Waching daily Mar 3 2018

if you're anything like me the workshop or crafting space just gets messier and

messier over time so I've set myself a challenge to see a writing declutter my

workshop in quick 20 minutes snippets I'm Julie from Julie Davies flower

workshops and #FlowerStart the online flower arranging classes now on to my

big cupboard so I'll open the doors and we'll see what we got inside so here we

are with a cupboard doors open and my goal here is I really want to empty the

bottom shelf which you can't see actually and so I've got somewhere that

I can stash my workshop bags when I come back from class what happens now as I

pack the bags up and it's all really neat and tidy I come back from class and

I just sort of haven't got any room for them and I just leave them in the middle

in the workshop floor it's not working very well so I thought if I had a space

that was empty it could be used for my my bags that I need for class and so

obviously I need to empty some space first now what you can't see next to me

so I've got three boxes I've got one for things I want to keep and I'll put back

on my shelves and be more organized I've got another box for giveaways so if I

don't want it perhaps one of my friends would would like it or I should take it

down to the charity shop and the other is for throwing away so I'm either going

to physically recycle it put it in the bin or if it's any dried flower

arrangements I go to put those on the compost heap so let's get started I have

just discovered I have another bag of cellophane and brown paper wrapping

she's come from the supermarket flowers as you may know I run a flower Club for

local schoolchildren and I get donated flowers in the local supermarket so I

have an incredible number of flowers delivered to me each week and I save the

wrappings think I'm going to use it and I don't use them nearly as fast as I can

so I will go through that later on and take out the piece of brown paper and

recycle those and then put everything else in it

box so an empty box not quite sure why I'd say fat and then I got things I do

once keep this is something I made it it's a ring made out of hay or straw

when I shop bound over with rope in fact I've since making it I've never used

that base before but what I could do is unravel it so I'm not quite sure about

that so probably keep it molding powder I use this for my making my topiary tree

so it's a plaster Paris mix way so I mix it up and use that in the base of my

little pots and then put my tree trunk in and then have the circle of flowers

at the top so keep that a dustpan I don't quite know where the brush has

ended up so I'm going to put that in the recycling pile pending finding the the

brush and then a toolbox this is my very first two books I had when I started

flower arranging and you told what this is just a little big enough and possibly

the time has come when I need to get rid of this because it's just too small for

me to use so again I shall put that on the giveaway pile and then I've got

Strong's one year I did Christmas stories and the pine was pre bound onto

one of these rings so I thought it might be helpful I took all the pine off to

reuse that and the same with that that was another ring I sort of denuded if

the greenery so I'll keep that little pretty ring or not Tim I'm not sure

about that that's given it my friends I don't think I've ever used it possibly

that's going to go in the giveaway car and two lengths of rope so always handy

used when I make my Christmas Garland's to bind the greenery onto a piece of

rope I shall keep that then I think I should now be able to get out some bits

and pieces it's a big box here I'm trying to empty a bag here of

and fake flowers which I will keep because I'd be useful for flower club

and I think I've probably got lots of other flowers I can put into there

including this little arrangement which one of the girls that Clark I've made

and she didn't want to take home so I'll put the flowers back in there but I

think I'm going to get rid of all this and then just have the poppet that I can

reuse so that was rubbish rubish pot can be kept dried flowers oops

I've got more pots in here and use terracotta pots this one's had cuz I

can't remember doing that leaves glued to it obviously some sort of autumn

workshop for children so keep those

watering can brush for cleaning out my pockets with bleach so they need to be

kept this is past its best but a sample to remind myself that I can recycle this

idea I think ice made originally it was a Christmas table arrangements when

keeping that a sort of demo model IP caked class and then I have a whole reel

of chicken wire so arranging flowers with in water rather than using flour

phones that's really pops at the moment because the fly phone can't be recycled

so that needs to be kept

Medellin o6i patli these are quite hard to get off now and nowadays I think

there's something to do with the way they're imported so I have got those so

perhaps I like gold dust so I need to keep those flat somewhere and then these

little baskets which I bought from a car boot fair and they were really handy for

flower club at school but the only problem now is I've been left with for

at the moment we've got 16 children flower club and it's a matter of whether

I can find something that would be equal in terms of being fair to everybody so

possibly I might put those in the giveaway pile because I don't think I've

got anything that is the same sort of size and people are going to flip me a

bit unfair so that is giving away and then my fault actually it's one of those

five six so perhaps I have to wait until not many people are coming to flower

club and bring out these six little baskets and then inside here I've got I

see them going cheap it's just a nice alternative to arrange flowers in a

container that's a little bit differences from drinking glasses

they're with ice creams and ponies on them two four six eight nine and some

clear ones there so they I'm sure I can get some you saturday okay recycling so

these are little chocolate lips of pudding bowls from chocolate puddings

and all these are peaches so go in the packed lunch boxes so I think saving

those I think originally we use them for painting christmas pudding Bowl so this

is always a good standby I've run out of proper little containers there's

probably enough of those to keep them so I'll have those just stand by

I'd better waste is I'm going to throw this away there's some little pots here

that are really sweet and again unless I've got bought quantities of them I

can't really use that flower club because they like everything to be

really fair so I'm going to put those since to give away my hot complete and

then the rest of the containers in here it's basically the the same pot and I do

have some smaller ones which are really sweet I pay Tempe for those but again

unless I've got at least twelve of them they're not any good form it for our

club so I'll go through and sort out the rest of that box and then stuck

everything up neatly and blender so that's all for the keep pile which okay

that's a big box off and then remember this I showed you one year I decided

that I would make up the basis so that I could whip up some flower arrangements

for Christmas without going through the dudes doing some prep basically and I've

never used those which seems such a shame

perhaps I'm doing a flower demonstration for my flower club coming up in the

summer so I will make a point of using these because it seems a shame I think

I've caught three of those I could actually probably use them and now I

found them again I shall put them somewhere more visible so I can keep

track of them this I bought when I went when I was still at college in Holland

pay two euros ninety five for it we went to a lovely garden centre where they did

lots of flower arranging I think basically it's an armature so you would

stand this on your VARs and then arrange your flowers through it and I've never

used it and I do like it a thing of beauty but um

I've kept on for it so long it's starting to the the calamitous is

starting to break down so I think that's for the giveaway pile few sheets of

metal I'm not going to use those I think reaching I went to a workshop and we

form them into two cubes or upstanding cubes to make a very modern arrangement

and I've never thought I'd do it again at home I never did

so that can be recycled and then these are my big fellow IKEA back this is what

right pack up and take to class with me first fund an eight prints that can be

washed and when we go to class we sell her little photo booth and that's my

clock the photo booth and again I know that can do it that washer that I can go

in the washing pile so the idea is that these bags will be stored empty or full

or semi full ready I can just think I which Tuesday its class so and so I can

go off Wednesday that's the bag ready for that and just this person over to

the side and I'll come back to those

and then fast cuz I do love a basket but they're not massively practical are they

for shopping with so I'm not entirely sure when I'm going to get this and

again these demonstration pieces I've made a candle holders like spiders webs

so gain a sort of practicing my technique and taking them as samples to

workshops so I don't say I know how much effort I put into making these I don't

think I'm quite ready to get rid of them but it is a huge problem with alas ones

it's loads of them and where do you keep things like this so they're all sort of

wire work candle holders so not sure about that but will earn the side of

caution and keeps them at the moment and there's some pots that's and Christmas

amaryllis in them and they just look like quite useful pots but really

Christmastime I putting her eyes away of my Christmas

storage upstairs and then the rest of the bag is empty so I was using this as

a storage pot this bag and I got a server that's actually useful or whether

I should give that away as well I'm going to try and be brave the whole

point is I'm trying to declutter so I'm going to be brave and put that in the

giveaway pile this is a very dirty cylindrical wire it's plastic so I'm

actually going to put that with my plastic where my glassware because when

I want to contain that that's what I'm going to look for it so put that on the

side to put away later oh gosh is another carry bag here so Oh

does sheet so I think I will relegate that to the where our household paints

are kept and I've got a bag here as well I should really put that quite a handy

bag hessian bag i should put that with my shopping bag so I can be put away

properly and this is a weak soil did work well we did some cooked armors

we're making the moss balls and planting bulbs in them and I bought some

complement that's a really at least back into the garden stress God carry bag

recycling and then the thing I was struggling with oh it's full of my

husband's assorted screws so I'm going to have to

find somewhere for that I'm sure he doesn't even know if it's in the bottom

of my cupboard so I'm hoping I can squirrel us away somewhere where he'll

find it and not notice I've moved it so hopefully that'll go into the shed

concrete mix plasterboard tape shed domain and I don't need that and

something for oh that's good PVA but glue so that can go in the shed as well

and the one thing I will keep is blackboard paints because you may just

might have seen all my covers got a blackboard on it so I do need to keep

that so that's wait so now I have freed up I'm quite sure what that piece of

wire was for space at the bottom I don't want to put anything at the bottom here

in fact I like the moment just put my I feel bags back just to try and get some

semblance of organization so haven't emptied that out I need to go through

shelf by shelf to try and make space and condense things down a bit

so onto the next shelf the problem I have here the shelves are a fixed height

and a contour is get to everything but here we go with the spray so I use that

in my classroom making hanging commander so I need to find somewhere for that I

went to a workshop years ago and we made wrist corsages and I kept mine so I've

made a wrist corsage and it looked quite pretty when I first made it and it dried

out and now it just looks dead now so I will

take the ribbon off and I reckon if I believe that a quick iron that would be

not quite nice for wrapping up presents so I shall put that to my side again I

have all something metal clanging in there that's it but I kept the rosebuds

in a kiln ajar and I'm going to get rid of those so the rosebuds can go in my

throwaway Park on to the compost heap and I'm giving away my kill in a jar so

I'm going to send those down to the charity shop I've got a sandwich box

here which I've got some of my wires in and I need to find somewhere for my wife

to go so like a bit heap but I need to be very organized about it what when I

was going through my erases new products in a previous video I've got another one

of those pots so it would make more sense if I store them together so that's

a keeper and then a lovely basket I had a huge one that exactly the same as this

it's really difficult to store baskets I thought I could use it for storage but I

think the time has come to give that away and then a very flower club flower

arranging stand it's but a frock in there so you have your flower from the

top and you could arrange at the bottom I've never used it and actually I want

to think I would do I've got this flowering demonstration coming up I'm

going to use that as one of the props and I'm giving away the whole

demonstration piece and the stand so that'll go away storage bag so you just

can't ever work out what the best form of storage is these are makeup bags I

think came from Marks and Spencers and it's quite they're quite handy because

you can see through them what you've got this is just filled up with all sorts of

collector one interesting thing it's got is a melon scooper it's really good if

you're doing quite modern designs where the flower phone fills the hole of your

box or the container and you can scoop out a little well and aim your water

down there so I will need to go through that another time pull that out and

another box here the basket so it's slightly more

practical because it's square better storage and I've got reels of paper bind

wire then kind of all that's made of it's quite an attractive one a blue

string I'm never going to use a blue string so I will give the blue away

Green sort of Washington wrote again I've used that for Christmas Garland's

but I don't there's enough there's enough pass that on and I think that's

crochet yarn her cotton crochet yarn it's quite nice for you doing some

wrapping details and a ball of away from raffia crinkled and horrible that can go

in the recycling and then other lengths of rope for Christmas Garland's and a

bit more of a bind wire so I think I will keep all of that but it may be it

needs to be packed down into a different container but I will keep that here I've

got again I bought this in Holland years and years ago a really glittery flat

wire for making there's a decorative work with next is an wrist corsage and I

never use I must have had this enough for ten years I'm going to be effects

away I mean yeah this is like a see-through almost like a sandwich bag

ties and it would be really lovely if you were into fancy gift wrapping that

I'm going to get faster away I've had it too long and I haven't used it and the

top here I've got no storage

cans these are tunafish cans catering sized ones and I've got play-doh in here

which are quite often used as an ice break when I've got new glasses and I

think it's a better way of storing that I think I'll have an ice breaker kit and

that's all I will keep them by thinking of it store it differently and then I

went to a class again and I bought these pet pebbles and they look like they've

been covered with moss is fake moss and I've kept

and I really don't know look really lovely what I used it for but I'm not

entirely sure I'm going to use those giveaway pile and then here I put some

rocks I can't even remember where they came from in the quite pretty crystals I

might put those on my bathroom shelf actually and then an example of this

wire work we're doing in previous heart shapes pretty and little twisted things

there these are getting quite good as teaching

aids I don't have to make everything from scratch again

so I think I'll walk it and then also you can any glue things on you can't so

please don't look at what sort of sample pieces so I think I will keep those I

put also champagne corks I'm going to keep those in a different place so I

shall keep all together but I think it does need sorting out I put it back put

a box here crepe which I wasn't using up on its side try and create another layer

of storage so I hope make that post-it notes I'm going to give this away the

childish childlike characters which I think I need oh that's some force line

making so that needs to stay well is the eggs I still have find a home for I

cleared those out on my first day of culturing and I still find a place for

them and then I've made this as I low-wage throwing a huge flowers

I really hate giving rid of stuff that you've put so much time and effort in

but it really is just old and horrible and then some flower crown type things

and I made these for a photo shoot the dog throwing flowers

no collars or round at the top at a silk flowers thick reviews that she won the

dolphin or this hair burns as well so that was quite a fun thing to do but

I think I shall keep those because they're quite nice samples you can

imagine they'd be made with fresh flowers they look pretty good and in

here as well is a photograph of me is to put up an I did my workshops I'm going

to get rid of that frame so throw it away but I keep the basket of goodies

that and because I have to set myself a limit of 20 minutes to go through the

shelf and then a rattle through this shelf and then put back what I've got

and then I'll come back another time and do the next shelf so if I'm thinking 20

minutes a shelf I've got about another hours work here and you don't want to

watch me do that but isn't metal contain there again I bought less and Holland

years ago I love the container but I've never used it and then what you do

bits of candle that is a half gone and we're not a huge candle users at home so

I like that though recycling still in the gift wrappings I know what's in here

I was inspired against the same Dutch workshop these massive test tubes two

euros 95 they've probably been wrapped up for 10 years to think of something I

can use this for the reasonably gentle break those hope that the day of say

food bags I think I have to go back in the kitchen probably using those to line

those terracotta pots because they're not waterproof so that's back on the

kitchen pheasant feathers lucky holder face pops of mini test tubes these are

quite handy if you're making well for keeping your flowers in water where they

haven't got a long enough stem to be in the flower foam of ours it's quite nice

as where if you ever do an Easter tree with branches you can attach these to

the branches and put little flowers tree as well so that's all a bit

delicate there put the lid on rats I want to break any of those and also in

here chink chink as some more test tubes they're much more manageable size so I

need to decide originally I think I bought those and they had a plastic

fixing and they interlock together you could sneak them around the table I'm

not sure keep those actually I think the little test tubes and more practical I'm

going to get rid of those and then this a glass donut

floated on our vows of water and then you put your your flower through it so

you could float on your anthing I was quite good fun I think there's another

one there so what - and then more champagne corks and I'm going to get rid

of that boss and have another basket that's just a bit impractical and then

in this broken folder rosette so a flower club we're trying to divvy up

jobs who's handing out scissors who's doing the greenery who's handing out the

flower foam so I might keep those and recycle that idea another pack of little

post-it notes there so I think that get face away so I'll keep those two the

flower club my stack of things is growing here and in the large box here I

bought a piece of fake turf to use the Christmas as a as an Easter table scape

it was quite good fun so I'm going to keep that letters I've been spelling out

sign map and I thought so hard isn't it I think that's probably a giveaway we

don't use them at home anymore I was using them for no messages make sayings

and photographs so I think that's probably time to give that away

plastic test tubes so sometimes these come with your if you buy all kids or

and theorems and I've came on my Valentine roses and then what you can do

with them same principle as the test tubes you can but you can decorate these

us don't over with corsage tape so don't have to be fussed okie eat those are

quite good design out there a bust so it is to display the necklaces I've been

making fast that it's an old sample festival Doris what I'm going to do it's

all crinkled and crumpled but the black bear is in it with fake so I might go

through and pull out the black brace and I can reuse those that's that the job to

trust norm with little demonstration war hanging that we made it flower club so

it's that same technique with the twigs and binding them together I showed you

for the Christmas table arrangement and then with fake flowers glued on it's

quite attractive s-hooks I don't need those I thought I'd be

hanging up Dorian's everywhere and there go it's a sample piece there from flower

club at school we've painted tin cans and I'm not quite sure we did those got

to moss on the top I think that's had its day probably recycle water I can and

another hair garland here which is a mix of dried and Freight materials so again

I'm going to get rid of that and reuse salvage the fakeness here was a black

bitter in there again a pot here colored pens and that's an old pot so I think my

husband made all and this shows not quite sure I think it's got some

significance so I'm not getting rid of that and then oh I had some business

cards made for something so paid out for the

for an artist projects and it never happened so it's just time to get rid of

those they can go straight into recycling and then these pens here and I

should put them in the pen Potter only one so I'll use those so I'm gonna leave

it there and when I come back I'll show you what the Shelf looks like with all

my material was put in properly and then I'll move up the next sort of shelves

and show you what I've got in others boxes so hope you've enjoyed that do

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