Okay... so I lied....

I had the best possible intentions and truly meant it when I said "I will not bring another cabinet into the studio."

Well..........

Now tell me, who can possibly resist a printers cabinet with 30... count 'em.... THIRTY drawers?! I think part of it is I just love 'rescuing' things... things that other people might consider junk. I love the challenge of cleaning it all up and giving it a new life. So I think under those circumstances it's justifiable .... don't you? Of course I could blame it on the Biff (Janet) who went along with me to look at it. She just kept saying "You've got to get it!" until I weakened and gave in.

It's funny, my husband never says a word (maybe he's scared of me?) when I bring home something that looks like it's definitely had a better day. He just totes it in the house and asks where I want it. 

So here is the new/old printers cabinet that I rescued this past weekend.

During the big clean-up

It was so filthy.. I think with about 60 or 70 years worth of dust... that every single drawer had to be dry mopped outside in the wind, brought in and vacuumed, scrubbed with oil soap and lined with new paper. If you notice, there are very cool little porcelain buttons going down the left side numbering all of the drawers. Love!

Of course my favorite is #3

I can't even begin to tell you how many times I dumped the dirty water and started over.

Ughhh

 

Here I have scraped off all the paper labels. I tried to salvage what I could. One of the drawers was actually labeled 'NY Giants'. I would imagine they did their printing and kept their type separate.

The handles are all original and rather rusty, so I'm one at a time taking them off and dremmeling them clean.

A full day's work and now the 30 drawer baby is in place and getting full. I thought I would stage art projects in the higher drawers and store finished pieces in the lower ones. Can you spot the only 2 handles that I've done so far?

I'm lovin' it!

My name is Canace and I'm addicted to neat old cabinets...

Butterfly Freebie

Playing around in Photoshop and created a page of graphic butterflies. Here's a freebie for you to use however you like. :o)

Happy creating!

Best... Canace

Okay.. I admit it... I'm totally hooked

On Pinterest that is....  (Notice the button on the right)
I'd heard about Pinterest a few weeks back from Janet and I thought "That's nice." and immediately dismissed it as yet another time consumer. Then last week, for whatever reason, I decided to have a look and see what it's all about. Oh boy... I'm a dedicated pinner now!
What a great place to see all sorts of images... all the things that you like most... and pin your own images that other people may re-pin to their boards. It sounds rather simplistic and mundane.. at least it did to me at first, but once you get set up and start looking around it becomes a generally 'feel good' place where you're surrounded by all the eye candy you could possibly want to see and be inspired by.

My question is..  and this is part of the reason I resisted at first...

How in the world do you keep up with it all?! The last thing I needed or wanted was yet another site that would consume my time, yet I see so many familiar faces and know that they are on countless forums, twitter, facebook, linkedin, they're blogging, networking, shopping, selling, creating...  How do you do it? Do you have everything tied into your iPhone/iPad and watch it all day long?

There must be a science or an art to keeping up with it all and if so I haven't a clue what it is. I just stop in occasionally and try to catch up, exercising a lot of discipline to get off and back in my studio.

So... I truly would love to know....   How do you keep up with it all???

Have a great weekend... pinning...

Best... Canace

F F F ! ! !

FORGOT FREEBIE FRIDAY!


I really do try to remember to upload something each Friday... really I do. You know how it is when you get working in the studio and the whole world just disappears.

So sorry... 

This gorgeous little octopus is part of a Dover collection. I thought I'd do some variations of color for you to choose from.

Enjoy!

Best... Canace