My home-based studio

Creating a home office you actually love spending time in can make such a difference in your day. Whether you work from home full-time, run a creative business, manage family paperwork, edit videos, write blog posts, or just need a quiet corner to focus, your workspace should feel both beautiful and practical. The best home …

Ever since I first saw how easy it is to install wallpaper murals, I’ve been dreaming about adding touches to my office and making a cozy reading area. I partnered with Ever Wallpaper to make the cozy reading area of my dreams in the new studio office a reality! As I’ve shared in our barefootdetour.com …

I invite you to tour my home-based Calligraphy & lettering studio office (in 2020). This is your behind-the-scenes look at where I get my work done, how I am organizing my supplies, and most of my pens, papers, and lettering + calligraphy tools. And also how I set up my office to make it as …

Check out all my tips for setting up an effective and organized shipping station to pack orders when you have a small online business. A behind-the-scenes look at how and where I set up my home shipping station for my online shops! Well, hello! Welcome to my home-based shipping station area. My name is Joy …

Make letters for your wall with styrofoam. I will show you how to make this super cute “create” wall piece with styrofoam and cover it with any color you want to make a stunning piece for the walls of your craft room or creative space! BUT the cool part is that you can make this …

Today I am finally sharing the second and final part of my home studio tour. I already shared what my office space looked like in 2013, and how it looks like now in 2020, so now is the turn of the sewing-room / craft-space or my girl dungeon-like my husband calls it-. This is also …

I’ve been promising a studio tour for a long time now. So I cleaned up a little bit and decided to share my “happy place” with all of you now before I call it “done” because if I keep waiting, I am never going to do it. This tour is from 2013, if you would …

I’ve been wanting a chalkboard door in my sewing room since I first started thinking about what I was going to do, so when I was contacted by Lullaby paints to see if I was interested in a review* of their chalkboard paint a few weeks ago, it seemed like it was meant to be …

I’ve been working on organizing my shipping station for a while now, so I figured it’s time to share some of the progress! The first project I did was the frame to organize orders, washi tape, bakers twine, and other goodies. Ken helped me by making a custom table for me to organize my paper, …

Making my own cardboard storage boxes is something that I’ve been doing for years now, and I know it seems crazy! But being able to fit a good sturdy storage box in weird shape or measurement places it so satisfying! Here you will learn the basics of how I make my custom storage boxes out …

A few weeks ago I finally finished one of the “office remodel” projects I dragged the most – why did it take me so long to tackle? I was hoping I could do it the “easy way” and ask someone for a projector so I could just print and trace my logo on my office …

Check how I made cardboard drawers dividers for my office and also custom boxes for very awkward spaces, that way I could use every inch. By now most of you already know that I love to use cardboard for pretty much everything I can think of =] so using it to organize my sewing room …

Renovating this Ikea computer chair was such a fun project. I love that I got to make it completely custom and select the print that I had around the craft room. And while this is a computer chair, I selected it because I do sometimes have super long sessions of sewing in front of my …

Check out this super simple paint tip that will make your lines super crispy when painting in textured walls. How to make lines sharp when using painters tape in textured walls. For today I wanted to share a tip that really helped all of the painting we are doing in our house right now, we …

Having painted fan blades was something I wanted to do even before realizing how old-looking the fans in my Studio were. There’s something so cool about having an unexpected pop of color in the ceiling, so let me show you how I made this happen with a couple of spray paint cans. For today I …

Painting oak cabinets in the studio and refinishing the countertops that are in the second room, the one I am going to use as the craft room was one of the very first projects I decided to tackle after we purchased our house. I loved the build-ins, but I was not a fan of the …

I wanted to share this amazing news with all of you today because for the past 3 months I’ve been keeping it a secret that we started house hunting, I don’t think we could be any more excited because finally this weekend escrow closed and we are officially homeowners! We were so excited we wanted …

Check the instructions for this DIY mouse pad made out of fabric scraps and shelve liner for an antislip grip and with a coat of ModPodge to make it ultra-durable! Make it in any fabric you want! Super cute and customizable. After I made my chair cover, I wanted my desk to have some of …