Where I Create

Last summer, I set up my craft room in our large hall closet, and I'm always adding new things to my craft closet. While shopping around various places, I've found several metal baskets/carts, jelly baskets/bags, a comfy chair, a Marilyn Monroe clock, a Marilyn Monroe canvas, a locker, a metal dress form, and a window!  I'm so glad I finally have my own cozy room to sew, paint, and store my junk.

My new chair is too wide to slide into the desk, but that's okay. I made the caravan sewing machine cover recently. I found the Marilyn Monroe clock at Goodwill today for about $4. While crafting, I enjoy watching Army Wives , Grey's Anatomy, and Orange Is the New Black on Netflix on my small TV. I originally had our Wii in my craft room, but I had my husband replace it with our PS3. It's so much better. Don't worry. When I'm hiding out in my craft room, he plays games on the PS4 in the living room.

I was using a metal folding chair for when I sew, but it wasn't very comfortable. I was happy to find this sturdy chair at the local Goodwill for five bucks. When I put it in my cart, other customers kept eyeballing my chair and telling me it was a really nice chair. You're darn right it's a nice chair! I covered the seat with my new favorite fabric, Vintage Desktop. I touched up the white paint a little, and I painted the blue section of the chair red.

inside my locker...  I've been wanting a locker for a long time. I don't know why, but I think lockers are so cool! I really love that this little locker has drawers, too, and it's blue, so it matches the color scheme of my craft room. 

I picked some of my favorite fabrics to put in embroidery hoops and hang on the wall. I recently bought the wall mail/magazine rack thingy... like two weeks ago, and I store my crochet pattern book in there. It's really convenient to have them by my desk. 

Here's a closer look at my embroidery hoops...

Since my craft room is a closet, there's no window. So I bought one! I was so happy when I stumbled upon this cute window planter online. I stapled some fabric behind it to make it look like a real window looking outside, but I didn't like it, so I took it off. I kinda like it as is. It's a planter, but I use it to store my paint brushes. I am also in love with my dress form and my cart. I'm currently using my cart to store the yarn I'm using for my Crochet Temperature Blanket, which is in the jelly bag next to the cart.

All. That. Yarn!

This is my new Marilyn Monroe canvas on my Marilyn wall. I tried to resist, but I went back to the store the next day to get it. I was so glad it was still there! It looks perfect on the Marilyn Monroe wall in my craft room. I love the bright red background.

This is the storage area of the closet. Yes, I have two of those Ikea Raskog Utility Carts. One is for yarn, and the other is for my fabric stash. I really love my antique dresser, and I'm so glad I decided to paint it red. It was green before. The storage bins are from the Dollar Tree. I covered fabric bins with red and white anchor fabric to make them go along with my craft room's color scheme of red, white, black, & blue.

I'm really enjoying my craft room, and I've been busy creating new things that I can't wait to share on the blog, so stay tuned! Just think, I am sitting at that desk in that chair right now!