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<\/a><\/p>\nIsn\u2019t it sweet? She made it all by herself and she was so proud of herself!<\/p>\n
Ok, now onto the real post\u2026 The brand new studio redo again!<\/p>\n
We have moved a lot. Just so many times. And we are so glad to be in this house and settled now. In previous houses and apartments, I\u2019ve had various sizes of craft spaces. Usually we would take the master bedroom in our house and turn it into a game room\/craft room. Then, even that started to go away- ending up with my smallest space ever<\/a> in the last house. That one was in the living room and I kept spreading out until I pretty much took over the whole room. Oh, that was a teeny tiny house.<\/p>\n So, you can probably guess at my excitement when we moved here and I was going to have double the space. The rest of the room was supposed to be a play area, but the kids never played there, so I ended up taking over the majority of the room. You can see that beautiful story here<\/a>. After that, I ended up taking over the whole room when we moved the play area into the living room. You can see the play area in this post<\/a>. It doesn\u2019t look any better now- that\u2019s a project I\u2019d like to take on soon though!<\/p>\n Anyway, The Hubs and I got to doing a little work around the house and had this discussion<\/a> about switching rooms. <\/p>\n And then we did it. <\/p>\n And this is the story of the new studio. It took a long time to get here, and there\u2019s lots of room for improvement- but it\u2019s looking pretty amazing if you ask me!<\/p>\n Let\u2019s see if I can find a \u201cbefore\u201d picture\u2026. yep- ok this one- this is before we moved in and before we painted. It\u2019s kind of boring- just a blank slate I think. Check out those lights!<\/p>\n It was slated to become the game room though- not the studio- and this is the best picture I have of after the first painting was done- interesting color choice, but hey, The Hubs chose it:<\/p>\n That was actually a picture to show off the floor. We tried out a paper bag floor<\/a>, which is really cool in theory, but with the wear and tear that room got\u2026 it\u2019s not so great. I haven\u2019t fixed it, so we\u2019ll just avoid looking at the floor in the rest of the photos. By the way, if you\u2019re thinking about a paper bag floor, it does not stay wrinkly like that- it smoothes out as it dries and is just like a regular floor.<\/p>\n I had a hard time choosing a color for my new studio. I wanted something that would reflect the light and be bright and airy- especially after that dark green! I knew I wanted white trim and I was about to just paint the entire room white, but The Hubs convinced me to go with my tried and true blue- so I did. I\u2019m glad I did now- it\u2019s nice to have some color on the walls!<\/p>\n Ok, be warned- this room is ridiculously hard to get photos of. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the new lens on the camera (it\u2019s weird and different but the old one broke) or the shape of the room or what\u2026 but here it is in all it\u2019s pieces\u2026 and glory, in all it\u2019s glory!<\/p>\n First, the lights! Since there were two, it seemed like a perfect situation- The Hubs moved one to the center of the room and the other is over my sewing desk. I think I might paint the fixtures and chains white so they won\u2019t stand out so much, and of course I am looking for some fun covers for them. Goodbye starry balls<\/a>! Ok, you come in, and this is the wall to the right of the door. This is a photo montage (you can probably tell) because I could not get the entire wall! Click it to get a larger view. The open door is the door to the hallway- you can see that the doors are darker blue. Behind the door is our giant art board, we like to take it outside on sunny days to draw. My bulletin board there has been mostly emptied and is being used as an inspiration board. The frog picture up above the bulletin board is a print from my friend Fiona McAuliffe<\/a>, who is a fantastic colored pencil artist. The closed door on the left is a bathroom- this is super cool because we can wash paintbrushes and lino blocks and things there instead of hauling everything to the kitchen! <\/p>\n Below the ironing board is a newer piece of furniture for me- I think The Hubs was using it as a TV stand. It was a freebie from some friends. I have my ironing board on it- it\u2019s the perfect height! It has a drawer where I keep my tissue paper for wrapping the items I sell in my etsy shoppe and the basket below is shipping supplies. Beside the basket and in the cupboard below are various sundry items that we need for art, but not everyday- clay, tiles, extra crayons for melting and such\u2026.<\/p>\n If you keep going around the room- here is the space below the window, a perfect spot for the kid\u2019s art table. I don\u2019t know if I mentioned in other posts, but this table was a coffee table or end table in The Hubs\u2019 Mom\u2019s office that she gave to us. It\u2019s the perfect height for kids and all wood. It was actually getting really wobbly and I thought it was a goner, but I tightened the legs and its good as new! I love this thing! <\/p>\n The shelf, you\u2019ve seen before, it\u2019s such a perfect shelf for kid\u2019s things! The top and 2nd shelf keeps things out of Mr.Man\u2019s reach, but he can and does get into everything lower than that. I try to keep paper and something to mark with on the table so he won\u2019t get into everything else. It only works some of the time.<\/p>\n To the left of the shelf on the floor, I have two sewing machines that I\u2019m collecting for when I give classes. I only need one more!<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a closer look at the kid\u2019s shelf: Most of the containers I found at Goodwill \u2013 including that yellow caddy! It\u2019s so cool- one side is for colored pencils and the other houses regular pencils, pens, a bone folder, hole punch and other basic supplies. Lil\u2019Miss is really into found object sculptures right now, so the basket on the shelf above that holds various recycled things- spools and bottle caps and little bits of metal. She puts them together with the glue gun. Also on that shelf are oil pastels, glitter glue, a basket of feathers, the stapler and pencil sharpener. The top shelf holds pipecleaners, bottle caps, scissors, chalk pastels and water soluble colored pencils. <\/p>\n Down on the fourth shelf, there is a large cubby thing full of various papers- sketch paper, watercolor paper, cardstock and scratch paper. Left of that is a box of nice and tidy paper scraps<\/a>. Below that box are the glues \u2013 glue gun and hot glue sticks, regular glue sticks, white glue, mod podge in little jars for the kids to use. In the stack left of that, there is (from bottom) a box of stamps and stamp pads, a wooden box with all the letter and number stamps (they fit perfectly upright in it!) and the top box is stickers.<\/p>\n The very bottom shelf holds whole sheets of colored paper and the green basket holds magazines for cutting. I generally buy National Geographics from St.Vincent de Paul for 10c each or put my catalogs in there.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a direct view of below the window- the blue lines are some twine for hanging up the kids\u2019 art. And to the left of the kid\u2019s art shelf is this collage goodies caddy- magnetic spice containers on a baking tray from the dollar store. I adore the poster above it, you\u2019ve probably seen it in every single room redo I\u2019ve done! You can also see in this pic, I store our giant rolls of paper and pads of paper here beside the art shelf so the kids will see them and use them. Continuing around the room\u2026. In this view, you can see my cutting table. It\u2019s still one of those folding tables, but I found this giant piece of laminated wood at the ReStore that is perfect for the top. I\u2019m going to put wooden yardsticks around the edge if I can ever find enough- I can\u2019t seem to find them anywhere!<\/p>\n Around the walls- the shelf in the very right of the photo holds my scraps in labeled boxes and other scraps for doll making, plus felt and other goodies on the shelves below that.<\/p>\n My sewing desk and the closet. The closet is what makes this room bigger than the previous studio and let me tell you, it\u2019s awesome. All that storage! I\u2019m thinking about putting a curtain over it, but I also like to look at all my stuff, so we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s my sewing desk \u2013 still the way I got it because I\u2019m not sure what I want to do with it. The Princess and my serger live on it and the drawers are full of sewing notions. The thread rack was given to me by my brother and his wife. It\u2019s a lot of fun, and better than the plain one I had before! And then a shelf to hold cute little things to inspire me.<\/p>\n And here\u2019s a montage of the closet because, again, I couldn\u2019t get the entire wall! The left is crafty shelves with stuff that the kids don\u2019t use that often, although Lil\u2019Miss is welcome to use anything that is in here. Punches, paints and brushes, lino carving stuff, sprays, the flower press and etcetera are all in here. And of course the crafty books!<\/p>\n In the middle are more sewing notions and miscellaneous fabric, like t-shirts I want to re-purpose and linen for making dolls. Also ribbons and coordinated fabrics- like what comes in a charm pack. And bias tape that isn\u2019t bias tape yet. <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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