where saucy creates

Today the craft room got a kick start of spring cleaning. It was about time... last spring. Better late than never. Saucy still has quite a few things to do, but in the meantime come in and take a peek at what progress looks like:

Clara is always dressed for company. She wears inspiring vintage jewelry and a sweet dragonfly for luck. If she had ears, those 1940's rhinestone clip-ons would not be on her neckwrap, but that's her cross to bear.

The inspiration board is stuffed with... inspiration. Actually, the contents of that board could be an entire post unto itself.

Buddy Budderson gifted Saucy with this vintage shelf from an automotive supply company. One of the Bowman Brothers was one and the same who Saucy's alma mater was named for. The same high school that Buddy graduated from and Loopy now attends. This old cabinet perfectly holds small Atlas Mason jars sorted with safety pins, brads, eyelets and other bric-a-brac.

About a year ago, Saucy was junking and found a large floor-standing cabinet from the old Bowman Brothers shop, it had a hundred little drawers and was distressed and orange like this unit... prompting her to wonder: if the shop was all orange and navy, why are the school colours green and gold? Did anyone ever put that together?

 

Oh, and there's more glitter than this... the Martha Stewart glitter is on a shelf in the closet.

Under the shelf hangs four buckets filled with gel pens, glitter pens, hot glue sticks and cable ties.

A window box - under the window of course - sorts paint brushes, scissors and all sorts of furry bear friends. You will find bears throughout the craft room. They're great for bouncing ideas off of.

The mural on the wall behind the desk is coming along nicely. There are more things to add, Saucy needs to have a little work bee one night with a Saucy-tini in hand and get at it.

Special gifts and ephemera hang here, including a paper hanging from Little Melfie, and a treasure made by Amy, gifted to Saucy by Karen.

Amy Sedaris, you are one of Saucy's heroes! Look at you, covered in frosting and sprinkles. Saucy wants to pose like that someday. A vintage Victorian twine dispenser hangs here too.

The dresser under the mural holds fabric, felt, packing materials, and Saucy's infamous bikini collection... shhh! She has to hide the evidence somewhere. That little basket is stuffed with greeting cards received over the last year. Saucy saves them all. Some get used in altered art, most get sorted (eventually) into boxes for saving.

In the strange corner where nothing else would fit, rolls of vintage wallpaper are stuffed between the dresser and an armoire. Saucy jammed some old curly willow there for short term storage - two years ago. Now, glittery birds call the branches home. No word on the condition of the wallpaper.

Above the armoire that holds a computer and boxes of sorted photographs (Saucy's not man enough to show you the inside) sit treasures including: vintage cupcake tins, an angel weather vane, more teddies, Dorothy's ruby red shoes (there's no place like home) and a briefcase that belonged to Veto's father.

Sorted: rubber stamps (tin buckets), foam letter stamps (paper baskets) and ribbon scraps (vintage candy jars). Below that (not shown) Atlas Mason jars filled with buttons sorted by colour.

Old magazines tucked neatly away... they need to be labeled: Martha, Martha, Martha.

The ribbon rack... guarded on two sides by Princess Di.

Vintage perfume bottles among the spools of ribbon, new and vintage too.

A shoe-shaped tuffet to display hatpins. The wooden boxes sort yarn, supplies and embellishments by season.

What lies behind the closet door? At the risk of ruining the ambience, Saucy will open the door and show you.

The real storage: Rubbermaid drawers. A place for everything and everything in its place. At least once a year. To the left is a work station with a cutting board, cutting mat, and racks to hold spools of thread.

Sentimental treasures to keep Saucy amused.

Yes, that is a heavy layer of dust. Saucy would like to say that it isn't, but it is. 

She'll get to that another day.

Saucy was misdiagnosed with Lou Gherig's Disease in 2002. Today he watches over her desk to remind her that she is the luckiest girl alive.

More drawers to the right, holding work clothes, paint, jewelry making supplies.

Under the desk: scraps of paper sorted... solids, prints and recycling.

Two stools: one for Saucy, one for Loopy. One has a back and the other can be stashed under the desk when only one person is working in the room.

And to think, not too long ago, the floor wasn't visible in this room. And the top of the desk. That's how it is in creative spaces... but Saucy still has to do some dusting, don't you think?