 Hey guys, so I'm finally filming a studio tour I'm only a little bit late upstairs hallway You're actually sitting that tripod is sitting literally at the top of the stairs. So yeah Kind of a little precariously The doors behind me are the entrance to my new studio in our room Outside the art room as you can see here. I have some paintings. I'm gonna turn the camera just a little bit Sorry, if it's a little shaky There's paintings Hanging all over the house one of the things I enjoy about the new houses I have room for this painting and a number of others. Let me just There we go This painting and a number of others if you have followed me for a while You know, I did a photo shoot last year for young who's small business This painting was featured in that photo shoot and this is what I was working on in that photo shoot. So all of my Most favorite paintings in this house have a spot on the wall Inside and outside the student are in the studio. So yay for that. I love that Okay, so let's head on into the studio now and let's see what's up Okay, so as you walk into my space one of the first things you run into is this little space I refer to it as an altar space for lack of a better term This is an old nightstand that was rescued years ago out of a neighbor's dumpster when they were moving and I painted it And it was in my daughter's bedroom for a long time. It was a different color than and then when she moved out And didn't want it, which is fine. I said, oh good because then I get to keep it. I Repainted it again the color it is now and I use it for some of my favorite things or special Mementos my grandmother sewing boxes on the bottom I've got different little bits and pieces from trips or that people have given me Prayer coins and sacred objects crystals my positive affirmation words today's is satisfied Things people have given me some feathers for my friend Lisa Swank's birds. She has birds and some of my favorite artwork pieces again on the wall things that I love and That is a great thing to have to greet you when you come into your creative space You can also see this bottom of this This is a one of a pair of LED lights on tripods that I can Leave here and have on like it is now or I can move it closer to the work table in the center When I need to it doesn't weigh much So the whole thing can be lifted up and moved to the table I try not to turn on the overhead fan light when I'm filming because again, it is a little yellow As are the can lights that are right above where the camera is right now I haven't changed them out yet It is a little bit on the yellow side plus the ceiling fans right under the work table So the light from it reflects on anything that's wet So I try to use the LED lights they give off better brighter clear light and They're not yellow and they don't shine. They don't reflect on the work We're going to go over this way I have a wall of my ephemera and small bits bank That takes up the rest of the wall And this is where I keep These two first two puppies here and these cubes have books that I actually take things out of to use in collage The next two puppies have either reference books Once I refer to a lot. There's another reference library in the other room or Found reference material and sewing patterns in the bottom cube things that I refer to a lot that I need to keep in This room and not in a library space downstairs or in the other room The rest of the bank is Ephemeron and small bits. I do have my coaster oven here with another light on top of it No, I don't use it there If I need to use the toaster oven to melt plastic or cook clay or something like that I do move it to the work table out of harm's way. So it's not going to hello set anything on fire That being said it does live in the art room. So if I kept it downstairs people would go. Oh, I can make toast in there I've used it for a supply. So it's a bad idea So it lives up here in the art space and this rack here is Something for my old craft show days. I used to put things I had for sale on Now I have things different friends and people have given me hanging on it Like my friend Vicky Brown who made this Christmas tree ornament and some things for my grandmother Hanging on it some again sacred or special objects for me. It's a cute little display rack Somebody I used to be in a shop with who also did crafts gave me years and years ago And I love that little rack. So it lives there. There's a salt lamp in the corner again I'm going to give you all a close-up at the end and I'm going to Go around at the end with some Music and I'll show you some close-ups and labels of things So if there's any questions about anything make sure to leave it in the description below But stayed through to the end of the video and watch through to the end. All right Let's go to the next space. So this room was done on a job on a budget. I Didn't want to spend a lot of money on furniture that was going to get covered in paint and glue and God knows what But again, I wanted it to be cute and useful And easy to find things and for me white is a neutral color That makes it easy to see the objects on the shelf not to have to eliminate visual chaos I can't work in a chaotic space that gets too messy or has too much going on. I Know I'm saying that and you're going but but but but but for me. This is This is this this works for me all the Containers and bins or everything are white for the most part if they were all different colors or they were all a darker color That wouldn't work for me. I need to have a light bright space and I need to have it be as Visually calm and less chaotic as possible. I think for lack of a better word. That's what I'm looking for Now you'll see here. I have some wire shelves on the wall above the cubes This is where my washi tape a storage lives and a few other random bits and pieces that I use I don't use them a ton, but I do use them Or things that I want to use. I have not quite sure what to do with like this random Random ball of lint that came from something. I don't know what I'm going to do with it, but I Don't know. It's just up there I have some baskets of sort of medium-sized collage and a feather bits This one just has solid color card stock and postcards in it This one has glue book and travelers notebook stuff. This one has scrap paper books paint chips doilies chipboard Stuff Notepads game cards time cards You get the idea of vintage papers napkins Yeah, you get the idea then the drawers have the small bits like a drawer of tassels or a drawer of Binder clips what is this metal binder of metal binder labors and record adapters anybody remember these Yeah, I know anyway have a drawer full Plastic game pieces you get the idea all those little bits and pieces you collect to do mixed media with and at some point Your little shoebox you were collecting them in is too big and you have too much of a variety of things And you can't find stuff. I discovered long ago. I needed to separate them out into some kind of categories I'm keep them in these mini storage drawers. These are by Sterlite. They're the mini five drawer shelves I'll try to link what I can in the description below if I forget or there's something I missed you all leave a comment And I'll put a link I promise The cubes are from Target. They are Cheap easily accessible easy to find you can get storage cubes at Ikea too But more people have target near them than they do Ikea I Love them and they come in white which I love they used to come with hang on one second Okay, you used to be able to get these shelves To divide your cube into two so instead of having a cube with just one open space You could divide it into two. I don't think they make these anymore. I don't know Why I do love them and have a few of them and sometimes when they pop up on eBay? I do try to buy them If you have a handy husband or a handy partner, you probably could have them make you Some shelves to divide the cube into I do think the Ikea Cubbies do have that I found bins also from Target that fit in the cubes They have these short ones and then they do have tall ones that fit in the deeper cubes These bins all are of course labeled and they all have bigger pieces These are the large ephemera pieces medium small large And I have everything from a big bin of large vintage papers Artwork and texture things and baby what painted baby wipes file folders. This is all stickers. I have a drawer of nature Drag flowers all kinds of things seashells tissue paper Packaging materials which is overflowing and I need to do something about that bin. I need to make stuff or get rid of stuff tags Just salvage or just generally just a Bunch of different stuff that I want to keep that I don't know what to do with so salvage. I call it salvage. It could be rusty screws it could be Could be anything you never know what's in the salvage man every now and then I go through it and I clean it out But yeah salvage so this is the ephemera bank and I love this part of my crete new creative space because things are spread out Nothing is tucked away in a plastic bin and I can find everything fabulous Okay, you may or may not notice that there's a closet door here. This is the furnace and water heater room I do wish it was a closet. I Don't really actually need the extra space, but it's a big room Anyway, I don't generally go in there We you know open it and check it for spiders every now and then but otherwise I keep it closed I do have another piece hanging on the door as I said earlier I do have pieces that I've created or people have given me that I love around the room and They provide for great inspiration. So I love that This is my sewing table the section for sewing. I have a foc 1546 I use for garment construction along with an easy lock. I don't generally use these for mixed media pieces I have a different sewing machine for that sewing on paper and paint is bad for your machine If you have a fancy machine and this machine was way too expensive to do that with I did loan my other little machine out to my mother Because she's working on a project So I don't have that one here right now and I have I have a cleaned up I have two short projects here on the desk that I need to work on sometime This weekend. I may not get to them today, but I need to work on that soon and I have the this is an IKEA desk and drawers and All of my sewing notions and tools are in these drawers including the scissors and needles and Elastic zippers all of that stuff. I have some random bits on the shelf The windowsill here my scrap bin Some books my machine oil My little birdie tape measure stuff like that these jars for my grandmother's house that I have filled with the vintage lace and Pins and I get to overlook the forest, which is a pretty view The other LED light is here on the table Just because that keeps it up and out of my way and provides light to the rest of the room I do have a light here too when I'm filming at the work table. I do turn this one on it provides a little bit extra light And I'll be here really see it in the camera shot This is a bit of fabric that I'm currently working on and This stack is sort of the odd bits stack my embroidery Floss and supplies our doll supplies and tools and then this is sort of just random tools So my other tape besides a washi tape with my masking tape my painters tape palettes sponges gloves you get the idea all the way down so this is a important bank of stuff, but It kind of had no home, so it landed here and it works Okay, this here. This is my paint and coloring supplies So this is where all of my pens markers pencils powdered pigments watercolor brushes alcohol inks Mediums glue glitter is all up here Of course, they're labeled sorted and organized and again I'll give you a close-up at the end of the video But this works for me having the ephemera over there and the glue and color and paint over here It's working out super well, and I am easily able to find and create what I need Yeah, and I'm really loving this this is from a video I saw here on YouTube where she sorted her pens And pencils into bins by color. So if I want a yellow pen or marker, I just pull out the yellow bin It's not my idea, and I will try to link the video I am in the description below if I can find it, but it is a great idea I do have these cube shelves from Michael's These have sort of other pens that aren't over there. Some of them are backup pens the Pit favorite pastel pit pens and The big sort of big markers are over here and also my some of my back of white and black paint pens And the little drawers also have like dip pen nibs and things Empty watercolor pans Erasers pencil sharpeners my crayons paint markers and a few chunky pencils Watercolor brushes watercolor mediums, and then you know down below we have Paint sorted by kinds medium a bit of mediums a bit of glue a bit of finishes a bit of glitter a bit of embossing You get the idea. I've been a sprays and this just this works for me I'll give you again I'll give you a look at the end of the video a kind of a close-up So as you can see if you can see this shelf here is generally clear Again, I didn't clean up before we started filming this because I want you to see the real space I am working on some resin tumblers. This is one that's right waiting to be coated They're chunky glitter tumblers, so they're gonna be a little challenging And if you want to know more about making resin tumblers, I am by no means an expert But my friend Karla McCants is she's got her own channel here on YouTube And I don't know when you all see this if her tutorial videos are out yet But she is coming out with a tutorial series a step-by-step Um Fully inclusive what to do what not to do how to fix problems all that kind of stuff how to organize your space if you're doing tumblers Series so I will link her channel in the description below Anyway, these are the pieces I need out to finish the two tumblers. I'm working on I have one here that's spinning and drying They are chunky tumblers So they're gonna take three or four maybe even five coats of resin, so I'm doing thin coats with sanding in between Because you know the little chunky glitter bits stick out. So again, if you want to know more about that go check Karla's channel out I'm not an expert, but anyway, I've got one sitting here. It's wet on this shelf Are all my resin supplies again binden marked by type and category And that really works for me on the bottom on the floor I have a gallon bucket of pouring medium behind it our our tools that Could be misconstrued as kitchen supplies like a big metal pot So when I want to do sort of nature eco-dying I have my I have my eco-dying mediums here mixed up in spray bottles and the pots I can cook cook that stuff in are In the back on the bottom on the floor underneath this blue shelf now this table in the corner is another Ikea desk Same kind as the sewing table same size even This is my husband's table in for the art room with my old ought desk lamp, which is a magnifying light he does models and miniatures, so this is his space to work at and Of course when he's not here, I kind of up scorn with the space if I need it don't tell him Okay, this over here. This is my painting station So this room has two of these sort of window vays in it This is one of them again It overlooks part of the driveway and the woods and this is where my easel lives and this is where I work on my Not huge paintings. I will I don't think I said anything about that I Have tried to film this a couple times and I will try to insert the clip here of Me talking about how I set up for the big paintings doing the big paintings I cover this whole thing in dollar store shower curtains I take it to the shelves here and to the small bits bang with painters tape And then the canvases can rest on the shower curtain on the cubes And then back against the wire shelves, and I have a velcro little loop I'll put on the back of the canvases to just sort of Secure it to the wire shelf so it doesn't flop around and go anywhere and I can work on a really big canvas that way So that works for me. I've got my my words. I've got a Few quote books. I've got this random ball of like lint That's from something. I don't know I'm gonna I couldn't throw it away. It's I can't explain it Anyway, let's move around the room and go to the next space. Maybe the sewing. Whoop. Where we were sewing table right there Because those I do Behind where the camera is But when I'm working on the average size painting or something small I use the easel here This is just a piece of paper that I've been kind of working on for a while And I have one of my two IQ cards here that I have set up for a rolling painting station I have a nylon cutting board that I've put magnets on the back and little pieces of cardboard in the corners So that it sits securely on top of the cart and doesn't slide around or wobble around Underneath it. I can store some spare deli paper and inspiration images some bio clips that I might need over here And the bottom two shelves on this have my rag so that works out great And then in the corner I have a table with my water containers and in the window I have an iPod dock with my old iPod in it so I can turn on some music while I paint in and Open the window. It's really great, and I've got a lay right here. I don't know if you can see it on camera So this is my computer desk now this desk I've had from when we lived at the old house I've had it for a long time. It's from staples. I don't think they make it anymore It's a corner desk, but it works really well for me All of the tools I'm sorry furniture pieces for the most part are white all the bins are white The shelves are white if possible Having it all be white or light colored lessens the visual chaos for me I'm not the artist that can create an a chaotic space and I Need as much calm and peace in my space as possible Hence a lot of different ways to play music all the furniture being white or light colored The ultra space or favorite objects table at the entryway is all about creating for me peace and calm in the space to promote creativity There's a lot of really famous artists that had chaotic crazy spaces, and they created beautiful masterpieces I am not one of those people So anyway, this is my computer table where I do The bulk of the social media stuff and paperwork video editing and that sort of thing paperwork Above it you'll see I have these two wire Racks with more again favorite objects and inspirational images and business license I'm hanging from those two wire racks are from Ikea. This really works for me. I do a footstool under the desk I don't know if you can see that I guess you can see the top of it. I'm short So yeah, I need something to put my feet on This is the other window bay So this is where my little table with my typewriter lives that I can pull out And take to the word table and type and create quotes. I love to use typed Words or typed quotes or phrases or sayings in my art journals. I love that. I love my it's a little it's an underwood typewriter This shelf is all of the non-fun office stuff As is the other Ikea card here that's here behind that this is all shit mostly shipping supplies It has some printer paper on the bottom And some labels, but this is all like Etsy store stuff. This is my printer some random office supplies In paper and then you've let ties and that sort of thing where I can I try not to put things on the floor under the shelves if I can help it This is one of those spaces. I try to keep it up off the floor I can't do that with everything, but I try to over here in this corner. I do have a chair So I can sit here on my chair and my cup of coffee and I can look out the window And I can watch the neighborhood. I can turn it a little bit and see the woods It's a really great space again. I've got another speaker over here. This is a Bose Bluetooth that will hook up to my computer or my cell phone and I've got some more favorite objects on the windowsill behind me some dragons Buddha It's a really great space got some silk Yeah, I love this space. I've got my pot wall pockets with my my mini mood boards and Other random paperwork and stuff here, which I love This is my stencil rack now. I do have a playlist of Things Including the stencil storage Ideas, there's more of those art room organization videos coming. I'll have a playlist for them I'll try to remember to link them all in said playlist I've included in the playlist a couple of logs where I've showed parts of this art room and Old studio old studio room tours from the old house So if you want to check that out check out the playlist in the description below But this is a really great solution for my stencils I've wanted to do something like this for storage for a long time But I not only did not have room for it in the old house I didn't have a good solution for what I wanted to do That was affordable until recently so I found this This is actually a retail store display now. I found it at a Online site and I bought it from them. So anyway, watch the art room organization video and you'll see all about that Let's move to the last now because this room is Capable of being used as a fifth bedroom. It has two big huge claw wall closets here his closets have For instance, this one has This is all Etsy store stuff. This is all notepads and travel art journals my Die-cutting machine is in here the fabric stashes in here, of course everything is visually labeled and yes I'm going to give you a close-up look because I don't think you're going to be able to see that from the camera angle That you're at now. This is the other side of the closet All of my rubber stamps are in here my iron my thin interfacing Acrylic pouring supplies punch drawers of punches they're all they all live in here and the nice thing about this is Yes, they're organized and labeled and they're Really easy to find things in the closet But they're not necessarily Visually calming so I can do this That works for me So this is the new studio space, I'm going to give you a little Tour here and some close-ups and at the end and so stay tuned for that But if you have any questions about anything in particular about my space, let me know in the comments below I do want to show you the work table in the middle of the room before we go hang on Okay, this is the workspace in the middle of the room call it the art island For lack of a better term. I don't know that seems like it might be a good term So this is an old conference table. I actually got for free I did a yard sale with some old co-workers years and years and years ago She was selling this table. I forget for how much I think she wanted like 50 bucks for it And it didn't sell at the end of the day and she didn't want to take it home with her I kept it. I said can I have it? She said sure take it And I have a quilter's cutting mat on top of it that I've cut down Width wise to fit the top of the table. It's a nice sturdy thick plastic nylon mat works Well when it gets too beat up and too stained and too crazy I just go use a 40% off coupon at Joann's and go get a new one and cut it to fit That works for me, but I use them until they're like dining At either end of the table, I have some wire shelving This one is for drying and it has my scissors and some pencils some glue and things on it that one is for brushes and journals and Homemade stamps and things so this is like a tool one. This is a drying one for the most part And that really works for me as you can see here. I've got some bits on the table and I've got a non-stick mat I do need to do some journaling. I use muffin tins from the dollar store to go around to my different banks of tools and supplies and Collect different things in them. So this one has mark making tools Some neocolors some oil pastels some chunky colored pencils some chalk pastels and things like that And this one has items from the small bits bank And then this is just a plastic tray from the Japanese dollar store Daiso And it has collage papers from the medium and large bits bank And these live on my table and I try to pick from them first And if I can't find what I want in them then I go over to the bank and Appropriate materials and I pick what I need for that page or project. But this really works for me When I need to clear the table off to do something in particular all of these things including the journals can fit on this wire rack at the end of the table and If I have things that are wet and drying they go on the shelves over here All of the wire racks in this shelf The shelves are from Target. The cubes are from Target. The plastic bits for the most part are from Target. I Love IKEA, but Target is easier to find and so I go there first I do have some things from the Dollar Tree. You can buy similar white bins from Dollar Tree sometimes the Sterile like five drawer cabinets You can find at Walmart There's a couple other places. I live in the Pacific Northwest We have Fred Meyer and Fred Meyer has them and that's those little five drawer Sterile like cabinets that I keep the small bits in They are you can get them at Fred Meyer, but you can also get them on Amazon and then some of the desks are from IKEA and That just that works for me You don't have to spend a lot of money to have a Nice our room. You also don't have to have a big room now my old room I had a lot of stuff in a little tiny space. I had more stuff in there than I have now. I Know you're not gonna believe me, but that's true It was just stacked and in every crack you could find and Binned and it was so hard to get stuff out here. I'm just spread out instead of going up I've gone out and I have less stuff So that means I can find it easily and it's super well organized at least I think so for me it is so I Hope this gives you some ideas of what you can do and I hope this You enjoy this little tour of the new studio space. I'm gonna do a Close-up to music here at the end So if you don't want to watch that you don't have to you can stop now Don't forget to like share and subscribe if you can support the free content here on YouTube and over in Facebook By clicking on the link link tree list of links and there you'll find my Etsy shop my Amazon affiliate store Patreon my tip jar All the different places that you can buy a merch with my artwork on it including Teespring You can also find places to follow me on social media My Instagram is there my Twitter is there and all that stuff So you can go check it out the link tree list of links in the description below along with anything else that I've promised will be down there too including Carla's YouTube channel and I Hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do. Don't forget to Do what you can with the space that you have and you don't it's not about the size of the space or the amount of the stuff It's about having a space that makes you happy with stuff that makes you happy that you feel you can create with So whatever that is for you do that All right, go out and have a great day everyone do something nice for yourself because you deserve it We'll get right into that close-up shot and I'll see you later. Bye guys