EDIE MARIE'S STUDIO REDO

Welcome to my "new" studio!

 The fabulous Marie Paper Doll by our 

sweet Marie Antoinette greets me every time 

I go into my studio.

It was time to make some changes 

in my studio and with the help of 

summer yard sales and throw aways 

at the dumpster I've been able to make 

some great changes. 

I'm enjoying the changes I've made over 

the summer. 

Meet my new shipping department! 

I rescued this bookcase from the trash 

and gave it a new life with a good 

cleaning and a couple coats of paint. 

Now I have an organized area for 

all my shipping supplies.  
I'll be doing a future post on the before 
and after of the bookcase soon. 

I moved the chunky cedar closet out and 
replaced it with my painted secretary desk 
that I named "Paris Dreams" after I
painted it many years ago. This 
was the very first piece of furniture I 
bought after starting my working carrier.
Now that was many moons ago but 
it's still going strong! 

Meet my new toile tablecloth,
$7 at a yard sale and it's for a long table! 
Oh yeah baby!! 

I'm in toile heaven. 
These Waverly black & cream toile 
drapery panels were $10 at another 
yard sale. 

I had these adorable short drapery rods 
in my stash of leftover items from our 
family home that were perfect at each 
end of my studio window. It allows me 
to extend the window past the edges 
a bit.

Next I wanted something different for a 
valance to "bridge" the toile panels together. 

I had just gathered my collection of 
vintage doilies & linens together and 
filled one of my favorite Longaberger 
market baskets with them.  
They looked delicious and ready to be 
used on something unusual!  

A favorite linen of mine is this 
sweet little tablecloth with a French 
basket on it. It was perfect for my idea!
 

 A few thumbtacks later it all came 
to fruition!

I was so happy with how great the vintage 
color looked with the creams in the drapes! 

I moved all my large storage racks 
down on the wall which forced me to 
unload all of them, purge and reorganize them. 

The tops of my shelving units hold vintage 
baskets which help with storage. 
The 3 oldest ones are almost antiques now. 
They are baskets I have that were made
by my Great Uncle Charlie whose 
artisan craft was basket weaving. He owned 
a basket shop in lower Michigan that was 
quite successful in it's "hayday". 

I also have 3 baskets that my Mom made 

many years ago in a class she took with 
my sister. 
The one with the cardboard 
tubes in it is one of them. 

Here's another one she made that 
hangs on one of the legs that sticks up 
at the top of the shelves. 

Mom did a great job on them and I 
will always treasure them. 

My adorable birdcage memo holder 
has a new home on the closet door. 
It's a perfect place to display the 
paper doll Marie made for me using 
vintage dress pattern pieces. 
Her creations are so special to me.

That brings us around to my birdhouse 

table that now holds my vintage sewing 

machine drawers. 

The paper fan on the wall is also made by sweet Marie.

The tabletop holds my Cricut machine and 

it's cartridges. Very handy for scrapbooking. 

It's also special because it once belonged to 

my first scrapbook leader. She lost her battle 

with colon cancer a few years ago and is 

missed very much by all of us "scrappers". 

Her best friend took over as leader and 

has done an awesome job leading us!

She's become such a wonderful friend!

The lamp on this table is the very first item

I purchased with my first paycheck. It came from 

JCPenny in the late 60s and has been a constant light in my life.

The bottom of the table is filled 

with storage for ribbons, do-dads, 

vintage items & sewing items. 

I'll give you a tour of this section 

in a future post. I'll show you the 

before and after of the the two 

drawer sections I found at our local 

antique mall.

We'll be following up with a few future 
posts on some of the summer finds in my 
"new" studio. 
 

Edie Marie 

Hope you liked this quick tour. 
Thanks for stopping by. 
 Please visit again to see how these 
items and ideas came together!

Blessings, Edie Marie & Marie Antoinette
XOXO

Studio re-do by: Edie Marie
Re-do approvel by: Marie Antoinette
Stuff by: Yard sales, the stash & the trash!  

Be sure to stop by Marie's Etsy to see 
her paper dolls on sale! You'll 
be glad you did!!