My hubby made me a pegboard for my craft room.

Well it's sunday afternoon and i've got the windows open and enjoying the weather.  Just about two hours ago it was storming and dark out.  Now the sun is shining and the weather is amazing.  I've been pretty busy this weekend.  I had a custom order to do for someone... I won't get into detail quite yet.  They are a suprise so I would hate to ruin the suprise.  I'll post about it next week.  I thought you guys may want to see an update on my craft room.
My hubby built me a pegboard wall to put some of my supplies on.  I like my supplies to be handy, but i don't want them all on top of my workspace in the way.  So I came up with this.  I love the natural brown color if it...it makes me think of recycled paper..which I love.  I only bought 12 hooks and I could use probably atleast 12 more..haha I also bought a basket to put on it and wouldn't mind having about 2 more of those.  It's gonna take me a while to get everything organized on it just how I like it but so far its working out great.

Please excuse my mess on my desk, it was a productive day. haha  Oh..and those two clipboards I bought for $1.00 each at Circut City.  They were the clipboards the actual employees used but because they were going out of business they were selling everything.  I plan on sprucing them up with some paper soon. 

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My craft room renovation is coming along quite nicely.

Wouldn't you love for your office/craft room to look like this? I sure do. I really want those shelves... I have a perfect wall in my craft room for that exact shelf unit... Of course mine would never look that clean and organized....

Anyways, speaking of home offices and craft rooms I figured it's about time I show you my progress in mine. If you remember back in October I showed you what my craft room/home office/spare bedroom looked like. Then back in November I showed you the desk that I designed and my hubby made for me. Well now here it is almost 4 months later in full swing. I'm at this desk every single day and I'm constantly changing around the layout figuring out better ways to work on it. I still need to purchase some shelves to put on the wall to hold my supplies and I still need to paint the room but so far its coming along really nicely.

I finally made a curtain to go around the bottom of my desk. I got in on sale at Hobby Lobby for $2.00/yard. It's super cute! Yes, it does have pink in it and Yes I do HATE pink...but it actually looks really good in the room, plus you really can't see the pink... I think I'm gonna make some curtains out of it and a cover for that ugly blue chair...if they still have some left. I still have a LONG WAY to go as far as making my craft room exactly how I want it but its came a long way....

I plan on painting the walls eventually. I'm not exactly sure on a color yet. I want something different than the rest of my house but yet at the same time I still want it to go with the rest of the house. I may just eventually have to just pick a color and learn to love it because I am so indecisive. Also as you can see I've got my "inspiration wall" in full swing. So far I've got some Kurt Halsey prints, a picture my husband drew me years ago and a print I made. I plan to completely fill that wall up with images that inspire me and that I love. I actually just ordered another print from Kurt that I'll be adding up there as soon as I get it. For more details visit my flickr site and view the notes on these images.

craft room is making progress. . .

So I thought I'd show you a picture of my workspace/craft desk. The room itself still has a long way to go. I still have to paint and install shelves to store all my supplies. I've also been looking for material so that I can sew curtains to go along the bottom of the desk to hide all the storage stuff underneath it. I'm okay with just the desk being done for now. I've got alot of stuff to make for christmas and to make for my shop so the rest of the stuff will have to wait until after the holidays. Which is okay with me. As long as I've got a work space to do my projects..i'm good.

I'm finishing up a christmas gift I made for my mom and my aunt. I wasn't going to post it on here but I know my aunt has ZERO computer skills so I don't have to worry about her sneaking a peek and as far as my mom she does know a little bit about computers but I don't think she reads my blog. And...if one of them sneak a peak...oh well. They just won't be suprised. :o) Anyways, I finished them up last night so when I go into my craft room in a few to start working on more projects I"ll take some pics and post them later.

I bought a purse pattern of etsy about 2 or 3 months ago and I've been wanting to use it for so long now. I just can't find any fabric designs that I want. I'm almost tempted to just buy whatever I can and make a "sample" purse first... Around here all we have is Wal-Mart, Hobby Lobby, & Joann Fabrics. Hobby Lobby & Joann Fabrics have been around for ever and their stuff is just sorta "out dated." I just can't find anything I like. I find alot of stuff online but it's kinda expensive and I'd really like to see it and feel it in person before making a large expensive purchase on something that I don't really know if I'll like it... I did find spoonflower.com, a site where you can design your own fabric. That's so awesome!! But it's like $20 a yard. And when I need somewhere around like 6 yards that's a pretty expensive handmade purse. I wish there was like a "discount fabric" store...where everything was like $1.00 a yard. haha

the perfect solution to keep me warm at night. . .

So due to my husband being extremely cheap and the fact that I'm trying to do things to help the environment. every year we turn our thermostat down a few temperatures and dressing a little warmer. this year we've got it down to the mid 60's. with me being laid off home everyday I have learned to dress a little warmer and use blankets and I'm good. I'm usually moving around a lot anyways so I seem to stay a little warmer. But...at night time bella & lacey I freeze. JC being warm blooded sweats his ass off at night and here I am right next to him shivering. He mentioned that maybe I should get a heating blanket...I don't know if they make them different these days but when I was younger and we had one growing up they were itchy and scratchy and very uncomfortable. Plus he wouldn't use it so it'd be awkward and only on my side and just not what I had in mind. So I was suffering around today and found this. It's PERFECT! You can heat one side of the bed and not the other. That's great! I can stay all snugly and warm and JC's side can just be normal like always...but there are those nites where JC's back or knee is sore and needs the heating pad..well that's okay too because you can decide which part of your side you want on. upper body...lower body...back... so it's very therapeutic. I'm in LOVE. For a King Size it's about $240. While I can't talk my "cheap" husband into buying it for us I'm sure after Christmas I will be able to start saving money and be able to purchase it to use during the rest of the winter.
Also to help us save money we purchased a wood stove with some of our wedding money. We haven't got it installed yet because we just recently found out there pretty much NO ONE installs them anymore because of the risk of user error and fire. While I have no idea how to use a wood stove my husband does and I don't think it'd really be hard to figure out. So we finally found one place around us that will install it. The only thing is it's the type of place where you call them and they call you back 7 days later. Then JC talks to the guy on Monday and JC says hey we'd like to get this installed this week. The guy says "sure no problem..I'll call you tomorrow." Today is Thursday and still no call. JC even called him two times yesterday and no answer. It's really starting to frustrate us. We really want to get this wood stove installed and ready to go. It's getting colder each day and we want to get it installed before it really starts hitting our wallets. Right now our furnace kicks on a few times a day but like I said we keep it pretty cold in here. Eventually it's going to get so cold outside that the furnace is going to start kicking on more. We don't want that. That's why we bought a wood stove. The frustrating thing is that this guy is the ONLY guy around that will install it. So pretty much were screwed. Hopefully soon it will be installed and will be able to enjoy it. I'm trying to figure out how exactly to set it up also. We've been told by people that we have to have a stove board behind it to protect the wall from the heat. I have searched flicker and seen that in about 90% of the photos no one has a stove board behind it. So I'm hoping that we won't have to do that. I don' t really like the black stove board that has to go under it either. I'd rather have like a stone or brick but I guess it'll do. But I definitely know that I don't want a stove board on the wall behind it if I don't have to. I think it will look much better without it and easier to keep the area clean. I left some messages on the photos that I came across without the stove board behind it asking them how far it had to be away from the wall and why that didn't use a stove board. Hopefully that will help me decide what I'm going to do. I can't wait to get it installed and running. I'm excited to incorporate into my decorating. haha

craft room is under construction. . .

so on thursday i took my measurements and my little plan i had drawn up and went up to menard's to purchase my wood and supplies to start building (well for my husband to start building) my craft desk/work space. i love how it turned out so far. the desk itself is pretty much done now... i'm going to buy some material and sew a curtain to put around the bottom of it to hide all the stuff that will be under it. i bought partical board for the actual desk top that had like a white plastic finish to it.. i learned after getting it home it scratches VERY easily and after we had to screw the table top to the legs that i probably didn't need to buy the white... because I'm going to have to cover it up with something now. i was thinking about getting old maps or maybe vintage wallpaper and putting it on top.. hmm..we will see.. anyways.. I really wanted to paint the room first but the desk was a MUST and the paint is just a WANT.. hehe So I figured I'll get the desk in...and get everything organized as much as I can then I'll paint later. I won't hang any shelves or storage stuff on the wall yet until I paint but atleast I'll have a workspace that I can start getting my projects done. I'm really excited to get to start working in there. We got the desk finished on friday and I moved my computer and sewing machine on it but it was late and JC was tired and really didn't want me messing with it anymore so I just left it. Yesterday (saturday) after JC and I went outside and raked some leaves and got some things done in the yard we went in there and he helped me organize it a bit. I'm hoping to go to wal-mart today and buy me some plastic tote/drawers and start putting away alot of the clutter.

I can't wait to post my stuff on here to show you guys all what I've got planned. Not only with the stuff I'm going to be putting in my store and selling online but all the homemade christmas gifts I'm going to be doing for my family and friends and how my craft room turns out.

my craft room...before renovation...

so back a few posts ago i was talking about renovating my craft room.  when we first moved in it was our spare bedroom/snoopy room. it held my LARGE snoopy collection and a day bed for when friends stayed over.  in may of 2007 i decided that i no longer needed the large amount of snoopy collectables that i had.  so i sold ALOT of stuff.  i still kept quite a bit and organized it into my curio cabinet.  i then took the daybed out and moved the computer desk in using it more as a computer room.  then for christmas my grandma bought me a sewing machine.  i had been wanting to start sewing/crafting so i decided i'm turning it into a craft room.  so it fit the purpose for a while..but now i'm wanting to really get into it. i want to start sewing more and designing more.  and right now it's just not happening with the small amount of workspace.  so i've been searching flickr and blogs to get ideas on how to set up a workspace that will work for me.  so in this post is my before pictures. these were taken in september 2008...i'm hoping that this month to start working on my craft room. the

things i want to get done in october are : 1. (i'm scared to death of spiders and i want to make this room completely air tight. hehe meaning to spiders can sneak it) caulk every single little crack or hole in the wall. 2. paint the top walls green with a green drybush finish over it. 3. freshen up the bottom half of the wall with fresh white paint. 4. atleast buy the products for my homemade workspace and start laying it out.   i'm super excited about getting this project going... and it's going to be fairly cheap from what i've added up so far.  the wood that i'm using for my workspace is only gonna cost me around $25.  then i have to buy some legs to use to hold it up but i can't imagine that costing too much money.  i really want to get started soon but i have robyn's wedding this saturday and then next week is the annual "covered bridge festival" that i always go to.  so all my extra money is going towards that.  so this project is starting off slow.. but once that's over with i'm hoping to put some of my extra money towards it. if i could just get it painted that will be a huge step.  i'm painting over the wallpaper which i'm not sure about...but underneath that wallpaper is more wallpaper and under that i have no idea.. so i plan on putting primer over the wallpaper and then    painting...   i want to buy some shelves at ikea to put on the wall to hold alot of my fabric and crafting supplies but we don't have an ikea anywhere near me so i'd have to order it online.  i'm not sure on shipping costs but i know i don't have tons of money to pay lots of s + h.  so i'm hoping that a. it's cheap or b. i can find some shelves at local stores that work just as good.  gosh...i wish i could just snap my fingers and i'd have about $250 in cash in front of me to get this thing finished... i love doing the work...i'm so ready to do the work... i just need the money.  i am selling my apple ibook and our entertainment center on ebay.  so i'm hoping that they both sell and i can put that money towards starting on this room.  it needs help!!