Craft Rooms

Oh Jalynne! Your quilts are gorgeous!!! I'm very fond of traditional piecing but I love some of the more artsy designs with all those fabulous fabrics. Yours are wonderfully innovative.

You gave me a special smile mentioning the family who are serving for the Mennonite Central Committee. My Mom is a quilt junkie, too (she got me hooked) and buys almost every year at the big MCC auction in Harrisburg, PA. It's quite an event and worth the trip for anyone who loves quilts.

-- KarenK Desert Dreamer Designs

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Karen_AZ" :

]OMG, don't let Mike hear that!!! Right now I have 12 large "parts" boxes ]from Lowe's, 7 smaller ones, and a large plastic "craft tub" with odds and ]ends that I've never bothered to classify (or stuff that just won't fit). ]Oh, and two shoeboxes. Of course, that's not counting all my tools, which ]mostly live on my workbench right now

well, let's put it this way . . . _25_ large parts boxes - full - of lampwork and charms.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Karen_AZ" :

]I've always worked at "stolen" space so I'm pretty good at at least ]appearing to work small.

i finally had to give up that option!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

Not so far... The bulk of my beading 'stuff' lives in my basement area...

But, I tend to bring the current project up to the upstairs bedroom to work in company whenever company is available. Genny does her needlepoint, and I bead. We talk or watch a tape or listen to music if we don't feel conversational.

Deirdre

Well, you see, Karen, this is actually pretty similar to what I have.

We have a detatched garage, with doors for one car, so we walled off the other half for a shop. One window on the car side, three in the shop. Plus the upstairs is used for storage. The shop is pretty much Pete's. When we first got serious, we had each been living alone quite a while and before he moved in I wanted there to be a place I could ask him to go to give me space. The only drawback is getting there when it's 20 below. Well that and the country music he plays.

Last spring I put all my things into a porch intended for summer use, which is seperated from the rest of the house by a hallway/pantry/mechanical "room" (boiler, water pump, heater). But I really prefer that space as an alone space.

We have a U shaped living space. The kitchen/dining/living "room" is about

That "hall" is lined with bookcases on both sides, which may need to be filled with bead stuff. BARRISTER'S CASES are what would go well there. A couple people have mentioned shelves they could enclose. Barrister (lawyer)'s cases are bookcases with glass doors. I guess I'll have to take most of my books to the porch. And maybe I'll bring my beads in here.

From my desk, I can see out windows to the North and to the West, though not out the East, to the front of the house, though I can hear what's out there and see into the living room part of the front room. I have room to work on my desk top if I get rid of my papers. The TV is behind me, so I can listen to that as Pete watches it.

And because this really is just one big box, I can see or hear everything in the house.

This whole question came up for me because though I've seen beading rooms, I don't know that I've ever seen people bead in them, except where equipment like torches, rolling mills, etc are used.

This seems to be true even when people own their own homes and can make light structural changes like moving walls.

Tina

Well, one of Genny's tapestry needles from her needlepoint got 'lost' and poked a hole in the waterbed mattress.

I woke up in a puddle one morning, wondering whether *I* had sprung a leak...

So 'safe' is relative...

Deirdre

Yeah, my house desire has always included a heeyouge glass covered room (with solar operated electric shades, of course) which would contain a full sized pool for year-round swimming, trees and plants, plants everywhere, a work area for a wheel, kiln and teak (because of the pool, of course) shelving (now to include glass space, ie vents, torches all the stuff I want to learn) and a large area for yoga. Built in sound system of course, that would some days play Muddy Waters, Santana, Sade or Delbert and some days Akai flut or new age bird sounds. I figure, if I'm going to dream, I may as well do it large or not bother.

It could happen Christy

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.compuppies (Dr. Sooz) :

]Yeah, I was thinking, "Buy 4 of them!"

that was my thought. but i want her MAKING beads, so maybe it's okay. if you see what i mean . . .

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

This is my kind of fantasy.

Add it to the virtual bead-community space, please.

Deirdre

I saw a show on extreme homes, or something like that - i think it was on Discovery Channel, where a family who had - I think it was a mushroom business- bought an abandoned school! It was so incredibly cool, their dining room overlooked the full sized gym, where all the kids played basketball, rode bikes; they had the full sized indoor pool, industrial kitchen - think about it. Talk about storage space! Can you imagine? What a rush! Now there is a dream house...

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "CLP" :

]I saw a show on extreme homes, or something like that - i think it was on ]Discovery Channel, where a family who had - I think it was a mushroom ]business- bought an abandoned school! It was so incredibly cool, their ]dining room overlooked the full sized gym, where all the kids played ]basketball, rode bikes; they had the full sized indoor pool, industrial ]kitchen - think about it. Talk about storage space! Can you imagine? ]What a rush! Now there is a dream house...

oh, wow! what a great idea!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:29:16 -0400, vj wrote (in message ):

It's a dream house only if you have unlimited funds. Our city sold off a whole slew of unused schools in the 1980's, and a number of the new owners found that the heating bills for such huge buildings was a nightmare.

I can believe it -- our 6 room, 1200 sf apartment (half a house) costs about $2,000 a year to heat. The smallest school that the city sold off had nine classrooms, two huge "cafetorium" rooms, and a big old boiler that sucked down truckloads of #2 fuel oil. (It was the elementary school I attended as a kid)

Eventually, all the discarded buildings were converted to condominiums or office buildings. These schools were all built in the late 1800s, so none of them had gyms, indoor pools, air conditioning and all the plumbing was confined to the basement. OTOH, they all had incredible high ceilings, lovely woodwork and brickwork, and huge windows to let in the light.

Of course, those folks living in friendlier climates might feel differently.

Kathy N-V, not thrilled that "heating season" is about to start

And also, you'd need the school janitor as part of the deal.

Tina

differently.

HEHEH, I can just imagine the obituaries!

-- KarenK Desert Dreamer Designs

I dream about taking over a deconsecrated church for similar advantages. But I love to swim, so the indoor pool sounds great to me, and a church wouldn't have that...

Deirdre

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. :

]I dream about taking over a deconsecrated church for similar ]advantages.

or an old firehouse?

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

Well, it sure would make going downstairs for breakfast easier... I think I might disconnect the alarm first thing, though...

Deirdre

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:29:56 -0400, Karen_AZ wrote (in message ):

I keep thinking of that scary movie, "The Texas Bead Torch Massacre!"

SEE the empty wallet! FEEL the burning flame! HEAR the screams as Ebay messes up your auctions! The Texas Bead Torch Massacre!

:-)

Kathy N-V