Wall of Paper

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According to my calendar, I have no plans for the rest of July. This is a good thing. I want some studio time!

Most of last week was spent moving my studio into Simon's old bedroom. It's like Ann said in the comments, it's like a tile game. About 4 rooms were affected by all this. There's still a smattering of stuff littering the pool table.

My old studio is now what Steve is calling "The Guy Room". I hope a better name comes along. We put the futon and TV that used to be in the basement Rec Room (now Simon's bedroom) in my old studio. Then Steve wanted his bass guitar and keyboard in there. And his framed posters that had been in the rec room.

I realized this was no longer our room, but his room. It made me a little sad, I have to admit. Sad because he feels like I've taken over the rest of the house and decorated it the way I want it. Mostly that means my things are on the walls. This is a running joke between us - that the place I really want to put his "art" is out by the curb. They are framed beer posters for crying out loud! The truth is they are drawings, very good drawings, by artist friends of his from high school. It's not the subject he's sentimental about, it's the artists. I understand that - but I still don't want beer posters in my living room. Call me crazy.

And don't get me wrong, he likes our house and the way I've decorated overall.

So I found myself sitting in "The Guy Room" while Steve was downstairs getting picture hooks or something, getting a little teary at losing my studio. I know I have a much bigger, nicer one. But for 6 years this was my Happy Place. I painted the walls the most perfect shade of green and hand stamped big leaves on the walls in green and copper. And in the very beginning of us living together when, shall we say, lots of life adjustments were being made inside and outside these walls, it was where I could hide away and try to shut out the bad things.

And now there are beer, dinosaur and old car posters on the walls.

So I mourned it, got it out of my system and moved on.

Saturday we powerwashed the deck, then went to a graduation party in the afternoon. Sunday we sealed the deck. We were done by 1:00 so that gave me Sunday afternoon and evening in my studio - the first chunk of time I'd spent working in my new studio really.

I finished up 30 of these cards. For the second time, I'm working with the owner of For You Two who I hooked up with through Ladies Who Launch. She puts these in the gift bags she gives her clients. They've yet to turn into any sales for me but I suspect I might get some sales eventually. It's a fairly inexpensive marketing tool for me.

I call this my Wall of Paper. I put my two paper stacker things side by side on top of the hope chest my grandfather made for me decades ago. I wanted the paper stackers off the floor and more easily accessible but I didn't want to spend any money so I kept walking around the house looking for a solution. This works perfectly! On top of the stackers are drawers and bins of scraps of paper. It's hard for me to throw any paper away since I can use the tiniest scrap to punch tiny pieces from! They are all organized by color and neatly labeled of course!

More to come.