My New Studio Space!

Hmm... where do I put all my art junk? How did I end up with so much anyway? Geesh...

So now its finally done! I've actually fully moved into my new studio space, a small bedroom on the second floor of my house, with a handy large walk in closet. It's at the front of the house so gets plenty of sunshine through 2 large windows. I painted it a deep forest green and just love it. I haven't fully finished decorating but I've already gotten to work on several miniature projects. It's so nice to be able to close the door and keep kitties from stealing my tidbits and supplies. It's also nice to have a room that is 'all mine'.

I previously was working in the loft style family room. This was fine until the holidays came and we definitely needed more space to entertain family and friends. As you can see below, I sort of took over the area! The family voted and I was given the unused guest bedroom which is now called 'the art room'.

At first, the move really seemed like a hassle. A huge amount of moving furniture and sorting right when everyone also wanted all the holiday ornaments up too... and believe me, my family goes nuts with the decorations. We had 4 trees up this year! It's getting excessive and I'm trying to convince everyone that we need to simplify things a bit. Anyway, the move turned out to be wonderful.

It forced me to really sort through my supplies and junk. This led to a huge Goodwill donation. It also got my creative juices flowing again because I rediscovered supplies I forgot I even had. It's all in labeled bins and drawers now!
Here's the closet! Having this helped so much. I can't even remember what we had in there orginally- blankets, sweaters, old mittens.
What's nice too, is that I'm also able to display some of my collectibles again. I just didn't know where to put everything and most of my dolls had remained packed away since the move to our new house.
Above are some of my Living Dead Dolls, Spawn action figures, and Remax Spooky Town stuff. Above are my 2 Wizard of Oz Tonner dolls and my Harvest Tree.

In the art room, I have 3 dollhouses that I'm currently working on: my spooky cedar renovations, my mom's Victorian renovation, and my Swiss Chalet renovation. I also have several dollhouse kits unopened in the closet. As houses are finished, they will be moved out of the room.

Above is the cedar Victorian being renovated into a Spooky Manor.
Above is my mom's old Victorian that needs a lot of work. Notice the orbs in the photos?
Above is the Swiss Chalet with the initial layer of stones and gesso. And below is my new messy table!
I'm not sure what to make of the orbs in the photos... We've been seeing them and catching pictures of them since a few of our pets have passed on last year. I have some photos where they are very bright with tails and about the size of golf balls. In these photos they were much larger but faint. Dust or spirit? We all return to dust... Anyway, here are 2 enlarged photos of the faint orbs. Dust in photos usually gives of a snow like look, not a basketball sized circle.