Come Hang Out in My Studio

Hi everyone!  Hope you are all having a good Monday so far.  I feel like

spending a bit of the day in my studio and thought I would invite you to

 join me and just hang out.  I spend a lot of time in this room.  It is the one

place in the house that is all mine.  On a sunny morning the room is filled

with sunshine and the mix of all the cottage pastel colors always makes

me feel happy.  It's like a colorful cottage garden with little flowers peeking

through everywhere.  

There are some very important elements in this room.  Here is my Mac

where I write all of my blog posts.  You will usually find a pot of hot tea

on my desk.  And music!  I must have music playing.  Today it is

the sound track from the movie Miss Potter.  This soundtrack is just

magical to me and inspires creativity.

This is my old sewing machine.  It's not an antique beauty like a 

Singer Featherweight which I hope I will one day own.  No, it's a 

dependable workhorse that my parents bought me years ago.  It has

a history and that makes it special to me.  I remember sewing a slipcover

for a sofa on this machine.  I invited a girlfriend over and we spent the 

entire day making a pattern and stitching a slipcover for an old sofa I

bought for $50.00.  The slipcover was off white and we also stitched 

up some blue pillows from Laura Ashley fabric.  We did this while 

watching hours and hours of I Love Lucy on VHS.  We had so much

fun that day and it is a treasured memory. 

The following weekend Cathy came over again and we painted the wall

behind that sofa a blue that I had mixed to match the blue in the pillows.

We stenciled the other walls in a blue and green vine.  We thought it was

devine!  One of the last times I was in Houston we drove by that old

apartment complex and discovered it has quite recently been torn down.

Made me feel sad.  So many happy memories were created there.

Oh well ~ progress.

I love little notebooks.  I keep a stash of them.  Never know when I might

find something on the internet, or passage from a book or whatever that I 

want to save and refer to later.  Those green and white ones are favorites of

mine.  They are the sweetest notebooks made in France.  The French often

have the most charming ideas.  I also keep a copy of "Writing Down the 

Bones" by Natalie Goldberg, a pocket size Universal French Dictionary and

a tiny little Curious George bookmark in this basket filled with notebooks.

Oh and this.  I covered one of those mini composition books that you find

everywhere.  This little book keeps track of all the books I have read.  It

helps me because I can't remember them all and it's always so helpful to 

share titles of favorite books and authors with friends.  I think I may have

shown this to you before, but that's okay.  Still a favorite tweak of mine.

Santa put these in my stocking this past Christmas.  I always need little memo

pads and those composition notebooks and my favorite pencil ~

Dixon Ticonderoga!  Love them and it's the best pencil for crossword

puzzles.

I really want to paint the walls of my studio.  At present they are a pinky beige

that is not making me too happy.  I keep changing my mind about the new color.

I will probably end up with an off white.  There is already so much color in 

the room that it would no doubt be the best choice, but then I think a faint 

ticking might be nice.  I contemplate painting the four poster too.  Maybe

a soft sage green?  David thinks I should keep it stained, but you know us

girls we often have different ideas.  What are your thoughts?

Oh and this chair too.  It's another vintage stained piece.  I love the lines

and Bentley just loves the chair.  He is often here, but not right now.  No 

instead he is hanging out with his grandma at the moment.  So thanks for

keeping me company and hanging out with me for a bit in my studio.

Wishing you all a happy Monday!

Tweak It Tuesday

Come on Bentley let's make some lunch for your grandma.

Big Texas Hugs,

Susan and Bentley