Where Bloggers Create - My Folk Art Studio

YAY, it's the big day to post my

Where Bloggers Create contribution!

Welcome to a quick tour of my "studio"

(aka dining room, but on Thanksgiving day only).
I'll hope you take a moment to comment.

We're going clockwise around the room.

Pretend you entered through this doorway.
Looking back, you would see:

Ribbon storage racks (built by my wonderful husband), rickrack storage hook, cheery (cheap) clock, old-timey TV. The price was right and it works for me!

On top of that far ribbon rack:

Maybe someone can tell me what happened in 1781. I just liked the hand-painted-folk-art-y-ness.

To the right, over the opening to the living room fabric storage room:

Home, the starting place of love and dreams. Couldn't have said it better myself!

Directly in front of that opening:

This is "Em"...my embroidery machine. I'm clever like that with names.

The colors in this room are so hard to get accurate in pictures.
The banner is brick red and navy.
The walls are a buttery caramel color.

To the right, the far wall:

A folk-art dream with a couple of jolts of modernity (is that a word?)

Same wall, a little better lighting:

Wipe-off board to keep me organized. Even though I'm too busy to be organized, like the little blue sign says. And I do keep trying to Simplify. It's not working.

These hang over the window.

Clearly, cats are better. Just ask my helpers.

We have almost come full circle.
Here's that ribbon rack to the left of the door:

Ribbon rack, random bird, black cat sign, festive rickrack storage

With a detail pic of the faux Ott light and handy tools:

Cutting table corner.

Longtime readers may remember the cutting table that went from Trash to Treasure.
CLICK HERE for the post from a year ago:

Cutting table = free. Scrap storage from Wal Mart = cheap.. DIY new flooring and helpful Sentinel Cat named Kirby = PRICELESS.

Really bad pic of my cool thrift-store chandelier:

Please ignore the hanging Hershey's Kiss mouse, etc. This used to be a crappy-looking bronze color. The thrift store lady with the heavy German accent said, "It's Italian bronze." I said, "I think it's American cast iron with an ugly bronze paint job." Had it rewired and turns out...she was RIGHT! I still spray-painted it black, because Italian bronze or not, it was ugly.

Last, but not least: the sewing-machine-surround-table-thing my husband made me. Make it SO much easier to sew and quilt...eliminates the drag caused by the weight of the item. Added bonus - it's a great perch for my helpers:

Two more of my sentinels: Foster guarding my precious Pfaffy (my cleverly-named Pfaff sewing machine); Kong doing his best scary Pet Sematary cat impersonation.

I hope you've enjoyed my little tour.

Please let me know if you liked my creative space!

Oh, and PS - apparently the local artist painted 1781 on that box to memorialize the Surrender of Yorktown during the Civil War. That's certainly appropriate, because we live about 3 miles from Yorktown Battlefield, where it all went down...