So, here's what it looked like before I spent an entire day putting things away and organizing. Please forgive the blurry pictures. I think I was shaking when I took them in dreading anticipation of how I was going to clean this room up! Oh, about the bed. This was originally a guest room. As you all know, I am a big 40's fan and World War II buff. When one of the bedrooms freed up as one of the kids moved out, I was destined to make it a guest room *slash* my personal World War II retreat with war time decor. Well, I need somewhere to sleep when the hubby has bad snoring nights! I painted the walls 1930's french country colors (cornflower and pale yellow) and since I could not find a reproduction 1940's wallpaper that I could afford, I painted one wall the blue color and stenciled on a wallpaper pattern in a darker blue. You can kind of see it a little bit behind the jewelry display. I collected lots of 1940's stuff from prints to magazines to decorative glassware and books published in the late 30's / early 40's (even some German books in that beautiful gothic type-print. More about the German stuff later). Well, when it came time for me to make a studio to keep my stuff in and free up the rest of the house, I had to use the guest room (more about the spare-room fight later). I am hoping eventually I can turn it back into a guest room, but for now, I find many hours of solace cranking my 40's music and creating!
Lots more messes....
and messes.....
and messes! In fact, I avoided it for most of my Christmas vacation as I was so overwhelmed with the amount of work I was facing! You know how the Christmas business rush is. Just when you think you have a grip on things, several more custom orders come in! The sad thing is that I haven't even touched the studio downstairs! Yes, I have two studio's. The upstairs studio (this one on the second floor) is for jewelry and sewing. The downstairs studio (in the basement...don't worry, it's a finished basement, well, sort-of) is my painting, metal working and book / journal creating studio. The place I don't care if I get paint, chemicals and adhesive all over the floor! Plus, there is running water down there which I don't have in the upstairs studio.At any rate, it is totally spotless now. Tomorrow I will post pictures of the clean studio. Later this week, I'll show you why I got no business work done today and then I'll get into the German thing and the spare-bedroom fight further!
Now, go clean your studio!
