After eleven years of scrapbooking at home in our dining room I now have a dedicated studio. A place where I can go and create with supplies easily found and space to have work in progress lying out while waiting for completion.
I started with a plastic picnic table and a pizza box full of supplies in the corner of our dining room, it gradually filled up with cheap storage, from old filing cabinets and plastic boxes to an MDF sheet on trestle legs, becoming more and more cluttered as time moved on.
I had planned to empty the dining room and remodel, a huge task as I had nowhere to store my supplies and work during the alterations. The answer was a dedicated studio away from the house and the search began.
At the same time, my friend Kate was looking for premises to open a papercrafts workshop so that she could run classes and a mail order business. When she rang and asked me if I would teach some of them I suggested finding somewhere that would serve us both. Within an hour we were driving round the Kent countryside looking for somewhere mutually convenient and found a recently converted fruit laboratory only four miles from my house and close to the craft wasteland of Thanet.
Four weeks later Kate has opened
Pickleberry Papercrafts and I have moved into my studio. Check out my
album to see how I decorated and filled my space.
I'll be teaching classes from the week beginning 11th May, in the evenings and afternoons, details will be posted here soon.