My Sewing Room/ Studio

I left my camera at the shop today, so I went through some photos that were already on the computer, and decided to talk about my sewing room. 

Sewing room vs. studio
For several years I worked with clay and at that time called the place where I worked my studio.  Because of that, I've always referred to my sewing room as a sewing room.  It's gone through many different formats as we've moved from one house to another.   Although I haven't done any pottery for several years now, I've been intending to convert the little structure at the back of our yard into another "studio", so I'll have both a studio and a sewing room. 
The house we're in now has the best sewing room so far.  When we moved in there were 6 bedrooms in the house, which was originally built in 1907 and had an addition put on some years ago.  Two of the bedrooms in the addition were quite small and dark, but most importantly, they were adjacent to each other.  It seemed only logical to knock out the wall between them to make one larger room.  Ripped out the ugly carpet, did some minor carpentry to address where the closets had been, painted, added new pine plank floors, and moved in my stuff!!  That was about 3 years ago and since then I've shuffled things around, trying to find the storage system that is most user-friendly, and have spent lots of time in here.  It is still in flux, as I move things around, add and remove furniture and supplies. 
It goes without saying that I don't just sew in the sewing room!
The long blue and brown curtains cover the shelves that hold my quilting fabric.  They used to be open, but I found that too distracting.  There is usually a table in front of the other window too.

I have new light fixtures to put up, but haven't been able to get an electrician to do this yet, although I have tried to get one to do it, but he didn't want to.  Very sad.

The little square table is where I usually have my sewing machine set up.
I have a lot of quilting books, and other art and craft related books. 

The cutting table is on the right,

Currently I have places to keep my fabric, paper supplies, paints, felted wool, yarn books, buttons, trim, computers (2), beads, and photos (and miscellaneous other stuff).  Sometime I'd like to phase out the plastic storage containers, but they are quite useful to hold things at the moment.
This is also where I do all the office work now too.
Hope you enjoyed the little tour!

Closeup of Embroidered Monogram #1

This is the closeup of the monogram in progress which i embroidered, because it was quite small in the last post.

I have been working on a couple of projects in the last day or two, which I will add here, but it brings me to a bit of a decision point.  I must decide on photos taken in my sewing room.  Will I always need to make sure it's neat and tidy before taking a photo?  The blogs I've been reading have such gorgeous photos, and some of them are just so beautifully styled.  I suppose that's a bit unreasonable to hope for in my way of doing things.  So, I'll compromise.  I won't take photos when the place is an absolute mess, or if I do I will crop them mercilessly.  As a result, you'll see my workspace as it really is....  It actually isn't that much of a big deal, as there are no followers of this blog except me.  ha ha 

this is where I work at the sewing machine.  It is nice because I have lots of light from the window, and also I just set up an Ott light there. 

this is my table by the other window, where I have the laptop set up, and to the right of it, there is a collage in progress.
Now, to work on that collage!
michelle