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Hi, I'm chiming in again on this thread as I do appreciate the feedback. "Clutter" is indeed a relative term. Me? I like a lot of visual enticement and do just fine by clearing a space for the process at hand. My husband, who draws, must have everything just so before he begins. However...
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Kathy: My studio is a sunroom, three walls of windows and four skylights, and really minimal wall space. It was featured in the very first Studios issue if you to see how I cope with the storage issue. I do have two bookshelves that are filled with fabric and I used tension rods at the top of each and...
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Hi there! I'm a newbie here. I am a sewer turned painter turned quilter turned art quilter! Now I finally feel at piece! (ha!) Anyhow, just wondering, does anybody else out there do their art in a sun room? I LOVE the light, but lack of wall space is challenging when it comes to furnishings, especially...
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For years, I couldn't come up with a way to store fibers that helps me find them when I need them or helps me to choose the best one for a project. The way I store them now has been working very well. I take old Christmas cards and cut the cover off. Then I take a fiber and start wrapping it around...
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Hi everyone! I'm looking for fun ways to label things--boxes, jars, trays, and so on--in your studio. Do you print out sticky labels in a fun font? Use Scrabble tiles to spell out what's in a box? Handpaint the words? Draw a picture? Use a stamp? I'd like to feature pictures and brief descriptions...
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Ok, with a bit of a delay-I get sidetracked so easily- to see if these flat trays would work I sampled it using household-type stuff, one tray for shopping and one for Garden Club papers (notice small meat tray ordinarily used for fabric painting now temporarily holding plant markers). Looks good, and...
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too true; most of my quilt and art friends are gardeners of one sort of another so it's a good match. And I was just out participating in The Great Dandelion Hunt and using one of those bedding plant "flats" to put them in when it hit me what a wonderful stackable sorting tray it would...