CRAFTY VERSE 2012

 Ten years on I am still addicted, my new craft room is stacked high

 There is my Cuttlebug and Big Shot both sit ready to take a die

Embossing Folders and fabulous Fades from Tim Holtz stable

In fact all I use from Ranger sits within reach of my craft table

 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads, Powders, Stickles and Glue

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paints and Stickyback canvas too

Reinkers for everything and colourful Copic Pens by the score

Chipboard, Stampbord, paper mache and Ideology galore

 Now to the grungeboard, unopened packets fill a drawer

My Craft Stamper magazine stack takes up space on my floor

Grungepaper was a must have, for making roses - it’s like hide

Cut n Dry foam pieces once used are rewashed and dried 

PaperArtsy stamps are a wonderful addition to my haul

Grey board by the sheet, canvas and a Bind it all

There are buttons, brads and eyelets, plus beads by the box

A mixture of charms such as cogs, tiny keys and locks

Broken watches are needed for the popular Steampunk phase

Colourful Utee poured, layered or stamped is the latest craze

A large collection of dominoes and the odd bamboo tile

Not forgetting the wonderful and useful Crop-o-dile 

My ATG tape gun is great and saves so much time

Paper trimmers stacked high as most cannot cut a straight line

Alcohol Inks in their own little box, acrylic dabbers like soldiers on parade

Distress Ink blending tools made from door knobs on a B&Q raid 

Vintage rusty keys and watches and old dictionary book

Just some of the car boot bargains and worth a look

Ten Second Studio, Kabuka molds and metals

Paper stumps and tools to emboss all those petals

 Inka Gold pots and new Distress Stains

Stickyback Canvas plus colourful Core’dinations

All the storage boxes are covered in Zentangles

With oodles of pens to decorate journals and bangles

 Beads of all shapes and sizes fill several trays

Not to mention ever growing collection of mica sprays

My unmounted stamps are stored in large files

Another drawer heavy with all kind of tiles

 But I am happy with it all and I have hours of fun

All the supplies come in handy for workshops I run

I wonder what the next ten years have in store

I must stop adding to the stash and not buy MORE!

a more or less tidyish view of my desk