Where Art Journey Women Create

Het leek ons leuk om jullie een kijkje in de keuken te laten nemen in de hobbykamers van de leden van ons designteam. Waar worden al die mooie creaties gemaakt? Ik (Louise) heb de eer om het spits af te bijten. Hieronder zie je een paar foto's van mijn domein. Een kamer waar ik vaak te vinden ben. Waar ik niet alleen stempel enz. maar waar ook alle bestellingen van de mooie Art Journey stempels worden verwerkt en ingepakt en administratie wordt gevoerd.
Eigenlijk jammer dat ik niet even heb gewacht met de foto's, want op dit moment wordt de computerhoek opnieuw ingericht met een nieuwe computer en beeldschermen enz. Dus dat stukje is buiten beeld gehouden. Ook zie je niet onze voorraad Art Journey stempels, leek me niet zo interessant en was niet gemakkelijk te fotograferen.

We thought that you might like to see the craftrooms of our Designteammembers. I'm the first to let you have a look in my craftroom. In fact, I also spend alot of time here taking care of all the orders placed on our website, getting all the orders ready to ship all over the world and doing the necessary administration and bookkeeping. We are busy getting in a new computer and screens, so that part is not in the pictures. I also didn't take pictures of where I keep the Art Journey stock.

As you walk in to the room and look to your right, this is what you see. 

On the opposite side of the room, so if you walk in and look left you see these great cupboards. The customers who remember our workshop space will recognize them.
Drawers on the right, all necessities for shipping, like envelopes etc. Drawers on the left are filled with ribbons, sewing stuff, templates, paper etc.
In the containers on the shelves are lot's of ink, but also metal and wood embelishments, lace, fabric, buttons.
And ofcourse my whole collection of Art Journey stamps in Alphabetical order. And YES I do keep it this way.
My Distress and Adirondack inks are in the undeep containers above the stamps, all labeled and in alphabetical order.

I just couldn't get the whole collection in one picture. This is the whole collection of Art Journey stamps in Alfabetical order on the shelf.

Distress and Adirondack and yes I do have more ink........

This is about 4/5 of all my mounted stamps. I love just seeing them in front of me if I am stamping or not. They are my treasures. Some of them I have since 1997 the year I started stamping

another look at some of my mounted stamps, I try to keep them in some sort of category as you might see

In this little corner, behind the Ikea cart I do all my creating. If a friend comes to visit and want's to do some stamping too, we just roll out those cupboards you see on the right at the bottom of the picture. Those are on wheels and we just make some space for her to sit. 

Same corner as above

All the white drawers above and below are filled to the rim with paper!! I need to live to be 300 years old to use up all this paper, but hey I'm an addict!

These drawers are also filled with paper. On the top I have some of my work out as a display

In all the small drawers I store pens, markers but also embellishments, tape etc. 

This is a corner (just outside of my room on the landing) filled with all my media, more ink etc. I still need to label all the boxes

And this is a cupboard filled with the  unmounted stamps that are not Art Journey stamps. And no this is not everything I still have some more stuffed away. The red ringbinders are my unmounted stamps uptill 2003 the year I started Art Journey.




And this is the view through one of the two windows. We are so lucky to live where we do.


Ik hoop dat je het leuk hebt gevonden om een kijkje in de keuken te nemen van mijn hobby/werkruimte. Ik ben er ontzettend blij mee en voel me ook altijd heel bevoorrecht dat ik zo'n prachtige ruimte heb met zoveel spulletjes. Wat een rijkdom!!
Kom geregeld terug om een kijkje te nemen, want ook de andere dames zullen bij toerbeurt hun kamers laten zien. Ik ben ook benieuwd want ik ben ook niet bij iedereen thuis geweest!

I hope you enjoyed taking this tour with me in my craft and workspace. I really enjoy it every day and feel very fortunate with this great space just for me. Hope you will come back and visit our blog on a regular basis because the other ladies will show their craftrooms too. I am also very curious as I haven't been to all of their homes yet!

take care