So it's taken me a while to start working on products, samples and mock ups for my decorating side, but that's because I didn't have anywhere to work! Last year in the summer, my basement had a mini flood without us knowing. There were back to back storms that brought some crazy amounts of rain along with it. Unfortunately, this time, it pooled at the side of the house, ran down through some cracks, behind the vapor barrier, under the floor towards the drain in the bathroom. Since it wasn't a lot, and we couldn't even see it, it went unnoticed until the residual water that was still under the floor started to evaporate. It began to warp the floor, crack some of the joints and made its way up behind the drywall in the bathroom that wasn't being used, so no one noticed and produced some mold. Yuck! So before any pretty paper work could start, a mini demo had to be done. It was a little sad considering my mom and I were the ones who installed the floors ourselves, and redid the basement just 2 years prior, but it also gave a way to release some frustration at it all in tearing up the floors as well.
It took a few weeks to get the flooring done and installed. It would have been a lot faster if we had a big open space to just lay everything down, but we didn't have anywhere else to put all my furniture and extra things in storage that were in the basement. Having to lay flooring and at the same time, move furniture around is NOT easy. I wouldn't recommend it, but we had no other choice! In the end, it was all worth it and the floors look great! I have to say, I like the dark chocolate colour a lot better than the blonde wood we had before.
After all the flooring madness I finally had a space to start organizing some storage for all of my crafting stuff. I am a craft hoarder. It's pretty bad. Ribbon, tissue paper, card stock, bows, embellishments, wrapping paper, clips, tubes, containers, tins, frames you name it... I have it! I still don't have a place for everything, but everything at least has a more appropriate place right now. As excited as I was to get everything organized, it really showed me how much I had, which reminded me how badly I need to get everything started up so I can make things and use all this stuff! It's sitting in boxes, bags and bins when they could all be made into beautiful things for your next event. Of course I also had to brand the space as well. So i took an old frame from a mirror (the mirror broke) and turned it into a chalkboard for above my desk.
One of my storage projects I'm really happy with is the table I hacked with my dad at his shop. I'm very lucky and blessed to have a dad who has his own workshop and works a lot with wood. I'll have some of his stuff featured on here one day. But the shop is great, lots of open space and every tool you can think of. He shares it with some older retired gentlemen who are all wood workers that make some pretty nice furniture and decorative pieces. So I bought a second hand wooden table and hacked it to store all my large pieces of paper. I used to store them between a wall and boxes, but they were always getting bent, or curled or the edges damaged, so I made a very lame sketch in paint and sent it to my dad.
And somehow... he understood. So from that sketch, some tweaking, a trip to Home Depot and a weekend of work we turned a regular wooden dining table from Ikea into a large paper storage desk. TAH DAH!
Now I have a place to store my large paper, keep it all flat and out of the way. I LOVE it! and had so much fun working with my dad creating something new and unique. I'll be sending this over to Ikea Hacker soon and I'll share the link with you guys if it's featured.
So here is the start of my little studio. It isn't anything fancy, nothing special, it's some bookcases, and tables put together to make a place where I can make anything and everything. Have a dedicated area to make my mess that somehow turns into something beautiful. You'll probably get some more pictures on instagram of the space, and the background pics of what I create here. But it's a start. The studio behind the studio :) Hope you all like it!
wink ;)
It took a few weeks to get the flooring done and installed. It would have been a lot faster if we had a big open space to just lay everything down, but we didn't have anywhere else to put all my furniture and extra things in storage that were in the basement. Having to lay flooring and at the same time, move furniture around is NOT easy. I wouldn't recommend it, but we had no other choice! In the end, it was all worth it and the floors look great! I have to say, I like the dark chocolate colour a lot better than the blonde wood we had before.
After all the flooring madness I finally had a space to start organizing some storage for all of my crafting stuff. I am a craft hoarder. It's pretty bad. Ribbon, tissue paper, card stock, bows, embellishments, wrapping paper, clips, tubes, containers, tins, frames you name it... I have it! I still don't have a place for everything, but everything at least has a more appropriate place right now. As excited as I was to get everything organized, it really showed me how much I had, which reminded me how badly I need to get everything started up so I can make things and use all this stuff! It's sitting in boxes, bags and bins when they could all be made into beautiful things for your next event. Of course I also had to brand the space as well. So i took an old frame from a mirror (the mirror broke) and turned it into a chalkboard for above my desk.
One of my storage projects I'm really happy with is the table I hacked with my dad at his shop. I'm very lucky and blessed to have a dad who has his own workshop and works a lot with wood. I'll have some of his stuff featured on here one day. But the shop is great, lots of open space and every tool you can think of. He shares it with some older retired gentlemen who are all wood workers that make some pretty nice furniture and decorative pieces. So I bought a second hand wooden table and hacked it to store all my large pieces of paper. I used to store them between a wall and boxes, but they were always getting bent, or curled or the edges damaged, so I made a very lame sketch in paint and sent it to my dad.
And somehow... he understood. So from that sketch, some tweaking, a trip to Home Depot and a weekend of work we turned a regular wooden dining table from Ikea into a large paper storage desk. TAH DAH!
Now I have a place to store my large paper, keep it all flat and out of the way. I LOVE it! and had so much fun working with my dad creating something new and unique. I'll be sending this over to Ikea Hacker soon and I'll share the link with you guys if it's featured.
So here is the start of my little studio. It isn't anything fancy, nothing special, it's some bookcases, and tables put together to make a place where I can make anything and everything. Have a dedicated area to make my mess that somehow turns into something beautiful. You'll probably get some more pictures on instagram of the space, and the background pics of what I create here. But it's a start. The studio behind the studio :) Hope you all like it!
wink ;)
