my most favourite room in the entire house :)

Today, I got playing around.. finishing up the kids corner of the art room.  The bulletin board and chalk board were there already, and a few weeks ago, I picked up the cube thingies from Michaels to hold Laine's scrapbook/craft stuff and her Klutz books etc.  When I went and organized my cabinets to make them 'functional' (meaning, no more 'shove it in anywhere' type of organizing).. I found piles of stuff on the floor that wasn't going to fit back in! ha ha!  So, more storage was needed.  Then, I decided to make that corner.. the 'kid corner' ..like I originally intended to waaay back when! lol

Here are a few pictures of the 'new and improved' kid corner..

 

(my inspiration board)..

 

The butterflies are acrylic and I bought them at a close out sale for next to nothing (I wish they would have had more!) and the hanging star was mine as a baby.. it winds up and plays 'twinkle twinkle little star.. and I loooove it! :) ..and the pom poms are Martha Stewart from Michaels. 

 

I snagged various things from around the house this morning, to style up the corner! hee!  Nobody will notice the missing pillow, or rug will they? lol  The flower light was in the storage room.. waiting for the perfect spot to put it... works for me!  

Now the mirror might become an issue.. it was bought because I loooved it, and it just needed to come home with me (super steal of a deal on it at Winners.. the frame has a hairline crack in it, so I got it at 50% off the already discounted price.. I paid $25... compared to $100 yeee haaaa!).. then we decided it would be the vanity mirror above the sink in the downstairs bathroom when we finish it.. might have to look for another now! ..I kind of like it in here! hee! ;)  The way I look at.. we aren't doing the bathroom in the near future anyway.. might as well enjoy it right!?

So, that is the new corner.. BUT when I do things like this.. one thing usually leads to another (typical huh?)... so I ended up cleaning and moving things around the entire room.. and taking pictures along the way of course! hee!  Since I haven't shared pictures of my space on here in quite awhile.. I figure now is as good a time as any! :)

This is the opposite side of the room..

 

My little sewing table.. both it and the stool are from Ikea.  The words were from a local store in Grande Prairie.. but is has since closed down.  I know you can find them elsewhere though, I bought Laine one in Saskatoon when we were visiting.. so they are around.. :)

Laine and I made these little paper pinwheels last week.. such a fun and easy (and beautiful) little craft!!

 

The cross stitch patterns (butterfly and deer) are from here.  Love how they turned out!!  Oh how I missed cross stitching!

 

Apparently I forgot to dust this shelf.. and the photo is blurry... which should really make me wonder why I am posting it, but I mean.. really, this is how my shelves usually look, all dusty.. this is normal!  And the blurry, well, it is dark now and I can't re-take it! hee!  If you look close.. most of these pictures probably have dusty/finger print covered surfaces (ha ha).. oh well... ;)

 

My desk area.. where I spend waaaay too much time surfing the internet! ha ha!

 

OK, I did clean the desk.. it had coffee mess all over it, and that was just too much.. dust I can handle in photos (barely) but coffee mess.. nuh uh! hee!

 

If you are looking at my desk.. this area in the picture below is to the right of it, right in front of those cabinets (in the above picture)...

 

My mom's polaroid treasures.. which I raided and brought home with me last time I was there visiting! heee!  Seriously, one has never ever been used.. strap is still all wrapped up as if it was just opened!  They look so pretty all together. :)

 

Um.. layouts waiting to be put into albums... again. :)

 

My scrapping desk..

 

Bowls of treasures are a good thing. :)

When you are at the doorway looking in, the work desks are in the middle of the room, with the computer desk opposite the scrapping desk.. against the wall, then there are shelves on the right and the left (on either sides of the desks)... kids corner is to the immediate right, and sewing table to the immediate left.. running out of space, but I kind of like it all cluttered up like this!  Maybe that is why it is my favourite room.. nice and cozy with a little bit of clutter! heee!

There you have it.. a tour of my srapbook room/crafting room/office/studio/ whatever you want to call it.  Oh, and I forgot to mention that all framed art work in here is either from Etsy, made using 2 Peas digital kits (for personal purposes only) or made by me (the ones by the sewing table). :)  I think that covered everything!  How long do you think it will stay that clean? ha ha!  By tomorrow it will be back to it's normal state of messiness I am sure! lol

Later!

Comments

[Cristy]

phew! I've been hopping from blog to site to blog all over the place looking for the original source of a photo of your sewing area. (Seriously, from gussy to weheartit to house of tuquoise to here)

all to come and say: I LOVE YOUR WOODEN STORAGE UNIT! The brown one w/all of the baskets & turquoise accents... It looks like MY KIND OF ORGANIZATION. I would love to hear/read more about it... if you have an old post or ever think about writing more. =)

[Natalie]

I absolutely LOVE this space! The attention to detail is truly incredible. Where is the white cabinet from? And gosh, the wall color is too perfect! You are one creative woman! :)

[Adelene Lok]

Love your deco and ideas so much.

[maggie holmes]

hey jen! love your room!! wondering where you got the little print by the sewing table of the little girl and dog? i "need" that for my little girl's room!! it is so adorable and she loves dogs!!
thanks for all of the fun eye candy!

[alison]

love love love!! :)

[Grace]

AMAZING!! I love seeing other people's office/craft rooms. So inspiring!

[trouveuse]

this is really a beautiful for creating and crafting.you are lucky now. ;-)

[Ryann]

I would love, love, love to know what the wall color is! Beautiful!!

[Sammi]

Wow. You have just inspired me to completely redecorate my apartment!!! LOVE IT!!! :) :)

[jaszmurka]

I can only say "wow"
WOW
wow
Wooooow

O_o

:)