Studio Re-Do

I have been calling my ~space~ an office way too much in this blog. It's much more than that...it's my sanctuary. It's slowly becoming the space I want to be in rather than just the space I have to be in to do that 4-letter word thing...work. I need a better name for it, but, for now, it will be my ~Studio~.

The other day, I shared the photo of my new and improved work space under the window....

 

I realized it was kind of ugly underneath, not to mention all that wasted space. I decided to hang some curtains across the front and add some small shelves underneath.

The curtains also go over the shelves on the right, but I lifted them to show the shelves underneath. I want some prettier curtains, but these will do until I find just the right pair.

Another recent improvement to the ~Studio~  was to add some metal sheeting (I LOVE metal and will take any chance I can get to play with it, work with it, incorporate it into my surroundings). I have been a bit reluctant to jump in and buy a big sheet of metal because I was worried about cutting it down to size for the projects I had in mind. I was driving by Home Depot a couple days ago and popped in to price giant sheets of metal. The price was right, so I grabbed one huge sheet and figured I would just jump in (i.e. ask my neighbor for help) and cut it. Luckily, my neighbor was outside as I arrived home and then pulled the giant metal sheet from the car.  He came right over with a pair of mega metal scissors that cut this stuff like BUTAH! My first project was finished in about 10 minutes.

Here is my desk before with all that blank white space behind the computer:

I wanted metal back there so that I could make cute magnets and put photos and stuff in all that space.

Here is a photo of the metal in place:

And here are my adorable new vintage button magnets!

I have had some of these buttons for years. I never found just the right project for them. I thought it was time for them to be enjoyed, so I heated up the glue gun and attached a tiny magnet to the back of each. Viola! Instant awesome magnets for my new metal desk background!

I still had quite a bit of metal left and my next desire was a place to take photos of my dolls. I had been using the top of a tall black bookcase and a couple metal things to hold pretty papers for backgrounds. The metal things (I think they used to be some kind of cabinet doors) were just propped up and kinda ugly and always falling over. I decided to cut a piece of metal to fit the top part of the bookcase and then adhered it with some strong double stick tape. Perfect! Now, I can easily switch the background papers and not have everything topple over several times during the photo shoot...