My Art Room

Welcome to my art room!  Come on in, I would love to give you a little tour!

You are looking at the view you see as you enter the double doors from the front foyer.  Today is a good day, there is no clutter or projects on the floor!  You can actually see CARPET!

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And a boy hogging my new office chair that I bought last week from Ikea!  This kid and I fight over that chair whenever Dad is at the desk in my art room (because everyone loves Mama's Art Room!)!!!

Side view of my work area.  I work part-time from home so the desktop is a vital member of the art room alliance!  It unifies the room (and attracts the 4 males to invade Mama's space!)

Can you see my beloved Coke crate that I use on my desk for crafty knick-knack organizing???  It is very important to have color sorted buttons and glitter inches away from you at all times!

My refurbished night stand that I painted white and use as a Cricut station.  I have no patience so I had my beloved hubster paint the checkerboard pattern on for me.  He did a bang up job!!! 

And all of my favorite Martha Stewart punches that I keep housed in these little cubbies!  Atop sits one of my Mother In Laws silver plated trays with a tin full of hand stamps and de-covered books that I use for crafting.  I hate defacing books but believe me, these were well loved books from the thrift store that I am breathing new life into when I use them to make flowers!

My very favorite part of my room, my Ikea Expedit shelves, chock full of supplies, collections, tidbits, cookbooks, oddles and oddles of ribbon, punches and more!

My junky shelves, full of JUNK!  Hehe!

One of my new cards and my rainbow-riffic jar of embroidery floss (that I bought cause it was $1 at Goodwill!)

Lastly and most importantly, my color sorted scraps!  I would be nothing if it weren't for my scraps!  Seriously.  I use these for EVERYTHING, and so do my boys!

There is no scrap too big or too small for cards, tags, flowers, punching circles or covering a jar... truly, the possibilities for scraps are endless!!!

Linking up with :

http://tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com/

and Show Off Your Space at Tator Tots and Jello : http://tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-dining-room-turned-craft-roomoffice.html

Thanks for stopping by!

~Rachel 

I Finally Got My Ikea Expedit Shelves!

 After years of pining for these shelves, I finally decided I needed to step up and convince my hubby to understand how badly I needed them!  I have a dedicated art room for my craft and where I work from home part time.  I do sometimes share it with the guys in the house!   I had an uncomfortable futon in the space where the Expedit shelves now reside.  I stored baskets and bins of ribbons, paper, holiday trinkets and odd paper crafting tools under the futon.  It looked sloppy and very overwhelming.  I even lost my desire to craft.  How sad, I have thousands of dollars in paper art supplies and no desire to use any of it. 

 Once in Ikea, my husband saw the same vision I saw.  And the rest is history!  We came home with the pine color instead of the black brown.  Slight hiccup.  So we went back out to Ikea, for the second time, and finally got the right color!  Once home, my husband diligently went to work building my shelves!  In fact, he bought me the 4 cubby unit for my TV!  And he even talked me into the four black cubbies that house all my odd junk and photos!

I love showcasing my family, my treasures, my favorite supplies and my projects!
And I love that you stopped by!  Come back again, soon!
Rachel