Jocelyn's Sewing Room Makeover

Before...

Fair warning this pictures may not be suitable for all eyes.  They are quite scary and may cause lasting damage....I even want to cry when I see them.

 

My sewing room has a lurking sewing room monster that likes to rear its ugly head as I get super busy.  I end up losing control of it and then it looks like this.......(cue scary music and loud sreaming:))

Can you see all the projects piling up in this crazy "waiting" room...When it looks like this very little sewing actually happens

 

Knowing that Sisters Friday was at my house this week I spent ALL week cleaning and reorganizing and resisting the urge to complete or start new projects.  I even threw some stuff away....when all was said and done  the Sisters came over and helped me do the finishing touches and rearrange some.

 

After.... (I love love love the color)

These fun red cabinets were beige filing cabinets that were on the side of the street in Brit's neighborhood, somehow we convinced her hubby to load the one million pound metal hunks into his truck and deliver them to my house where we spray painted them, I then painted some swirlies and loaded them with all of my fabrics...they work great!  I love them so much....

 
 
 
 
 The plan is always to keep my sewing room looking like this but who am I kidding...I just hope and pray that the sewing room monster doesn't rear its ugly head again...let's hope I vanquished that foe

~Jo

Therese's Living Room Tour!!

Here is our first home tour...Therese's living room.  I just love how open and airy her Front living room is.  The story of this house is cool.  It was built sometime in the 1960's and when they bought their home, it looked pretty badly run down :( So they completely gutted and rebuilt a ton.  The ceiling of this room was low and cave like, they tore up into the attic and raised the roof -well no not the roof, just the ceiling -  Sadly during the renovation the window was badly cracked, so when they redo all the drafty original windows this living room window is the first on the list. Also above their fireplace they just took their family photos so they are framing a large picture of their large family to place there-therese is way excited about that :) Oaky enough chat... So here is the view from the front door... You can see the hallway up to their sons room...

Their piano (which was Jeremy's family forever and that heavy too!) with a peek into the dining room...

Their ficus tree that the green thumbed Therese saved from our black thumbed mother...

The beautiful couches that we have had in our family since I can remember.  (Awful note...when they were in the process of gutting the house an army of mice infested their garage and made a home in the couches...don't worry the mice are gone ...thanks to Natalie's cat and lots of poison... and the couches saved, sanitized and repaired from grossness from a professional furniture guy)

And therese always has the funnest  selection of coffee table books out too browse through.

Notes on the last sentence-  the word "funnest"-(that is considered a word in our family)

and coffee table- (is it still considered a coffee table if no coffee is served in the house???)

That beautiful mosaic was made by my grandmother, i think it's inspiring and amazing to look at, but don't touch- you will bleed...or wait this is a blog, no touching possible :)


     

I hope you enjoyed the tour despite all my camera phone pictures!!!