fit for a queen

well not exactly, a real queen but I am afterall the queen of my ...domain

but this I created for the QUEEN OF MY CRAFTROOM...

here is the crown that will be fit for a queen when I am completely done but I thought you may like to play around with the idea too....just think of the possibilities here...

 I love this - I love the points  and the details on this piece of LACE ---yep you read it right LACE - I used just 1 yard of lace and if you are a regular at Joannes you know that they have a serious selection of LACE to choose from and if you use that 40% off coupon you can get a yard of really nice stuff for around 3.00 or 4.00 bucks. Sweet right and if you are careful in deciding the size you can get 2 crowns from the 1 yard.

so here is the lace, that I laid out on to wax paper then used some of this

ALEEN'S QUICK STIFFNER - I gotta tell you something...I bought some spray stiffner and it DID NOT work - I think I would have needed to spray 1/2 the bottle before it took - which I didn't want to...

So I just poured this stuff over the lace as it laid owver the wax paper then I "scrunched" it up in my hand then laid it over a coffee can to hold the shape. NOTE: I may or may NOT have used a can with a paper label and said label may or may NOT have stuff to the crown....so make sure the vessel you use is clean & label free. (leave on over night)  in the morning I took the crown off and then used hot glue to to seal the joint...

And here is the QUEEN of my craft room--ITS LOLA---and doesn't she look STUPENDOUS!!! and it couldn't have been easier!!@!

Although this looks great as is (if I do say so myself) but I plan on "DOING HER UP" adding some GLITTER and some rosettes and really making her POP...

I hope you try this bit of LUXE for either, you or a favorite prop...I added this to my WHERE BLOGGER CREATE studio tour in July --- in her full glory.

I am linking this up to the following weekly challenges:

EBTKS

freestyle friday

aloha friday

sunday scoop

saturday link & greet

the saturday 7

saturday night special

spotlight saturday

have a great Sunday!!!

xo



WHERE BLOGGERS CREATE

It's today - It's today - It's today!!!! I am so excited to be participating in this years
WHERE BLOGGERS CREATE --- please click on that link and visit Karen Valentines blog
and check out all the many bloggers that are sharing their studio/craft spaces.

so make sure to grab a cuppa joe - and sit back and check out my space and then head back to
My Desert Cottage and move on to the next space...have fun - this will be going on for a few weeks so have fun. If you like my space leave me a comment or why not FOLLOW me and I'll be right over to follow you back...

Ok on with the show:

please remember that my blog is ONE CRAFTY MESS....hence my space. Is one "REAL" crafty mess...
this is LOLA - she is my $25.00 dress form find from a local thrift store (love her) I made her crown and the apron and I added my collection of rosaries to her neck. After all, any good hostess should be quaintly dressed - dontch'a think?

Here is a full view of my space...it's in the garage and it is about 12 feet long by 6 feet wide - not big but big enough...and what looks like clutter is home to my craft supplies & where I create my goods.

I have a white pottery barn shelf unit that houses some metal baskets and baskets that holds miscellaneous items...a crafty mess - the top of the shelving house my collection of vintage jewelry boxes holding my vintage jewelry and my adhesives and button collection....

this is my second work space and the wall behind it houses my "swapped" art - and art I have created.

Below you will see one of the tables I have that I store my roller drawers - container 1 - houses scrapbooking embellishments, #2 rubber stamps by category, #3 MORE scrapbooking stickers & embellishments. and above there you can see my first work space...

I have 3 walls in my studio and this is the right wall. My husband made me shelf and screwed in some small baby food jars that I added my googly eyes, some baby pearls, some buttons & some other small embellishments...the trays below in silver are fom IKEA and is home to more of my adhesives & my soldering goodies...

{and that name on the paper---well doesn't everyone have a pseudo ROLLER DERBY name picked out?}

Here is a cute vintage white swirly thingy...that I put my bottle of flowers on so I can easily my pick my colors and add them to my projects

Here is my wall of punches - not all the punches I own but the ones that have a deep enough handle to lay and hook onto these "CAFE CURTAIN RODS" clever right??? try it if you have the space.

above my shelf that holds my screwed on baby food jars are my BIG jars of ribbon, some more button jars, & some decoupaged bottles. I love the way the jars each have a different color in them and it kind of looks like candy - better and less fattening.

Here are some cute little shelves that I use to house my glitter salt & pepper shakers and my favorite vintage photos....

Here is my LOLA again and she bids you farewell...

Thanks for stopping by - I get that I could do more to organize & make alot sleeker but I gotta tell you that I like the way may studio is NOW. It's chaotic, cluttered, & colorful --- and that so says ME!!!

I have finally figured it out...it really costs a lot of time and energy trying to make your studio beautiful enough to be in the pages of magazines, it takes way too much money really to get that "Picture perfect" look - so I say do what you can with what you have and just make it your own...

Really you are the one that is creating in that space and you should be comfortable enough in that space to do your best work.

If you are here visiting from the blog hop - I will be on my way to visit your studio...

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you enjoyed your tour..

Have a crafty weekend.

xo

tina