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Wow. Nothin' quite opens the floodgate of WonderBread memories like the smell of a new pair of Buster Brown's. How's this for a whole lotta cute?

Awwww! I was shoving them under John's nose at the dinner table last night; "Smell these! Can't you just feel the first-day-of-school blisters on the back of your feet?" Yes, our little man is starting Kindergarten in a week. He's at the golf course with papa right now...it was all I could do to talk him out of wanting to wear these out there. Maybe he'll talk his way into a pair of golf shoes while he's out there today. Yesterday he hit six tokens worth of balls, which I'm guessing is around 150 balls. First thing when he woke up today he was asking to go back. John couldn't be happier :-)

This is what I'm up to today. The rot under the missing tile is what happens when you keep putting off regrouting. argh! The back board finally just turned to sand. So I figured while I was at it I might as well peel off the old wallpaper...it's been peeling at the seams for a couple years now. Better get back to it, considering it's MY bathroom and I HATE having to use John's. The taking apart was the easy part of the program, but I'm pretty sure I've figured out how to put it back together ;-)

Another place where I create things here. Funny...two and a half people in over 2300 sq ft and I'm crowded. Hmmm...maybe oughta think on that a bit.

I'll admit NO inspiration is apparent in the room itself, but I may just qualify for the 'working with the most fabric in the smallest space' award. This is the landing at the top of the stairs. Caleb had a twin bed from wall to wall under that window for a couple of years...til we moved him into another bedroom of his own last year. I actually went up there to take a pic of my (mostly) fat quarter storage to show a friend who's planning out her new much larger art/craft studio.

It's a cd cabinet from Target that cost around $40 and is only 6.5 inches deep so is a great space saver. It's probably a good thing I don't have any more room than this....Lord knows I'd just fill it up!

Tomorrow I have a mtg with the local website builder. We asked him almost 6 months ago if he'd like to build a site for me to sell my stuff on. Not quite sure why it's taken so long. Never could figure out why it took my brother over a year to do nothing with it, either. I'd have given up long ago if it weren't for John continually pushing me. I just want to make the stuff, but he apparently finds it wasteful to just keep piling finished product up in the closets. Hopefully we're close. Here's a snapshot of how I'm pretty sure I'd like the homepage to look. (if you click it and have it open in it's own window you get a better idea of the image below being a webpage). Feedback would be much appreciated!

Two years ago it seemed like a really good idea to move my entire art/craft studio up the street to our Real Estate office. I'd become like a bad Cathy cartoon; shlepping around in my bunny slippers, not being successful at domestic or creative chores. Separating the two seemed to be the answer. Coming from the 8x10 parlor in the front room of the house, the office space seemed vast. For a while. I immediately set about just filling it up with stuff. Shopping for supplies took precedence over actually using supplies. The front office, the other room that was formally the studio, the kitchen. The only reason I didn't kick John out of his office room and fill it with stuff too was because he actually makes money when he works in there. Every time I saw something remotely cool, say at the dollar store, I'd get six of each. It got to the point that between product overload and being at home raising Caleb most of the time, I'd go months without making anything paper-related. So, after long consideration, I recently moved the whole operation back home. To this little 8x10 parlor at the front of the house. Yegods. With the way my stuff grew in volume the room seems more like 3x4 now. I had to do some serious trimming, which was a good thing. Well, here's pics of how it stands today. I recently bought the book organizing your craft space...didn't get a whole lot of ideas from it for my particular space but it sure is full of good eye candy. I think my fav find for the room is that tall corner cabinet. It's a top and a bottom component from Target's closet organizing line. And what's best is those black cd boxes I found online that fit SO perfectly into what is meant to be shoe containers. My second fav find for the room is the rubber stamp holder. A local kitchen store went out of business last month and they sold me this display piece for 20 bucks; top and bottom. The top is on a lazy susan and has the shelves for all my wood mounted stamps on all four sides. The bottom piece door opens and has a shelf. I have about 25 Target $spot document boxes with all my unmounted stamps in there.

Looking at these pics I see a few things I still need to do/change, but for now I'm already busily working on a project that I need to have ready for my granddaughters first birthday a month from now.