More Studio Pics

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My craft table sits in the middle of the room. In the other room, it was against a wall and because the room was so small, I had to have lots of stuff on it - boxes of scrap paper, etc. Once I started working on stuff, my actual work space became about 1 square foot. I love this new arrangement!

My old computer desk was about 13 years old and had gotten kind of rickety. Instead of moving it, I decided maybe it was time to spring for a new one. I started to look online at computer desks and realized with a laptop, I don't need one. Duh! So my desk area is now part of my counter space. I saved the top piece of the old desk so I could use the slots and cubby holes because that part was working really well for me.

This is above my desk - something I just put up yesterday. This is also proof I can't collage and no longer try to. My brain refuses to do haphazard. Thus, everything is lined up just so.

I bought this quilt (12" square) at a garage sale a few weeks ago. It's brand new; you can still see the pencil marks for the quilting. Guess how much it cost. Are you sitting down? $7.50. Yes! I love this thing for it's old-fashioned beauty - but even more for the price. I bought another wall quilt I'll show you sometime, also a bargain. I sort of wish I'd asked the lady why the low prices. She didn't make them, I know that, which is all the more stunning to me that she was selling them so cheap. Maybe she inherited them. She had quite a collection so it seemed like she knew what she was doing. Anyway, I just love this.

This is my main "sit-down" workspace. Just above the pot of pens & pencils you can barely see the fern, bird feeder and bird bath I moved from the front of the house to the back. I wish it could be closer to my window but the fern requires shade. It took the birds about 10 minutes to find the thistle feeder in it's new location.

You don't even want to know how many works in progress I have on this table. I just received my second order from Sweden yesterday (hi Maartje!) so that's what I'm working on now. The card standing up, on the right is for the order and now I'm working on two quilt cards with prairie points for her. Every time I make a card for an order, I stamp or punch or whatever, enough pieces to make a bunch more of the same card, to build my inventory for the upcoming craft shows - and new orders of course. Thus, the many WIPs.

My Pine Tree Designs inventory and show supplies have been stored on shelves in the basement. We have a finished, dry basement so it's been okay. Believe it or not, lots of this stuff was still sitting around in boxes from the last craft show. This weekend I sorted it all out. I noticed a couple of cards were beginning to warp. So now I store all my inventory in my studio, now that I can. It's much more convenient, besides being more evenly climate controlled.

There's just a little more of studio to show you, including a couple of overall pics. I'm very happy to report that I feel soooo much better, physically and mentally, this week than last. I think it was exactly as I suspected, too many hormones and not enough Stefani time. This weekend seems to have straightened all that out nicely.

(As usual, visit these photos on my Flickr site for notes on some of the items in the photos.)