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This is my new studio

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It has been a year since I moved my stuff into my new studio. It is finally feeling like it is working properly. There are still projects to do in the space but for the most part, I am very happy.

This is my entryway. I love my little wallpapered foyer. When I come in, I’m in a different world.

This is where I work. Everything I need is within rolling chair distance. I have storage of fabrics, trims, works-in-progress, etc, in the area behind that was formerly the sleeping nook.

This section (above) is where I can lay out projects that I am working on. There is never enough open flat spaces!

Right now the table is holding the Big Men I’ve been sewing together. Also, plain color fabrics that I’m using for these fellows and 2 fabrics that I got from IKEA. Maybe future shirts?

My ironing board and my view :-)

Looking into the other part of my studio. I’ve got a huge wall-size mirror that makes the room look twice as big. The table is my shipping station. You can see that I hung up my banner from when I used to do tent shows. Never again!

I have a bunch of empty bins now that I’m not sure what to do with. They seem very valuable? Maybe? I will store them for a while :-)

And this is my little kitchen and back hall. I haven’t really done much to make it better. The only thing so far was to take the doors off the top cabinets, paint everything white, and use the space for display. The studio has 10 foot ceilings so the cabinets were never going to get used. Some time I will get around to getting rid of that orange.

And then back around to the entry. There are still things to be done but so far, so good! Hope you liked the tour!

And Now it is November

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I am in mourning for our country and democracy but will not bore you with my angst. I will try to keep this space positive. It will be a challenge.

I pulled out my bin of tattooed men parts, right after I cleaned up the tiny world mess- and it was a huge mess. And then several things happened to distract me.

Firstly, 2 of my kids came over and we rearranged my studio. Now that I’ve been working a while, I knew it wasn’t the best layout. Here are some new photos-

Rearranging everything untied my organizational knot. I got a lot of things stored away and am feeling much better about my space.

The next distraction was that I discovered that my houseplants had thrips. If you are a plant-nutter like me, you will understand my anguish. I spent many, many, hours dealing with that mess. Some plants didn’t survive :-( Now I am keeping an eagle-eye on my house jungle.

I was doing some doll work through this all- just very slowly. Next up was cleaning up my garden and bringing plants inside (without new bugs I hope!). That’s when I decided that I needed to put up a window plant shelf. That involved actually painting the windows which I had been procrastinating about. Here is where I am at with that project-

I’m getting there. I really had to do this now because the weather is cool but not freezing yet. I can still open the windows, but in the summer it would have been too hot. So the studio is still a messy project but progress is being made. And I finished a tattooed man!

I don’t know what this imagery is actually called- it is skeleton Christmas.

So hopefully, more will be coming soon. Take care of yourself.