Feb/March Challenge Week 5

I really can’t believe that it’s already week 5 of the Feb/March Challenge. As for what I accomplished last week, I feel like I fell a little short.

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Studios Tour 2020

I’ve not given a tour of my studios for awhile, so I thought I’d take you on a tour of my creative spaces today, and a peek at what I’ve been working on for my next tutorial. Let’s start in the dye studio, aka garage, where most of my wet work goes on. This is…

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Happiness During COVID

Years ago in high school I worked on the paper. Often, after the whole paper had been laid out, there would be “holes” or empty white spaces that needed to be filled. One of our go-to solutions was to add a “Happiness is” list.  Below is one of those lists from the Bosse High School…

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Organizing Again

Yesterday Dave peeked his head into my studio and saw that I had fabric all over the place. “Oh, you’re organizing again, aren’t you?” He claims I do this every few months, but I really it’s not that often. It only seems that way since my studio is always a mess! I’ve been wanting to…

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Organizing and more

Can you believe the summer is almost over? I sure can’t. Here is a little of what I’ve been up to the last couple of weeks. I have been reading this organizing book since I have a strong urge to move stuff out of here! I really like her idea of organizing not by room,…

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Keeping Notes – Ipad App Noteshelf

One of the other apps I used on vacation was Noteshelf. In the past when we would go on vacation I would make a journal for all of my notes. Here is one I used on one of our trips. Since we were going to be so busy and suitcase/carry-on space was limited, I wanted…

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My Creative Space Update

When we looked to purchase this house five years ago, I was drawn to this room. What I loved about it was the large window looking out to the backyard letting in so much light. It also had another window and one wall of closets. Dave agreed that this could be my creative space –…

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Last Sunday in October

Yesterday was a busy day. So much still needs to be tended to outside, but I’ve not been feeling quite myself so I stayed inside and took care of some of inside chores. First on the agenda was to wash the bedclothes. It’s time to put on the flannel sheets, so I went ahead and…

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Review: Inside The Creative Studio

Creative Studio – Inspiration and ideas for your art and craft space by Cate Coulacos Prato is a new release from Interweave. I’ve said this in past posts, but if a book can get me motivated to make something or in this case, look at reorganizing my craft/woman cave area, it’s a keeper. Here are…

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