Crafty Corner, Before

I took these pics a long time ago--last winter sometime--and never got around to posting them.  Now I'm going to call them my 'before' pictures, because sometime soonish (here read, sometime in the next month...??) I'm going to have lights installed in the Crafty Corner.  Ooooh, ahhhh.....

DH can't come to grips with what kind of ceiling to put in the basement.  We don't want to use traditional suspended tile, cuz that's so pedestrian and expected.  But our other options suck.  DH also really can't come to grips with the price of said ceiling. (This story might explain why it's so damn expensive.....)

I finally got tired of hearing about what we were going to do, and just stapled up the green ticking fabric that I got for a buck a yard.  And I like it.  A lot.  So much so that I told DH not to wreck it when he puts up the new lights.  (My first choice is corrugated sheet metal.  Yep, you heard me.)

So here's the before pics:

The whole enchilada.

Over to the left. My temporary design wall is over there, too.  It's currently being held up with giant woodworking clamps.  Got the desk from the Goodwill.  I'll show you a pic of the pictures over there sometime.

Over to the right. That pendant lamp is a work light that's just looped over the I-beams and hooked up with scary extension cords. The new one will be similar, but properly wired in.

The Pfaff in all it's glory.  Love love love my sewing table.  Nice cutting table behind it.  What a freakin' luxury to be able to keep it up all the time.          Potentially working treadle machine on the left.  BadAmy found it for me on Craig's List.  A mom and step-daughter bought it, got it stripped down, but gave up, so all I needed to do was varnish it.  We liked the symmetry of 2 mom-step daughter teams working on it.

Treadle base with ironing pad.  DH made a nice top for it, to match the ironing pad I got super cheap. 

More from the right.  That's a white sorta canvas piece of material to cover the shelves when I'm gone.  

This is a portable closet that I got for half price ($50).  I added two bamboo shoe organizers for fat quarters.  The boxes hold all sorts of crap like paints, ribbons, and glitter.  I love glitter.  I hang larger pieces of fabric using skirt and slacks hangers. Got that great idea from Nancy Zieman.  Love her.

My window.  The curtains are Debbie Mumm fabric, the 'garlands' are old tape measures and some pretty holly cut-out ribbon.  The signs were my MILs and they glow all by themselves in the light.  And even when I get new lights, I'm going to keep my Christmas lights up.  They're in off-white tulle, which we used for BadAmy's wedding. Very girlie, and since I'm out-numbered here, I need a few girlie things.