Really loved this video, but what I love is how "purposeful" you are as you save things. You don't just save to be saving, you have general ideas in mind for most everything, and you seem very good at not letting the collecting, get out of hand and take over your space. You really amaze me!
{hugs} Jen your storage ideas rock! As an older 'collecter' & home health aide, I must warn about recycling's dark side--hoarding. Stress, fear, loss can trigger it, yet the sufferer is unaware. If hobbies /collecting begin to take over couches, beds, tables, counters, eating areas, walkways.. if you can't say no to acquiring, but continue to buy/collect.. if family/friends seem concerned.. those are major symptoms. Watching 'Hoarders' or reading about it can help everyone stay clear.
Thank you so much, sweetie, again for a FAB video!! I kept wanting to reach out and touch pieces of your treasure! I was oooo-ing and aaaw-ing as if I were watching fireworks or something! LOL Yes, I have literally piles of treasures in my bedroom/art room and your tips were so helpful as to how to organize! I have some in bins and storage containers, but you have given me so many new ideas! Thank you! Hugs xoxoxo Wendy I will post a video when I have my new space completed!
Hiya, thank you glad you enjoy them. Yes ideas are like a snowball aren't they - just gather more and more momentum lol thanks for watching, happy creating much love xx
i love organizing my recycled materials as you do i love your ideas also i started doing jewelry my husband is always complaining cause i save everything maybe ill do some videos as-well tanks for sharing
I love this video. This is my second time watching it. I'm drooling over your buttons and metal bits and pieces. I've been working on giving my studio a good clean out and I have so much stuff. Don't know why I want more. It's just so much fun to collect and imagine what you can do with it. We should do a swap. Thank you for your visit on my blog and your nice comments. Diana
I enjoy your videos,and your style.I am a relative 'newby' at art journalling.but in a short time I have gathered a LOT of 'stuff' * I think of new 'projects all the time ! it is such fun and I love it!! You are very inspiring. Thank you soo much for sharing. ;-D
thank you :) UA-cam won't let me add a link in comment but it's on my channel called 'Found Elements (and other) Projects', it is on the second page my videos tab on my channel homepage or in the 'Book Arts and Similar Creations' Playlist
It does accumilate quickly - it's not until you start this you realise how much a normal household throws away!! Awww well watch this space then as I've a feeling you'll be interested in the next mini series of vids I'm doing, clue....it's about attaching but hush hush till they're done (as I can't tell how long it'll take me yet) :) xxx
hey, great vid and love to see all the baubles and bits! and yes, i agree, if you have your findings organized, you are more likely to use them. Once you start making a concerted effort to use found items, junk mail etc...there is so much of it! And it can get out of hand fast. (Ask me how i know....:-)
Although this is an old video I was thrilled to find it. I also have quite a collection, a lot of it came from a friend who had owned a second hand store but was at this point retired. She had a whole bag of old and broken jewelry that she gave me. I of course have used a lot of it by now, but I still have some of it and have collected more since. I went through a period of making bead jewelry and then went off that hobby for a while. I am now starting to make jewelry again along with many other arts and crafts and am finding uses for all the things I have collected. I also have quite a collection of fabric samples that I found at a thrift store for $1 a book. I took all 4 of them!!!! Thrift stores are the best for art supplies as you find so many unique things no one else has!!!
I'm with you, Jenniebellie--I, too, collect things that make my daughters and husband roll their eyes and sigh, but I can't see just loading the landfills with beautiful things I can turn into art. Some of your treasures are just beautiful, and I know you'll make something spectacular with them! I can't wait to see your works!
Oh I could cry I thought I was the only person that collected a whole load of bits n' pieces, things that I say will come in handy sometime. Thankyou for letting me know I'm not the only one out there, infact reading down the comments has never made me happier, woohoo.
wow this is such praise, you make me feel almost not guilty for holding onto as much stuff as I do lol but yes I do try and use everything, I think it's a waste to collect something and never use it (that's why I try not to keep any nice scrapbook papers for those 'special' projects and just use what I feel like), at the same time though I only have one pair of hands and wonder if I'll ever manage to get through it lol thanks for all your lovely comments
Thank you Diana, I know I'm the same, I know I don't NEED more, but that doesn't mean I don't want it lol but I try and limit my bigger collections - such as vintage ephemera until I have used a significant amount for the space required to fill it again. In the beginning I just collected everything I wanted, now my space is low I have to be more careful and use what I have. I'll msg you re: a swap, sounds like fun :) xx
My husband makes fun of me b/c I want to keep things that most people throw away. I had been waiting for him to empty a coffee can to put with my craft items and he through it away. I got so upset with him.. LOL!! Everytime he empted a coffee can he'd throw them away and I have been wanting to keep them. I love to keep things like that and repurpose them! I love looking on UA-cam for new ideas on repurposing items that most people would normally throw out! I think that is one of my favorite type of crafting now. Love your videos and thank you for sharing all your ideas. Blessing to you :)
Yes 'collecting' being the operative word as they always seem to take more...lol and I'm creating out of these nearly every day, yet somehow they still manage to grow!! But don't feel bad about collecting, better it be waiting to be used than in the landfill!!!
I know we live in different countries, but is there a website for the company who makes those FANTASTIC 3-tier deep storage boxes you keep your beads in? I've subscribed to you and SOMEDAY I want to attempt several things you have shown in your videos. (I've been thinking of making a journal of sorts for my 7 year-old great-granddaughter who has moved out of state.) She LOVES paper!
I keep getting asked that a lot so at some point I will, keep an eye out as cannot say when ~ I've so many videos on the go & requested and things etc many thanks
Seeing this makes me think you might be a long lost sister or something! Except you are the way more organised version :) I keep everything and hate throwing pretty stuff away but never get around to using most things so thank you for making me feel better about "hoarding" as over the years people have been very impatient with my "don't make me throw it, one day I'll make something out of it" attitude. Hopefully now my saved things in many many boxes taking up space will get a new life!
OMG - my husband thinks i'm the only one who hoards things like this... I have allsorts just like you, only because we have a large garage - I tend to go large with the collecting of stuff... I also keep the boxes that cat food pouches have come in, dishwasher tablet boxes (very sturdy), lots and lots of tubes, tins, glass jars and pringles tubes - quite a few!!! Thanks for making me feel a bit more normal for collecting all of this stuff... I need to go to a few more car boot sales though as I don't have all of those recycled belts etc but such a great idea. Love your channel! Paula x x
Hi Jennibellie. I'm Asha from Mauritius. Well, I'm so happy to have seen this video. I thought I was the only one collecting bits n pcs. Keep the good work up. Tc. God bless. Bye. 🌹
Hey there yes I've done that before with some buttons, fun but I never can seem to make what I consider a 'perfect' mould...guess that's the beauty of it though lol much love xx
the amount of scrap you have collected is humongous... but i can see that we can use them so well. i feel so sorry now that i have thrown away so many cereal boxes, brochures and several folders..!! thank u so much for making this video.
lol I think I need to be upfront with whoever I live with in the future because saving & recreating things is such a big thing to me that they will need to just accept it straight off lol thanks for watching & for commenting I appreciate it & yeah def start making videos, if you're into them they're loadsa fun =) xx
I glanced at the comments but didnt see what those boxes are you keep your bits in. I heard you say you can buy these boxes....... please tell what those boxes are. Thank you
My goodness, I wish I could just come to your place and spend a day looking and touching all your treasures! You could charge admission =) Thanks for the ideas. I'm getting there, slowly but surely, but wow I have a lot of stuff! It has to be organized, or I just never use it. I love the idea of housing things in those large shopping bags. I seem to have a lot of them from my Mom's stash, and this is a great idea.
Lol...I love it! I have the collecting thing down pat but spend every January trying to find a way to keep it organized. My favorite part was your use of old shirts. My significant other is gone for several months. An email last week started with, "On a scale of 1 to 10 how angry would you be if I cut up a couple of your shirts." Thanks for sharing your treasures!
Awesome, thanks for sharing. I had a bunch of old cheap pieces I was going to trash but now I'm thinking I will take them apart and reuse for crafting :)
This is why I don’t start a new craft. I have yarn for knitting, card stock for making cards, and more fabric than I want to say. We crafty ppl keep lots of things. I have so many things I want to make. My mom was the same way. I told her she could go shopping in her garage. Now it is me. I have so many good books to read. Last night I went shopping in my bookcase. It is so hard to let go of things. We must remember love ppl not things. Or use things not ppl.
Hi Jenni, I really enjoyed seeing how you recycle and store your articles for art projects. So I subscribed to your channel today. TFS Kathy from Boston
jennibellie Thank you Jenni for taking the time to answer my question! Your video's are brilliant and I have found inspiration to return to my own work. God Bless you and keep you!
+jennibellie Hi Jennibellie! I love the Really Useful Boxes! I want to order a few pieces (mainly trays) from them, and I was wondering, what are the sizes of the boxes you're using? You mentioned that one of them is a 9 litre, and another a 4 litre. Is the bead box with the three trays a 9 litre? Also, what size is the one you keep your junk mail in? Thanks so much!! Love your videos!
I make unusual kinds of jewelry. and like to make unique crafts. I live in a senior apt building and people come to me and say.i was going to throw this away..could you use it? I say well I may be able to..so I take it. lol
This could be dangerous. I see the value in recycling, but it can get out of hand, especially if you're so busy collecting that you don't actually create anything. Still, I love these videos.
Really loved this video, but what I love is how "purposeful" you are as you save things. You don't just save to be saving, you have general ideas in mind for most everything, and you seem very good at not letting the collecting, get out of hand and take over your space. You really amaze me!
{hugs} Jen your storage ideas rock! As an older 'collecter' & home health aide, I must warn about recycling's dark side--hoarding. Stress, fear, loss can trigger it, yet the sufferer is unaware. If hobbies /collecting begin to take over couches, beds, tables, counters, eating areas, walkways.. if you can't say no to acquiring, but continue to buy/collect.. if family/friends seem concerned.. those are major symptoms. Watching 'Hoarders' or reading about it can help everyone stay clear.
Very timely video as I am reorganizing my art space. Don't have time to watch now...have placed in my favs to watch later. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you so much, sweetie, again for a FAB video!! I kept wanting to reach out and touch pieces of your treasure! I was oooo-ing and aaaw-ing as if I were watching fireworks or something! LOL Yes, I have literally piles of treasures in my bedroom/art room and your tips were so helpful as to how to organize! I have some in bins and storage containers, but you have given me so many new ideas! Thank you!
Hugs xoxoxo
Wendy
I will post a video when I have my new space completed!
Hiya, thank you glad you enjoy them. Yes ideas are like a snowball aren't they - just gather more and more momentum lol thanks for watching, happy creating much love xx
i love organizing my recycled materials as you do i love your ideas also i started doing jewelry my husband is always complaining cause i save everything maybe ill do some videos as-well tanks for sharing
What a treasure trove you have! Lots of great ideas of what to save and use. Thanks! :)
I love this video. This is my second time watching it. I'm drooling over your buttons and metal bits and pieces. I've been working on giving my studio a good clean out and I have so much stuff. Don't know why I want more. It's just so much fun to collect and imagine what you can do with it. We should do a swap. Thank you for your visit on my blog and your nice comments.
Diana
Love your collection. You have some really neat pieces.
I enjoy your videos,and your style.I am a relative 'newby' at art journalling.but in a short time I have gathered a LOT of 'stuff' * I think of new 'projects all the time ! it is such fun and I love it!!
You are very inspiring. Thank you soo much for sharing. ;-D
thank you :) UA-cam won't let me add a link in comment but it's on my channel called 'Found Elements (and other) Projects', it is on the second page my videos tab on my channel homepage or in the 'Book Arts and Similar Creations' Playlist
Long live car boot sales! I love going there and picking up stuff I'll re-use in a completely different way.
It does accumilate quickly - it's not until you start this you realise how much a normal household throws away!! Awww well watch this space then as I've a feeling you'll be interested in the next mini series of vids I'm doing, clue....it's about attaching but hush hush till they're done (as I can't tell how long it'll take me yet) :) xxx
jennibellie )
I Loved this❤
hey, great vid and love to see all the baubles and bits! and yes, i agree, if you have your findings organized, you are more likely to use them. Once you start making a concerted effort to use found items, junk mail etc...there is so much of it! And it can get out of hand fast. (Ask me how i know....:-)
Although this is an old video I was thrilled to find it. I also have quite a collection, a lot of it came from a friend who had owned a second hand store but was at this point retired. She had a whole bag of old and broken jewelry that she gave me. I of course have used a lot of it by now, but I still have some of it and have collected more since. I went through a period of making bead jewelry and then went off that hobby for a while. I am now starting to make jewelry again along with many other arts and crafts and am finding uses for all the things I have collected. I also have quite a collection of fabric samples that I found at a thrift store for $1 a book. I took all 4 of them!!!! Thrift stores are the best for art supplies as you find so many unique things no one else has!!!
I'm with you, Jenniebellie--I, too, collect things that make my daughters and husband roll their eyes and sigh, but I can't see just loading the landfills with beautiful things I can turn into art. Some of your treasures are just beautiful, and I know you'll make something spectacular with them! I can't wait to see your works!
Oh I could cry I thought I was the only person that collected a whole load of bits n' pieces, things that I say will come in handy sometime. Thankyou for letting me know I'm not the only one out there, infact reading down the comments has never made me happier, woohoo.
I do too. I am 35 now and have done it since I was 7-8 years old.
that is exactly what i call it too , my bits and pieces haha
I do it, too, and ohhhhhhhh do I wish I saved MORE!
Your leather belt with flowers is to die for! That would be a pity to put it apart, it is a piece of Art!
I use those 'really useful boxes' aswell they're really good!!!
wow this is such praise, you make me feel almost not guilty for holding onto as much stuff as I do lol but yes I do try and use everything, I think it's a waste to collect something and never use it (that's why I try not to keep any nice scrapbook papers for those 'special' projects and just use what I feel like), at the same time though I only have one pair of hands and wonder if I'll ever manage to get through it lol thanks for all your lovely comments
I know I love seeing other peoples bits and pieces so can't wait to see your room :)
Thank you Diana, I know I'm the same, I know I don't NEED more, but that doesn't mean I don't want it lol but I try and limit my bigger collections - such as vintage ephemera until I have used a significant amount for the space required to fill it again. In the beginning I just collected everything I wanted, now my space is low I have to be more careful and use what I have. I'll msg you re: a swap, sounds like fun :) xx
My husband makes fun of me b/c I want to keep things that most people throw away. I had been waiting for him to empty a coffee can to put with my craft items and he through it away. I got so upset with him.. LOL!! Everytime he empted a coffee can he'd throw them away and I have been wanting to keep them. I love to keep things like that and repurpose them! I love looking on UA-cam for new ideas on repurposing items that most people would normally throw out! I think that is one of my favorite type of crafting now. Love your videos and thank you for sharing all your ideas. Blessing to you :)
Please do a updated studio tour :) xx
Yes 'collecting' being the operative word as they always seem to take more...lol and I'm creating out of these nearly every day, yet somehow they still manage to grow!! But don't feel bad about collecting, better it be waiting to be used than in the landfill!!!
Love this vid... but I couldnt find the orignal video you said would be best to see what you do with it all.
yes, well English =)
Wow! Love your organization! Can you share what the storage compartments are. I would love to buy them for my storage ❤
I know we live in different countries, but is there a website for the company who makes those FANTASTIC 3-tier deep storage boxes you keep your beads in? I've subscribed to you and SOMEDAY I want to attempt several things you have shown in your videos. (I've been thinking of making a journal of sorts for my 7 year-old great-granddaughter who has moved out of state.) She LOVES paper!
I keep getting asked that a lot so at some point I will, keep an eye out as cannot say when ~ I've so many videos on the go & requested and things etc many thanks
please do a diy paper bead tutorial.
Seeing this makes me think you might be a long lost sister or something! Except you are the way more organised version :) I keep everything and hate throwing pretty stuff away but never get around to using most things so thank you for making me feel better about "hoarding" as over the years people have been very impatient with my "don't make me throw it, one day I'll make something out of it" attitude. Hopefully now my saved things in many many boxes taking up space will get a new life!
OMG - my husband thinks i'm the only one who hoards things like this... I have allsorts just like you, only because we have a large garage - I tend to go large with the collecting of stuff... I also keep the boxes that cat food pouches have come in, dishwasher tablet boxes (very sturdy), lots and lots of tubes, tins, glass jars and pringles tubes - quite a few!!! Thanks for making me feel a bit more normal for collecting all of this stuff... I need to go to a few more car boot sales though as I don't have all of those recycled belts etc but such a great idea. Love your channel! Paula x x
how did you do the binding on the music note booklet? it looks nice :)
Hi Jennibellie. I'm Asha from Mauritius. Well, I'm so happy to have seen this video. I thought I was the only one collecting bits n pcs. Keep the good work up. Tc. God bless. Bye. 🌹
Hey there yes I've done that before with some buttons, fun but I never can seem to make what I consider a 'perfect' mould...guess that's the beauty of it though lol much love xx
Do you have an updated version of this video? Can you make one please when you reorganize?
the amount of scrap you have collected is humongous... but i can see that we can use them so well. i feel so sorry now that i have thrown away so many cereal boxes, brochures and several folders..!! thank u so much for making this video.
Thank you so much 😊 lovely talk through of beautiful things.
great video, going to start collecting things now
lol I think I need to be upfront with whoever I live with in the future because saving & recreating things is such a big thing to me that they will need to just accept it straight off lol thanks for watching & for commenting I appreciate it & yeah def start making videos, if you're into them they're loadsa fun =) xx
Ever get the feeling that we can collect faster than we can use lol. It's like living in a storage unit.
😂 True!
Viva la Booties!!! lol and we're getting back into the booting season whoop!!
I glanced at the comments but didnt see what those boxes are you keep your bits in. I heard you say you can buy these boxes....... please tell what those boxes are. Thank you
My goodness, I wish I could just come to your place and spend a day looking and touching all your treasures! You could charge admission =) Thanks for the ideas. I'm getting there, slowly but surely, but wow I have a lot of stuff! It has to be organized, or I just never use it. I love the idea of housing things in those large shopping bags. I seem to have a lot of them from my Mom's stash, and this is a great idea.
Lol...I love it! I have the collecting thing down pat but spend every January trying to find a way to keep it organized. My favorite part was your use of old shirts. My significant other is gone for several months. An email last week started with, "On a scale of 1 to 10 how angry would you be if I cut up a couple of your shirts." Thanks for sharing your treasures!
Aww thanks, I don't feel that way myself lol but that's a lovely comment thanks =) x
Awesome, thanks for sharing. I had a bunch of old cheap pieces I was going to trash but now I'm thinking I will take them apart and reuse for crafting :)
I have similar collections of stuff. My family calls me a hoarder...I just tell them I'm creative. :)
wow! another hoarder like me! I can see value in all kinds of things. You have such good ideas of how to use them.x
Oh I see Sweepie on the tin! ;-)
This is why I don’t start a new craft. I have yarn for knitting, card stock for making cards, and more fabric than I want to say. We crafty ppl keep lots of things. I have so many things I want to make. My mom was the same way. I told her she could go shopping in her garage. Now it is me. I have so many good books to read. Last night I went shopping in my bookcase. It is so hard to let go of things. We must remember love ppl not things. Or use things not ppl.
Hi Jenni, I really enjoyed seeing how you recycle and store your articles for art projects. So I subscribed to your channel today. TFS Kathy from Boston
brilliant!
I see you don't throw anything away. Thrifty
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Thank you. I am taking apart a necklace as I am watching. I collect stuff but trying to keep it under control ;o))
have done, there's a couple of my channel =) xx
Where did you find the large tray compartment boxes you are storing your beds?
denalees they are by really useful storage company denalees =)
jennibellie In the UK?
denalees yes, but I know people in America who have them so think they're available internationally, I'd say a check online is your best bet =)
jennibellie Thank you Jenni for taking the time to answer my question! Your video's are brilliant and I have found inspiration to return to my own work. God Bless you and keep you!
+jennibellie Hi Jennibellie! I love the Really Useful Boxes! I want to order a few pieces (mainly trays) from them, and I was wondering, what are the sizes of the boxes you're using? You mentioned that one of them is a 9 litre, and another a 4 litre. Is the bead box with the three trays a 9 litre? Also, what size is the one you keep your junk mail in? Thanks so much!! Love your videos!
im english too screen high five!!!!!!
what is the company of the storage boxes that you have your beads on ?
Where did you purchase the bead container?
Jennibelle ... you and I are soul sisters..lol Wish you were in the States... We'd open a shop!
Can we see the projects you have made with your lovely treasures?
I make unusual kinds of jewelry. and like to make unique crafts. I live in a senior apt building and people come to me and say.i was going to throw this away..could you use it? I say well I may be able to..so I take it. lol
Great for going zéro waste
you sound like your British. r u ??
This could be dangerous. I see the value in recycling, but it can get out of hand, especially if you're so busy collecting that you don't actually create anything. Still, I love these videos.
Where did you find those containers with insert trays?