Mr. Prof designer home

So, very recently KAREN of MY DESERT COTTAGE hosted a party called Where Women Create. Well I missed the boat so to speak. Guess I wasn't keeping up with my favs and so I didn't get in on the fun. I have been planning a post for a while featuring my studio space, and this finally got me to stop procrastinating. Come on in...

Looking in at my studio...


Where I blog and chat with you...


Old cupboard where all the stuff lives...


Where I sit...


Old chippy column and one of the "girls"...


Super old buttons hand~sewn on a card and labeled in the hand of the previous owner. Some are 1800's...


One of three dress forms I own and love love love...


View of the old zinc-top table I covet. Above it a collection of found objects on an old piece of architectural trim from an 1800's home.


My fab table and an old medical stool...


Old French bottle drying rack used to hold ribbon and seam binding...


Found objects...



Fab old suitcase with gorgeous wallpaper lining holds my old grain sacks, an old frame and my initial "S"...



Perfect place to sit and read a magazine...


My "junk" collage on old baby bed springs...


Old oil painting of pansies...


One of my favorite old cupboards that houses my books and flower frog collection. On top, my favorite old corbels...


My inspiration board made from a huge old frame. I pieced together some old grain sack fragments quilt-style and added wire to hang found objects from...



Maybe the favorite thing I own~~an old French grain sack framed in a chippy old white painted frame with the original wavy glass...


Can't get enough of these old ghosting mirrors. The post card was my great~grandmother's.


I love wasp nests. This is the grand~daddy of all time and a double decker...


Gorgeous old silver beaded cord with tassels...


Pile of grain sacks...


Last but not least, my huge chalkboard I made from an old mirror frame. This hung in both of my shops and I could have sold it a zillion times. I never will...


Hope you enjoyed the tour... Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,
Shelley

This is a very modern bedroom, but it has a fascinating use of tin tiles to cover an entire wall:
Alkemie: Kyle Schuneman - Interiors, Set Designer, and Stylist Extraordinaire

I think you'll like this video of the Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design.

I first have to announce the winner of my 200th post!

KRIS from http://simplyprim.blogspot.com/

Congratulations Kris - please e-mail me with your mailing address.

Here's what you won

A Bird-Make-Do - hand made by me - my design

Fall Pumpkin 5x7 hand stitched by me - my design

And a lovely Willow candle - not made by me...lol

Monday we spent the day bringing out some of our Fall items for the new photo shoot - wow this is early but I'm not putting it all away and bringing out the summer again it's just not worth it and anyway the weather hasn't been very summerish anyway so this feels right

I updated my picturetrail with more photos last night after taking pictures of the changes - you can find it here: http://www.picturetrail.com/kmprimitives

This is in one corner of our kitchen - I know Lavender isn't fall but it works with the blue glass jars

Doug also put a coffee label on an old coffee jar we bought at a rummage sale last week - and then put in a fake center and filled around with coffee beans...great huh?


We bought another coffee jar at the same rummage sale but larger and I thought it made a great pantry cake jar (which is how I will display them for sale at my Home Show!)....and I put on a great label

Here's the gathering with the two jars and a shoo-fly screen with some pantry cakes under it with grungy cheesecloth around them....I love how it all turned out

This is just a pot of drieds by our garage door

I re-draped my Tobacco cloth panels in our dining room and I like them a lot better - it does make the room darker but I am going to keep them that way for awhile

These are the front windows in the dining room

This is on our back porch

Doug's dresser - I never know how to decorate dresser tops - they are my problem spots but I bought some faux sunflowers and black eyed Susan's awhile back as well as the pitcher so thought it would work

I have a special running this month on my website...

BUY 3 CANDLE HUGGERS OR 3 HAND PAINTED GRUNGY HANG TAGS AND GET THE 4TH ONE FREE....

I would also like to ask anyone who wants to be on my Newsletter mailing list to send me an e-mail at I try and get them out at least by the end of the first week of each month.

I also put on a Tips/Technique for making Pantry Cakes

With more new things to come.

Visit me at www.kmprimitives.com

Thanks for visiting my blog....

Karen

Meet me in the kitchen for this week's edition of WHITE WEDNESDAY. My kitchen~~like the rest of my home ~~is teeny but hey, somebody has to live in small houses right? But you know what, when I think back to the size of my grandma's kitchen and lack of counter space and storage, it's pretty amazing the meals that came out of that even tinier space. If she can do, so can I right? Hope you enjoy the little touches that grace this space...
















Cake anyone?