Home Sweet Home

 Hi everyone. Happy weekend.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend. May is winding down quickly, which really can't be possible, can it? 

Today I want to share another page for Matilde's bird challenge at Art Journal Journey.

The centerpiece is a page of a rather dilapidated  old children's bird book I have.  Before that got added, I started with a piece of watercolor paper that I inked a bit. Then I took an old dictionary page and used some watercolor paints on it. I layered these with my birdhouse page. I sponged a bit of gesso around the edge of the birdhouse paper to make my page look a little less like 3 pages layered together. Then I added some feathers which I cut out from a sheet of clear printed feathers. Finally I added some little foam confetti style pieces and used some letter stickers to title my page.

Not the most complex page, but I like it.

And since my post is about homes,  I can finally report that the spare bedroom redo is finished!!!!!! 

It is very exciting.  I've been working the past few days figuring out where to put my storage pieces and what I want to put into them. I imagine that I will end up changing some things as I go along. And I am not even close to being done yet, but I do need to clean out enough of my other bedroom because my daughter is coming home and will be here Sunday-Tuesday morning. She does need a place to sleep other than the couch. Smile. 

 Except for a new rug I bought for the floor (which is not down yet)  and one other piece, I am recycling what I already have.

Here's a few views.

I love furniture with little drawers or openings. 

These "cubbies" went right back in their old spots. The top piece is something I bought years ago at IKEA and had in my kitchen for awhile. The piece below it is a piece I found years ago at an antique store. It comes out of an old post office. For me it makes a great piece to store small stamps and other little items.

I decided to give up my cork board wall. My wall space in the redone room is a lot less than it was before  because the closet is now missing and  2 walls of space are gone. But the huge amount of light the room now gets makes the loss of  space  worth it.

In the photo above, you can see some old cassette tape holders. My friend Deb had them in her classroom. I told her if she was ever throwing them out I would take them because I saw ink pad holders rather than cassette tape holders. 

At the end of one school year Deb brought them across the hall to my room because she was done with them. I have been happily using them since and thought it was worth covering up the cork board space with them.

Since this room is tucked under the eaves at the back of the house, I don't have a full sized back wall. I also have a lot of paper, some of it is over 20 years old going back to my scrapbooking days. These empty metal cubes are also old; in fact we used to keep my daughter's toys in them. Since then I have arranged them to hold all my assorted papers and paper products, including pages I have started but haven't completed as well as some old magazines I like to cut out pictures from.

Because of the ceiling beam, they didn't quite fit on the back wall, so I put them next to my hardware store "cubbies". I also have a repurposed shoe holder that I will store cutting dies in. It is sitting on a little 2 sided "box" to get it up off the floor a bit.

I've shown you my hardware store "cubbies" before, but in case you don't know what I am talking about, here they are again.

This old hardware store unit will be my general supply area where you can find most of my paints, tapes, clamps, tissue paper rolls, journals I am working on, paint brushes, etc. I've started filling it but haven't finished it yet.

 

You might remember the little attic door that goes into our under the eaves storage.

I thought it needed a face lift, so the other day I painted it to match the walls. (Ignore the storage pieces I was trying out. I'm not sure if they will go where they are or not.)

And finally my workbench is going along this wall. I will put my die cut machine on it, as well as a box I have that will hold little do-dad embellishments.  I want to still be able to work on it so I don't want too much on it.

 

As I said, there is still a lot to do. I am very thankful to my husband for doing all this; the room looks amazing. No more smelly carpet. Hurrah for that. Plus it is fun to go through everything and arrange it, although it is a bit hard to purge, and I have no idea where I am going to store my couple of bins of yarn for knitting. 

I am sure the answer will come to me. 

I'm a bit behind commenting as the last few days have been busy, but I will be by this weekend. I apologize in advance if I've missed your post.

 Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!