Fresh and Shiny

Happiest of the happy new years to you! I hope it's a wonderful start to an incredible year. I'm certain that's the case here at Trove HQ.

Sparky and I have spent the best part of the last three days clearing out the studio and getting organised, so I'm feeling particularly upbeat and prepared for the year ahead. Miss Isy has very much enjoyed her first official silly season, and all three of us are keenly looking forward to our first camping trip coming up soon. It's. all. good.

I've yet to take any artfully staged, blog-worthy shots of the refreshed studio, but I will. Promise.

I can, however, show you the abomination we were faced with upon opening the door for the first time since the Christmas madness ended. And, can I just say, I am incredibly, unequivocally ashamed.



Fireworks image from here.

The One Where I Dream...

I'm dreaming of my perfect studio.

I have next to no time at the moment to actually make it a reality, but I'm still dreaming away.

Meet my inspirations:









As you can see, I crave the order of 'a place for everything and everything in it's place'. Currently I have the chaos of 'if there is a bare patch of floor or workbench, please feel free to dump whatever you have in your hands and move onto another project, entirely overwhelmed by the mess you've created'.

It's way productive.

(Images via Modish's Handmade Spaces and Heart Handmade.

The Evolution of Studio

A long, long time ago (well, before Isla was born and that feels approximately 158 years ago) Sparky decided to build me a fabulous studio in our garage. Essentially we were very tired of tripping over my boxes of paper and fabric and plastic and resin and cups and glues and findings and... You get the picture.

So we set about making it happen with the help of some very clever and wonderfully generous relatives.

This is the garage pre-studio:




(You'll notice my favourite feature here, the Dancing Sparky with Lawnmower. Fabulous.)

And while there were many steps in between the above photo and the ones below, I was heavily pregnant and it was the middle of the hottest summer EVER, so I was far too busy eating Frosty Fruits to take any further progress photos. I'm sorry.

This is what the studio looks like now:




and while it clearly isn't finished, I want to document the evolution of the space from here on in. I like being able to look back and see where I've come from and I don't know about you, but I find the art of designing a workspace to be ridiculously exciting.

So if you have any fabulous ideas or websites filled with creative workspaces that I can perve on, please let me know!