Hi everyone! I've been very busy unpacking and making our new house into a comfortable home. I purposely worked on the rest of the house and ignored the calls of the boxes in my stamp room to be unpacked. Yesterday my husband fixed the loose legs on my stamp table and helped me build my shelves and moved some of my heavy boxes. As you can see from the pictures, I haven't unpacked it all but I have most of my critical stuff accessible now.
In my last studio, I started storing supplies in clear shoe boxes. It was so easy to grab what I needed and the contents would stay clean and dust free. It is easy to stack the boxes too. When it came time to pack for our move I stuffed a bit of packing paper inside and packed 4 or 6 of them in a moving box. I also store my reinkers in mini plastic bags in the plastic shoe boxes so if one does leak, the mess is minimal (but luckily that hasn't happened to me!)
The original owners of our home had nearly wall to ceiling mirrors on the long wall hosting my shelves and Iris chests. Seriously, who wants to look at themselves that much? So with the help of friends my husband took them down last weekend. Unfortunately, some of the drywall came down too so we are going to repair the damage and paint. We are considering having recessed lighting installed to make that back corner a bit brighter. The denim curtains are going to go bye-bye too! That window overlooks our back yard which has a treed area behind it. Last week a herd of 4 deer strolled through our back yard as we ate breakfast.
My new space is smaller than my last studio but now that I am using a bedroom on the second floor, I'll be closer to my family and if I craft at night and my daughter needs me I'll be nearby. We put the small computer desk in the room too so my husband can use our laptop and keep me company.
My husband keeps some of his clothes in the closet because our master bedroom closet isn't so master- LOL! I will get either the floor or the upper shelf for additional craft storage. Of course I wouldn't think of using both... that would be so wrong... convenient though ;)
Lastly, I have stepped down from my design team position at Memories Always Forever group. After careful consideration, I have decided to focus my creative energy on stamping and digi-stamping. Card making is something I enjoy doing and stamping is supposed to be fun so I'm sticking with what makes me happy.
Thanks for looking at my craft space. I'll snap more pictures as work progresses.
This is a freebie image from Squigglefly called, "Here's to You" which was drawn by co-company founder, Chesney Young. This freebie was for members of the Squigglefly group on The Card Universe Ning network to celebrate their latest release featuring Shy Bears, birds, gingerbread men, cats and whimsical birthday designs.
Lastly, there are some exciting changes starting after the first of the year. Clear Artistic Stamps are going to be available wholesale only but Belinda Landtroop, the talented artist will have a new digital images only online store. I wish her the best of luck on her new adventure! I'll be stepping down from the design team at the end of this year- I had so much fun with her clear stamps- I can't wait to see her new digital images!
This is a snowglobe card made with an image from Sunshine's Stamps for a challenge on Show & Tell & Scrap Pages Ning group.
In my last studio, I started storing supplies in clear shoe boxes. It was so easy to grab what I needed and the contents would stay clean and dust free. It is easy to stack the boxes too. When it came time to pack for our move I stuffed a bit of packing paper inside and packed 4 or 6 of them in a moving box. I also store my reinkers in mini plastic bags in the plastic shoe boxes so if one does leak, the mess is minimal (but luckily that hasn't happened to me!)
