Creatively Tinkering

 Just thought I'd share some fun nail art for the holidays. Nail art is something that allows me to quell my creative desires when I don't have the time or the energy to start a more involved project. Granted depending on the complexity of the design, it could take a significant amount of time to do the nail art. However I find the process to be soothing and the outcome to be totally worth the time put into it. Anyway I was looking for something fun and Christmasy to do on my nails, after perusing my Funky and Fun Nail DIY board on pinterest I ended up combining elements from a couple different inspirations for my nails (check out my pinterest boards here: https://www.pinterest.com/Cr8tivelyTinker/ ). It also helped that my mother in law recently got me a gift set of OPI nail polish in many different colors. Can I just say, I'm in nail polish heaven right now! Here are the nail looks that inspired me, all of these were found on pinterest and can be seen on my Funky and Fu...

 Well hey there! Long time no see or, in this case, write. Its been nearly 3 months since my 'woes me' post about adulting getting in my creative way. While I really and truly want to make this blog thing work, I think I needed the time that I didn't spend on it to regroup myself. Truth is its very easy for me to put WAY too much on my plate. So since that post a plan/schedule has come to fruition in order to allay my fears of not getting all the things done. Whether those things happen to be housekeeping, exercising, gaming or crafting. Its been a subtle and gradual change but so far it seems to be working. That skirt I cut out, what feels like months ago, is very nearly done. Its a shame though, because I didn't think to take photos of the process. Mostly because it was such a pleasure to be making something in that moment.  Now it was mentioned in the last post that pictures had been taken of some nail art I had done as well as some peach cobbler that I had made. Af...

 Well its been almost two months since last I posted. Yeah, so much for that trickle of blog posts, it turned into more of a dead stop. That has a great deal with the fact that being an adult is wickedly time consuming, especially if you're an adult with a 40 hour work week. Add to that the incessant and nagging voice of my inner adult telling me to do my household chores before I do fun things and the fact that my job sucks out what little motivation I may have had to even perform my adulting duties when I get home.  Its been a bit rough for me the past two months if you can't tell. Been having lots of trouble working out time management. There is just sooo much I want to do, and what feels like so little time to do it. Its a struggle to work on making time for everything, but at least its a work in progress. It is starting to get a bit better though. A lot of my issue stems from needing to make myself a schedule to do all the things I want to do. Granted this kind of works ...

 It is done! It took two weekends but the cleaning and reorganization of my sewing/craft room is finished. Let's start with the status of the closet. As you know it was a hot mess of crazy and inefficiency. In my previous post I only managed to get it part way done because a few more storage supplies were needed. After a trip to Target, more storage bins were acquired and organizing began again. Take a look at the before and after photos below: Before Midway through process After  At the beginning there was a terrible mess in my closet, midway through it was looking better and the finished look is fantastic! The Pinterest idea of using 5 tiered pant hangers works so well for me (you can see it in this post: I heart Organizing ). Now all the fabric I have is visible, tagged with the length and width of the fabric and its all easily accessible. Which of course made me want to immediately start working on projects. But I reigned myself in...

 So this weekend I finally got a chance to start in on the crazy that is my sewing/craft room. Below you'll find some before pictures that show off the sorry state my room is in. I'm not sure how or when my sewing/craft room got like this, but I'm relatively sure it correlates with when I started doing conventions. The methods employed for maintaining organization worked for my occasional projects here and there, but then more supplies, fabric and notions started filling every nook and cranny whenever there was a convention to prep for. Before I knew it I was inundated with a whole mess of stuff. My cubby shelf that needs some work. View from the open door. My sewing/crafting table.  From the pictures its a little hard to get an idea of the size of the room, let me just say that it is not big. I don't know the exact measurements, never bothered to measure or ask the hubby what size the room was. Just to give you an idea though, the cubbie shelf you see...

 With Awesome Con done and no other Cons coming up its time for me to sort out my priorities. My sewing/craft room is currently in rough shape due to the piles of scrap and project fabric that have been accumulating. Also there is a desperate need for better storage and organization in there, no joke it kind of looks like a tornado went through that room. Lucky me there's the oh so addicting site that most everyone knows about, Pinterest. Through Pinterest I have found quite a few pins for sewing/craft room organization that I plan to put in to use in my little room. There will probably be a post involving the reorganization and which pins helped out or worked the best for my small space. Then there is the fact that I feel I've strayed from my creatively tinkering ways, what with getting hyper focused on making convention specific items. So while reorganizing is a high priority so is diversifying and expanding on the things that are posted in my Etsy shop. Aside from the reor...

 Wow, so apparently the last time I made a blog post was for MAGFest 2014! I am truly sorry about that, let me try to fill in the time missed and bring everything to the present. After MAGFest 2014 Donna and I had a booth at AwesomeCon in DC. Sadly I didn't plan well and did not have too many new items for the con but it was still a fun convention. Made more fun by the fact that I was able to get a picture taken with Sean Astin, sadly in my photo I had super crazy fan girl cheese face. Check it out below :   One month after Awesome Con 2014 I got married <3 Our wedding was so wonderfully beautiful, surrounded by family and friends. We got married on the beach with our toes in the sand and had a reception overlooking the water at a wonderful restaurant called One Fish Two Fish (if you're ever in Virginia Beach, I highly recommend checking it out). After all the wedding excitement died down, I began prepping for Video Games United (VGU) , which was an interesting experien...