| I've been a garden girl for a very long time. I've held off sharing my room for so long mostly because it always seems to be a work in progress. But I think I'm finally at the point where things are where they belong and I am able to work freely and get creative in my space. My studio is also my office so I share a good portion of the room with my photography business and my computer equipment.
photo #1:this is the view from the double doors leading to the living room (aka portrait studio). I have cabinets and counter tops that line two walls in the room. this side is where i work on layouts.
from left to right the things on my counter are: silver tin boxes from ikea hold my heidi swapp and ki embellishments. the sewing machine is usually covered with a black bag but i pulled it off so you could tell what it is. the black binders hold my unmounted stamps using the ezmount system. i love this! there's some random books and graph paper. the little plastic drawers are used mostly to raise up my ott light. i need to reorganize them a little better. i keep my scissors, pencils, rulers and blades in the mug and then my pens, sand paper, adhesives, etc...things i grab most often..inside the little organizer there. then my ribbon collection. i consolidated a few colors in order to save some space. then there's my ikea cubbies.
photo #2:just a close up of the books and things on my counter.
photo #3:and the ribbon collection up close.
photo #4:my ikea cubbies (which i don't like much just yet...i'm finding it hard to remember where i stashed my stuff). i keep all of my embellishments, foam stamps, acrylics, and stamp cleaner in here. the little suitcase that i use for the bigger things that don't fit into my other storage containers. the tv is a new addition. i'm going through my netflix queue like crazy lately!. the plastic folders on the far right are from office max. i keep my rubons and stickers in them. you can also see the metal tins on the wall on the far left. i don't really like the way this looks, but it's totally functional. i keep all of my alphabets in these, sorted by letter and then numbers and symbols are in the last one.
photo #5:a close up of my top drawer. it's mostly adhesive and pens that i don't use. they should probably go.
photo #6:another drawer. this is where i keep my inks and smaller alphabet stamps and the bigger wood stamps.
photo #7:this is the other side of the counter/cabinets. most of it is business related.
photo #8:this is my shelving unit that i use mostly for business stuff. i have two of them side by side. the top half is client orders, etc.
photo #9: a closer look at the shelving unit. the bottom half is my cardstock (two bins for 8.5x11 and one bin for 12x12) and then the bottom holds my cd archives, my photos to be scrapped, my magazines, souvenirs (programs, report cards, school/sport photos - organized by kid, ticket stubs, etc) and more adhesive, page protectors and some albums waiting for layouts. |
