sewing room
Below you’ll find my blog posts about my sewing rooms over the years, costume storage, and other related items.
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More office work
Last night after dinner we ran out to Hobby Lobby so I could get a couple more glass jars for beads (so I could free up our tupperware to return to the kitchen….) and Home Depot for some command hooks. It didn’t leave me a lot of time to work last night but I did make a dent. Over in…
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The Deep Clean
I decided last night it was time to clean my sewing room top to bottom… as usual throughout the summer working on Dragoncon costumes things just get stuffed in places and things get disorganized, so it was time to redo! At first I was just going to clean up the two fabric bins I keep in my office for “current…
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Car, etc
I forgot to post about my lovely incident last week. So Tuesday I’m on my way home, Kevin is with me, we’re going down the interstate 70mph. When I hear a LOUD “blumph blumph blumph” – my front passenger side tire blew out. Luckily I was RIGHT at an exit and was able to throw my hazard lights on, roll…
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An Almost Functional Sewing Room
I finally buckled down, found some energy and attacked my sewing room. Part of the thing that helped is the fact I made room in our hall bathroom closet for a lot of my wigs & hair styling stuff that had previously just been sitting around my office. Having somewhere to put all the wigs and wigheads kinda got me…
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Sewing Room – finished!
I finally finished everything up last night and at last have a functional sewing room again. Indy is confused at finding she can actually walk into my office: Closet side: Desk side: I still have a ton of photos in frames I need to find a place for, but that can wait. Also need to organize my bins a bit…
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More sewing room progress
Alllllmost done. A couple of more hours tonight and it should be back to fully functional. Most of the stuff left strewn around my tables and the floor are things I can’t figure out where to put… a lot of the photos were on the wall and I can’t decide if I want to put them back on the wall…
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work, work, work
This weekend was kinda busy! Friday night I got all my costumes ready for the photoshoot, which was supposed to be on Saturday. I burnt myself on a glue gun so bad I got a blister! That’s a first. Saturday morning we ran errands, but then it was too cold for us to shoot, so I went to work cleaning…
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Hammering away
More work in my office last night. Tackled the giant pile of fabric and stuff in front of the closet. Didn’t quite get through it but made a dent. Mostly worked on the cabinet — cleaned it out, got rid of some stuff, found $30 worth of change and a ton of foreign money. Moved all my CDs up there,…
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More cleaning
I don’t know what’s less interesting, photos of my puzzles or photos of cleaning. But! I worked in my office last night and got my sewing table cleaned up and put up some new shelves. Still have one more little shelf to put up on the left over there, drill ran out of power before we could finish. While looking…
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Organization
Trying to get my sewing room clean; it’s slow going. I’ve been trying to tackle it for over a month now. I did have to rearrange my patterns. I was bursting at the seams – I used to keep them in 3 little fabric square drawers, with some oversized ones stuffed under one of my chest-of-drawers and more in plastic…
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Office updates, new furniture!
Finally got my sewing room cleaned up! Here’s the blue cabinet – still needs a new magnet to keep the door closed. And the patterns I shoved underneath it need a new home. Here’s the white wardrobe. Still want to do the blue accents, and make curtains, but it’s use-able.
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Repainting the Chest
Hey remember that yellow chest-of-drawers I posted a few weeks ago? I took today off work and got it painted (and got a lot of laundry done.) I’m SUPER happy with the result. Here’s it is after one coat: And here it is finished: I left the interior yellow and LOVE it. Rolling it into my sewing room tomorrow and…
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Next project: yellow chest
Sorry I’ve been MIA… real life happened but I doubt the story is anyone’s interest so I won’t bore you with it. My next project for my office is this piece of furniture: It was not quite as dirty as the other piece, and still in very good shape, just one piece of a drawer had come off. Once I…
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Painting my wardrobe
We had two date nights and lots of painting this past weekend. Friday we saw Wreck-it Ralph, and Saturday we saw Skyfall. Both really good! Saturday morning I got up and painted myself orange for Ahsoka, and we headed to Memphis Comic and Fantasy Con. We had a really great time though we didn’t take any pics; we did come…
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Housework, and a Wardrobe
This weekend was spent cleaning the garage, something that has been much-needed for a while. Saturday we pulled everything into the driveway to start organizing it. It was hilarious to watch people drive by reaaaaal slow, thinking it was a garage sale LOL We built a new shelf for all of our bins! We got it mostly done on saturday,…
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Office Space
So this morning, laying in bed, 5:30 AM, I had a brainstorm about my sewing room. It’s cluttered. It’s a mess. I have no space. It’s been a disaster area since Dragoncon – I attempted to unpack in there, got halfway through and ended up with stuff strewn everywhere. On top of going through to find stuff to sell, it’s…
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A FAQ: Costume Storage
A question I get asked a lot – understandably! – is how I keep & store so many costumes. (If you’ve stumbled on my site from elsewhere, I have a LOT of costumes.) I can tell you figuring out how to store them all isn’t easy, especially when I also have a husband who costumes and all the geeky stuff…
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Cleaning my office
Chase helped me tackle the closet in my office yesterday. While I’ve cleaned and reorganized my office in the past few months, the closet I haven’t messed with since before dragoncon last year. I have 11 bins shoved in there, and 5 of them just had various scraps of random stuff in them. Chase helped me pull all the bins…
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Panorama of my Sewing Room
Cleaned up my office last night since I had bridesmaids coming over to try on their dresses I had altered. It’s definitely grown more cluttered since I started out with one bookshelf and a desk! I just have too much stuff and nowhere else to put it (*). (*) – I really need to clean stuff out and get rid…
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Cleaning my Sewing Room, etc
Still working on getting my sewing room straightened up and organized. Chase put my new shelves up last night, so I put my bead jars on them – this was the plan from the start, but it took me 2 years to finally get around to getting the shelves. I think I might get one more small one, because I…
