Its a Party.... Where Bloggers Create Party 2013

It is the 5th Annual Where Bloggers Create Party!!!!  This is Karen's 5th time hosting....and it is A LOT of work!  Thank you Karen for hosting and helping all of us meet each other. This is my second time participating.  Last year was so much fun, inspiring and left me pretty awestruck.

Karen does an AWESOME job and here is where you can go to see, not only Karen's absolutely stunning studio - but all of the other beautiful places where some very creative bloggers create.  

My space is an upstairs spare bedroom....  I have spruced it up a bit since last year but my area is a far cry from all of the other gorgeous studios that you will see.  

But.......

I LOVE my little space and try to spend as much time in here as possible!  

Okay - on to the tour!  

Come on in.  (Love this door)  It is new.  Just finished it on the Fourth of July and really had a lot of fun.  Still have my yellow closet doors.  Made a new iron board cover since last year's party.... 

This is the desk area....Lots of great natural light.  Do you see the pink noodle on the floor???  I cut it down the center and am using it to hide all of the electrical cords...  $1.98.... pink.... who knew?  

This is where I keep all the fabric for projects that are "works in progress."   Okay, okay.... I will admit that is a lot of fabric for just "works in progress"... just do not tell anyone else - especially my hubby.   

Love this little bright spot of the room.  The big flowers on the top shelf used to live in our kitchen - but I wanted more color in this space - especially since I now spend more time in here than in the kitchen!  The little pink and blue flowers on the second shelf are actually pens in a pretty disguise.

    

This is my cutting table and design wall.  I found the cute little green, yellow and pink quilt in a bunch of fabric that I brought home from my grandmother's.  (The scrappy Sue Bonnet on the other wall was another find in my grandmother's fabric boxes.)  I do not believe she made them though.  She was a miniature artist. 

The design wall is actually the backside of an inexpensive plastic tablecloth and some thumbtacks.  I was happy to find one that had a lot of fun colors on it so when it was hung up - we could fold it so some more color would show. A design wall for under $4.00! 

The purple drawers (under the cutting table) were a great find for $10.00!!  That is where all of the templates, rotary cutters, pattern books and my quilt journals are stored.  Found the risers at Big Lots.  And let me just tell you - they really help to keep my back from screaming at me when cutting a lot of fabric for a quilt project!  

This is my new sewing cabinet!  My dad and step-mom gave it to me as an early birthday present.  I LOVE it!  My dad did a great job putting this guy together!  My step mom researched and researched and she found the perfect one....  It is at the right height and has plenty of space to lay out the quilt when sewing up the larger parts - or as in the case of last night - actually machine quilting. 

Oh, ummmm... that will be another blog post at another time....  

The lamp is an old floor lamp - made of iron! Not only does it give great light - it is the perfect place to hang binding where it is nice and handy.... (the binding on the lamp stand right now is for the mug mats I have been working on).  The lampshade is new, but very blah. So.... I started gluing really bright buttons on it.  That little project requires has to be done in stages... so it is another  "work in progress" project.  

The two drawings on the wall were drawn by my youngest when she was a toddler..... they are family pictures... one is of me and one is of her dad. The embroidery piece above them was made by my oldest daughter when she about five or six years old.  I love those pieces!  The blue shadow box was a gift from a dear friend for my birthday last year. 

Before you leave - I must show you the closet....   

Pretty sure most people do not show off their closets.  But a few months ago, it got all cleaned out and organized... This is where all of the fabric inherited from my grandmother is now stored.  All card making supplies and yarn for crochet projects also have a space in this closet.  (I also make jewelry - but I keep all of the beads, wire, tools and so forth in the pie safe in the living room..... and all of my mosaic stuff is in a little room off the den....  so my creative space is spread out all over the place.  

But this room, this little colorful corner of the world, is my sewing room and I love it here...  

Well, Michael and I must get back to our new tablerunner.... 

  
....and there are many many parties to attend!