Redecorating My Studio

I have been  in the process of moving and redecorating my studio for several monthes.  I was in this tiny room when I started my business 5 years ago.  It was cramped and cluttered, but I loved it.  We live on a lake and it had a view of the lake.  For some reason my son decided that he wanted his room back, and gave me his bigger room in the basement.  Nice to have more room, but it never inspired me.  Several monthes ago, things changed in my house, and I got my small room back.  I love this room.  I had it painted a pale sage green, and I finally got these pretty curtains for the room yesterday.  I painted my sewing table a pretty pale blue today, and ordered a slipcover for my wingback chair that goes in my office.  Now you are probably wondering why I ordered a slipcover, if you read the about me part of this blog, since I originally started out in business making custom slipcovers.  (that was a long sentence, and probably not gramatically correct.)  I really did not like making slipcovers.  I love designing patterns for clothing, and knitting, but not slipcovers.  It was boring.  I like doing my own thing,  the exciting part of making something is creating it.  With slipcovers, I had to go with other peoples taste.  It took part of the process away.  Consequently, I decided to buy a white canvas slipcover for the wingback.  Tomorrow I will hang my curtains, and paint my desk white, and start moving some of my fabric and books into the new studio.  It is fun when you feel like you have a great place of your own.  It is a small room, with charm.  It has great light.  It faces east, and it has a really peaceful view of the lake.  When you look out the window you feel like you are on a lake in Switzerland.  I just love it.  It is a place where I can just go and sit.  I can listen to music or a book or watch a movie, while I work.  Since I lost this lovely little space 4 years ago, I have used my bedroom.  It has the same view as the room downstairs, but alas it is not the same.  I can design, knit, and crochet in my bedroom, but I can not sew in here.  I found that I really miss sewing also.  I have had sundresses dancing through my head over the last few monthes, and I can not wait to get started.  And tote bags, I am on a tote bag kick. 

I just got back from Mexico two weeks ago, and I will go back again in June for a month, and I want to have lots of sundresses.  I like to buy sundresses if I can find them, but it is hard to find the perfect sundress.  It get really hot in Mexico in June, or at least it did last June.  So I want to have lots of sundresses.  They need to be light and loose, but sexy.  Little spaghetti straps, empire waist, and fun prints are pictures dancing through my head.

Our place in Mexico is on the beach.  Iit is really small, but it works for us.  My kids complain, because it is in the middle of nowhere, with no tv and no phone.  It is peaceful and beautiful, and quiet.  Not exactly what a teenager is looking for, but exactly what I need to recharge my batteries.  Last year I was on a kick with the color aqua.  It reminds me of the ocean, and I needed to cover pillows and a window seat cushion.  I also made and afghan out of multiple turqoise fabrics.  I will get a picture next time I am down there and post them.  I used a patchwork fabric with yellows, turquoise, purple, green, orange, and white for the pillows, and the shams for the bed.  I used solid aqua for the window seat cushion.  It is really pretty and bright.  It looks great when the shutters are open and you look right out the window at the ocean.  I have a white matelisse coverlet and white sheets on the bed, so the color in the room comes from the afghan and the window seat. 

I wake up there in the morning really early.  Sometimes before the sun it up.  I love sitting my little porch, listening the ocean, drinking my coffee, and knitting or reading a book.  By the way if I am knitting, I am listen to a book.  I wait for the sun to come up, and I watch the light in the sky, and then I love watching as the light plays on the ocean.  Last summer my son Danny took a picture some yellow flowers growing over my palapa roofed kitchen at sunset.  There is the orange in the wall and the beautiful oranges in the sky, and the brown of the roof, and these beautiful yellow flowers with red centers.  It is a great picture.  I need to have him give me the disc so that I can go and get it blown up and framed.  I will put it in the house down there this summer. 

      This is Danny a Captian Pablos Restaurant on the beach in Sayulita.

  My husband David and daughter Charly at the same time.

As you can tell,  places and views make a difference in my creative process.  I fell so fortunate that I get to create things, and can call it a job.  I still need to start making money from what I do,  but this is the year.

Well I’m off for the night.  I’m tired and ready for a new day of things to inspire me.

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