I had a great time with my mom these last few days. She was a whirlwind of energy and ideas on how best to organize my art supplies in the studio. One evening we took all my beads and put them in little jars sorted by colors that then fit into these specially made plastic containers. That took much longer than expected but we didn't stop there. We also sorted out and labeled all the drawers under the cutting table, in the sewing table and in the closet. She helped me take down the outdated yellow bulletin board above my desk so that I could hang up one of my lovely swap mini quilts. Ah, so much better looking.
I had mentioned my idea of getting a line of little painted manikins to display above the window on some type of ledge. Before you could say it, lickety split we hightailed it to Ikea for a look around. Wow, was it crowded and busy on Friday. What were all those people doing? Fortunately they had my little manikins in stock. The next day we shopped around until we found the perfect width of wood at Home Depot. Did you know that they'll make one cut for you for free? Zoomed back home to begin the painting. While we were at it we took down my little shelf above the printers and painted it white.
While we waited for the paint to dry we began color sorting my quilting cottons and washed a few loads of them. There's a few more to do but the completed ones look amazing!
In between all of this we enjoyed homemade dinners (one was a very delicious coq au vin dish that Steve cooked ... thanks babe!) and watched a couple movies. I'm sure that we drove Steve batty with all the giggling and girly chit chat but he was a great sport and put up with us. Overall it was a most excellent trip. I forgot to take pictures of mom and me but here's some of the studio organization.
Above the desktop ... quilt by Calamity Kim in the Four Seasons Quilt Swap
Newly painted shelf above the printers ... finally framed my Keep Calm print
New shelf above window with little manikins (will paint them later) ... I'm planning on making a skirt for the cutting table
Organized drawers below cutting table
Paints for the manikins
Organized quilting cottons ... didn't realize that I had so much pink (not really a pink person)
Four of the seven drawers are filled with freshly washed and folded quilting cottons
My spools of ribbon drawer!
All of my beads in these nifty little jars ...
... that fit into four of these specially made plastic boxes.
Thanks Mom!
