Office Space

I have fond memories of coming home from school looking for my mom to tell her about my day.  If she wasn't in the obvious places, kitchen or family room,  she was surely in her own office space.

My dad and mom transformed the laundry room into a working space for my mom.  When it comes to painting my mother has the real talent in the family.  This is where I would go to talk to my mom about all that happened during my day.  The laundry room was fairly big and she would be painting at her counter space while I would sit on the washer or dryer with my other sisters as we fought to out speak each other to tell her about our day.  This was her space, her escape, her place of creativity.

I am in the process of creating such space.  I currently do a lot of my painting on the dining room table.  It works great for the time being but I would like to have a permanent place for all my items and wooden dolls waiting to be painted.  It was time to turn our living room into an office so that I could have such a place.

Creating a new space can come with a cost so I am try to do so at a very minimal budget.  Re-purposing currently pieces and recreating a desk to work for the space that I have.  My hope is to have a place that promotes creativity with the ability to have all my stuff at my hands.  I will post a before and after picture once available.

This little shop

I made the decision to make the exciting venture into the Etsy world. Don't take me wrong I have been part of the Etsy world for years but mainly as a partaker. I love Etsy! Love the endless possibilities it provides for all those needs (wants) that are part of my dream life. It creates a different feeling of products that no super store or over sized warehouse can provide. I enjoy creating things or re-purposing items. With the amazing teaching/mentoring of one amazing mother, did I mention she is amazingly talented I have been taught that nothing is impossible. Well maybe not nothing. With the little bit of OCD (okay a lot) that I also inherited from the same amazing parent, I found that detail is a big deal. Detail is what creates life for me in anything or any item that I find interesting. It is not the perfection in the detail, but the meaning in the detail. I have over the years painted little wooden peg families. It started as a set that I made for my youngest for her first birthday. I wanted something a little more personal, more handmade, with her being the third I felt that we had enough of the fisher price sets and wanted something different. After that I started making them for gifts. It was something that required a little bit more time than running to the store but felt like it was something different and personal to send with my girls to their parties. It slowly grew to be more than that. As I made more for gifts I began to also get requests from those that received them as gifts to have me make them for their gifting purposes. From that Clairabells on Etsy was formed.