More studio pictures

I'd better start putting lots of pictures on one post or I'll never get to show you all that I've been doing!

First though, I want to share some pictures of last evenings rose bounty!  The teas are my neighbors (who actually live in Texas and weren't there when I had my clippers out!)

So on the the studio.  I think after painting the walls and loveseat I started making pillows.  LOTS of pillows.


This used to be my sister's jacket!!! Hope she didn't want it back!!! 

See that purple one?  Painted and stenciled.  I also painted some smaller lime greens ones too, but I don't think they're showing up here on the bed.

This one I purchased at Pier One.  It was the inspiration for the whole room!!!

Next I ordered this cool sari yarn on Ebay.  I knitted this little mat.  (Didn't know where it was going to go yet.)

 That's an old army trunk I painted bright lime green.  I keep some hooking stuff in it.  It has a drawer on top, then an open bottom.  So much storage!  (garage sale find)  It had been in our basement for a couple of years, just waiting for the right place to put it.

Here's the whole sari and the curtains I made out of it.  I also made the bedspread out of new fabric and an old sheet as the backing!  The triangle shaped things at the top are head scarves I bought at The Library Center.  (didn't know where these were going either, just knew I Had to have them)

 Are you still with me?  Next I stitched up some pieced curtains for the two windows.  Now we're talkin' color and pattern!

Love this lamp!  It's another garage sale find.  I used spray adhesive and glued this wool on and added the fringe at the bottom.  I dyed this wool in a deep fryer.   
You roll it up and put it in the pot with one color until it absorbs all of the first color.  Then take it out, re-roll and put another color of dye in the pot and do the same thing over and over again until you have as many colors as you like!  I'm sorry, I can't remember if this is Wanda Kerr's recipe or Jane Green's.  It is soooo time consuming, but the end results are well worth the hard work.

Now on to the bed.  We had this twin bed frame already.  But I wanted to "build it in" to have a little cozy place to read and watch TV.  The headboard part is plywood that I wallpapered in this great textured paper.  Then we cut the top part (across the front) from plywood too.  Added the little three inch wide shelves and some rope lights. 


I like the metal sculpture at the foot of the bed.  It reminds me of wool.  You can see I hung two curtain rods and hung lots of my dyed quarter yards.  The rest of my stash is on the big metal shelving unit I got from Tammy (next to the loveseat)


Oh yeah.....I painted a floorcloth too!  You take a piece of vinyl flooring and turn it over upside down.  That leaves a nice soft place to paint on.  I put three coats of clear on top.


See Jimmie Dean's little stool so he can get up on the bed with me!!!

 You can barely see the texture of the wallpaper, but it's cool!  My Shabby Sheep logo rug and my garage sale Mary paint by numbers. 

I'll show you other views tomorrow.  See, I told you I crammed Lots of stuff in a tiny room!  One of my friends I hadn't seen in a long time called me a hoarder.  I call it efficiency.

Talk to you tomorrow!

Peace,
 Sheri 










  

More of my home tour

I barely remembered I promised you more of the tour today!  I just got home from the monthly hook in at the library.  We had a great time, but called it an early evening (8:00) 'cause we were all hungry.

So on with the tour!  This is the kitchen with it's fresh new coat of taupe paint.  Remember it was red?  I hadn't planned on painting the kitchen until one day I was sitting on the couch and looked into the red kitchen walls.  They seemed jarring.  Not at all fitting into the Zen like feeling I was aiming for.

This cabinet is made out of old doors.  I found it at a garage sale and knew immediately it would become my new "pantry". ($50.00) The little curtains are garage sale tablecloths hung on tension rods.

This armoire has been all over the house.  A few houses, actually.  It has been in the bedroom for sweaters, the living room for TV and stereo and now in the kitchen for a small TV and all of my wool dyeing supplies and baking pans.  It's the oldest piece of furniture I own.  I had a man make it for me probably 20 years ago.  It was a pretty stained pine.  Of course I painted it white.  And that was probably 10 years ago. 

And the bookcase is full of pretties like old rhinestone pins, old jewelry pieces, just trinkets I guess, stuff for mosaic making and altered art stuff.  I love to go through the jars every now and then and look at all the cool things.  When one of my friends comes over she always wants to see if there's anything new to see!

This is the plate rack I made when we remodeled the kitchen.  It used to be the cabinet where the exhaust fan was for the stovetop that was inset in the countertop.  It was black

until this past Saturday!  I thought it was too stark looking too.  The bottom of the island is still black painted bead board though.  

When we were at Renee's hooking the other night I commented that I liked this key holder she has hanging in her hooking room.  She said, "wait right there!"  And out she came with another one for me!!!  I just love it.

Next we'll go to the bathroom.  Well, not GO to the bathroom.   You know what I mean.  We'll Look At the bathroom.  The only things I changed in here were the shower curtain (this one was .50 at a g.sale) and a new rug.

A tray full of girly things on the back of the toilet.

On to the bedroom and one of the biggest bargains I got.  The new quilt was only $2.00!!!  You guessed it, garage sale.  I love the soothing colors.   And of course, more drop cloth draperies.  The chandelier was also gold when I got it.  I sprayed painted it too.  And the little "drips" of wax on the candles were made using my hot glue gun and running beads down them before I painted it.  The little chest I finished with unmatched drawer pulls.  Love it too!

Another garden rake.  The other one is in the kitchen with wine glasses hanging from the tines (above the plate rack)

This shot shows a better view of the walls.  I painted them to look like boards!  

Once again I've redone my hooking studio too.  (Bedroom #2)

Finally hung some rugs I've made and now I can sit in the wingback with my daylight floor lamp and hook all night.  The wingback chair was $2.00 at a sale and I recovered it myself.  I think I have $60.00 in fabric.  The curtains on the closet are actually a huge Ralph Lauren sheet.  Really heavy material~g.sale $1.00. 

You can see in the very top of the picture above, part of the yellow, green and blue chandelier.  It was brass too when I got it.  I painted the dots with my fingerprints!

I painted the little lampshade on the desk too! 

On to Mickey's "boy room"  This is really his dressing room and get away place. (Bedroom #3)

This is the rug I hooked of him fishing in the river.  I made it for him for Christmas a few years ago.

He's a fishing fanatic.  So he can never complain of me having too much wool with all the tackle he has!!

You notice I still have LOTS of color in my room.  I LOVE color.  But I think that laying in this house all winter, being sick and staring at the same old walls and same old stuff I really just wanted a fresh new beginning.  The neutral colors are very calming and Lord knows I need that. Too bad I'll Never be able to show the basement.  Where do you think all the STUFF went? 

I'm feeling great.  The house is calm.  Everything feels right.

I'm even gearing up to reopen my Etsy shop!  Shabby Sheep Wool.  Bought 25 yards of wool to dye today.  Will let you know the minute I get it open!

Thanks for going on our little bungalow tour.  Hope you enjoyed yourself.  If you're close by stop in and say hello!

Peace,

Sheri