Altering Play

Inspired by the articles in the new issue of Somerset Life, altering household items. The first thing is I made is Coffee filter Flowers. I made mine from flat bottom filters and am trying to make them look like Oriental Poppies. I need to get some floral tape to add stems, but you can see in the picture how I coloured them using watercolour crayons and I also added a bit of acrylic paint for that Rich RED. The stamens or center is tissue rolled up and shredded.

The other item I altered was clothes pegs. What fun this was! :) Not sure what I am going to do with them. Maybe glue them on to a strip of wood to make a place to clip on cards and such.

I am still working on my studio. Here is a more recent shot showing the colour on the walls and my track lighting. This is the wall where my counter will go. I am busy painting trim at the moment and the vinyl floor is on order. Almost there!

Art Studio from the Ground Up

This is the East wall before my door went in.

This is the north wall.

This is the west wall. It is so cool that in my new studio I have a north window, a window in my door on the east side and in my old space a huge window to the west. How lucky am I!!!

This is the north wall where my book cases used to be and where we punched through to my new space. My addition is 12 x 16 ft. Wahoo! Of course I couldn't wait to test it out and moved a bunch of stuff in.

I am going to put on a deck out the same level as my studio.

It will be as wide as my room and go to the corner of the house so it will be about 12 x 12 ft.

Roof is framed in and we are able to stay dry!

Now you can see my door and window placement.

Walls going up. Now it is starting to look like something. :)

Rick my contractor. The insulation and floor are going in. We had strong winds and hail almost everyday for this part of the work! Geesh! I put sawdust down to get us out of the mud.

Floor joists up.

The footings are done, ready for the beam.

This is the beginning, we started the last week in March. Rick my contractor was great! He was very flexible and patient and let me do as much stuff as I was able to save money on the project. In this picture the forms for the footings are being made. I dug the holes, lots of mud and the weather didn't cooperate much!

This is the before. My art studio was approximately 10 x 11 feet. It looked like a closet with all my stuff in there! There was no floor space left except for a skinny trail to my desk!