Soapboxes and other avenues of crafting

The next installment of our virtual tour one would naturally assume to be the living room, but I am surprising even myself with spontaneity! I didn't want to post pictures of the living room until I pick up and hang a GIRLIE picture that we just purchased from Kirklands-one of my all-time-most-favoritist-wonderful stores ever! So I was going to move on to the bathroom but it just so happens that today I FINISHED my craft room and just looking at it gives me a great sense of joy. So-we are SKIPPING the living room and detouring to the craft room.

Our home is a three bedroom and so of course, with two children it would work out perfectly for each to have their own room. Except I don't know that that WOULD be an ideal situation. I have always believed children SHOULD share rooms and toys and that doing so will result in several things:

1) You need less toys (and OTHER STUFF) to fill up individual rooms.
2) By having less toys-children learn not only to share, but that they are not ENTITLED to 'their OWN stuff'.
3) They share an intimate bond with one another that perhaps they would not have if they had their OWN rooms to themselves.

Now I realize, that the older you become that things change a bit and there may be a time when individual rooms is GREAT. And especially boys and girls-Corynn and Andrew won't be able to share FOREVER but for now, WHY would we WASTE usable space for a newborn who could care LESS and actually PREFERS to be close to others?!?! This is why we chose (actually Matt insisted-what a guy!) that I have my own craft room. One day, either because our two-bedroom 'shoe' cannot accommodate such the vast amount of children (hehehe) or our children grow old enough to benefit from seperate rooms. Whatever the reason, I know now and will prepare myself to give up my craft room if the need should arise, but let me tell you! I have never HAD a real craft room before-I have always made due with the dining room table and eating haphazardly until my project was done. What sheer joy it is to have a room all to myself! So, without further ado...