Studio Storage -- A Before and After : :

Besides pretty fabrics and wool yarn, I have a bit of an obsession with old wood crates. If you happen to follow me here on pinterest, you might already know this!? So, in major need of some more fabric storage for my studio we went-a-searching and I brought home these beauties, with a plan!



After trying out a few different arrangements (1 and 2), I settled on this one (3).



After a good cleaning, it was time to start filling up my new wonderful, open spaces. It did not take long! And just like that, there is a lot to see here!



This is my new, old light. I needed one that I could have close to my work. I kind of love it.



I also love having everything so close to my sewing machine. Organized by color, right within reach!

Reds, dark pinks, browns, and some purples -- other know as, my favorites...


Pinks, pale purples, and some more reds -- more favorites...


Greens, aquas, blues, and yellows -- LOVE...


And, just a few more favorites....


With a little room for a few other nice-to-have-close-by things...


My studio is a full-on working studio, not just a pretty room. It has to hold all the mounds of materials -- fabrics, felt, pillow inserts, buttons, threads, batting, yarn, needles, the packaging stuff, the boxes, future projects, everything I need to run this little growing business. As such, it gets so overrun with stuff that it is hard to actually work in it. I would love to have curtains, and pictures, and artwork, and all this extra decoration that would make my space look cute and perfect. But for now, I want as little as possible because it gets so cluttered with the necessaries as it is. With this new addition of these pretty-to-me old, wooden crates, my old shelf is very happy, much less cluttered, and I've never been so happy with my little space! Love love love. Never want to leave.

And now, time to sew!!!