Organizing the Studio with Baskets, Buckets, Jars and Such

I am elbow deep in a re-organizational escapade in my studio.  After ranting on Sunday in my post, I'm in the Doldrums A Little Bit Over My Messy Studio, I decided to do something about it.  Now, I will warn you, my set up does not look like the inspiration images I offered.  Nor are my images the best quality.  But, I am excited about my progress.  So as my 17 year old son says to his friends, "Roll with it."

I highlighted a few things with numbers with a key in the caption area.

I have had these two apple crates for decades.  I paired them with a few planks from an old fence I dragged home to make a table.  I gathered up buckets, baskets and containers, cube shelves and a red shelf that I have had laying around waiting to be used.  I even used a vintage fry basket (#10 above) to place my stencils and a few cutting supplies!

Just this area has taken me almost two full days to sort out all this stuff!  I get going on one thing, and the next thing I know three hours have flown by!

I did take about an hour today to run by one of my favorite collectibles malls and take a peek around for a few things to help me organize my buttons and such.  I found a few more things and scooped them up too! I threw this vignette together to show you what I found.

I'm super excited about the shutter combo in the background.  I have been wanting to buy it, but it just wasn't the right price.  Marked way down today! Yeah!  Also, look at that neat folding ruler! Yeah! I have been looking for one of those for months!  What about those jars? Awesome, right?!

I have just started putting together a work station for my computer, Silhouette Cameo, sewing machine and such.  It is a work in progress...  

Oh! and....today, the mail carrier delivered my package from Spoonflower!  I ordered a super dee duper fabric combo for the glass front cabinet that I showed you in my blog post HERE.  Gotta roll my sleeves up and get to that one too!   Have you ever checked out Spoonflower?  Wow...cool stuff.  

Hope you enjoyed the little sneak peek into my world this week!  It ain't the prettiest, but it's mine and it's coming together.  I think I'll just..."Roll with it!"  

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Ponderings From The Homeless Finch Studio: I'm in the Doldrums A Little Bit Over My Messy Studio

It's Sunday.  Sunday use to be a day when we got all sorts of projects done around the house.  "Use to be" meaning, those days have long gone!  As we have grown older and my husband more engaged in his career, this just doesn't happen anymore.  He just isn't interested in doing weekend projects.  For him weekends are about riding bikes, going to lunch, watching golf and going out on his boat.  That all sounds really nice. Right?!  Well, it is unless you have a studio that looks like this...

One big mess.  It has been like this for months.  Don't get me wrong.  It has been better and worse than these images.  At one point during my 25 Days of Christmas and Holiday Series, you could not even walk around in my studio!  My sister saw it and was visibly shocked.  The problem is that I just don't have any closets in this space and I have no way of storing all my supplies in a way that doesn't look cluttered.

Yes, I have seen all the wonderful studio spaces out there. Most of them look very nice in photographs. Many of them aren't very practical and, quite frankly, how do I pull them off?  I cannot do it on my own. (Yes, I realized that you are shocked because it seems I can do anything. Wink.)   So here I sit writing this blog post in a rant over my dilemma.  So for now, I will just dream of the amazing studio spaces that I see and imagine that these were built during times when weekend projects were a part of my life.

http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2007/07/the-new-studio.html

The PinkLovesBrown design studio is inspiring with its tall, color-coordinated shelves
keeping everything organized and easily accessible. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinklovesbrown/2979608898/in/pool-handmadespaces)

This is zany...but coolio!

http://justsomethingimade.com/2010/07/studio-shots/

Source, unknown. 

http://heatherbailey.typepad.com/

Ahh......maybe someday.  For now....I guess I better just go and re-organize this mess knowing that it will look like this over and over again until the studio help fairy comes to visit!

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The Sweetest Days of St. Valentine Series: Quick And Easy Pink Rosette Trim Bracelet

I found this project a few months back on a blog named Rubbies and Pearls.  I pinned it to my Pinterest with the intent on tackling this little, fun project as a gift for my daughter.  Well, it took months because Joann's Fabrics were out of the jewelry finding that I needed, and quite honestly...I forgot about it altogether.  

But when I was researching and testing ideas for this Valentine's Day Series, I remembered this project. I took me all of about 5 minutes to complete. If you want to see the original tutorial post over at Rubbies and Pearls click HERE.  

It's a short materials list...

Materials

A piece of trim, enough to comfortably fit the person's wrist.

1 package of Blue Moon Large Ribbon Clasps. (enough for three bracelets)

A pair of Pliers, scissors

Blue Moon
Large Ribbon Clasp
image source Joann's.com

First I measured the trim around my daughter's wrist and cut it.  I then took the pliers and attached the clamp finding portion of the clasp set to each end of the rosette trim.  I simply squeezed down on the clamp making sure that it caught as deep as possible into the end of the trim to insure a good grip.  I then attached the jump rings (I used two) and the lobster clasp. Done. Simple. Sweet.

Here it is on my daughter's wrist.  

She is on her way out tonight with a few girlfriends to see a basketball game.  I saw her walking out of the room just  a few minutes ago wearing this bracelet paired with a few more of her favorite bracelets.  Nice layered look.  She's got style.  

So there you have it. Short, but sweet.  Oh course you can pick any type of trim your see and like.  It's a simple handmade project that I know just about anyone could pull off.  So why not you?!  If you want to order the clasp online, you can go to THIS LINK at Joann.com to purchase them.  

Stay tuned for another great project in my series 

The Sweetest Days of St. Valentine!  

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