I think I'm finally as done as I'm going to be on this room!  Well, there is always room for more art on the walls and perhaps new carpeting, but for now... it is done.  Months ago I decided to start this project and then only had a few things left to do and didn't do them until this weekend.

The closet doors were those hollow sliders and they were ugly and brown.  I removed them!  You can read more about the closet makeover on yesterday's post if you missed it.
Here's what the closet looks like now....

So, following is the room as it is now.  I tried to take a picture from the door, around the room, and back to the door.  It was a fun project and is very whimsical and hand-crafted!

This is what you see as you walk in the door.... 
I painted the desk, topped it with a wider board, covered that board with heavy wrapping paper.... (the wine bottle is not wine although I wish I had some right now.... it is kitty catnip... called Meow Merlot).  Admittedly, this back wall could use more art on it, but that will happen as I find the right things for it.

   

 Made a skirt and cushion for the chair, made and ironing board cover and the basket behind the ironing board which houses my sewing books and magazines.

This is a close-up of those projects from a previous post.

 I also painted the mirror which is above the sewing machine.

 Around the corner we go.... I painted the dresser which holds my extra fabric, buttons and fillers.  Each drawer is lined with the wrapping paper and has different colored insides!  You can see more about the furniture painting & chair coverings and ironing board cover....HERE.

Here's the dresser.... Love how it turned out!

I made this sign which says "My Happy Place" and the owl pin cushion... and the cake plates.  Oh.. and the hearts from salt dough.

 Here is the closet I turned into a cutting area this weekend.  I'm loving it!!!  In this picture, I made the coffee filter puffs, the pillow, the pictures are scrapbook papers in frames with 3D stickers on the outside of the glass. 

I used a lid from one of the metal jars on the right to create the scallop near the ceiling. I traced it and then painted the ceiling and scallop red.  I then traced the edges with a Sharpie so it is outlined in black.

I also made the pocket organizer on the back of the door.  It is nice because when the door it open, it is right beside me where I cut my fabric, so I can have all of my tools in the pockets rather than on the table surface.

It was a lot of work, but I get inspired to create while I'm in this room, so I guess it was all worth it!

I think perhaps most people have them... the dreaded closet with the dreaded stuff in it.  You know the one...

I had one in my sewing room and my sewing room is very small (maybe 15x15).  The closet is a nice sized closet, but it was full of two huge moving boxes filled with stuff I didn't want to put in the house when we moved here.  So why did I hold onto it for this long?  Who knows?  Thursday, I took the stuff to the donations place and took the doors off of the closet. On Friday morning, I bought some paint and on Friday afternoon, I had all of the BLUE walls painted.  Friday night, I painted the cute RED ceiling.  On Saturday morning, I painted all of the ugly wood trim WHITE and waaalllllaaaa!   I have more room in my craftroom for cutting and moving about.

  It looks so cute, I think I have to go play in the closet first thing tomorrow morning!

Don't you think???

Tomorrow I will be finally showing the room in its entirety.  I have been working on it for a long time and it is finally finished save some more art for the walls.  That will happen as I find it.

Happy weekend!

I spent the afternoon repainting my little bird feeder and planting my zinnias beside the pool. I also dragged all of the HEAVY metal furniture down from the garage attic. (Well, not the table because we kept it out all winter) OMG... I think I will have bruises on my hip bones.  Seriously! 

Anyway, here are the pictures of my flowers and feeder.  The feeder had become totally faded due to the direct sunlight, so I took my decorative paints out and painted right beside the pool.  I am going to spray it with an acrylic coating tomorrow.... there may be some stripes added as well.

I had a little friend helping me with my painting.  Our neighbor's cats love to come "help" me do whatever it is I am doing outside.  Today he knocked over the entire palette of paint onto the patio.  Stinker!  Serves him right getting white paint on his little nose. 

The other day, I was weeding and along came kitty.  He took a flying leap from a ledge next to me right onto my shoulder with his front paws and his hind paws were on my forearm.  He didn't stick his claws in me though.  I laughed so hard at this crazy cat... I'm sure if the neighbors had heard me, they would have wondered if I had gone insane.  Of course, he did stick his claws in me in this picture.  That is my pant leg he is climbing up.  In another helpful instance, little Mr. here stuck his head through a bush just as I was clipping away on the side.  He was almost missing his whiskers!

All is well though and he is just fine and still very helpful.  Especially when I bend over

to pull weeds and he jumps up onto my back like it is a table.  Cute and cuddly, but silly and sinister at times!

 

Okay.  I'm so over this project.  Do you ever get started on something and you are totally gung-ho, but then you get half way through the project and you are just over it?  That is ME.  I've been working on this furniture since March or so.  Pllllth...

Well, here is the table and chair and mirror I just finished.  The red doesn't quite look the same in these pictures as it is in real life. I have to use the flash because my sewing room is windowless and in the basement.  The flash seems to reflect off of the red in an odd way.  Anyway, you will get the idea. 

I didn't paint the table top yet.  I'm not sure if I want to or not, but I think I want it to be white, so I wrapped it (like I have before) with wrapping paper.  This gives me an idea of what it would look like in white and will match the room until I make up my mind. 

I also have to decide what I'm going to do with this ugly industrial carpeting.  In a way it is nice, but I'm not loving it.  Perhaps a room-sized rug?  I'll figure that out later.

Let me know what you think of my sewing room set up so far!

I also made an ironing board cover to match this afternoon....

By the way, I used this  Frog Tape this time because it said it had a paint blocker in it.  It is AWESOME!

No paint went under the edge!  I have to blog more about it later.  I can't say enough!!!

This is the desk that I have been working on for a few weeks now.  It stared out like this.  There were water marks on the top and it was quite ugly.  It worked for a while, but I finally took the time to re-paint it and decorate it a bit.  I forgot to take a good before picture... you'll have to take my word for it.

This is what it looks like now.  I added a piece of light wood to the top which I wrapped in a thick wrapping paper.  This will protect it and I will be able to change it out when I feel like it.  The top of the desk wasn't large enough for all of the stuff I used while sewing, so I made it larger.  It isn't attached, just sitting on there.

This is not the chair that is in the top picture, but it is the chair that goes with the desk. I padded the seat and created a skirt and pillow for it.  The little table was given to me by a friend.  I'm not completely done with it, but it made the picture.  Lots of whimsy in this room now!

Tami

I had a blast painting stripes on my dresser!  I wanted to share with you how to do this with painter's tape.  Have you ever tried to paint with painter's tape and realized that the paint has seeped under the edge of your tape, so you end up with a messy line?  So annoying!  Then you try to straighten the line and it is still a mess because painting a straight line is hard.  

Well, I have a TRICK!   Following is a tutorial to show you how you do it.

Step one....  Choose your two colors.  Paint the whole surface with the lighter of the color.  In my case, white.  Let it dry very well. 


Step two...  use a piece of the painter's tape as a spacer and make your lines.  Be sure to press the edges of the tape down very well.

This is the trick!

Next.... paint over the edges of the tape with the same light color. Weird, right?  But this seals the edges of the tape and allows anything that is going to seep under to match.  Cool, right?

See, I'm painting over the edges with white.

Here are the edges painted white.  Now let it dry, again, very well.

Now paint your other color over the white and over the tape edges and let that dry.

Remove your tape.

And  there you have it.  Nice crisp stripes.