The past couple of weeks, besides our trip to L.A. and other small trips, I’ve spent most of my time spring cleaning my “craft room”. It felt like a dungeon. Dark, boring, dark, dark, and without any ‘color’, very much deprived of calmness. I practically hated it. So I’ve did a complete make over, painted, got rid of a buncha junk, and put some inspirational stuff up. The result? A soothing, calming, inspiring happy place, I love to sit in and work in. Here are the before and after and some snapshots of the details and blurbs of where they inspiration came from.

Color Palette: I saw this lovely watercolor from the hubby, and I fell in love with the colors so I decided to make it my color palette and I don’t think I stuck to it in the end, but it’s there, somewhere. I was looking for something calming, yellows, beige, greens, blues and a splash of orange/red/fuchsia. I wanted to make most of the decorations, that’s mainly why it took so long to finish the whole thing. Here’s the pictures I gathered from the internet, I can’t find some of them again, sorry. (sources at bottom of page)

Color Palette & Inspirational Board

So here are the BEFORE photos:

Here are the AFTER photos:

Some details: I wanted to frame a bunch of fabric, embroidered cutesies, quotes and anything that went together. That cool lamp I bought from our friend who’s husband made it back in the 70s! $10 and I loved it! Thanks Kathy! Reorganized my storage closet, made a word collage here, printed it and framed it, made a little corner out love are with some wedding photos, a little nook for my nieces and nephews (some at least), got some cheap flowers at the craft store, used some old lamps as pencils/pens holder to max space, used an old bourbon box for school materials used often, made some framed fabric word wall art (?) inspired from here, ordered a cute print from this cool artist, framed some fabric and tried to embroider a couple of things.

Inspirational Stuff:

Embroidery Hoops Wall Art

Fabric Scraps Wall Art

Easy Fabric Collage

Deadpan Alley – Handmade Cuteness!

Ryan Houck’s Beautiful Watercolors

Free Word Collage

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