Craft Room Tour

My craft room is clean.  What?  And it's done.  I think.  Sort of.

Ike just wants to know where his dog bed is.  Poor guy.

I have shown you all each piece of the room but I don't have a post with the room as a whole.  Mainly because I would photograph one section and shove everything else to the other side of the room. 

This room is probably temporary.  As in, it will exist until our spawn take over.  I figured since it was temporary, I could do whatever the heck I wanted.  Everything in here is something that makes me happy.  It may not necessarily go together but who cares!

The room started with me wanting to stencil a wall.  I decided to go with the chevron wall stencil from Royal Design Studios.   I know chevron is a love it or hate it thing.  Chevron belongs in my happy place.

I found the rocking chair at the Salvation Army.  It was hunter green.  I then painted it grey.  And then I painted it 100 different shades of spray paint coral until I gave up and bought a paint sprayer.  I then used Sherwin Williams Dishy Coral that I used elsewhere in the room.  Nate has renamed this the million dollar chair because he loves it so much.  Or he thinks I sunk a million dollars in spray paint into it.  I don't remember which.

The lamp is from Urban Outfitters. I really wanted a gold floor lamp.  It's just the right amount of vintage for me. It really doesn't go with the room but that's the beauty of it. I made that pillow cover in 5.4 minutes using some Amy Butler fabric. I'm still pretty impressed with that one. 

One of my coworkers gave me an antique buffet.  It was in rough shape so I removed the veneer and painted it Sherwin Williams Agate green.   I added the button art when I co-hosted the Pinterest Challenge.  The buffet is storage for my crafting supplies.

I love having this room to sew.  I can start projects without worrying about needing to clean up.  Which explains why this room is never presentable.  Nate built me a sewing table.  We hung the crib spring to display my Instagram photos.  I found the chairs at a thrift store and gave them a coat of paint.

Speaking of Instagram, I framed a couple of Instagram photos to hang on the left side of the window.  Ike is quite the quilter.

I painted a chalkboard wall.  I had been wanting a chalkboard wall but I was too chicken to put one anywhere else in my house.  My craft room is a great place for it because I kind of lost interest in it after I painted it.   Oops.

Behind those closet doors is where I store my fabric.  And junk. I don't recommend opening them.

Ike and I are love crafting/sewing in this room.  It's bright and happy (I need a thesaurus).

Little craft room has come a long ways. 

Did you enjoy playing the Ike edition of Where's Waldo?  What items belong in your happy place? Gold lamps, dogs, chevron?

Layered Fabric Hoop Art {DIY}

Happy Tuesday!  The long holiday weekend gave me enough energy to get some stuff done.  Including this cute layered fabric hoop art.

After a long hike at a nearby state park with Nate and Ike, I decided to get crafty.  I had been itching to create something small but cute.  Always important criteria. 

I had previously seen some hoop art at an antique store. I forgot to snap a photo of it but it was basically fabric scraps smushed into a hoop.  I thought I could totally make that.  I did and it was surprisingly easy.  Like I didn't even yell at my sewing machine easy.  (It's out to get me.  Don't try to tell me otherwise.)

I grabbed some scraps that I had left over from baby quilt that I made recently.   I decided to go with the black and gold for my hoop art.  The Iowa football team is going to need any kind of positive energy they can get this year and I figured my hoop couldn't hurt.

Supplies

• Fabric scraps cut to whatever size you would like. I choose 3"x3"  
• 1" wide fabric or ribbon
• Embroidery hoop
• Hot glue gun

Step 1: Sew fabric squares together.  My Type A self is having a hard time writing this but the beauty of this project is that things do not need to be perfect.  Wow.  That was hard.  You don't have to sew a perfectly straight line.  Your squares don't have to line up perfectly.  (Who am I?) It's actually a great beginner project.  I laid my squares out over the hoop and guessed how many I would need for each row.  Press seams open.

Step 2:   Use your 1" wide strip of fabric or ribbon to wrap the outside hoop.  I used a small amount of hot glue at the beginning and end of each strip.

Step 3:   Stack your fabric rows onto the inner hoop. I started at the bottom and overlapped a little on each row.

Step 4: Place the outer hoop over top the inner hoop and fabric.  Pull the fabric tight while securing.

 Step 5:   Trim the edges from the back side and enjoy your quirky hoop art!

Now I think I need to make some matching bunting and find a place to hang my Hawkeye spirit.  Go team.  Or something sports like.

 Did you enjoy the weekend?  Do you have any favorite fabric scrap projects?  Who thinks I need more than hoop art and bunting to make this a tolerable football season?  {Don't answer this little brother.}

New Digs

Welcome to our new internet home! 

We like to think that our new site better suits us.  It's cleaner.  More organized.  And a little quirky.   (Quirky is the nice way to say weird, right?)

We decided to go with Squarespace.  It is working great for us so far.  We like to take the road less traveled.  AKA, make things difficult for us.  Squarespace allows us to have a clean site with just a small amount of coding knowledge.  It's comparable to WordPress in cost and SEO (Arguable, I know. Just nod your head.)

Take a look around and please let us know if anything seems too weird or if links aren't working.

We're off to enjoy the rest of the long holiday weekend.  We hope you are enjoying yours as much as Ike is enjoying his. 

Party animal. 

{The comment area is now located near the speech bubble below.  It's the one thing I can't change to my liking!} 

What do you think of the new site?