Show Us Your Craftroom

It took me over a year to make this video, because so much happened in a year. From February to May I undertook a gargantuan task - I cleaned the basement, fully completely, and my husband even got into the spirit by e-cycling some old computers. I can't believe we found 300 cubic square feet of space in our house! The less stuff you have, the less time you spend looking after it, and I have really been noticing how much of a benefit it is.

Although I was happy last summer when I cleaned up my art space, I wasn't completely happy with it and found a better arrangement once all that stuff was gone! And naturally I captured it on video for posterity.

So last summer I posted some videos of my hobby room and art space, and I still have to post the third video. I was all set to film it the other week when it occured to me that I could just re-arrange the whole space, so it's a disaster area again! The crazy thing is that I attacked the crawlspace and so much is coming out of that, which is naturally being temporarily stored in my art space. I found a website called Floor Planner which lets you make and save a floor plan online. I found it handy because I could play with it on my breaks.

Anyone else still doing spring cleaning on their art space or craft rooms?

I think this is a great group, and a great idea. I will have to see what I can do to help promote it. By way of offering, and in support, here is our studio, that of Mythical Designs.



That is my wife and business partner, Leah Odom, masking away. The studio is a nice space, at the far end of our living room/office. Storage next to the lay out table for Sculpting heads, paint palettes (old plates), baskets of small leather pieces, etc. The tubs underneath are leather scrap and mask flats (Ones that have been cut out and not sculpted yet) The painting table is behind her, with drying rack of bread trays on the left, and TV and drawers for paint on the right. It's a big TV, but with kids and such, we watch movies on it etc, and dream of flat screen to take up less space.

Yes, my basement is finally clean, even the unfinished part. For about four weeks straight I had a full recycling cart to put out. We just had so many empty computer boxes and they really had to go!

This is just the highlight reel though. I sure wish my voice would mature or something. I still get telemarketers asking to speak to my parents :-) Stayed tuned for the final episode!

I'm having almost too much fun making movies now. Here's one from a few weeks ago as I aim to clean up my downstairs work area. I'm hoping that organized will equal productivity, especially as I have a contest deadline coming up. Every day it gets better and better :-)

Hi there, here's a slice of my life and where I spend a fair bit of time - my hobby room. I do have a downstairs work area that I'm spiffing up. I recently made a post with lots of links to organizational ideas. Enjoy, and please don't make fun of my Canadian accent :-)

I challenge anyone reading this to post at least one pic. of the craft space of an artist you admire, if you can.

If you can't find an image of your chosen artist's work space, then post an image of a craft room or art-work space you've seen online or in a magazine and share it here. Tell us what you like about it and why you Envy it:D

When designing a craft room, what do you think is essential? Counter/Table tops? Organization elements? Display space?

What functions does 'your' craft room have to offer you?
-A place to work on your art/crafts? A place to show customers your work, display it?

Let's start some kind of dialogue as to what our ideas for a craft space really is all about.

Aside from my bedroom as a teen-young adult, this is my first craft-area back in 2005:

I took over a corner of the diningroom:


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Even though I don't have a functioning craft room 'right now' doesn't mean I can't share pics. of my past craft rooms.

So, here is the craft room I had in my last apt.:



-This is before it got filled up with boxes due to lack of storage.

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