my sewing heaven!!

earlier in 2009 i bought and fell in love with this book:

the projects and patterns are so happy and desirable. i wanted to make everything in there, but one page became my particular obsession and that was this one:
it's a sewing cabinet.

you may have heard me mention it on here before, or a few million times in conversation... i love the idea!

it's a place for all your sewing stuff that is strewn about the house in various untidy locations. a place that will always be set-up and ready to go when the sewing bug bites so you dont have to haul your machine out, locate your fabric and notions and set up messy camp on the kitchen table. a place that can be self-contained, organized, and CLOSED when you are not working so little hands cant crawl or walk over and get into expensive machinery or dangerous cords.

i was convinced that such a perfect piece of furniture existed for me and so it was to be my mother's day/birthday/boxing day/kwanza present! we have been searching craigs list and various other stores both in person and online since early may.

everything we found was either too small (you dont want to be cramped in a tiny space when sewing), too expensive, didnt ship to hawaii (dang you ikea!), or was made of cheap wood that wouldnt lend itself well to the olive green i was planning on painting it.

and then the other night, after months of patient searching, thomas found this on craigs list:

and got it for $100 less than they were asking for and brought it home to me and she is EXACTLY what we have been looking for!

she sits in our room now. the pictures dont do her finish justice. it's a lovely antiqued black so i may not paint her olive green afterall, but we shall see.

here's what she looks like inside, without any sewing stuff in there yet. we will wait to get her all set-up for sewing when we move into our lovely new place in a few months:

so that top shelf is adjustable and will mostly have fabric i think, the next shelf down will be where the machine goes and other sewing items i dont want the boys getting to, right underneath there is a desk that can roll out to create more space for sewing so the pedal can go right underneath me, and the bottom shelves will hold everything in a very organized manner of course. :)

i absolutely cannot wait to get upstairs and get everything unpacked and organized into my little sewing heaven! i promise to post a picture when that happy day comes- yipee!