How We Do IT.....so just what IS the Studio?

I have had a few inquiries about, just what Is the Studio ?.....so I thought I would blog about it today.....The Studio is the materialization of the place in my imagination that I always dreamed of....a place to create, to contemplate, to be serene and meditate, to share the amazing experience of Art with others....And so my truly awesome husband built a 12x36 room onto the side of the home we built on our farmland here in the Missouri Ozarks.  Every facet of the Studio came from my own creative process.  We have this joke between DH and I....I come up with all the ideas and he has to figure out how to find time to pull it off!...So we will take a little tour of the Studio today and it is my hope that others will find inspiration and be encouraged to take just one little step at a time... and you will be amazed at what YOU will be able to accomplish.

 This is the entrance into the Studio from the living room, note the angle of the side wall of the living room, we added the Studio room onto the left side of our modified A-frame and so it looks a little quirky from this shot.

This the longest shot of the craft side of the Studio.  There is a fully functioning kitchen on the left, and a little Italian leather cafe set in the center of the room.  This table is multi purpose, school table, candle light dinner for two table, or just sip'n natter with a friend table.

This is the wall behind the kitchen, notice the large shelf at the top of the wall, it goes back about 4 feet, to bridge the area between the Studio wall and the A-frame.  There are 2 4-foot tables along this wall that hold the serger, sewing machine, and computerized knitting system.

This is the main entrance into the Studio from the front of the house.  You can also see the corner of the library here, that is 8x8 in total shelving area, and contains every type of fiber art, natural building, self-reliance resource imaginable.  It is my weakness to be updating the library often, and there are soooo many interesting resources.  Soon, I am going to need to sort out where to expand the library to, as I have about 60 plus publications that I have no shelf space for....ugghh!  I think the self-reliance books are going to find another room to live in...{smile!}

This is the corner to the right of the front entrance, it is storage for wool fabrics, quilting fabrics, and in the antique dresser below the fabric is stored drawers of needles ( knitting, sewing, crochet, etc), art collage supplies, floral crafting supplies, stamping, scrapping, papercrafts supplies, knitting machine accessories, and assorted other crafting supplies that have no category.

This is the wall that is home to the Schact Mighty Wolf weaving loom, the Kromski Harp folding table loom w/stand, and the ball winding station to wind wools, silks, and assorted fibers for the looms.  Further along the wall is a large area of pegboard that contains the scissors collection, embroider thread, some paints, serger threads, glass knitting needles, and tapestry and embroidery frames and lots of misc items that I want to have at hand....

This is the same wall after the addition of the imported Irish Waterford Stanley wood cookstove....

This is a better shot of the wood cookstove....it doubles as a heat source for the crafting side of the room, and also comes in handy for bread baking, cooking up herbal potions, melting candle wax, small dye projects, and the occasional leg of lamb from the farm....Note, the adorable 1940's desk, that is the printer station at the moment.  The poor printer looks so out of place in the crafting room...but very necessary for not only paper crafts, but also, for image transfer onto fabrics and for art collage projects....  The tile on the floor at the space around the cookstove and is also in the front entrance area, is hand-crafted Mexican tile, a super close-out deal and each tile is unique, and we just love it in here....

This is the den/sitting room at the far end of the Studio.  It is for taking a break, catching the weather, watching a flick in the evening, and where I play my yoga videos.  We have had a purge of this room, to make more space for the yoga, so the table in the center has been relocated to the side wall,  the fountain in the corner has been replace with a slender, taller fountain that allows for the over sized rocker to fit neatly into that corner now.  It totally opened the room up, we just havent taken any pics since the new arrangement.  The coffee table also has a lift up top to also function as a dining table when needed.

This is the gas fireplace that supplements the heat from the cookstove.  It is an indulgence that we soooo appreciate on a frosty morn, while waiting for the woodstove to get cranking....It also makes for great ambience on a quiet evening with a glass of wine and a bottle of massage oil!

This is the big comfy chocolate velour sofa at the back of the den and where you can find me perched many hours knitting away on a project, and desperately hoping for one of those pricey task lights that can sit obscured in the corner until I need direct light for things like beaded embroidery or knitting an intricate pattern.

This is the screened Zen room just off the Studio and contains a fire pit ( center) lounge set, various windchimes and fountains, the beloved palm tree lamps, and my favorite seat in the house, the sky chairs.  We have many, many hours in, just swinging to and fro, enjoying the tree canopy of our woods, listening to the wildlife, and drinking tea....lots and lots of tea!.....

Another shot of the Zen room, (sorry a little clutter here)  This room gets such a lot of use....

I did neglect to mention the beading/jewelry area, and dont have a shot of my components storage at the moment.  But there is an 8 foot folding table, from the 50's that we put up and down, as needed for making jewelry, and other assorted crafting. This concludes the tour and we hope you enjoyed the stroll through my little corner of the planet.....I am immersed in my element when I am in this room, and give total credit to my Dh for the awsome job he has done on the construction of it all.       namaste