'Office / Studio Tour: Bullet Journal Supplies and my Work Desk'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome!

On this stormy and steamy Sunday morning in Chicago, I'd like you to have a peek at my upstairs office.  This is where I do bullet journaling, bible journaling, and online tasks.

Desk - Long shot (left, center, right)

Desk view - lower Left

Desk view - upper Right

Desk view - upper Left 

Desk view - Center

My BUJO must have supplies are (in alphabetical order):

• ·         Cling stamps and stamp pads
• ·         Erasers
•    o   Eraser – artist gum
•    o   Eraser – Frixion
• ·         Gesso – white
• ·         Glue stick – Elmer’s All Purpose
• ·         Highlighters
•    o   Highlighter- Permanent – Sharpie (all colors)
•    o   Highlighters - Erasable Highlighters - Frixion highlighters (all colors)
• ·         Journals  - hardcover, pockets, elastic (dot or ruled) not  LT1917
• ·         Markers
•    o   Marker – Brush – Wink of Stella (clear)
•    o   Marker – Pilot Precise V5 Rolling Ball – Extra Fine (black)
•    o   Markers – Brush – zig Clean Color Real Brush (set)
•    o   Markers - Crayola Pip Squeaks (set)
•    o   Markers – Fineline Pen 0.38mm (set)
•    o   Markers – Mildliners dual tip (all color sets)
•    o   Markers – Sakura Pigma Micron  01 (brown)
•    o   Markers – Stabilo OHPen Universal F (set) - waterproof
•    o   Markers – Tombow Twintone - dual tip (set)
• ·         Pens
•    o   Pen - Erasable Pens - Frixion pens (all colors) + refills
•    o   Pen - Fountain pens (various brands, inks, and nib sizes)
•    o   Pen – Gel – PaperMate Ink Joy 1.0mm (set)
•    o   Pen – Gel- PaperMate Gel 0.7
•    o   Pen – Sakura Gel Glaze (black)
•    o   Pen - Ballpoint pens – Staples (black, red, blue)
• ·         Pencils
•    o   Pencil – colored pencils (various brands)
•    o   Pencil – No. 2 with eraser
• ·         Post Its – 3 sizes and colors (blank and ruled)
• ·         Ribbons - 3/8”W ribbons cut to 8”L (as bookmarks)
• ·         Ruler – 6”
• ·         Stickers (Faith, Wonder Woman, Star Wars, Minions)
• ·         Tabs – DIY or Staples
• ·         Tapes
•    o   Tape - Correction tape ‘ Mr. Pen’ (set)
•    o   Tape - Skinny washi tapes
•    o   Tape – Removable tapes (one-sided & double-sided)
•    o   Tape – Permanent tapes (Scotch Magic & double-sided)
• ·         Templates - Plastic shape templates (flowchart and circles)
• ·         Boards – Dash & Writing (DIY from Dollar Tree cutting mat)

Do you BuJo? What are your must have supplies? 
I'd love for you to comment!

Thanks for visiting!

Peace,
LuLu

'What's On My BuJo Desk - Washi Edition!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,


Here's a tiny peek at part of my washi tape collection. This is washi storage on my BuJo desk in my office where I do planning. I love journaling, Fountain Pens, stationary, and bullet journals.

YOUR TURN
Do you BuJo? Do you washi?

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Thanks for stopping by.

Peace,
LuLu
www.thesplayce.com

'Incredible News - My New Studio!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,

I've been swamped and not able to post much. And for good reason - I finally found my new studio space!

It's walking distance from my house in Chicago - and just a short, 5 minute drive. Here are some before pix. I'll post more pix when I can. For now, I'm deep in the throes of packing and moving multiple rooms from my house to the new place.

I'm exhausted - but so far I'm loving the new space!

Before - photos of the front porch at home, where I stored many supplies.

 

 

First Stage of Moving

into new space below.

 

 

 That's me in my new space. View East.

 

 

View East from 'zone' 1 - a.k.a. the 'Foyer'

View West of doorway.

View South West

View West with doorway.

 

Dimensions of this space are  about 27'L x 18'W x8'H. I need multiple workstations - so I had my helper, Kevin, measure and adhere painters tape on the floor to divide it into 9 'zones'.

Each of the nine zones is about 9' x 6'.

 

Kevin, my helper, does all the heavy lifting. All those boxes are in 'zone' 9 - the center of the room. I named it 'Central Processing'.

 

 

 

Furniture placement after movers left. Most everything has changed and is different now.

 

'West Wing Warehouse', view South from 'Foyer'

'Office' on the South wall = and shelving units on East side of  'Warehouse'

 

 

'Kitchen and spray painting 'booth' along south wall in the 'West Wing Warehouse'.

 'Office' on South wall, next to a free mirror hutch!

Long 8' counter was a gift from the building janitor, Scott, who is also a musician.

His counter was in a larger space that I looked at, but decided not to take. Too cold!

Scott, also a carpenter,  put casters on it for me.

 There is only one small, clerestory-type window.

So hubby bought some full-spectrum fluorescent lights.

We installed the lights in front of mirrors that we confiscated from home, to reflect more light into the room.

My husband and Carpenter, Dave. What a trooper!

 

Carpenter Dave attached casters on just about every piece of furniture in the space.

 

The 'Foyer' and 'Janitor Closet'. Dave laid the tile in a checkerboard pattern for me.

 

View EAST along South wall

The 'Library Nook'  for reading, research, and day dreaming.

The chair was free - and very comfy.

 

 

 My fave dog, 'Spot' usually sits on the arm of this chair. Spot is my fave dog because being stuffed, he doesn't affect allergies, asthma and bronchitis.

The radio/cd player was a gift from a couple who relocated to Arizona a few weeks ago.

I 'inherited' a lot of their stuff - including a laptop computer, that works!

 

We have a lot more work to do, but I wanted to let you know what I've been up to lately. Thanks for stopping by. Please come back soon!

 

Peace,

LuLu

 

'What's in my Travel Art Bag!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes

Howdy and Welcome,

Glad you could stop by. Being knee deep in preparations for the August 2015 mixed media retreat that I'm hosting, does not leave much time for posting - or anything else!

But I wanted to share with you what's in my new art bag! My hubby gave me a 'Voyager Riggers Bag' (from harborfreight.com) earlier this month. I posted one photo on Facebook and got requests for the dimensions and to show what is in it.

 

Also, I enjoy surfing youtube.com and watching other 'what's in my bag' videos.

Enjoy!

Here's what I loaded into this travel art bag, which has (62) wet supplies for creating art journal backgrounds.

Since I took the photos, I also lightly spray painted the bag.

ITEM Description

apron

brush - foam

brush - small (duplicate)

brushes - sml, med, lge

catalog (for gluing)

clip - large binder

clips (3) - mini-binder

cotton swabs (3)

cough drops - Ricola (2)

Distress Inks (3)

Distress Stain (1)

gel pens - glitter - (5)

gesso - black

gesso - clear

gesso - white

gesso mix - clear + matte medium

glazes - my DIY (8) - decanted into used hotel shampoo bottles

gloves - I bought a box of 100 gloves from Sally Beauty Supply (with my Sally discount card)

glue - Stickles - Distress 'Picket fence' glitter glue

h2O pencil set (in recycled 'Stampin up' container for colored pencils)

h2O spray 'mini-mister'

matte medium (2)

Multi  medium (Claudine Hellmuth) - matte and gloss

old key cards (3) - as squeegees

old key cards (6) - as squeegees (duplicates)

paint - Smooch - gold

paint - water brush - filled with Dylusions Wash 'teal'

paint - watercolor paint pens (9) - Elmer's

paint (2)  acrylics (Ranger Dabbers) - gold, silver

paints (5) acrylics - red, yellow, green, brown, white

palette - palette paper

palette - recycled plastic container lid

palette knife

palette knife - texture palette knife

paper - mini-notepad

paper - painted wax papers

paper - palette

paper - wax paper sheets

paper - wax paper sheets (duplicate)

paper towel squares

paper towel squares (duplicate)

pencil  - #2 mini

pencil - mini-automatic  (Pilot 'Dr. Grip' xs 0.5)

rag square

rag square (duplicate)

rag square (duplicate)

sponge

sponges (3)- duplicate

tablecloth

tape - double-sided Scoth magic matte

tape - masking, 1"

tape - washi tape on used key cards (4)

texture - bottle cap

texture - bubble wrap

texture - bubble wrap (duplicate)

texture - corrugated cardboard square

texture - my DIY circle stamp

texture - plastic grocery bag square

texture - punchinella strip

texture - stamp

vitamin bottle, large - recycled for h2O (rinsing brushes)

wipes     Thanks for visiting - while you are here, please become a follower, make a comment -  and come back soon! And if you like to play, please plan to join us at the mixed media, art, craft and scrapbooking retreat August near Chicago, IL, USA!   Peace, LuLu

'WOYWW 12-4-13 - GIVEAWAY, The Mess, Spray Mini-Move and Eye Candy!'

by Mary Lou 'LuLu' Haynes


Howdy and Welcome,

Here's the mess...The table really was tidy a few days ago - didn't take a photo then. This was the state of things on my craft studio table after I had attended 2 back-to-back weekend retreats. And had moved on to play on another project. Now 'the mess' goblins attacked again...

 The MESS

EYE CANDY

When I went to upload 'the mess' pix, I found pix I had taken a while back and forgotten about. Months ago, I spent a few hours embellishing some acrylic tags by painting them with Copic markers and alcohol ink. Don't they look luscious? I call them eye candy. That was a really fun and easy project!

 Eye Candy Tags

 

 Eye Candy Tags

 

 

SPRAY MINI-MOVE

 

Hubby and I are in the process of moving portions of my craft studio to our basement - more space and shelf units down there. Yes, it is a long walk when inspiration hits, but the studio is just too crowded. I had to do some re-organizing. Spray painting in the basement made sense to me because this is where I will be closer to the water faucets.

 

He gave me an old table he had used for BBQing - it was just storing some old supplies. Below is the BEFORE photo of the sprays in my studio corner cabinet (under my owl collection and Granny White's bust). Next are the AFTER photos of the sprays in the basement plus the giant spray box my hubby had made for me.

 

This spray box was on the front porch. So now all the supplies I need for spray painting are consolidated into one area. The papers inside the box are ready and waiting to be spray painted... Yes, the basement IS ugly, but I don't care as long as I can spread out and work comfortably.

 

 Before Spray Mini-Move

 

 After Spray Mini-Move

 

Giant  Spray Box and

repurposed table

 

GIVEAWAY

If you are a scrapbooker or do art journals or altered books, visit my Blogoversary Giveaway. Fun prizes for one lucky winner. Ends in December!

Want to see more artists work tables? Click here for Julia's WOYWW!

Thanks for stopping by - please leave a comment and come back soon!

Peace,
LuLu