Hi.

Recently I realized that I have never actually shown you guys my writing space. And my writing space is really cool (in my own little personal opinion). So I would love to take you on a little tour by showing you some pictures!

This is my studio.

It’s right off the playroom, so that I can never get a moment’s peace or any actual work done.

Here I have all my witchy pitchies, featuring my favorite photograph of Helen Keller and Norman Rockwell’s depiction of Jo from Little Women. And, of course, my calendar of stickers that I’m always talking about. (Don’t mind the date, I always write my blog posts in advance lol)

Over here I have a big white board, so I can easily jot down different ideas and brainstorm.

These are my lovely, year-round, witchy shelves with all my beautiful little trinkets and things. At least three of the items that I’m showing you in this tour secretly open and have surprises inside, but I’m not going to tell you which ones they are because they are secret.

Fun fact about me is I collect little fabric flowers that mysteriously get lost and find their way to the ground. Whenever I am lucky enough to find one, I put it in a little jar and then label on the bottom where I found it. So every single flower that you see here was found by me in the past five years in a mysterious place.

This is my flip book. I use the calendar design on Canva, but instead of making a calendar I just compile an aesthetic board for each of my book ideas. (Which is a lot, so not even all of them are represented here. This is actually an outdated flip book.) It’s kind of like having a physical Pinterest board on the wall.

My random side wall of pictures. That kissing painting- for some reason everyone in Peru has this painting hanging in their house. I vowed to put it in my own house because I saw it all the time and really liked it. It’s has a very Shakespearean feel to me. Those bells on the wall were actually used in my wedding. Instead of doing like a ‘sparkler send-off’ when the bride and groom leave and get into their cars, we had everyone ring bells. That’s a replica John Lennon jacket. It’s the jacket he wears on the Rubber Soul album. I also have a piano in my studio. I don’t play the piano very well but I really enjoy composing music so that was a HUGE birthday gift one year.

I also have a stage in my studio lol. Being able to teach theater was one of the biggest reasons that we ended up buying the house. My husband saw it on Zillow and was like, “!!! Val this has a little stage! We HAVE to go see it!” You know, to be honest with you, I’m pretty sure this room is supposed to be a media room. Like a “theater” not “theatre” haha. So I kind of stole this room for myself. But it’s got good creative vibes, so it works!

Overall, I just really love my room. It was the one place in the house where I felt like I could just let my quirkiness explode. That I could just go for it and be maximalist, and witchy, and funny and anything creative that I felt like. So that’s it! I really love my studio and I hope you enjoyed the tour!