom from eons ago. I'm going to ask her to sign it so it can stay on my shelf so she'll always be there to remind me why I love book pages to begin with! 🥰🥰🥰
Oh so wish you lived in my neighborhood. Inspirational for sure. The lit bottles are gorgeous, can't wait to see the production of a fairy house and please don't forget Harry Potter. Thanks again for all that you do to keep creativity alive and well. My craft cave has morphed over time. It seems to be a picture of the condition of my mind at any one time. I'm with you, I clean up my mess after each project. Then I jump in and mess it up again. Blessings to you, Ceri
@@CeriGriffiths Have a wonderful holiday and a very Merry Christmas to you. My to do lists seem to turn in to more todo lists.... and the list goes on.
Thank you for sharing a little bit of Ceri with us. I enjoyed every bit of the tour. We are a lot alike in that i need order and tidiness to create otherwise i get overwhelmed and shut down. I appreciate you❤️
Thank you, yeah almost 50K, I can’t believe it, for me it’s about the quality of subscribers and not the numbers so my followers have organically grown over the years and I love the community we’ve all created. Having more followers has enabled me to be able to share skills and support so many more in our creativity community and I love it.
What a lovely tour! Thank you for this. Not only does it give me ideas, it gives me hope that I'll one day get my room set up in a way that I can just walk in and get to crafting. You and I are so similar in our tastes (I will say I'm a little less butterfly and a little more Halloween, but that's the only difference I've spotted so far, lol). As you were walking around and describing your set up, it made something click for me. I think I've been trying to organize in too strict categories. Your way is much more practical and probably easier to maintain. Thank you for the tour and for all the ideas!
Thank you Linda I think my organisation is a bit organic in that it changes when my focus changes...........I can also be a little more Halloween but I’m still exploring my style in that.
Hi Ceri. I found this video a few days ago and have been looking forward to watching it while doing chores; watched it the first time while stirring some tapioca pudding that my hubby loves. Started watching it again more closely while folding laundry tonight. I love how you display pieces you’ve made, and how you covered storage boxes with your beautiful gelli prints. It makes your space so personal and inviting! I’m so inspired to decorate some of my storage pieces and include more things that I love into my creative space! I love the greenery too; I am a plant lover as well. My desk is fairly deep, so I placed several wooden ikea drawer units along the back for markers, cutouts of flowers, birds and butterflies from wrapping paper, tags I’ve die cut, and other small bits and bobs. I plan to paint the fronts with chalkboard paint and label with a chalk marker since the contents tend to change. I do love your collaged drawer fronts though. My desk sits in front of 3 tall narrow windows, so of course I have covered the tops of the drawer units with several houseplants. I hand painted some of the clay pots Mary Engelbreit style, as she is my favorite designer. I fell in love with her colorful, whimsical style many years ago, and she inspires me to create with joy. I would love to know more about your beautiful bottle lamps, as well as your fairy houses. Please consider doing tutorials for these projects. I’m also interested in your sectioned ephemera boxes, but I see you have a video up already, thanks. I’m interested in your ephemera book as well. Thanks so much for sharing your creative space with us, it really inspired me to organize my space a bit better. I really could use some project bins to help corral the clutter.
Thank you Linda, you’ve pretty much named the videos that are on my “To Film” list, the fairy houses, the bottles and the ephemera folio are on the list but they require time to film and I never seem to have enough of that commodity, one day they will be made I promise.
Recently moved & upsized, and now I have an office. Am in the process of settling in & getting organized & looking at what others have done with their craft rooms. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts & your systems. Thanks so much.
I liked the way you arranged your artistic tools in an elegant and easy way, enabling you to find what you want to use in your work, and I think that from here we have a motive in creating a new idea for a work of art. Thank you for sharing your inspiration with us.
I'm right there with you when you speak of keeping things tidy. It takes less time to keep things straight than to have to clean up an area that looks like a bomb exploded. I am also someone that does not believe in maintaining a lot of supplies. Most everything I do is done digitally. I use digital kits from Etsy as well as images I get off the internet to make my books. I do not sell anything and I only have one friend who will even look at what I create so it makes no difference where I get my images. I use Photoshop to audition various graphics to create a page. When I decide on what images I want to use, I size each piece to fit the design I like for the page. Each element is printed separately, cut out individually and adhered to the page to match the design on the computer screen. My craft room is one corner of my bedroom. I have an "L" shaped computer desk where my computer is on one desk, the printer is on the connecting piece and the second desk holds my Cricut die cutting machine and is where I put my pages together. Crafting is a hobby that passes time for me in my retirement. I have too many other interests in my life to allow crafting to become an obsession. Neat and orderly and minimum space is what makes crafting stay in its place in my life. Otherwise, I would be wasting money chasing after that next piece of supply I see others on UA-cam using. Too many children going hungry in the world to allow that to happen.
I hear you, we must all find our own personal balance with creativity. I have a fair amount of supplies but I do use them all as I run my business and income streams from my creative space and all of my jobs are art related, I’m definitely not a hoarder of art supplies. I also use photoshop to create my digitals however I’m currently experience software issues with photoshop so that’s got to get that sorted. Enjoy your art and stay safe.
Wow, I 💕 your Studio space. What a beautiful job you have done. It is so beautiful and looks very functional. I have to laugh because my workspace is a nightmare of a disorganized mess. I can’t find the top of my table🤣. How on earth do you keep so organized working on multiple projects at one time? I have the wonderful luxury of having an 8 foot by a 5 foot wide cutting table that my father made for me a long time ago and I absolutely treasure it, but when I work I find myself with such a disorganized mess that I only have about 6 inches of space to work 😂
Lol........I think because I’m OCD it makes me control my working areas, if I get overwhelmed with clutter I shut down and don’t even want to go into my room let alone create. Tidying up at the end of each day gives me a sense of accomplishment although I only tidy if the project is completed as it makes no sense cleaning up when I’m back in there the next morning. I also destash regularly, because I demonstrate on shipping channel TV shows it’s easy to accumulate masses of free supplies so I pass them on, it’s my way of supporting others.
That’s a great craft room! Nicely organized & a desk that fits you, I’m short so I don’t have that issue! I’m a pack rat but I’m setting up a new space for my crafts, so I have incorporated many shelves, baskets & drawer sets such as yours. I bought 2 rolling carts (which won’t be moving) with 20 drawers each, that are probably about half the size as your wall of trays. And much like you, each holds a specific type of craft. My favorite are the drawers that hold all my black & white products & the other has all my metallic products. That way I no longer have to look for look through paint, pencils, markers, inks, etc. to find every product! Thank you for giving us a peek at nearly everything in your space, it’s a very airy & bright room, with a definite feel of serenity! It is your happy & safe place! Erica❤
Thank you Erica and good luck developing your own creative space, I’ve found with mine every so many months things get moved around as I’m constantly changing my needs so things get moved nearer me. I feel a creative space is a living thing and morphs into whatever you require at the time.
Loved taking a tour of your creative space. I feel the same way about tidiness in my craft room. As soon as I am through with a project, everything has to go back where it belongs. You have a lovely space. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Great job! Nicely done! So totally my craft space! I tried my hand a couple of years ago making fairy castles and lit Halloween haunts. My grand daughter just said today, that she wished I’d do some more of it. I had completely forgotten I had all those supplies ‘safely tucked away’ I tend to jump from one medium to another as my interest dulls or brights to the subjects. Thank you for sharing your talents! Keep it up!
lol I actually squealed like a child GNOMES!!!!!! Ok, I’m ok now lol. Please do not think I’m not excited about your happy space (my pet name for my creative area so calling your cave same now lol) I’m so happy to see this unfold. Yes I realize I’m years behind, n please lord do not tell me the gnome is gone, I’ll be crushed.
Ceri, thank you so very much for this leisurely tour of your art space. I was inspired to take a much more close look at my own space and how I might better utilize it. I am already seeing many more possibilities!
Your craft cave is brilliant! The washi storage I think is the best way I have ever seen it stored. I have to-do totes for all my ideas and like you I get over whelmed seeing all the things I want to do. I am intrigued to see the dragon eggs you might make, my boys would love them. Love the drawer of crows, too funny 😄. You have done a great job in designing your cave and I hope you have lots of hours of crafting in it. Thank you for giving us a tour.
Thank you Ann, the dragon eggs are still an idea, not sure how I’m doing them yet but as I normally do I get an idea and let it mature in my imagination.
I enjoyed the tour of your room. Soooooo many interesting projects you have created. My favorite pieces are the bottles that light up. Would love for you to do a tutorial on how to make them!😊
I love your 12 x 12 storage containers. Those would save me a lot of headaches. I also love your bottle lamp with the blue and dragonflies. Those are two of my favorites also. Thank you so much for sharing your space with us
I love that you call your space the “Craft Cave”. I have a large (20 X 40’) converted third car garage. I call it my “Girl Garage” instead of a “She Shed”. I moved from a small 10 X 10’ bedroom. I have learned that it doesn’t matter how much space you have, it will never be enough! You always find things to fill it up! I’m pretty organized, but you are the MASTER!
Thoroughly enjoyed a day in yr cave Ceri. Like you I have to have some semblance of order especially after those blah days it makes it easily more inviting to start or continue a project. Storing 12x12 I'm just about to see if I can get some new Pizza boxes cover and label them. Easily stackable in apartment space. Enjoy all you create and grateful for excellent directions. 👍
Thank you, I once tried pizza boxes as storage but because I couldn’t see the stuff inside I tended to ignore it, clear boxes are a better reminder for me.
Ceri, really love this vid. Inspired a few ideas for my own space. Especially appreciated your comments toward the end about the ever evolving nature of art space organization. That happens for me too, only I didn't know it happens for others too, which made me feel crazy. Now I feel better about my ongoing rearranging of my stuff.😊
I absolutely love to listen to you, the fact that you just continue when you flub on a word and you show the real unfinished projects. Watching you makes me realize that not all journalers lives are perfect finished projects. Thank you for being REAL.
Thank you Jamie, it took 60 years for me to finally get my own creative space and it took two years of saving to be able to afford to do it and it’s my retreat from the world and I love it.
Such a beautiful creative place to work! I'm hoping to get mine done this year! I've been unwell for five years so I'm praying that this is the year I get to be in my creative space again! You did a beautiful job designing your space. Love your videos. They always make me smile!!!
Wow! Your organizational abilities with all your projects and supplies is impressive. I have a very small office/craft space that is very small (with three craft carts, IKEA art drawers, and WAY too much stuff) and I have to keep it organized, but your space is wonderful!😀🇨🇦
Such an enjoyable video! I think you need to find a way to display the stencils cut by your grandfather, and maybe add some of the keys, etc. from your grandmother. Such a gift to own things like that from your family!
Fabulous, take your time with the change and expect the room to decide where things will end up as you become one with your craft room, mine has changed almost monthly but now I think it’s settled into its current format which works for the way in which I create.
Thank you and I’m aware that it’s a special place, it took me 60yrs to get my own creative space and two years of saving to make it happen, I feel so blessed to have it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this tour! Can I come shop in your craft room? I saw some things I’d like. 😂 I didn’t just drool over the lace drawer, I almost cried. I had crocheted doilies and things my grandma made. She crocheted and tatted, if that’s the right word. I no longer have it all. My husband died New Years Eve 2012. After 1 1/2 years my daughter wanted me to move in with her. She wanted to have an estate sale, actually she just wanted my stuff gone, because of course I couldn’t keep my houseful of belongings. I was having mental health issues and was kind of out of it. So most of my belongings were sold. I called it the great purge. I had so many stamps that I loved. She let me pack 3 small moving boxes from my craft room so I did salvage some stamps. She hated my things. Now I live alone and I’ve had to build my craft supplies back up. I wish I had your storage. I live in a one bedroom deluxe apartment which just means my bedroom is a bit bigger so the one end is my craft area. I have stuff in my walk-in closet, in the hall closet. I’m going to have to live a long time to use everything and I’m already 69. With fibromyalgia and depression. I guess I do the best I can. Your videos cheer me up. You are a lovely person and I admire all you do and I appreciate your sharing your talent with us. One more thing and I will quit babbling. Was that an old iron on the floor by the door? I had one, no idea whose it was but I loved it. Unfortunately it was a victim of the great purge.
Martha so sorry your supplies were taken from you without you having enough time to truly consider what went and what will stay, I feel for you as I’d be lost if someone just got rid of some of my favourite items. Yes that is a very old iron I use as a door stop, it is one that you used to have to put on the range to heat it up before pressing, I love it. Good luck with your future creativity.
Thanks for sharing your space. The thing I appreciate the most is not only is it organized, it's personalized by you decorating the storage boxes and drawers etc. It keeps it feeling creative and not like a craft room built by ikea or the container store. I love it ❤
That was a great video! Thank you so much for sharing your organizational tricks with us! Love that you have to have everything neat, tidy and organized. I feel the same way.
Thank you for your generous sharing of your skills and processes. I have just found your channel and have been binge watching and soaking up inspiration. Thank you and best wishes from the west end of Lake Ontario and home of the Urquhart Butterfly Garden🤗( the Urquharts discovered that the Monarch Butterflies migrate to Mexico!!)
So organised. My craft room would give you nightmares! I like to think of it as a work in progress, I have started to do some serious de-stashing.However if things are too neat I find that I cannot create.
A wonderful multipurpose room. I agree that large or small, one has to be organized in order to do creative work. Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed it! 🎨
I enjoyed the tour of your craft cave! The light bottles are so cool as are the little houses. Love the Ikea metal drawers. Looks like they provide a great storage area.
At 19.20 - I LOVE that green face! For me it's the most interesting looking thing in that bookring bound selection of cards. It's lovely, tell me more about that.
Fran it was just an idea, I was trying to create a dragon looking through a tear in reality, it didn’t quite work as I wanted but it will eventually become a larger and more detailed piece, I just need to work on it further in my imagination.
Omg! I finally found someone that thinks and feels like I do 😁 I can’t be creative in a mess. I feel the same way overwhelmed when there’s a mess. I have to clean up after each project and I have everything organized because I found myself years ago buying stuff I already had thus spending extra money 😕 I’m so happy to be an organization person. It really works for me. When I see some creators with rooms in a mess ugh 😣 it makes me feel so overwhelmed 🤦🏼♀️ stupid I know. Anyhoo I’m glad I bumped into your channel 🙂 I’m in America Massachusetts 👋🏼😘
I loved seeing your studio, and love seeing your fairy houses ❤️❤️❤️, I’m like you I need to be organized. I have finally figured out a system for storage that is working, but it took me a year since I moved my studio ,. As we work in our studios things finally tell us where they need to live. 😉 Your studio is so warm, friendly and inviting, i love it. Thank you again, Ceri, for sharing your “safe space” with us and sharing your ideas. ❤️
👁👁. OMG❗️ How I would luv to stand in the middle of this Fantasy Room & just ABSORB it’s Vibrations‼️ Thank you sooo very much for sharing such a personal space... I found new ways for storage - Your video opened new/fun/less-ridged ideas, I had not thought of before❣️ 🙋♀️ Your new fan DIANNE, from 🌵🌵🌵🌵Arizona, USA - March 2022
Thankyou for your delightful craftroom tour, your storage units are the envy of many a crafter i'm sure. I wish i had a spare room. Many great ideas for organization & creative inspirations for projects. I have just started putting together all the bits & bobs, papers & parts, stamps & ribbons 'one needs' for journal making. I'm a newbie and enjoy following & learning from several artists on youtube that excell at it.
Donita, I’m very luck to have a spare room to run my creative life from and I never take that for granted but for years I used to have a couple of boxes under my bed. The important thing is that you give yourself time now and then to create, it’s good for us all to escape the real world occasionally. Good luck on your artistic journey.
Heerlijke kamer. Ik heb ook een grote kamer voor mijzelf. Geniet er elke dag van. En ik heb ook heel veel spullen van alle hobby’s. Dus heel herkenbaar. 😊
I love your craft space and all the pieces that you have used to organize everything. I watched this video last night and was so inspired. I spent all day today cleaning my craft area. I have a very small space but seeing how you organized really helped. My craft area looks so much better this evening, I have a lot more organizing to do, but I wanted to say thanks for the inspiration!
Fantastic video!! So cool that you have your grandfathers stencils he made out of sheet metal. Love it! I’d just hang them on a wall or put them in a long picture frame. You have wonderful storage.
Ceri: your craft studio is so bright, organized and looks like a nice place to create. I enjoyed the tour. It’s always fun to see where a friend spends time to craft. Thank you. Carol from California
Thank you, my HP seems to have lost momentum, I’ve added all of the photographs from my visit to HP world but not gone any further, I think I’m going to revisit HP world and reignite my love of it also expand the journal to include the fantastical beasts and secrets of Dumbledore movies as I feel it’s right to add them.
What a beatiful and organized craft cave. I also can't work in a cluttery space it makes me nervous and then I can't find my mojo so I fully understand 😉
You did a great job with the camera Ceri. It's way too easy to forget to look through the camera instead of what you're looking at whilst showing things off, I tend to forget as well lol. I love how your room has changed and how much you have grown into it from the first video tour 😊 xoxo
Impossible to thank you enough. Your craft cave is absolutely fantastic! I don't just watch your videos, I drink them in. Your taste and creativity is awe inspiring. Your humor is refreshing. The life stories are so heart touching. 💕Thank you, Cari the Crafter💕
You have done a lovely job of setting up a wonderful creative "cave" for yourself. I'm in the process of a complete change in mine. Ceri I have a question about the metal ring you are using for your little "play time cards"; what is it and where can I get them? It doesn't look like a typical "book ring". Thank you again for sharing with us.😊
Hi Linda, they are stainless steel screw locking wire keychain cables, I got them on eBay and stole the idea from Tim Holtz as he uses them a lot. I find them better that rings fir some project as they’re flexible.
I love your space! I tend to be like you, need an organized space simply because I can’t work in chaos, but will say when doing a project as I work I make a mess then I have to put everything back in it’s place when done! Anyway love your space and your work! Hugs from Texas!
What a treasure trove, Ceri! I appreciate your organisation. It’s practical and aesthetically pleasing, even your boring area.😆 I really love your drawer units and boxes that you’ve decorated and collaged, especially the green one with the roses. I understand the need to be somewhat tidy to avoid that overwhelm…thank you for taking us on the tour…♥️
Bravo! 👏👏👏 Great job of showing us a functional craft space.. sometimes I feel as though videos of this kind are more for showing off what one has than to actually show how a space can work for us! You’re amazing! Ty! 💜💜💜
Aw, Ceri, this was so wonderful. You have it so well organized and you are a true inspiration. Thank you!
Thank you Kathy
Thankyou for showing us your beautiful carft room I enjoyed it 🦋💕
Ceri - Recently new to your channel and I'm already addicted to your creativity. You've led such a varied successful life and I could listen to your stories while you create beauty forever and a day. Your craft room is so impressive - very practically organised. You have so many strings to your bow. Absolutely adored the beautiful flowers, lamps, fairies' houses - just everything. So many videos of yours I'll have to catch up. Thank you so much for sharing your artistic talents with us. Australia - Annette. 🦋
Thank you Annette and welcome to my channel.
Ceri, I love how organized you are especially with all the hats you wear. I adore your videos! I am new to the world of Junk Journaling and have enjoyed your tutorials which are very newbie friendly as well as someone who has been journaling for awhile ❤️
Fabulous thank you.
Ceri, what a wonderful creative space, it's great that you know what you need to work at your best. You did a great job to keep the camera straight and thanks for the inspiration.
Organization is my love language and I’m in love with your craft cave! 😍❤️🥰
I love the size of your room ! Your very organized which helps lol my favourites is the file cabinet , vintage lace and doilies and those keys! You have a lovely room to create! Take care
Thank you so much Ceri, it is grand, I am reworking my craft room. I just today, took stamps to Salvation Army. I cleared 5 shelves - from my book shelves. I am no longer keeping small scraps of paper. Not going to house trash. Nope getting things in order and labeled!! Thank you for the inspiration- to - keep pressing on..
Cynthia no body has to be completed organised but personally it helps me function better.
I’m afraid you would flat line if you saw my workshop. My husband is a leather worker and I’m a papercrafter, so the workshop has a wall down the Center with sliding doors. It is somewhat organized but it’s a constant work in progress. I was/am a seamstress, then a quilter, beads, then sea glass art, I like thrifting, now paper …so now the workshop is remnants of all :-). Thankfully I’m now retired. I don’t think I’m capable as brig as retired as you are but I wish I were. Thank you for sharing your wonderful craft studio.
I have learnt that people can thrive in disorder I just know that I can’t, it matters not the surroundings you create in, just that you create. Have a fun year.
Wow, I bet there’s some treasures in there.
Love your organization style...yes it's important to not have a mess because that can stop you from wanting to create. Love following this video 😊
Thanks so much! 😊
Love how you organize your supplies! I will use your washie tape storage idea as well as your ribbon organization! Thanks so much!!
Thank you for sharing your well organized craft cave. I also shut down amid visual chaos. The challenge is real and ever evolving, as you say. I’m impressed with all you accomplish. You seem to know and accept yourself well. Very admirable, Ceri. 😊
Thank you
Loving your sewing cupboard and the old type writer very cool...all round a good work room. The litte extras you have made fill it with personality too which I like to see
Thank you
Really enjoyed the tour. I'm 72 & my space will never look like that! I'm retired sorta but have no excuse to not be a neat crafter. Thanks for sharing your lovely area. Love your channel.
Thank you Nanci.
Thank you for the tour..it's lovely to be able to picture where you are while we're watching your videos!
My pleasure 😊 Tracey
47:59 ... another face! Left of your hand. Too funny. Omg how inspiring are all these organizational examples. Comparing what doesn't work in my area with new ideas from yours, thank you so much. I know it must've took some effort to arrange this, so appreciated 🥰
Thank you, I always feel I’m never alone when creating.
@@CeriGriffiths we never are! So much influence, it's like a gathering of the minds 🥰 I was looking through books bound for the dump, and ran across 2 childhood favorites... The Secret Garden, and Bridge to Tarabithia, the latter having my favorite teacher's name on the inside cover. It's from her classroom from eons ago. I'm going to ask her to sign it so it can stay on my shelf so she'll always be there to remind me why I love book pages to begin with! 🥰🥰🥰
Oh so wish you lived in my neighborhood. Inspirational for sure. The lit bottles are gorgeous, can't wait to see the production of a fairy house and please don't forget Harry Potter. Thanks again for all that you do to keep creativity alive and well. My craft cave has morphed over time. It seems to be a picture of the condition of my mind at any one time. I'm with you, I clean up my mess after each project. Then I jump in and mess it up again. Blessings to you, Ceri
Daphne, my to do list is miles long but I’ll get there eventually
@@CeriGriffiths Have a wonderful holiday and a very Merry Christmas to you. My to do lists seem to turn in to more todo lists.... and the list goes on.
The magical cave from the "master magician". You wave your wand ( the camera ) and inspire us!!! What a treat!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much .
Lol, I’m not Harry Potter but I’m willing to have a go at most things and take you all along with me so we can all learn and experience the outcomes.
Craft rooms are always constantly evolving.
Mine is constantly moving around to suit my requirements
Ceri I’m so glad I can have I face to the voice that tell you how to play and have fun journaling….
Thank you Estella
Thank you for sharing a little bit of Ceri with us. I enjoyed every bit of the tour. We are a lot alike in that i need order and tidiness to create otherwise i get overwhelmed and shut down. I appreciate you❤️
Thank you Sonia
Very interesting, organized but also little bit of chaos, just like all of us the DIY/Creative people…….woohooo nearly 50 K! Go for it
Thank you, yeah almost 50K, I can’t believe it, for me it’s about the quality of subscribers and not the numbers so my followers have organically grown over the years and I love the community we’ve all created. Having more followers has enabled me to be able to share skills and support so many more in our creativity community and I love it.
What a lovely tour! Thank you for this. Not only does it give me ideas, it gives me hope that I'll one day get my room set up in a way that I can just walk in and get to crafting.
You and I are so similar in our tastes (I will say I'm a little less butterfly and a little more Halloween, but that's the only difference I've spotted so far, lol). As you were walking around and describing your set up, it made something click for me. I think I've been trying to organize in too strict categories. Your way is much more practical and probably easier to maintain.
Thank you for the tour and for all the ideas!
Thank you Linda I think my organisation is a bit organic in that it changes when my focus changes...........I can also be a little more Halloween but I’m still exploring my style in that.
Hi Ceri. I found this video a few days ago and have been looking forward to watching it while doing chores; watched it the first time while stirring some tapioca pudding that my hubby loves. Started watching it again more closely while folding laundry tonight. I love how you display pieces you’ve made, and how you covered storage boxes with your beautiful gelli prints. It makes your space so personal and inviting! I’m so inspired to decorate some of my storage pieces and include more things that I love into my creative space! I love the greenery too; I am a plant lover as well. My desk is fairly deep, so I placed several wooden ikea drawer units along the back for markers, cutouts of flowers, birds and butterflies from wrapping paper, tags I’ve die cut, and other small bits and bobs. I plan to paint the fronts with chalkboard paint and label with a chalk marker since the contents tend to change. I do love your collaged drawer fronts though. My desk sits in front of 3 tall narrow windows, so of course I have covered the tops of the drawer units with several houseplants. I hand painted some of the clay pots Mary Engelbreit style, as she is my favorite designer. I fell in love with her colorful, whimsical style many years ago, and she inspires me to create with joy. I would love to know more about your beautiful bottle lamps, as well as your fairy houses. Please consider doing tutorials for these projects. I’m also interested in your sectioned ephemera boxes, but I see you have a video up already, thanks. I’m interested in your ephemera book as well. Thanks so much for sharing your creative space with us, it really inspired me to organize my space a bit better. I really could use some project bins to help corral the clutter.
Thank you Linda, you’ve pretty much named the videos that are on my “To Film” list, the fairy houses, the bottles and the ephemera folio are on the list but they require time to film and I never seem to have enough of that commodity, one day they will be made I promise.
Recently moved & upsized, and now I have an office. Am in the process of settling in & getting organized & looking at what others have done with their craft rooms. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts & your systems. Thanks so much.
You are so welcome
I liked the way you arranged your artistic tools in an elegant and easy way, enabling you to find what you want to use in your work, and I think that from here we have a motive in creating a new idea for a work of art. Thank you for sharing your inspiration with us.
My studio does change regularly to my requirements.
I'm right there with you when you speak of keeping things tidy. It takes less time to keep things straight than to have to clean up an area that looks like a bomb exploded. I am also someone that does not believe in maintaining a lot of supplies. Most everything I do is done digitally. I use digital kits from Etsy as well as images I get off the internet to make my books. I do not sell anything and I only have one friend who will even look at what I create so it makes no difference where I get my images. I use Photoshop to audition various graphics to create a page. When I decide on what images I want to use, I size each piece to fit the design I like for the page. Each element is printed separately, cut out individually and adhered to the page to match the design on the computer screen. My craft room is one corner of my bedroom. I have an "L" shaped computer desk where my computer is on one desk, the printer is on the connecting piece and the second desk holds my Cricut die cutting machine and is where I put my pages together. Crafting is a hobby that passes time for me in my retirement. I have too many other interests in my life to allow crafting to become an obsession. Neat and orderly and minimum space is what makes crafting stay in its place in my life. Otherwise, I would be wasting money chasing after that next piece of supply I see others on UA-cam using. Too many children going hungry in the world to allow that to happen.
I hear you, we must all find our own personal balance with creativity. I have a fair amount of supplies but I do use them all as I run my business and income streams from my creative space and all of my jobs are art related, I’m definitely not a hoarder of art supplies. I also use photoshop to create my digitals however I’m currently experience software issues with photoshop so that’s got to get that sorted. Enjoy your art and stay safe.
Love your tour of your studio!! You gave us SO MANY IDEAS for how to store things!! Thank you!! 🤗❤️🤗
You’re welcome.
36:00 O!M!G! That filing cabinet is the best thing ever! Never been so jealous lol.
And to think someone was throwing it away.
I love seeing other artists studios. I love your tall skinny paper file. TY for sharing. 😊🎃
You’re welcome and thank you for watching
Wow, I 💕 your Studio space. What a beautiful job you have done. It is so beautiful and looks very functional. I have to laugh because my workspace is a nightmare of a disorganized mess. I can’t find the top of my table🤣. How on earth do you keep so organized working on multiple projects at one time? I have the wonderful luxury of having an 8 foot by a 5 foot wide cutting table that my father made for me a long time ago and I absolutely treasure it, but when I work I find myself with such a disorganized mess that I only have about 6 inches of space to work 😂
Lol........I think because I’m OCD it makes me control my working areas, if I get overwhelmed with clutter I shut down and don’t even want to go into my room let alone create. Tidying up at the end of each day gives me a sense of accomplishment although I only tidy if the project is completed as it makes no sense cleaning up when I’m back in there the next morning. I also destash regularly, because I demonstrate on shipping channel TV shows it’s easy to accumulate masses of free supplies so I pass them on, it’s my way of supporting others.
That was a fun tour! Ceri, you have created a wonderful warm and bright craft room where you can work and play, thank you for sharing it with us! 😊
Thank you Janny, you’re welcome.
That’s a great craft room! Nicely organized & a desk that fits you, I’m short so I don’t have that issue! I’m a pack rat but I’m setting up a new space for my crafts, so I have incorporated many shelves, baskets & drawer sets such as yours. I bought 2 rolling carts (which won’t be moving) with 20 drawers each, that are probably about half the size as your wall of trays. And much like you, each holds a specific type of craft. My favorite are the drawers that hold all my black & white products & the other has all my metallic products. That way I no longer have to look for look through paint, pencils, markers, inks, etc. to find every product! Thank you for giving us a peek at nearly everything in your space, it’s a very airy & bright room, with a definite feel of serenity! It is your happy & safe place! Erica❤
Thank you Erica and good luck developing your own creative space, I’ve found with mine every so many months things get moved around as I’m constantly changing my needs so things get moved nearer me. I feel a creative space is a living thing and morphs into whatever you require at the time.
@@CeriGriffiths thank you!
Loved taking a tour of your creative space. I feel the same way about tidiness in my craft room. As soon as I am through with a project, everything has to go back where it belongs. You have a lovely space. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thank you Tonya.
Great job! Nicely done! So totally my craft space! I tried my hand a couple of years ago making fairy castles and lit Halloween haunts. My grand daughter just said today, that she wished I’d do some more of it. I had completely forgotten I had all those supplies ‘safely tucked away’ I tend to jump from one medium to another as my interest dulls or brights to the subjects. Thank you for sharing your talents! Keep it up!
Katie I think if you’re a creative person you naturally jump between mediums and interests.
lol I actually squealed like a child GNOMES!!!!!! Ok, I’m ok now lol. Please do not think I’m not excited about your happy space (my pet name for my creative area so calling your cave same now lol) I’m so happy to see this unfold. Yes I realize I’m years behind, n please lord do not tell me the gnome is gone, I’ll be crushed.
lol….the gnome was a gift and moves around the studio from time to time.
Ceri, thank you so very much for this leisurely tour of your art space. I was inspired to take a much more close look at my own space and how I might better utilize it. I am already seeing many more possibilities!
Wonderful!
Perfect Studio!! Positive Blessings, vibes peace, health and happiness! Namesta ✌️🐞🕉️
Thank you and the same to you.
Those mark making impression plates look very intriguing, I do hope you do more on that really soon!
Yes I do have a video planned on how I create them it’s just getting the time nowadays that life has returned to relative normality .
@@CeriGriffiths good, I'll look forward to that.
I love that file cabinet you store your paper in! 😊
I saved it from land fill and painted it.
Your craft cave is brilliant! The washi storage I think is the best way I have ever seen it stored. I have to-do totes for all my ideas and like you I get over whelmed seeing all the things I want to do. I am intrigued to see the dragon eggs you might make, my boys would love them. Love the drawer of crows, too funny 😄. You have done a great job in designing your cave and I hope you have lots of hours of crafting in it. Thank you for giving us a tour.
Thank you Ann, the dragon eggs are still an idea, not sure how I’m doing them yet but as I normally do I get an idea and let it mature in my imagination.
I enjoyed the tour of your room. Soooooo many interesting projects you have created. My favorite pieces are the bottles that light up. Would love for you to do a tutorial on how to make them!😊
Thank you, I’ve not done a bottle tutorial as there are loads already out there, but I’ll give it some thought.
Great idea 💡 those bottles are really special. I'd love to see yr tutorial on them!
I love your 12 x 12 storage containers. Those would save me a lot of headaches. I also love your bottle lamp with the blue and dragonflies. Those are two of my favorites also. Thank you so much for sharing your space with us
Glad you like them, thank you.
I love that you call your space the “Craft Cave”. I have a large (20 X 40’) converted third car garage. I call it my “Girl Garage” instead of a “She Shed”. I moved from a small 10 X 10’ bedroom. I have learned that it doesn’t matter how much space you have, it will never be enough! You always find things to fill it up! I’m pretty organized, but you are the MASTER!
Lol......you’re do right all space is never enough space.
Thoroughly enjoyed a day in yr cave Ceri. Like you I have to have some semblance of order especially after those blah days it makes it easily more inviting to start or continue a project.
Storing 12x12 I'm just about to see if I can get some new Pizza boxes cover and label them. Easily stackable in apartment space. Enjoy all you create and grateful for excellent directions. 👍
Thank you, I once tried pizza boxes as storage but because I couldn’t see the stuff inside I tended to ignore it, clear boxes are a better reminder for me.
Hi, Ceri😂 thanks for giving me ideas for my craft space. Love your organization ❤️ of your area. Very inspired .
Very nice. I like tidy. You ARE tidy! Congrats on this finished Art Cave! Great ideas, especially the washi storage. Thanks, Ceri.
You’re welcome Sally
Ceri, really love this vid. Inspired a few ideas for my own space. Especially appreciated your comments toward the end about the ever evolving nature of art space organization. That happens for me too, only I didn't know it happens for others too, which made me feel crazy. Now I feel better about my ongoing rearranging of my stuff.😊
So glad, thank you
Thank you for sharing your working space. I think your space is neat and tidy. You have organised very well.😊
Thank you Grace its what works for me.
I absolutely love to listen to you, the fact that you just continue when you flub on a word and you show the real unfinished projects. Watching you makes me realize that not all journalers lives are perfect finished projects. Thank you for being REAL.
Yup sometimes my mind says one word but my mouth says another, I always try to keep it real because perfection is unattainable.
You are so kind to share your expertise. Thanks from America!!!
So nice of you, thank you Gail
Phenomenal. I wish I could have my craft room as neat and organized.
Neatness doesn’t work for everyone but it certainly works for my creativity.
You've done so much with a small space. Great storage ideas. Thanks! Mr. Ceri.
I love my craft cave, it’s my special place.
I’m like you I can’t create in a disorganized space. I got some good ideas from seeing your organization. Thanks❤️🇨🇦
Fabulous.
Absolutely beautiful and organized. Thanks for sharing and giving me some ideas for storage and organizing.
You’re welcome Marla
Amazingly organized. Anyone would be lucky to have such a wonderful crafty room. So happy you have it! Thanks so much for sharing with us!
Thank you Jamie, it took 60 years for me to finally get my own creative space and it took two years of saving to be able to afford to do it and it’s my retreat from the world and I love it.
Such a beautiful creative place to work! I'm hoping to get mine done this year! I've been unwell for five years so I'm praying that this is the year I get to be in my creative space again! You did a beautiful job designing your space. Love your videos. They always make me smile!!!
Thank you Sarah and good luck and wishes on making it back into your creative space soon.
Wow! Your organizational abilities with all your projects and supplies is impressive. I have a very small office/craft space that is very small (with three craft carts, IKEA art drawers, and WAY too much stuff) and I have to keep it organized, but your space is wonderful!😀🇨🇦
Thank you so much, it took 60 years before I was able to have my own space for creativity but it was well worth the wait.
Such an enjoyable video! I think you need to find a way to display the stencils cut by your grandfather, and maybe add some of the keys, etc. from your grandmother. Such a gift to own things like that from your family!
You’re right, I’m just undecided how.......too many options.
Thanks so much for the tour Ceri! I love it all!😄❤️See you soon.
I’ll be doing my yearly update from the craft cave soon.
Thank you, I’m changing a bedroom too, well in a few months.
Fabulous, take your time with the change and expect the room to decide where things will end up as you become one with your craft room, mine has changed almost monthly but now I think it’s settled into its current format which works for the way in which I create.
@@CeriGriffiths thank you for taking the time to give me your advice ❤️❤️❤️
You're stop fortunate to have such a large nice neat organized craft/etc...room! I love everything about it!
Thank you and I’m aware that it’s a special place, it took me 60yrs to get my own creative space and two years of saving to make it happen, I feel so blessed to have it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this tour! Can I come shop in your craft room? I saw some things I’d like. 😂 I didn’t just drool over the lace drawer, I almost cried. I had crocheted doilies and things my grandma made. She crocheted and tatted, if that’s the right word. I no longer have it all. My husband died New Years Eve 2012. After 1 1/2 years my daughter wanted me to move in with her. She wanted to have an estate sale, actually she just wanted my stuff gone, because of course I couldn’t keep my houseful of belongings. I was having mental health issues and was kind of out of it. So most of my belongings were sold. I called it the great purge. I had so many stamps that I loved. She let me pack 3 small moving boxes from my craft room so I did salvage some stamps. She hated my things. Now I live alone and I’ve had to build my craft supplies back up. I wish I had your storage. I live in a one bedroom deluxe apartment which just means my bedroom is a bit bigger so the one end is my craft area. I have stuff in my walk-in closet, in the hall closet. I’m going to have to live a long time to use everything and I’m already 69. With fibromyalgia and depression. I guess I do the best I can. Your videos cheer me up. You are a lovely person and I admire all you do and I appreciate your sharing your talent with us. One more thing and I will quit babbling. Was that an old iron on the floor by the door? I had one, no idea whose it was but I loved it. Unfortunately it was a victim of the great purge.
Martha so sorry your supplies were taken from you without you having enough time to truly consider what went and what will stay, I feel for you as I’d be lost if someone just got rid of some of my favourite items. Yes that is a very old iron I use as a door stop, it is one that you used to have to put on the range to heat it up before pressing, I love it. Good luck with your future creativity.
Thanks for sharing your space. The thing I appreciate the most is not only is it organized, it's personalized by you decorating the storage boxes and drawers etc. It keeps it feeling creative and not like a craft room built by ikea or the container store. I love it ❤
Thank you Laura. I feel surrounding myself with things I’ve created helps keep my negative thoughts at bay.
That was a great video! Thank you so much for sharing your organizational tricks with us! Love that you have to have everything neat, tidy and organized. I feel the same way.
Thank you
Such a pleasant space to create! Wonderfully executed!👍
Thank you
I enjoyed the tour. Thank you.
Thank you for your generous sharing of your skills and processes. I have just found your channel and have been binge watching and soaking up inspiration. Thank you and best wishes from the west end of Lake Ontario and home of the Urquhart Butterfly Garden🤗( the Urquharts discovered that the Monarch Butterflies migrate to Mexico!!)
Interesting
So organised. My craft room would give you nightmares! I like to think of it as a work in progress, I have started to do some serious de-stashing.However if things are too neat I find that I cannot create.
Lucy, the secret is to find the balance between clutter and creativity that works for you personally, I just get overwhelmed by mess and shut down.
A wonderful multipurpose room. I agree that large or small, one has to be organized in order to do creative work. Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed it! 🎨
Thank you.
Love all the decorated boxes. Dragon Eggs, Ooh sounds fun. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Lol...yes they do.
I enjoyed the tour of your craft cave! The light bottles are so cool as are the little houses. Love the Ikea metal drawers. Looks like they provide a great storage area.
They certainly do and thank you for your kind comments.
Really enjoyed seeing your art studio. You are quite organized. I got several ideas, thank you for sharing
You’re welcome
You are so organized. Enjoyed video. Thx.
Austin,TX USA
Thank you
At 19.20 - I LOVE that green face! For me it's the most interesting looking thing in that bookring bound selection of cards. It's lovely, tell me more about that.
Fran it was just an idea, I was trying to create a dragon looking through a tear in reality, it didn’t quite work as I wanted but it will eventually become a larger and more detailed piece, I just need to work on it further in my imagination.
Omg! I finally found someone that thinks and feels like I do 😁 I can’t be creative in a mess. I feel the same way overwhelmed when there’s a mess. I have to clean up after each project and I have everything organized because I found myself years ago buying stuff I already had thus spending extra money 😕 I’m so happy to be an organization person. It really works for me.
When I see some creators with rooms in a mess ugh 😣 it makes me feel so overwhelmed 🤦🏼♀️ stupid I know. Anyhoo I’m glad I bumped into your channel 🙂
I’m in America Massachusetts 👋🏼😘
Hello and welcome, yes mess overwhelms and distracts me, but we must all find our own acceptable level of clutter.
I loved seeing your studio, and love seeing your fairy houses ❤️❤️❤️, I’m like you I need to be organized. I have finally figured out a system for storage that is working, but it took me a year since I moved my studio ,. As we work in our studios things finally tell us where they need to live. 😉
Your studio is so warm, friendly and inviting, i love it. Thank you again, Ceri, for sharing your “safe space” with us and sharing your ideas. ❤️
Thank you Sandi and you’re right our supplies tell use where they want to live.
👁👁. OMG❗️ How I would luv to stand in the middle of this Fantasy Room & just ABSORB it’s Vibrations‼️ Thank you sooo very much for sharing such a personal space... I found new ways for storage - Your video opened new/fun/less-ridged ideas, I had not thought of before❣️
🙋♀️ Your new fan DIANNE,
from 🌵🌵🌵🌵Arizona, USA - March 2022
Thank you Dianne and welcome.
Thanks!
Thank you to much Nancy that will go towards art supplies for future videos.
Thankyou for your delightful craftroom tour, your storage units are the envy of many a crafter i'm sure. I wish i had a spare room. Many great ideas for organization & creative inspirations for projects. I have just started putting together all the bits & bobs, papers & parts, stamps & ribbons 'one needs' for journal making. I'm a newbie and enjoy following & learning from several artists on youtube that excell at it.
Donita, I’m very luck to have a spare room to run my creative life from and I never take that for granted but for years I used to have a couple of boxes under my bed. The important thing is that you give yourself time now and then to create, it’s good for us all to escape the real world occasionally. Good luck on your artistic journey.
Heerlijke kamer. Ik heb ook een grote kamer voor mijzelf. Geniet er elke dag van. En ik heb ook heel veel spullen van alle hobby’s. Dus heel herkenbaar. 😊
Thank you
I love your craft space and all the pieces that you have used to organize everything. I watched this video last night and was so inspired. I spent all day today cleaning my craft area. I have a very small space but seeing how you organized really helped. My craft area looks so much better this evening, I have a lot more organizing to do, but I wanted to say thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you and I’m so pleased you found it useful.
Fantastic video!! So cool that you have your grandfathers stencils he made out of sheet metal. Love it! I’d just hang them on a wall or put them in a long picture frame.
You have wonderful storage.
Thank you sending that’s a great idea.
That hoops for washie is awesome
I love them best thing I’ve discovered so far for storage.
Ceri: your craft studio is so bright, organized and looks like a nice place to create. I enjoyed the tour. It’s always fun to see where a friend spends time to craft. Thank you. Carol from California
Thank you Carol.
Thank you so much for sharing your craft room I enjoyed the journey!
Thank you Enid
Great room ceri would love to see the harry potter journal im mad about anything harry potter love the draws you have papered Great video as always 😘
Thank you, my HP seems to have lost momentum, I’ve added all of the photographs from my visit to HP world but not gone any further, I think I’m going to revisit HP world and reignite my love of it also expand the journal to include the fantastical beasts and secrets of Dumbledore movies as I feel it’s right to add them.
What a beatiful and organized craft cave. I also can't work in a cluttery space it makes me nervous and then I can't find my mojo so I fully understand 😉
I thought there’d be more than just me. Lol
The room very very good. I'm happy. 😊 creative greetings from.Berlin...from.Kerstin 😊
Thanks so much! 😊
You did a great job with the camera Ceri. It's way too easy to forget to look through the camera instead of what you're looking at whilst showing things off, I tend to forget as well lol.
I love how your room has changed and how much you have grown into it from the first video tour 😊 xoxo
Thank you I think I’ll be doing a yearly tour to see how it and I develop.
Impossible to thank you enough. Your craft cave is absolutely fantastic! I don't just watch your videos, I drink them in. Your taste and creativity is awe inspiring. Your humor is refreshing. The life stories are so heart touching. 💕Thank you, Cari the Crafter💕
Thank you for your kind comments.
I love watching all of your beautiful ideas
Thanks so much 😊
Ahh! So this is what journal heaven looks like! Wonderful organization of supplies!
Lol.....thank you Ann.
You have done a lovely job of setting up a wonderful creative "cave" for yourself. I'm in the process of a complete change in mine. Ceri I have a question about the metal ring you are using for your little "play time cards"; what is it and where can I get them? It doesn't look like a typical "book ring". Thank you again for sharing with us.😊
Hi Linda, they are stainless steel screw locking wire keychain cables, I got them on eBay and stole the idea from Tim Holtz as he uses them a lot. I find them better that rings fir some project as they’re flexible.
Wow! So organized with great organizational tips! Thank you for sharing with us. Most appreciated! 😊
You’re welcome
I love your space! I tend to be like you, need an organized space simply because I can’t work in chaos, but will say when doing a project as I work I make a mess then I have to put everything back in it’s place when done! Anyway love your space and your work! Hugs from Texas!
Thank you Connie
So lovely! Your room provides a wealth of ideas. Thank you, August 2022.
Thank you Brooke
What a treasure trove, Ceri! I appreciate your organisation. It’s practical and aesthetically pleasing, even your boring area.😆 I really love your drawer units and boxes that you’ve decorated and collaged, especially the green one with the roses. I understand the need to be somewhat tidy to avoid that overwhelm…thank you for taking us on the tour…♥️
You’re welcome.
Wow wow wow. When I grow up I will like to be like you. I’m 60 years old. Lol.
lol......I’m 62 and still don’t feel grown up.
Bravo! 👏👏👏
Great job of showing us a functional craft space.. sometimes I feel as though videos of this kind are more for showing off what one has than to actually show how a space can work for us! You’re amazing! Ty! 💜💜💜
Thank you Debbie, I try to keep it real.
@@CeriGriffiths 🥰💎💜