Where I make stuff

I have recently made some changes to my creative space and I wanted to share them with you. I wish I would have taken some before photos but I'm always too embarrassed to take a picture of the the "before"!

I have been blessed at this home to have a whole room to myself. I call it my craft room but I hate the way that sounds but I'm not an artist (yet!) so I feel silly calling it my studio. Sooooo I've started to just call it "my room".

Anyhow...my room was for several months cluttered storage space that I couldn't seem to organize right. I would go in there and just get overwhelmed and frustrated. So I ended up doing my projects all over the house and let's just say that was not a good idea. I had embroidery stuff in a basket by the sofa, with paper crafty stuff on the kitchen counter and painting stuff in the pantry. And sometimes it looked like Hobby Lobby exploded all over my living area. It really started to stress me out. So when the Olympics began I figured that I needed a place to hang out while Kevin got his daily dose o' Olympics and that it would be the perfect time to tackle the organization dilemma that was that room.

So I head to Wallymart and got a 3 drawer organizer thing and smallish but long folding table and about $6 of little plastic drawer organizer boxes. I spent an entire evening organizing my little heart out. It was AWESOME. I love organizing things. It feels so good to find homes for things adn then see the end result. It gives me the same sense of satisfaction that coloring did when I was a little kid.

However, I wish it would stop being stuipidly humid down here because there are a few finishing touches that I would like to get done but they require spray painting. And painting and humidity don't go hand in hand. But for now it is organized and perfectly adequate for my needs. I'd say I've spent the majority of my time in here since I finished.




This quote came from my In-Laws vinyl business. My brother-in-law, Tyler, designed it for me. It really helps me to get out of my creative "comfort zone" and push myself.



I've found that having something on in the background helps me free up the creative part of my brain. It's weird because unless I have music or a movie on in the background I can't create anything at all. I'm very thankful to Kevin for wiring me up with satellite, a dvd player and our old tv.



Hank likes to watch me when I'm at my "desk". He's such a cool inquisitive lil' fella.



Here's my ever present companion, Maggie. She's very needy and not pleased that I took her photo without asking her permission first.