Crafting Sewer Tiles, Cleaning, and Dealing with Scrap

After getting through a major project my work space is not the same.  I have a set order of things and then somehow the items get shifted and things get piled up and I lose track of where things were sometimes.  Granted, I am not talking about tools.  I can usually find my tools that I use mostly in their designated place.  It's the bits of things that end up on the edges of the cutting mat, scraps that have a purpose, just not at that moment.


I usually save off cuts of things, just in case I have a use for them later.  Foam bits always can be used as rubble or combined with other pieces to make a wall.  Skewer sticks and toothpicks get cut down and still have a use for some other stick application.  Wire ties can be used for junk or debris as well.  During my cleaning up I found this old stack of foam core the I can use for more dungeon tiles.  That will save me some time for cranking out more of them.



So, I decided to reorganize my work area, since it is hindering my space to do stuff and its cluttering my mind that I cannot see the whole work desk.  I don't plan to spend hours on end to accomplish this.  I just have to start straightening out things that got out of place and sort through other things that need a new home.

This photo from a previous blog is evident that my cutting mat is too cluttered.


Why am I rambling so much about this sense of organization?  Because my work has outgrown its space and I have to creatively designate where things go in the future.  I am thinking that I now need a paint rack for my acrylic paints, even though I don't use all of them.  My shelving is overloaded with crafting supplies and some of them have been transformed into usable scraps for later.  I have new Halloween decor that I plan to modify into cool miniature builds.  If that is not enough, I have figures and small toys that I plan to mashup into better gaming accessories.



It can be challenging and relaxing to straighten out areas that get cluttered. What I did not expect was how I could use some scrap foam for sewer tiles that had been sitting in a box.  I had this box of scrap cuts that I kept after cutting some cylinder pieces of foam for practice with my hot wire cutter.  It would have been easy to throw them out of course.  And now I am so glad I didn't, since their rounded edges will give an interesting shape for sewer corridors.