The Rest Of The Story- Craft Room & A Lie I Told

Well, 

The CRAFT SEWING ROOM

is 

ALMOST DONE.

Done enough that I can show it anyway.

There will be things to 

"tighten up"as I go along

but it is to the point where I can

SEW & CRAFT.

Grab your coffee.

This is a LONG POST for me.

Here is a link to the first post I did 

about it.

This room is only 8-1/2' x 11-1/2'.

However, the ceiling is 14 FEET high!

The sink takes up most of one 8-1/2 foot wall.

I can't put anything next to it because the door

opens and almost touches it.

I mirrored the wall behind the sink.

AND I mirrored the wall behind the door.

These are both old mirrors and as

you can see the one has to hang over

the side of the sink because of electrical

outlets to the far right of the sink.

The tall one will be perfect for checking

out the fit of things AND I can see

anyone coming up the cul-de-sac behind me

when I am sitting sewing.

The tops of mirrors are just 

over 6' tall.

I did not buy one new thing for this room.

The light fixture above the sink is fluorescent

and has "daylight" bulbs in it.  

It is one I had and is turned sideways instead

of hanging from the ceiling.

It lights the place beautifully.

I have cable TV and a telephone here.

Coffee & water.

The only thing missing is a port-a-potty.

....hmmm...now THERE'S a thought....

The greenery in the corner is attached

to a metal "open weave" shutter.

It covers the mess of cords running to 

the TV and telephone.

Telephone is mounted to the right of the 

coffee cups on the wall.

The old piece you see is reflected 

from across the room.

It is so bright in here that it is hard to get pictures. 

The chair will be slipcovered this next week.

It is ugly but comfortable for sewing.

The material for the window treatments are 

from another house. 

I think I bought that material in 1996...lol..

I still like it and it is perfect for 

Fall & Winter.

I shirred some on a rod to cover up the

opening left where a door is missing.

The old cabinet below is actually two pieces.

The bottom one rolls out if I need a 

larger work surface.

It came out of an old warehouse that 

MyHero's granddad owned and was

probably used in the old lumber yard.

It is a rough tough old piece and I am 

loath to take a paintbrush to it.

The mullioned "windowed cabinet" above

are windows from an old rectory

that we junk picked.  

We just built a basic open backed "box" that is 8" deep

and put shelves in it.

There is matching one in the garage that holds

gardening supplies.

I also shirred the same material on to cover the

open shelving in the cabinet.

I attached a yardstick to the front so as I am

sitting sewing or crafting I can quickly measure lengths.

Like I said- the room is small so it is tough

to get full pictures of anything.

Some of my materials are folded and 

in the cabinet.

There are more materials stored underneath.

Speaking of storage-

This is the cabinet that I spray painted.

It sits just outside the door to my room

where it is handy.

It is full of things I don't need everyday.

Pulling back the curtain you can see what

is stored in the cabinet.

The sink has room for my serger when 

it is not in use.

There are a couple of changes I made

since I took my first pictures.

I hung my two favorite cups on the 

pegs above the coffee maker

AND

I hung my sweet crafting apron on 

the back of the door.

I would like to say that the blurry apron picture

is my attempt at "arty" photography-

but that would be a lie.

It is just a crappy picture.

Okay-

That brings me to the 

LIE I TOLD.

I didn't do it intentionally.

No indeedy!

I had taken a bunch of pictures from 

the back of our house and I posted this one

as being the view from my sewing/craft room.

Well, I lied.

That is from our master bedroom 

which backs up to the garage but

sticks out about 15' closer to the water.

Here is the REAL view from my craft room.

Still not bad.

As you can see it is so gray today that 

the water blends into the sky on

picture #1.

Do you see the little wooden boat on shore?

Picture #2 is take about 20 steps closer

so you can see the water behind that 

same boat.

So- sorry I lied.

Whaddaya gonna do?

Have me arrested?

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Whoo Hooo-maybe I'll have 

Paris Hilton for a cellmate.

IF that happens

maybe I can ask her for a loan to 

EXPAND my craft room.

Just a thought.....

WELCOME TO THE little CRAFT/SEWING ROOM

Okay-

The truth is that I am not quite done
with the craft/sewing room

but I AM far enough along to 

give you a good peek.

I am going to break this up into

a couple of posts because

I have grandkids here for the weekend

and you can imagine how time 
flies and there's not much time to blog.

This door is INSIDE our garage.

It is the old front door that was

on this house when we bought it.

Too pretty to not re-use somewhere.

There is a car IN THE GARAGE 

to the immediate right.

The "blue" you see to the left

is that sea-foam cabinet

and is full of patterns, etc.

I will show you that another time.

Come-on in!

When you open the door this is 

what you see.

That is my sewing table to the right.

It belonged to hubby's grandmother

and is a true Art-Deco piece.

There was a desk that matched

that we gave to a friend (darn it).

It is the perfect height and size

for this room

You can see the use and age on
the polished black top.  
The top is some kind of "resin".

Immediately inside the door
is a sink.

I picked this old tin & porcelain sink up curbside

when we lived in another town.

It was rusty and back then I 

painted it green when I was using

it for "potting".

Here it is all spray painted and cleaned up.

I spray painted inside and outside.
The bottoms of the shelves
were in pretty bad shape.
So- I covered them with 
self-adhesive tiles.

I do this under all the sinks in my house, too.
I just buy a cheap shiny self-stick tile
and cut to size. 
It makes it so easy to keep clean.

My next post I will show you the rest
of the room.
I should have it completely finished by then.
At least now the basics are all in place.

Okay-Here is your laugh for the day-
At MY expense, of course.

Before I started painting the sink 
I checked my paint supply.
I had 2-1/2 cans of Rustoleum Gloss White Enamel.

Good to go.
I figured I would need 2+ cans.
I start with the 1/2 full can and 
I spray the whole inside
of all the sink cabinets
before I run out of paint.

I open Can #2-
THIS is what the paint does.
Cleaning the nozzle does NOT help.

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Not to worry.
I have a THIRD can and by now
I am pretty sure one more can will do 
the whole job.
Whooo Hoooo!

Um...Hello!

Let me just say-there is something
DOWN INSIDE the
spray hole and it will
NOT TAKE another nozzle.

Okay- I want to finish this so 
I realize that 
I HAVE to run to Home Depot 
at this point.
I am in an old nightgown to paint.
Yes- It's true.
No pictures of THAT!

I HAVE TO change clothes to go to
Home Depot.

I throw on some clothes-
hop in the car and run to 
Home Depot.
NO ONE in Home Depot
will look me in the face.
I think---
That's ODD!

However, I get TWO NEW CANS
of white spray paint.
I get in the car and look at myself
in the mirror.

My NOSE is full of 
WHITE SPRAY PAINT.
It looks like BOOGERS!

I can't do it- 
I just can't do it!
I CAN'T show you a picture
of a nose full of 
WHITE SPRAY PAINT.

Next time I will wear THIS!

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NOT to Home Depot, Silly...
Just to paint!
I will wear something like THIS
to Home Depot next time.

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HA!  We'll see who has the 
LAST LAUGH 
after all!

I have kids here for the weekend
so I most likely won't be around
until Monday.
Have a GREAT weekend!

View From The New Craft/Sewing Room AND Booby Trapped

I FINALLY GOT

the cord I needed to load pictures

from my camera to my computer.

Here is the view looking from the patio doors

towards the bay.

See the storm coming in

over the water?

Awesome, isn't it?

Well, THE ROOM is NOT QUITE

ready yet.

I had a sick kiddo here and then I 

got "the bug".

While I had "the bug"

I managed to keep the kitchen clean

and do laundry.

MyHero has the bug, too.

He has managed to 

KEEP THE BED WARM

and that's all I'm gonna say about that.

I will give you a peek at what I 

have been up to out there.

This was an addition in the back

corner of the garage.

We used the windows that we 

took out of the main house when we

rehabbed it.

They are good windows-just not

what we were using in the house.

They are brown here-but the 

sliding glass door was already white.

Here they are with one coat of 

white primer on them.

1 coat of primer and  

2 coats of paint and they look like this.

The room looks bigger and brighter now.

I should finish the room up this Friday

and then I will show you the whole thing.

Meanwhile...

Here are the girls at the beach.

Two of them are waterside.

The 11 year old, 

wanted me to bury her in sand.

and I obliged.

THEN----

her little sister decided to

ADD TO

 the fun.

The moral of the story is...

Your little sister can always

MAKE A BOOB OUT OF YOU!

Hmmm...Little sister is going to need some

SERIOUS TRAINING

if she is going to be a plastic surgeon!

EASY Guilt Free Cookies! No Sugar-No Flour AND They TASTE GOOD+ Cleaning Up A MESS!

Holy Cow!

We say that a lot in Wisconsin-

even though we KNOW cows are 

NOT  REALLY HOLY.

You DO know that, right?

Anyway,

Holy Cow- I have been busy.

I didn't get the craft room done yet.

However, I did get the basement sorted.

Yes. I. Did.

To celebrate THAT accomplishment

I wanted something SWEET.

I have been TRYING to eat healthier

so I saw a recipe that someone posted

AND

I decided to make it my own and 

change it up just a bit.

You know me-Can't leave well enough alone.

Look!

Look and See!

Look and Smell!

Look and Eat!

uh- oh-

what the heck are those bubbles in my coffee?

I hope SweetCheeks didn't dump a goldfish in there!

Come closer.

Can you smell them?

Hey!  I never said they were PRETTY!

I just said they TASTE GOOD!

See that little Green Bay Beverage bottle

in the top picture?

Here's a closer look.

 THAT was sent to me by my friend, Kris,

at Junk Chic Cottage.

She found it in an antique store about 200 miles

South of me.

MyHero grew up drinking soda

from Green Bay Beverage Company.

It has been closed and gone for years

and we have NEVER seen one of  their

bottles anywhere.

How cool is that?

Hmmm...maybe my flowers would 

LAST LONGER

if I made sure the stems were IN the water.

What do YOU think?

Okay- 

Here is all you need to make these cookies.

Banana Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

2 LARGE very ripe bananas

1-1/3 cups Oatmeal (Quick cook kind)

1/2 cup raisins

2 Tablespoons peanut butter (I used Cashew butter)

1 Teaspoon vanilla (I use Mexican Vanilla)

(optional- Add- 1/3 cup chopped nuts)

Mash bananas completely.  Stir in all ingredients. 

Drop by large tablespoon onto prepared cookie sheet.  I use Baker's Joy spray.

Bake @ 350 until set. (12-15 minutes -or more depending on how dry you like your cookies)

I use air baking sheets.  These take about 18 minutes on airbake sheets.

Cool completely.

These are so moist and sweet-

You won't believe they don't have sugar in them.

I did NOT get the craft room done.

But I DID get the basement pretty well sorted.

Here is a BEFORE.

I hate to even show it.

I am NOT putting MY name on this

cuz I don't want it floating around the 

internet with MY name on it!

I was thinking about putting 

SOMEONE ELSE'S NAME 

on the picture below.

You know- Someone like

Suzan@ Simply Vintageous

Wouldn't she LOVE to get credit for 

having a basement area that looked like THIS?

She would think she died and went to 

Decorating Hades.

Is that SAD, or what?

Well, a lot of this has now been 

MOVED to the craft room.

And here is that area now.

I stitched some drop cloths,

used clothesline and strung them up

to hide the vacuum, water softener,

and some pipes that run through there.

The table is set up for the kids

to use for craft projects.

All their supplies are in a 

cabinet to the left now.

I can just whip the tablecloth off

if the project is messy.

I see a pillow peeking out

from underneath the table.

Apparently, I didn't do my

"blog picture" check

before snapping pictures.

I have pictures of BigBoy E's

first day of school coming soon.

Maybe even tomorrow IF

I can get myself in gear!

Meanwhile-

Have a great day.

I will be figuring out storage

solutions in the small craft room today

and HOPE to have pictures of

that in the next day or so.