my crafting space

I'd thought I'd write more about this, but time doesn't permit me to type out the long rambling entries about my crafting life that I compose laying in bed (probably a good thing).

Below is a picture of our "laundry room" before we really started work on the house. The previous owners used it as a bedroom (ick) because of it's size, but it houses our laundry machine so... our laundry room. When we started, it was just a cement floored cave with a leak in the wall.
And here it is after we moved in... laundry room, hence all the laundry, but oh so nice walls and a beautifully tiled floor (under all my stuff, I have much better control over my laundry now, don't judge me).
And here is what happened when we discovered the "wall" was still leaking. Ben had already fixed it once and run a hose down the roof, but this night the wind was blowing rain sideways. Since it seldom rains here, we took advantage of the night and started pulling down drywall until we found the leak. Done over again we might have thought it out better, but everything you do the first time is a learning process.

So, with the new hole, I started to have a vision for the room. It involved a window I'd always dreamed of putting in. I casually told a friend about the hole in my wall and my hope for a window. Would you believe she just had an addition put on her house and they had to take out a perfectly good window. She dropped it by the next day and Ben had no reason not to put it in, the hole was already there.
Ta-daa, here is the dungeon transformed into a bright sunny space. (We saved the best of the mismatched cabinets from the kitchen, painted them, and I put one set here and the other over the washer dryer along another wall.) We also got the large drafting desk Ben and his dad built years ago.

When I moved my stuff in I was really inspired and wrote out nice labels for all the boxes in the cabinets. It's been so nice to look for something and find it right away. Safety pins? I know exactly where they are. Not quite Better Homes and Gardens, (which I confess I by from the library, 10 cents a pop, and hoard), but I like it.
Unfortunately, we discovered the roof is still leaking, something to do with the water freezing and expanding through our patch job, so I live with a hole until spring, I GOT A WINDOW AND A CRAFT SPOT. For the first time in my life I don't have to clean up my projects so people can eat dinner.

And then what happened? Ben took over a business for a friend who's out of the country for a couple of years and he set up her computer on MY desk and my sewing machine went to the repair shop because Joachim had been "sewing" with it. That's OK, Ben's getting his own desk and because of his new responsibilities we'll be getting internet in our very own home! Hooray modern world, here I come!