WOYWW #632

 Good morning, crafty friends.

I can't believe it's Wednesday already. Where has the week gone? As you can see, we are at week #632. That's 632 consecutive weeks that we've been snooping in spaces of other craft friends. 

I have 3 pictures for you today.

First... a reminder of what my Filming areal looked like before:

I've totally emptied out the filming table and the shelf to the right which is below a large sliding window.

Initially, in the design, that shelf was to be my working area so I could look out the window. The book case area (which you'll see better in future posts) was my cutting station where I had my vagabond, cricut, sizzix platform... all set up and ready at a thought's notice. Sadly, the number of stamps I have had me rethinking that design.

Next:

The filming table completely empty, and you can see the photo boxes with my stamps on the bookshelf behind. The shelf below the window to the right isn't completely cleared but will be by later this afternoon (crossing fingers)

I used the filming table yesterday to break down eight Project Life kits and file them in their cabinet (I'll show that in a video/ photos soon). I've since taken the table down so I can vacuum that area really well. Then the table will go back into place and I'll start breaking down all of my PaperCrafting & Cardmaking magazines.  They are all stored in those six magazine holders on the second shelf. You can see them on the far right shelf in this picture:

I plan to use that shelf for all of the Stamperia and specialty papers I've been ordering from Madi & SpectrumArtCreations. 

The shelf to the right of that is going to hold CURRENT SU papers and hopefully CURRENT stamp sets. (Two of those shelves are removeable so I can make them deepr to be the same size as the magazine shelf.) We'll see how many of the latter I have.  Probably more than I think or will fit on that shelf. lol.

Bob comes home tomorrow and I've already warned him I'm no where near done. I worked 2 hours in the early morning of Monday planting 32 of the tomato plants. I was out of commission the rest of the day on Monday and most of  Tuesday. Ugh. Gorgeous out there this morning and there's more I could do but I know if I go out there then nothing will get done in here. I'm hoping BOb will be up to doing some of the heavy lifting for me when he gets home. 

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Julia and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Stamping Ground  for all the details. Miss Julia has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list. 

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly 

TUESDAY - Project Life & New Addition

This is the new addition to my office. I was shopping for a lamp for Bob's desk when I spotted this one at Walmart last week. The only blue one they had so was meant to be mine, right?

I like the larger bulb. The other lamp I had was just a small hologen that did not provide enough task lighting for the room the thing took up. The compartments for storing the 'constant use' items is nice but I particularly liked the outlet ON the base where I can plug in the heat gun or glue gun. A decent buy for a little over $12. I have a feeling when Bob sees this one, he's going after one of his own.

Okay... I puzzled over how to store the impromptu purchased Project Life items and decided the best place (and most available at the moment) was the top of the Cutting station platform. For now.

This is the top of that area where the embossing folder box is stored beneath. 

This tower of 2/ 3-drawer sterilite items have been sitting on the cutting table in the sewing room waiting for either a purpose or a pass since I purged them from the studio last fall. The bottom 3 drawers are holding the individual card packs of PL (and similar company) cards. The next 2 drawers up hold the paint chips I showed you yesterday and the top drawer contains the small image stamps purchased for the PL albums.  By the time you see this post I will have added labels to coordinate with the storage items across the room, pulling everything together.

I've finished gessoing the pages of the composition books and should have the Documented Life Planner put together for Monday's post. 

Creative Blessings!

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY - Paint Chips!

 These are the pretty Dutch Boy paint chips I unearthed last week that instantly made me think Project Life. I have no clue how long I've had them. I can tell you it's been within the last seven years.

This is the entire collection. At the time I just liked them and knew I'd use them in 'something'. So when I couldn't find anymore last week, I kept on the hunt to see what else is out there. I found these by Glidden at Walmart last week:

I apologize for the blur. Have no clue what happened. I have a stack of chips about 3" thick. I picked up 2 of each picture (because I have 2 girls albums to do) as well as 2 of each 2 coordinating colors for accents in the layout. I did not count how many different pictures I picked up . But I loved all the nature themes. Perfect for as much time as Adrian loves being outside, and has spent outside with us.

As to all the Project Life items I purchased a couple weeks ago... I found a place to put them. I'll show a pic tomorrow as well as the new addition to my desk. 

Creative Blessings!

WOYWW #253 - A Secondary Workspace

This is my work space this. If you want to see what my actual table looks like, I'm still buried under Project Life. You can see that post HERE if you missed my amazing shopping trip. I hope to have it organized this weekend.  I've been working on the dining room table for a couple of weeks. Don't really have enough room on the studio desk to spread all three of these composition books out anyway.

I have 34 pages left to gesso. Then I can FINALLY put my Documented Life Project together. I'm so excited to start working IN  the Documented Life Planner instead of pages that are here and there. I figure I'll have a month or so to determine if I want to work with this style of planner on a regular basis. If so, I can start now on gessoing next year's planner pages.

Most artists have more exciting desks than mine to look at. So head over to Julia's at StampingGround where you will find a whole list of bloggers ready to welcome you in. Julia can explain what I'm talking about. 

MIXED MEDIA MONDAY - Shopping!

Look at all my goodies! And the best part - 50% OFF!!!

This was a true find. I was not looking to pick up any Project Life items. My plan for PL was to use some of the cool freebie printables from ScrappyStickyMess and others on-line as well as designing my own. But when I rounded the isle of Hobby Lobby yesterday and saw several kits marked down by 50% I HAD to look. This is a collection between two HL stores in Springfield MO. The kits had all just been marked down that afternoon so word had not spread and I had plenty to choose from.

I bought 4 of these 40-pk bags and 4 or 5 of the smaller Memos packages. The little stamps are shrink-wrapped 2 to a package for $1 from Michaels. Perfect for Project Life

This shows more of the pads as well as a Albums kit in the background. The colors just screamed Adrian and Abby so had to grab. The hair clips are great for the PL albums or as bookmarks. They were in the $1 tower bins at Michaels.  Oh.. the frame off in the upper right corner - I got to use as a stencil - spraying through for art journals. Michaels also had DCWV Slabs for $5. I found one that fits the Victorian color-theme of my Documented Life Planner. So yeah, was a good score all the way around this weekend. Now to get it put away LOL