I’ve been working on organizing my shipping station for a while now, the first project I did was the frame to organize orders, tape, twine and other goodies. The Ken helped me by making a custom table for me to organize my paper, shipping rolls, and mailers. The new table was designed to go side by side with an old dresser we had in our bedroom but that didn’t fit anymore, so now with both my “work” area is bigger and I have space to set one of my printers and use as wrapping desk.

Along with the frame I also made a cardboard organizing box for my work area, I painted it green to go with the boxes I made for the bottom area, remember that you can see the tutorial for those here.

I used a dowel that I painted white to organize my spools or baker’s twine and a small kraft wrapping paper roll. I used wire to attach everything to the frame and used a wire mesh for the back and to make small containers sized to everything I wanted to put on the frame. I also added pink yarn around the top edges of the containers because the wire mesh was still a little rough on the edges.

I also made covers for both printers and added white shelving paper on some shelves an the top of the dresser and shipping storage table. here some more pictures of how this ended up, I’m pretty happy considering I spent $20 on the material for the frame and $20 for the material for the table, all the rest were things I had around the house, paint included. So a shipping station for $40 I think it’s a pretty good deal =]

Here is how the dresser and my new table looked like before painting. Paint makes everything so much better!!

I hope you are all having a lovely day! I’m excited to keep showing the rest of the projects I’m working on right now, hopefully I’ll finish this studio soon!
XOXO

Some of you might remember the launch of my prints and paper goodie’s shop back in February. I am excited to announce that the second part of my shop is ready to see the light of the screens as well – My screen printed line!!

Actually this was my original idea for my shop, to design, print and sell bags, teat towels and pillows. But after researching several places to have my fabric products screen-printed I realized that it was not going to happen unless I did it myself (my idea at first was to just outsource the printing) So I put my big girl pants, did a bunch or research and decided to invest with Ryonet and purchase all the necessary tools and materials to make my dream products.

I am beyond excited because I’ve been planning/designing/testing and learning so much to be able to do this =] I secretly wanted to be able to screen print ever since I discovered what it was, so having the tools and the excuse to actually pursuit one of my dreams makes me extremely happy.

It’s kind of funny that making this makes SO excited, but since eventually I want to start printing my own fabrics, my excitement is so big because I know that I’m getting closer to actually do that =]

I am working on listing the totes, tea towels and pillows I’ve already made this next week, my plan was to be able to do this a few weeks a go, but I spent way too much time sick with a cold, and between feeling crappy and taking care of a super energetic little baby, my productivity was at minimun levels.

Also on other news, my awesome husband helpend me move down to my studio (I spent all winter two floors up at our dinning room table) so if you follow me on Instagram, you can see a little peek of how the studio is coming together, so now I can create, make and be inspired all at the same place! I’m hoping to finish all the little projects I have pending so I can reveal my studio in the next month or two.

Also couple of weeks a go it was our 3rd wedding anniversary and Conner turned 6 months, all in the same day =] It seems that our “life” number is the 11th because our legal beach ceremony was November 11th, our Wedding celebration was April 11th, and Conner’s birthday was October 11th – The funny part is that we didn’t really planned any of those, we realized we chose the same day for both our marriage celebrations after the fact.

And in honor to Conner being 6 months I wanted to show a few pictures we took this morning, after I finish with all my product ones.

I can’t believe it’s been 6 months since we had him, and to any Mom that works from home, you all have my deepest sympathy! Working with a baby is SO HARD! and naps are definitely not long enough in this house for everything I want to get done. But at the end of the day I would not have it any other way, I am blessed that I can take a break and play with my little Peanut every time I want (actually is when HE wants) and I get to be home with him <3

I hope you are all having a great day!!
Have a safe weekend and see you next week
XOXO

ps. A limited number of my bags are going to be at Ps I adore you next week, starting on Sunday so you can get them with a BIG discount while they last!

Many of you already know it, I am slightly obsessed with using cardboard for as many projects as I can think. Right now I am in the middle of finishing up my studio, it has taken me a while, I though I was going to be done before Conner was born, on my last month of pregnancy I worked on a lot of different projects for this space, but I didn’t finish. So now that finally the cold of the winter is over I feel more comfortable going down there (the heating system there is not very efficient) with my baby boy.

If you follow me on instagram you have probably seen little sneak peeks of how this place is coming along and the things I’ve been working on. So today (without showing much about the space that is not finish) I wanted to share a solution for storage and organizing using recycled materials.

I collected a lot of cardboard boxes with the purchases for my shop and another (very exciting) project I’m working on right now, so I decided to make custom sized storage boxes for a cabinet that I have in the studio. Don’t get me wrong, I actually searched everywhere for something that would fit there: Ikea, thrift store, Target, TJ-Maxx, everywhere!! but nothing had the measurements I needed, my space was too “custom”, so of course I decided to make them instead =]

The grand total for the 8 boxes I made is $26, but that’s because I wanted pretty card holders so I could write what each box contains. The only things I purchased where the nickel card holders and a gift wrapping paper on sale from Target, everything else was around my studio.

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The daughter of my best friend Autumn, had this very sad Ugg boots she was going to toss to the trash, I immediately saw potential on them and thought I could try to fix them (they were hardly worn and my same shoe size) I always wanted to play with boots, so it was an awesome opportunity =]

If my fix didn’t work at least I knew that they were going to the trash anyways so I had them to explore and play conscience free =] I am happy to report my fix actually worked and I’ve been wearing them for the past year very successfully. I did wanted to wait a see how they worked before I shared this post, I just didn’t imagine it was going to take me 14 months to actually finish the post.

After I fixed the ripped sides, and sealed the seam with glue that whole area got a little darker (because of the glue), so I decided to cover the front part of the boots (my plan was to cover the whole boot, but then I liked them just like this) So if you have a stain thats bugging you, or just want to add some color to your Uggs, this can help you accomplish that =]

I do want to point out something before you try this:

• I am no shoe professional, so if you have a small rip and your boots are fairly new you might want to consider to take them to a professional to have them fixed. Uggs are not cheap so I would hate for anyone to ruin their boots.
• This process was very time consuming, so if you want something fast, this project might not be for you. After applying glue you have to let it sit for a day or so, so if you are fixing rips and covering (you need glue for both) you are looking at minimun 2 days.

So if you are committed to try my fix, I am going to explain how I did this and list all the materials I used =]

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I haven’t done a Tutorial Love friday in a while, so it was time for a come back, this week is all about paper Flowers! So go visit the tutorials from this round up and show this lovely ladies some love! Actually the rolled flowers were one of the paper flowers I used for my 2010 wedding =]

1- Paper Rose by Lia from Ellinée
2- Rolled flower by Wendy from Dozi
3- Paper orchid by Lia from Ellinée
4- Watercolor paper flowers by Rachel from Heart of light

I hope you all have a wonderful (and warm) day!