I am attempting to ignore the unholy mess that is our backyard "landscaping" for a while. It's pretty bad. Like, painfully bad. Like rip it all out and let god sort 'em out bad.

Other than bulbs, which, frankly, I can always get more of, there are maybe two plants I would like to save in the backl--the climbing rose and the japanese maple--and two towards the front--the lilacs and the hydrangeas. And even those? ehhh...

So instead, I am obsessing about how to decorate and organize my office/craft room.

The room that no longer has teh devil wallpaper and the two-face style finish work in the double "doorway" that opens to JBB's office (we're closing it up, btw). Which, apparently, I don't have any finish pictures of. (How do I not have any pictures of this? I mean, I freaking skim coated that damn wall?? Ok, tonight, I take pictures.)
before:

Two-face! Devil Wallpaper! I hate you wallpaper!

during:

no wallpaper! smooth! but still baby poo brown!

after:
imagine that during picture with a very bright, clear granny smith green walls (LOVE) and white trim. And piles and boxes of crap in front of it.

Now, dear readers, those of you who know me in person know that I have a shit-ton of craft supplies in a wide range of activites--some of which came courtesy of the research and writing of my book
DIY GIRL: A Girl's Guide to Making Everything From Lipgloss to Lamps (go buy a copy today! Yeah, I have no shame!)

but really, I can't blame the book. too much of my crap just showed up on one of those days I could not resist the siren call of Michaels (we all know the launch of this will come to no good for me). Or worse, the fancy pants paper store. Or, fancy pants bead store. Or, the absolute worst, the super ultra giant huge Stitches knitting convention with their insane yarn marketplace. mmmm yarn.

So anyway, if you could see the crap that stacked up in this room (i know, pictures.) you could see why it is driving me batty and driving me to plan and obsess about the container store and martha stewart and ikea and pegboards and shit.

I want to incorporate the following things, and I'm not quite sure how to do cram them all in there yet:

-a largish tall craft/cutting table, tall enough to stand at, or sit at with a stool (maybe with the short end against a wall, jutting out like a penninsula?)

-an idea board/bulletin board

-wire grids or pegboards for tools-a sewing desk/table

-storage for yarn (both enclosed and for display)

-storage for fabric

-storage for random craft supplies

-my five foot long cherry desk (dad made it for me when i was in 8th(?) grade)

-bookcases and magazine storage

-storage for childrens/YA books I've worked on

-this awesome photo of a bunch of balls of yarn that I bought on the street in Dublin.

-a rug of some sort.

-curtains--I'm thinking about getting white sheers and stenciling them in black with (yet another) damask stencil--and maybe keeping the black less-than-opaque?

I blame Blueprint magazine and their pretty pretty spreads of gorgeous workrooms--they also have a fabulous blog that I am hooked on. them and my already anal tendencies for order and everything having a place. Not that I put things in their places, but still, I like those places to EXIST.

I am crazy. I know.

Did I mention I'm trying to distract myself from the garden? I am.