Adding book shelves for storage.

Shelves relieved all of the clutter. all of the paints and brushes off of the art cart. Each shelf is dedicated to an area of art. Paint, Brushes, Drawing, Beading, Silks, Petal People
My work area is clear. My desk stands on its own without stuff all around it so I can do my work without having to move everything first. The book cases were cheap and sit on a base made with concrete blocks and white fiber board. the cost of the entire room organization was only around 120.00. The space to work, Priceless.

Art Room clutter

The art room is out of control. the clutter blocks creative flow and I have started to hate going in there.The room is only 8x8 the size of a walk in closet. one end is a closet and the other walls have windows and doors. Sooooooooooooooo It was time to get in there and clean it out. No art supplies were harmed in this clean out. and almost everything remains in the room. Here are the before pics.

pumpkin? did someone say pumpkin?

Oh yes pumpkin time is fun time.

who says it has to be traditional.

This pumpkin found out it is Sunday and I have to back to work tomorrow.

Happy Trick or Treat.

The hard part was getting the dog to get up and answer the door.




Time has passed and the world has changed. Trick or treat is nothing like it once was. Fear has changed it. We would go out in little packs of friends with no fear of our neighbors, we knew them and they knew us and our parents or grand parents. It was a night of ringing doorbells, and gags played on friends parents.

need more space? creat outside rooms.

When the house is getting small, when you just need a little more room.

Somewhere to just sit and have a quiet cup of coffee. Or to sit and read a book.

I put this little space together with things I had laying around in my shed.Some small stepping stones painted with some blue designs to dress them up. The only cost was the farm raised eucalyptus mulch which is well worth it. It helps to run off bugs and I have found that cats don't like it either. Even my pug turns up his nose to it. I don't smell anything from it.

I love my new front porch. The city says we can't "build" a front porch so I came up with my own cost free front porch. My pumpkin spice coffee never tasted so goooood.

great table after paint

We bought an ugly purple iron table with a fruit tapestry colored material on the cusions. We first painted the table and chairs a khaki color and then put on a stone paint finish. Bought some heavy stripe curtians and covered the chairs. It is heavy and slides up under the Island for two or slides out to the middle of the floor for up to 6 people. Buy something cheaper and make it your own with some paint and fabric.
I saw a show that used wool and sweater material skirt and sweaters from thrift stores to make chair and pillow covers.

who's in the dog house??

The old tin shed has been there for 14 years or so. it is showing its age. I am wanting to get a few more years out of the old gal so hear it goes?

Remember how I told you all about mixing the paint. well there it is. My Yard paint. I use it on all kinds of surfaces and it holds up very well. Haven't re-painted anything yet.

A few more details to be added along with a rolled shingle roof to give it that real dog house look. LOL