Setting up the Studio

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Trying out my new space!

Can you guess who I am painting there????

It's practice for tomorrow.. we are doing a trial run on the live shows

 and working on draped fabrics and clothing for portraits.  Join us at 10 AM Eastern Time.

you can watch it on my website, on facebook or on livestream

As you guys know, we moved in November.  Well I've been working a little here and there to try to organize the studio.. but let me tell ya.. I was overwhelmed.  Just beyond what I could figure out.  BUT  I had a couple of kicks in the pants that got me motivated.

First.. was this wicked drafting table that you see UNDER all my goodies in the picture above.  My friend Sharon Field gave it to me.  It's wicked cool and awesome; one of the older models but I just love it.  I always always always wanted one.  You might not know my childhood dream was to become an architect.. but yeah.. I drooled over all the junk to do that job.

Second was storage.  I was so dang tired carting around the tins that my stuff came in.. I wanted something efficient and... well.. cool.  So I saw Pixie of Red Pixie Art show off what she kept her sweet little crayons of goodness in.. and it was one of the "Really Useful Boxes".  Have you seen them?

OMG I love these boxes.  

I just want them to come to my house and live with me in happiness forever and ever~!  (yes.. yes Tee does go off the deep end for containers.  You want her loyalty and undying devotion???  Send her boxes and cool special wicked pens... she loves those too!!)  **hides fingers so you can't see them twitching**

Ok.. getting a grip. Well they are a little out of my price range.  BUT THEY ARE AMAZING.  *breathing*  Ok.. so went to Targ'et.. (with the french accent) and got Sterilite boxes.  ALMOST as cool... and they come in green.

AND they fit my little delicious crayons of goodness perfectly~  And I got some longer ones for pencils and things.

Wellll then I needed somewhere to store my wonderful containers.. so I took some OTHER containers I had (little cool plastic crates) and some Hercules hooks and made a shelf.

How cool is that?  AND they'll hold all those boxes when they are filled.  In fact, the the plastic crate will break before the hook gives out.  OH and I hung a tin on the side over there for my scissors and paint rags.

Then Joey set up some more shelves for me to go on the left of my area (to hold the laptop to drive the camera that will sit on the shelf that tee built.)  LOL LOL LOL

on the right is a drawer unit that moved with us.. and my craft paint in that red bucket thingie

More later after I get more stuff finished.