Over the next few days I will be posting not only images of my studio spaces, for accountability purposes, but also to let you know what is available. I will be selling some items check out the studio purge tab for daily updates, and others will go to new homes for the sole cost of shipping!
In thinking about my "brand" I've had to make a decision as to which mediums and colors I will be working with and "why"! This wall here contains beads, findings, and all sorts of mixed media objects that is and should be heaven for most artists. Well this was true until today when I got into the last fight I ever want to have with myself over studio space EVER again!
Yes that is right, you know every time you scream in frustration because you can no longer move in your studio space, or find that book you need to finish a project at the last hour, you are fighting with yourself!
Stop fighting with yourself!
More beads, jars of silk cocoons, buttons, bells, baubles, and all sorts of nummies. The crates above are filled with mixed media papers, findings, Angelina fibers, pine cones, silk carrier rods, and who knows what else. Well I'm planning to start excavating tomorrow so we will soon find out what else lies within those crates.
Far shelf, more beads, findings, jars with little bells in them... you get the picture. Foreground that's supposed to be my sewing table and right now it's loaded with drawing and painting supplies.
The other side of my sewing table. The plastic drawer stuff (to the south of the table) are filled with vintage, antique, and somewhat modern laces, threads, buttons, ric rac, you name it, oh and a ton of handspun yarns from fibers I carded and dyed myself and in some cases even acquired from local sheep I used to sheer.
The wall of thread! And those little plastic drawer organizers, if you guessed filled with beads you'd be correct. And they are also over flowing with embroidery floss, pearl cottons, and the like.
More thread, and those plastic tubs are filled with... if you guessed vintage and antique trims you'd be correct! Two of the tubs are also filled with natural dyed wool, silk, and cotton fabrics. All of those baskets and tubs on top are filled with more fibers, more threads, and more mixed media objects, seeing a theme here yet???
And sweeping past the entrance to my sewing room... More threads under the clock.
More fabric, more threads, more fibers, and no place to put finished artwork! This is the north wall in my sewing studio and I want ALL of this stuff to go bye bye, with the exception of the shelf (you see the side of it here) with the clock. My goal is to put my drawing table and new flat file cabinet (that hubs is building for me) on this wall.
Finally the corner where I started, the NW corner of my studio. Again more fibers, more threads, more fabric, all dyed with natural dyes. Oh and a ton of knitting supplies and latruador that I'm never going to get to in this life time.
Stay tuned for Part 2 tomorrow the area of my studio known as the "overflow" area.
