Finally getting around to the big reveal!

OK, so no excuses here for my truant behavior. I'll just get to the point. I FINALLY got everything in my sewing/craft room. Well, a sneak peak anyway. I just realized I haven't taken a full set of pics. OOPS! Sorry. I'll update that as soon as I get my seed starting rack out of there :)

*Update*

Got the floors done yesterday. Got all my shelves assembled. Everything is arranged and ready for my "stuff". I just have to get my husband to help me carry in and put my craft table top on.

Cubbies, cubbies, and more cubbies

Craft table without top on yet. Also, more shelves.

Action shot, lol!

Sewing "station" (And yes, more cubbies, LOL!)

*Update* Sewing/Craft Room (or should I call it a studio?)

OK, so, I haven't heard from the flooring guys yet but they did say it would probably be around the 27th before they could come. My goal was to get the room emptied and painted before they came and you saw the amount of stuff I had in there. Well, I am proud to announce, I did it! Yay me! I tried to take some photos of the paint color for you but it turns out it is REALLY difficult to get accurate colors. I tried and came very close in a couple. I also went ahead and painted the trim while it was easy to get to. It was white already but I repainted in a high gloss white and I have to say it is subtle but lovely. The plus side is that I love the look of old house trim where there are no sharp edges because the layers of paint from over the years have begun to round everything off. And my little secret, I have quit taping all together when I paint a room and I LOVE that! Just get good at cutting, keep a wet cloth with you for drips, and be careful rolling next to the trim. Speeds the whole thing up SOOOO much!

Too shadowed

This is a pretty good shot but it is a little washed out and looks paler than it really is by just a hair

too blue except for towards the top of the wall. I didn't repaint the trim inside the doorway because the plan is to put french doors there so I will have to redo it anyway after the install

This is probably the closest to the actual color. It is a beautiful duck egg / french country type of pale greenish blue.

 Now I just need the floors and outstanding patience for constructing all the shelving and then organizing and......whew! Still more to do than I thought, LOL!

In case you were wondering, I only used one gallon of Olympic One in eggshell from Lowes for the walls and it did a great job covering the mustardy yellow and crayon and gouges and spray texture etc. that was there before. The color was veridian green. At one time, this room was a playroom. A disaster of a playroom but a playroom. Also, we have orange peel texture on our walls so if you patch with Spackle, you have obvious spots where the texture is gone. They make this spray that I think is drywall mud watered down, to spray on the wall and restore the texture. It has made a huge difference in my paint finishes. I may skip sparkle for any small stuff like nail holes in the future and just spray the area. I do recommend priming over the spray because even though there is primer in the paint I used, if the sun shines down the wall, you can kinda see where I sprayed it. If I had done another coat, it might have made all the difference in the world but, hey, it's me and I like to call a job done, LOL! It does not show unless the light is directly on it.

And what should I call this room. There will be lots of different crafts going on in here but sewing in one form or another, will be the main one. My yarn for knitting and crochet will be stored in here but I mostly sit in the living room to work on that. It is a very portable craft. I have a silhouette cutter that I mostly do vinyl stuff with and then all the little crafty stuff like hair bows, bottle caps, paracord, repurposing stuff into new stuff. You get the idea. Sewing room just doesn't cover it all. Any thoughts?

More updates soon!

Craft Room Move Part II

It seems entirely appropriate that having not blogged in a very long time, it would be about the same thing, LOL! Who'd a thunk it?!

Here's the deal. Craft room moved. Old news. New news you ask? Let me start by saying that, for future reference, if you were to say, rip all the carpet out of your house except maybe for your craft room, and let's pretend you have 2 dogs who are total divas. Did you know that, apparently, when you leave your dogs in the house while you are gone, they think carpet is grass? Or they just really don't like me!

But I digress.

Things that are done
1. Purchase massive amounts of cubby style shelves, in white, for more organized storage and as table bases
2. Purchase another hollow core door to go with the one I already have and create an L shaped sewing desk to fit all 4, yes I said 4, machines (count them - 1. sewing 2. serger 3. embroidery 4. coverstitch)
3. Purchase plywood and boards for crafting table top
4. Paint everything a lovely gloss white so it all matches and makes a clean background for my chaos

Checklist of things to be done
1. Get contents of sewing room out to storage building temporarily while walls are painted and floors are done
2. Purchase and wait on the set-up of said storage building
3. Paint walls - I have it. I just need the room emptied to work
4. Put together multiple sets of cubicles
5. Put beautiful new sewing / crafting room together and decorate

*Bonus content* Perhaps blogging about the transformation will "encourage" me to use my nice Nikon camera and actually take photos of the progress. Let's go see what I can capture right now. You know, the best time of night to take indoor pics, right?

LOL! This is going to be fun!

Shots of the disastrous areas as they are right now.

silhouette cutter
(that isn't my main sewing machine. That is what I used before I got my main one and decided to keep the old one to pass on to which ever of my daughters decides they need one)

Fabrics, knitting/crochet supplies

Window, stuff, nighttime :)

Stuff (there is my coverstitch machine and soap cutter)

Shiny craft table top and covered embroidery machine 

That blurry area in the back is my dining room

 Evidence of the work that has already occurred

Look how shiny my craft table is!

 Carpet/grass - this embarrassingly disgusting stuff will be G-O-N-E

There is some food for thought. Once progress actually starts, I will put up action shots.

ARGH! Packing!

SO, I am working slowly at getting my sewing/craft room packed up to move everything out of the way for the flooring guys and OMG!!! I never knew I had so much stuff! Well, let me clarify. I knew, I just didn't want to admit it to myself. I can't seem to find anything to throw away either. I look at everything and think "there has got to be something I can do with this". I need to break out the dolly and start moving stuff out to the storage building but it won't quit raining and being cold. And now I feel like taking a nap! Maybe just a little power nap......