The stUdio

I have been wanting to do a little tour of my crafting space for a long time now. While there's no time now to go through all of it, I did want to post this picture for Dixie Pieces Big Bummer, End of Summer contest that starts on Saturday. The month of August will be filled with challenges, tutorials and loads of inspiration centered around the *senses*. Check it out!

So here is my space (of course it rarely looks quite like this!):

A happy afternoon

I picked up this fabulous find at, of all places, The Christmas Tree Shop. I love it! And after setting her up in my stUdio, I promptly decided that she needed a touch of spring. Voila, accordion-folded flowers out of the vase and onto the dress form.

I also picked up a 3 foot shelf (today was my lucky day at CTS) to store my newly organized rainbow ephemera. I have this crazy habit of saving all kinds of doo-dads: tags from clothing, pockets from old, torn blue jeans, bits of ribbon scraps (I just can't throw this stuff away), colored tickets from carnivals and raffles, pieces of junk mail, paint chips. This is great stuff for scrapbooking and other projects and what's best: it's free! I went through all of my ephemera and sorted it by color to be arranged in rainbow order (rainbows make me happy). It serves double-duty as decoration and stash.

And while I was at it, I couldn't stop myself from taking down my display rods (to be rehung out of sunlight's harm), moving a poster, and redoing the peg-board. All-in-all a happy afternoon of decorating, organizing, and creating a happier stUdio.

(I did not repaint my apothecary cabinet, though it is in dire need. Very fun to try out new colors in Photoshop!)