Slap a coat of paint on there...

I apologize for the lack of posts. There have been changes in my professional life that has left me with a severe decrease in personal time.

I realized I hadn't posted pictures yet of my newly painted craft room.

This project was pretty exiting for me because this was the first time in my life I got to paint and personalize a room of my own. I spent a long time in the home improvement store staring at the assorted paint chips, mouth slightly agape, wondering how in the world I was only going to pick one color out of the rainbow displayed before me. I wanted something that would somewhat match my (hideous) rugs, so I chose a light purple. "Purple Gala" to be exact. I realize it may not be other people's cup of tea, but I love it. I feel like such a princess in this room.

I have a little bit more stuff in the room now, but the room still pretty much remains undecorated. One of my next projects will be to make curtains for the windows. I am a novice at the sewing machine, but I think curtains would make a great first project. Also, I have been working on paper mache masks recently and am considering displaying them on the only wall without a window. I bought a handful of those hooks that don't damage the wall so that I can move the masks around to change the asthetic if need be.

And do you remember when I asked for help wondering what to do with this table and mirror? Well, I painted the bejeezus out of it and turned the mirror into a bulletin board using cardboard and two rolls of cork liner (slicing my leg pretty badly with a utility knife in the process). You can't see very well in the pictures, but I even bought purple push pins in the shape of stars!

The lightbulb has it.

We spent the weekend switching our junk room with my old craft room. I am excited to have the extra space to use for my new craft room. Of course, I do have to share with Matt's weight bench, but I do not mind.

The room has two closets. Mine is on the right and Matt's is on the left. Again, there is no coordination to this. Once I get it decorated, I can really get it organized.

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I bought that desk for $10.00 at Treasure Box thrift store. It is real wood and the lady who sold it to me used it as her sewing table. Ideally, I would like something longer and larger but until I find that perfect table, I will use this. Right now the room is very bare. It is not painted and there are no decorations or form to it really.

This is my idea. I would like to paint the wall a green color. I would like to take some molding and form a border. Inside that I would like to paint some chalkboard paint. Or I might not even doing the molding. Somewhere (either on the blackboard or on another part of the wall somewhere) I would like to install a branch to hang things from and take pictures of. I thought doing it on the chalkboard would be funny because i could draw pictures behind it. But that might be too much in one spot.

I would also like to paint the inside of the closet yellow.

Here are some of the inspiration pictures that I found.