Crafty Carrie

 My next project took a long time to decide what I wanted to do. I honestly had it stuck in my head that I had to have this normal front for the world to see, that my interests and things that bring me joy had to be hidden, to be ashamed of. I have been shedding that idea over the last several years, and this, I feel, was the hardest one to open up. But I am so glad that I did. It's still a work in progress, but little by little, it's becoming the amazing vision I had in my head.  We love playing D&D and all kinds of games, so what about a medieval style room? That had me go looking for what kinds of things would be in such a room...  The first thing I started with, was furniture. The couch is the one we've had for years, we couldn't afford to replace it and it was a really comfortable couch so that stayed. My first quest was for some side tables. My old side tables had been well loved for many years, but they didn't fit with my plan, so I found some different o...

I had totally forgotten that I had this blog, since no one ever actually read it. I've been wanting to post some pictures of different projects online, so this seems like a good place to put them all. Maybe my ramblings could help someone, maybe it'll never be read, but I can't help anyone if I don't put it out there.  We moved into this house a year and a half ago, and the first room I decided to theme out was our kitchen. I had several Star Wars kitchen items already which is where the idea for a Star Wars kitchen came from in the first place. Star Wars is close to our hearts, though, because I met my husband at the midnight showing of Star Wars Episode 3. We continued to talk to each other because of a friend's fan film he had us both work on. Star Wars felt fitting after all that history.  Our blank slate kitchen was very basic, very generic and bland. Unfortunately, we are renting so any changes needed to be removable so no changing major things like redoing th...