A New Year and a New Space

I've had a sewing/craft room for a long time. It was always intended to also serve as a guest bedroom. Not that we have guests that often, but we had no where to go if one of us was sick. My girls share a room and dh and I have found that sometimes you'd rather sleep on your own, than with someone else. Mostly, you don't want to disturb the other person's sleep.

We needed a solution that would give both a bed and plenty of storage for all my stuff. Well just before Christmas, we got a daybed from Ikea. It actually pulls out to a king size bed and has great big drawers built right in. To that we added 2 tall Billy bookcases. Some baskets and a few homemade dohickeys and I think my room is great.

This is the daybed and the sliding door that makes this tiny room work at all.  The curtain slides across the door for privacy.

This is Diana, my dress form.  She spent a few days in my daughter's room before I was told to remove her as my daughter was getting totally creeped out.

The paper trays were a lucky garbage find.

I added a bit of Basic Grey Pheobe to the front of the boxes and baskets for a little colour and well, you know, we're paper crafters and can't help ourselves

This is my solution to having my heat gun handy but out of the way.  It's just a bullnose clip that I clamped onto the skirt board of the table.  Works great.

OK, this was just way too easy.  I bought these springs to make a bead loom, but they must have come in a pack of four.  So..... now it holds some of my carded embellishments in a way that allows me to see them.

To top it all off I added this Calendar made with the cork and patterned paper from the January Scraptivity kit.  The ribbon is from Old Navy, yep Old Navy had this ribbon for Christmas a couple of years back.  The calendar blanks are from the November 2008 (?) kit.

Now I am all set to take part in this weekend's CHA crop, well tomorrow morning's CHA crop at Scraptivity.