Mary Schannen Photography

05-01-2012

From Music Room to Office –

So it occurred to me that I had started my office ‘project’ just about a year ago, and aside from curtains, I am close to done. However, knowing me, I’m sure I will be rearranging a few things.

I had decided to move our beloved piano from the ‘music room’ to the livingroom, giving myself an office. If you are interested in reading more about the actual piano move- you can go HERE. ( I know you will be hitting that link b/c my life is just soooo interesting! lol)

Withing this past year, we painted this room, (a huge THANK YOU to my cleaning lady’s handy husband, he painted this room in addition to nearly the entire house for a VERY good price,) adopted two retired racing greyhounds, took a well needed break from the photography business and got my sanity back.

May, 2011. The End of a ‘music room’ that was never used.

May 10th, 2011. The beginning of my new office and the beginning of that Gallery Wall.

So fast forward a year, we repainted the inset a grey color and the main walls a lighter white/cream. ‘Cooled’ down the color temperatures, and finally finished that wall. Sorry about the pile of cords on the side. I’m not perfect.

These are all 1.5 inch canvasses from CanvasOnDemand. If you are interested in sizes and how I arranged them – Please go HERE -

So after the wall was finished, a got that chair from Pier 1. And my boys have ‘their’ office upstairs with Ikea chairs. Some day I may paint those cabinets.

Table (that I use as a desk) and bookcase are from Nadeau.

Knowing me, I will most likely find a new home for those canvasses some day. I tend to do that a lot – rearrange things. That chest of drawers is from my grandparents house and I just love it!

What’s really nice about this transformation, is we now have a nice bright room in the front of the house that not only gets used A LOT, but it allows me to be with my family more. I used to work in a room in the back of the house (the dungeon) and that just wasn’t good.

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tabitha - OMG..that wall! Insanely insanely gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Krista Lund - what a wonderful space you created. love your photo wall!!

Sabreena K - So beautiful! What I wouldn’t give for a space like this!

Stephanie Moore {Tucson AZ Photographer} - Oh no now I have MAJOR house envy. I love your house so much, it’s perfect. The color in the office is so classy and fun and the rest of your house is just gorgeous, beautiful job!!

natasha klein - Hi I’m in the with your gallery/wall. love the look of the b&w on the grey walls! beautiful
would love to know the name of the grey paint color. please. thanks

Mary Schannen - Thank you Everyone!

Natasha – that color is Web Grey from Shermin Williams. But be careful – in some rooms it looks more blue.

And I apologize if you get an error message – I usually do get all the comments, even though my blog may tell you it’s an error. Kind of frustrating.

Angela - Totally gorgeous. I love the canvas behind your desk. Do you mind sharing the sizes. Thanks

Beth Ross | Tyler TX Photographer - LOVE that wall of pictures!!! It is amazing. I love your office, too. The colors are so soft and soothing. You get gorgeous light in your house.

Janet - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this!!! I am actually thinking about doing something very similar! I have a very similar room in my house that doesn’t get used, but I need an office. How did you decide on the sizes of the canvases? Did you measure the walls and then figure? What are the measurements of your canvases? Thanks!!!

Janet

Leslie - Umm… let me pick my jaw up off the floor! Your office is stunning! Every single canvas is amazing and I love the color you chose!

Kelly Woofter - Where did you find your desk (table)?! I have searched antique stores, flea markets etc. for the same table and can’t find one! I’m a little picky

Your room is beautiful!!

hope - in love!! jealous of your artistry and your home!!! you are amazing mary!

Matt Davis - Hi there,

I happened across this blog/site after seeing your great looking gallery wall on Pintrestl. Fab photos, you’ve got some sweet looking kids. Most of all though totally lovin’ your desk.

Hope you don’t mind I also pinned it to my ‘wall art’ inspiration collection.

Matt
>off to get my son to jump across the sofa ‘superman style’ and photograph him too!<

Mary Schannen - Thank you so much everyone – This post is actually getting a lot of attention – (which doesn’t happen to me very much – I really do not ‘put myself out there’). I’m flattered!

Ok – Angela/Janet – I will measure and will get back to you – but to give you a frame of reference – the middle closeup is a 35×25, above it is a 30×40 (superman jump). I had those two first – put them against the wall and decided to fill up the space with more canvasses. I ordered the canvasses based on the space I had available. It took a while – there was a good amount of time the wall was half done – that bothers me. I feel much better when a project that I am staring at actually gets done!

Kelly/Matt – The desk – which yes – is a table I got from Nadeau – A national store located in many cities across the US. The link is above the image with both the table and bookcase. I love that store!

Christina - What an amazing space! That wall of images took my breath away.

Sarah Albert - Wow!! I love this. Thank you for the inspiration.

Breanna - it looks like the perfect office space- love the colors & decorating, congratulations!

Jess - I love this! What size are the three photos on the bottom left?

Jayme - Your office is so inspiring! Makes me want to put more on my walls!

Tracy H - I’d LOVE to know what color the paint colors were for the gray and the light cream color! It’s beautiful!!!

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04-26-2012

52 Week Project – Facial Features.

Warning – Mommy Goggle Post!!!!

And he had just fell off the swing from doing his typical stunts – so there are some scrapes on his nose and forehead. I cleaned the scrapes but did not want his hair to get on his forehead scrapes so we put a do-rag on his head to keep the hair off. Most of these are taken like that – then we put some Neosporin and a big bandaid after the photos. With the do-rag, he was acting all gangster!

Here we have a cheek…(And grey hair due to my lack of attention when processing…..) Poor kid is aging too quickly!

When he squints – I love those little six year old wrinkles…..

His Eyelashes…

Enough!

Seriously – enough Ok – as the mommy – I see crinkles, teeth, mouth, the feeling and expression (and dirty fingernails!)

tongue and eye

Nose and mouth…

smile

tongue and cheek….

Please head on over to see the pretty images of CLARA . !!! I’m sure you will love them!

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04-19-2012

52 Week Project – ‘Expressive’

‘Really Mom?’

Now please head on over to Clara to see her take on the theme -

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04-12-2012

52 Week Project – Shoes

So….. on the way home from school, I asked the boys ,”OK , who wants to help me with my ‘homework’ “. Mikey readily agreed so I told him to get his box of shoes (we keep the kids shoes that they wear regularly in a box in the downstairs closet ). We headed outside and I asked him what can we do with all these shoes? So he said ‘Let’s have a sale, like in a store”, So I told him to put the shoes out ‘for sale’.

So after putting all the shoes out ‘for sale’ he got a little bored, so he put on his favorite pair of boots and started acting like himself – a total goofball -

I love him so much! He literally makes me laugh everyday! Now please head on over to Clara’s post to see her pretty images!

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04-09-2012

10 on 10 April

10th of the month – time for the 10 on 10 – Ten images documenting a day. A project that a group of Bloom photographers and myself are involved in.

Before photography, I used to paint. Somehow, my paintings became popular and long story short – within a couple of years after I started, quite by accident, I got an agent at the Dallas World Market and he sold my paintings (and my business partner’s) to many high end home decor stores thoughout Texas, Louisianna and Oklahoma. Mostly small stores, but a few larger retailers bought the paintings. I had a group of artists who worked for us recreating our designs on canvas to fill the orders.

Market crash, and the paintings stopped selling quite as quickly – and quite frankly, I was starting my photography interest at the time, so I had welcomed the change and put more and more effort in teaching myself photography.

Sometimes I still like to paint – and lately I’ve been experimenting with different colors, more of a modern look, different than what I was doing when before. Maybe if I get a good amount of canvasses done, then I’ll contact my agent again to see if he wants to sell them. But then, it may become a ‘production’ thing again instead of creating fun art. (He starts coming in with ‘orders’ from stores). I shouldn’t complain if it does, but I stopped doing photography as a business – so obviously it’s the ‘business’ part that doesn’t fit in my life right now.

Well – here is something I’m not quite finished with yet. I work on it when I’m watching TV or in my spare time.

I think I’m done with this one – Didn’t varnish it yet – not sure if I’m going to. If it stays in my house – I can do whatever I want with it. If I sell it – I will varnish it first.

One of my babies.

Boy play.

Ok – so I cheated a bit this month – I really was enjoying this next series – so it was hard to pick just one to document this playtime.

The twins next door just turned two, so they happened to stumble into some pretty light in their party clothes and balloons – Perfect photo op – so I grabbed the camera and shot a few.