Where Bloggers Create - our studio!

So if I don't blog much, am I still a blogger??? Not sure  if I'm still qualified to answer yes.  However, the creating part, we got that!  And since this is the party for "Where Bloggers Create", can we just pretend I am still a blogger?!?

Not a lot has changed in the studio, even the dust from last year is still there. Yep, sure is. Don't tell her I told you though.....

The blue cupboard is still there and in the same place.  At over eight feet tall, is it any wonder it hasn't moved? She did add some drawers to the bottom shelf to help with storage.  Took no time at all to fill those up!

And on top of this cabinet...

I suspect that doll buggy is meant for me. But I refuse to be caught in a doll buggy.  Yes, even I have my limits.  I purrfur to think that she ran out of room to put it and had to go up when decorating.  I mean that is a reasonable thought right? You do use every square inch of space in your studio don't you?!? Humor me okay?

Looking at the picture below....this cart was here last year.  However, the paint caddy, the bird cage and the children's books have all been relocated here within the past year.

Next year though, I can promise you the white cart won't be there.  It will be moving out as soon as she has time to clean and move in a recent find.

No birds in this cage!

A find that was purchased on a buying trip a couple of weeks ago.

During a buying trip for the business.

Really?  Purrhaps I need to be more suspicious of her "business" activities too.  Probably bought the new piece with my cat snack money too.  I'm telling you, I take a few short naps and *poof* she's out of control. Again.

Next to the boys, is the white cabinet that looks grey in this picture..... but it's white. Really.

The bottom of this cabinet is full of wonderful supplies for jewelry making and mixed media.  Storage in this studio is important.  Very important as she has about a bazillion different creative interests with an equal or greater number of supplies to match.

That's why there are lots of cabinets, all with plenty of storage space.  Here's another one (shown below) with loads of storage and full of paper crafting supplies.  It's a wonder this one hasn't fallen through the floor. If ever the day comes and I hear even the smallest *creak* I will be setting a new world's land speed record while removing myself from the vicinity of this one.... it won't be pretty when it happens!

And on top of this cabinet....

Old boxes, suitcases and books!  Hmmm.....I just realized there is no room on top of this cabinet either! Is there some kind of Romeo sabotage going on here that I don't know about?!?!

Then there is this wardrobe that holds her collection of vintage and antique children's clothes, nature collections, a few bears.....just checking to be sure you are paying attention and hadn't dozed off.

told you there were bears in the wardrobe....

...on top you'll find antique linens waiting to be made into something wonderful.

Or maybe just to be collected as some are very old and the scissor hand starts shaking at the thought of the first cut.

Purrsonally, I'm still hoping for a chance to get up there and knock them all off on the floor.  Well maybe not all of them, I wouldn't mind a bit of a cushion while I nap.  And you know I'd have to do that!!! But it's full with no place to land should I decide to jump.

Yes, I am becoming quite suspicious of her decorating style....could she actually be smarter than I think?!?

If only I could get up on that wardrobe.  I mean look at how high up I'd be - I could then see all those places just waiting for my paw to work it's magic!!!  Yeah, I know, but a cat can dream right?!?  And, will you look at the industrial rolling workstation.... that never rolls from it's current location....see all that stuff on there!?!  It's enough to make my whiskers quiver with adventure-wreaking- havoc anticipation!

The ladder next to it also has wheels, but they don't roll so well anymore, so it stays where it's at and provides inspiration.

For both of us.

But for different reasons of course...

Now something that has changed..... remember the desk she found last year? Come to think of it, she was at a show, supposedly selling...... I am seeing a pattern here..... anyway, remember this one?

All nice and rusty!! With plenty of lounging space for me.  Or Tessa who is notorious for photo bombing pictures.  This piece worked well for me and yes, I admit I was happy to have this new addition.  And then she started cluttering it up with her stuff. How could she have missed the fact that this was my piece, for me!?!

I did not give her permission to put her art journal here!

Well she obviously didn't get the memo! Because she added two antique french screen doors on each side and a door on top to bridge them together.  But wait, purrhaps it was finally a place just for me to stretch out and nap.  Unmolested from my siblings and her smooching lips!

Was this really for me?!  Did she finally see the light?!

You already know the answer to this don't you?

The answer became more than obvious when she added dead vines, chandelier prisms, a birds nest and a frame! Oh the horror!!! Then she told me it was a prototype for the upcoming show.  And besides it allowed her to be creative.

Seriously?! More like a serious mess of weeds for me to get tangled in. I'm thinking this creative thing is getting in the way of proper naptime places.  It's enough to get my whiskers all bent and twisted.

you'll need to click on this to view the larger image
 to understand what you are supposed to see here.

Sorry, where was I?.... Oh yeah, the rusty piece that was supposed to be my new lounger.  Here are some of the details showing the ruins.

in case you were wondering what is in the huge colander seen above

a new to her cabinet and birds nests displayed on a chemistry stand

there are tiny lights in the cabinet but the photo wouldn't take correctly
 - so you get the vanilla version

One other change.... the round gear table was moved to the living room.  She found a drop leaf table that was the purrfect size and needed a little restoration work.  She's kind of weird like that - if it needs some work or has imperfections she starts drooling and foaming at the mouth.  Weirdness, right?

taking nesting a bit too far?...
I mean really just how much surface space does one need to create on?!?

I would like to mention that it was purchased at the last show. Found it in her neighbor's booth space.  And here I thought that if I wasn't there to help her, she wouldn't be able to get out and shop. I'm telling you, I think I should rent her a space out in the middle of an empty field and chain her to a tent pole!

So while there were no major changes (like furniture falling through the floor), there was some small details that changed and stuff added (no surprise there).  She tells me that it is now purrfect and there is nothing much that she wants to change or change out.  Uh huh, sure we believe that don't we?

Is that why the drop leaf table is now in the studio; my rusty "lounger" desk has an arbor AND there is another piece waiting in the trailer to be swapped out?!?  Surely after this is will be totally purrfect and no changes will be needed right?.....

...be sure and check back at a later date as I'm sure there will be something different.  It's the creative side gone wild. Meow.

Thanks for visiting! 

Let's head out and go visit some other studios where bloggers create!

I bet we find they have places for their cats to sleep in the studio!!!

(Just click the image above to go to Karen's "My Desert Cottage")

What inspires

Me?  Well a can of tuna fish or even watching the piranha in the small pond out front; a bird in the bird feeder, or a warm sunbeam or a bowl of milk.  It doesn't take much to inspire me.  I'm just that kind of cat - well rounded and easily inspired (with the right motivators of course).

What inspires her?  

Better have a seat in a very comfortable chair.  This could take a few minutes.

Her inspiration?

It's everywhere in nature...

...and in the studio...

...and in the office.

Vignettes here and there. 

In my office and studio, which she believes to be her office and studio.
No matter really.  It means she cleans them ;)

Inspiration tucked into corners and shelves.  

On top of cabinets and the cabinets themselves.

So while function is important, everything in the office and studio must also inspire. 

She has spent years gathering and changing out as well as adding furniture and small doses of inspiration.  Playing to get it just right. 

 It's one of those things that takes on a life of it's own - knowing a direction, not because it's in style or something everyone else has.  Gathering and just knowing that "this" is what inspires and what should be a part of the studio or office. A part of her inspiration.

Everything comfortable.  Everything with history and a story.  A gathering of items that culminate to a point in time during which there is not one piece of furniture that can be bested, and every detail scrutinized to be sure it's still "right".

So although she's at that point where not much has changed since the last time you glimpsed the studio or office, small details have moved around and perhaps been added to.  Maybe something subtle that began like a whisker tickle while vacuuming or dusting.

After all, for her, what surrounds her in the studio or office or nature inspires, and thus breeds more inspiration and creativity.  

Kind of like rabbits I suppose.

Or fleas.

Well maybe not like that - that's not such a good thing.  But yes, maybe like rabbits.

And what else inspires?

Bloggers who create.  Yes, that's right - YOU and you and you!  Everyone who has even one small ounce of creativity inspires her.  And yes, of course, those cats who own those same creative people -  well they inspire me.  To be a better, more creatively motivated cat....albeit still ferocious ;)  And right now there are a bazillion of you out there who have recently posted about your studios and attending Karen's party - Where Bloggers Create!  


So what are you doing here?!?  Head on over, I'll be there just as soon as I grab my top hat and a can of tuna for the road...... But before you go, tell me purrlease - what inspires you?