Stu, Stu, Studio!

I haven’t posted to the blog in a little bit because we were going through the home buying process. We closed (how awesome it feels) and now I have a brand spankin’ new studio! I love it. It really feels wonderful to have a separate studio. Before my work area was a small section of the bedroom. Now it’s a nice sized space with a walk in closet (gotta love a walk in closet).

There’s nice natural light streaming in from a window and I set up my cutting/picture area right under the ceiling light so product pictures should look fabulous.

As you can probably tell I’m really excited about the new studio. It was so much fun putting everything in place.

I had two tall bookshelves which I converted to store fabric bolts in by removing some of the shelves. One of the book cases has doors on the bottom half and that’s where I store all of my extra supplies, office and sewing. I’ve used two other bookshelves to hold different notions, sewing odds and ends, my in and out boxes and inspirational knick knacks (check out the pictures in our photo gallery).

I didn’t have a “real” cutting table so what I did was check out my local thrift stores and I found a great table for $6! It was actually one of those old time formica kitchen tables that people would double as a card table, you know the ones with the screw on legs. Shucks, I brought it home, cleaned it up, put a cover cloth on it, on top of that went my cutting board and mats—new cutting table for me.

I still need to make some cutesy curtains and other accessories. I absolutely love the studio!