My Work-Space 9.2.2013

Firstly, I'd like to wish a happy Labor Day to all of my friends here in the states! :) My family is spending the day playing board games and we are having a little fish fry tonight!

I pulled myself away from the torment thrills of my horrible acting for the game of Cranium to start working on a little commission I recently got and to share some parts of my work-space!

At the moment I have two fold-out tables in the corner of my bedroom. One is a little shorter than the other, they both wobble whenever I use my pasta machine, and they are kinda an awkward height so I have to sometimes put things in my chair to sit on to sit at a comfortable height- BUT I love having desk space in front of and beside me. It just makes sense!

Sometimes I like to pretend like my room is an actual store... I like to display things as if they were set out for customers- even though I know that no one will ever be coming in to my room to browse for things to buy (awkwarrrrrrrrrrrrd). These little knick-knack shelves are perfect for what I need! The shelves are only a couple inches tall and there are lots of them, so I have plenty of displaying options.

This is currently how my stock of jack o'lanterns look, but I hope to find more shelves like this and start hanging them on the walls. I will soon be surrounded by dozens upon dozens of miniatures... *heaven.*

The picture above is normally how my work area can be seen (plus a HUGE HORRIBLE MESS OF CREATIVE CHAOS). I did manage to straighten up a little for you guys! *hug*

As you can see, I have two glass chess/checker boards. They are PERFECT for working with polymer clay because they can easily be cleaned and they are small enough to keep your mess clay in a restricted area. I also have two cutting mats. I don't really use the large one for making any miniatures, but the small I use all the time. It is divided into inches, but then divided again into quarters of an inch. This really helps when I need to get a better grasp on the scale of what I am making.

There are various other objects laid out, but I will get to those later! My work-space is calling my name. There is candy to be made and jack o'lanterns to be painted!

Thanks for stopping by!

_Blake

P.S. Did anyone think that the images from my last post looked funny? I have been told a couple times that my jack o'lanterns looked a little blue... but I didn't notice because I know that they are green and it's hard for me to tell by the images on the screen. I will probably retake those images for the Etsy listings, but I can assure you all that they are totally green! :)