A Room of Her Own

 

Nicole has a wonderful new challenge called Sunday in the Art Room. While I may not be able to join every week, I will try to do so as often as possible. This week she starts off with showing our art space.

When we bought our current home almost 14 years ago, I was very excited because I would finally get my own room. Before that I was "arting" on the dinner table while we always had our meals in the kitchen - that kitchen was big enough for that. Only when we had guests would I pack away everything. But now I have my own room which we call the "studio", and most of the time it's a big mess. The photo above was taken a few years ago, but not much has changed since then. It's probably even messier now.

The window faces South and in the winter the sun shines right in, so I got a few curtains from my favorite Swedish retailer. They are light and transparent, and the sun is no longer shining right in my face.

The following photo I took from outside looking into the room - you can see the tree reflections. The two big boxes on the ground in the left corner are our grab-and-go boxes. The book you can see in the upper one is the most beloved children's book of both my brother and myself when we were kids, but also of my daughter. She was the one who requested that we put it in the grab-and-go box.

The book shelves mostly hold art, garden and nature books. I have put both mine and other people's artwork up there as well.

Just a couple weeks ago I did organize some of the mess on my work table. I placed the containers with my brushes, pens etc. on a lazy susan with my Talavera Frida catrina in the middle. 

On a different note. I don't know how you feel about the recent events in Minneapolis, but I am so furious that we spontaneously decided to join today's protest in downtown. This sign made by one of my German friends says it all: