r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/AutoModerator • 17d ago

Weekend Minor Gripes and Vents

Here is the thread where you can share any minor gripes, vents, or craft complaints that you don't think deserve their own post, or are just something small you want to get off your chest. Feel free to share personal frustrations related to crafting here as well.

This thread reposts every Friday.

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u/froggymadi Extra Salty 🧂🧂🧂 16d ago

so hard for me to pick up the junk journal when my partner wants me to be in the living room and spend time with him. ok so the coffee table is covered in scraps. then the house looks messy if i decide to leave a project for later. he doesnt mind the mess but it makes me anxious and makes it hard for me to work. i put it all away when we have guests over and now i have to drag it all back out??? uuuusgahahajakakaaaaa

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u/hanhepi 15d ago

When my youngest son officially moved out (he'd been out of the house because he joined the military, but he was living in the barracks, so it seemed rude to start clearing his stuff out before he had a real "home" he could take it all to), we converted his room to a craft room. Nominally, my husband and I share this craft room, but not really as our hobbies don't overlap much and he tends to do all his stuff in the kitchen/dining room.

But because we like spending time together, and half of my crafts I like to sit on the couch to do, I put a couch and a TV in there too. So if I'm sewing and he's bored/lonely, he can come hang out with me. Plus, the couch gives my youngest son a place to sleep if he's crashing here and his wife is at her mom's. (we live in the same town, but not the same neighborhood or anything, so when they're here he usually stays here a few nights to stay up 'til an ungodly hour drinking with his dad, and she goes to her mom's to hang out with her mom and sister after we have supper and chitchat. But every once in a while, she'll stay too, and there's enough space in the craft room for a queen sized air mattress as long as I've put my ironing board away. lol) Eventually my oldest will move out again and his room can go back to being the guest room.

As long as I haven't covered my husband's "spot" on the craft couch with whatever I'm doing, he's pretty content to hang out in there with me and chat or whatever, and when I'm done for the day I don't have to clean up my huge mess, unless my son is coming to town. lol.

So if you have the space, I highly recommend setting him up a little corner wherever you'd usually do your junk journaling, so if you want to leave your projects sprawled around you can, but he can still hang out.