My Scentsy Office

I've been a Scentsy Independent Consultant for almost 3 years now (*WOOT WOOT*) and until very recently my family & I had been renting a small (like 900 sq. ft) duplex so I had to be SUPER creative with space!  Also being a homeschooling family we needed to use our dining room space for my office/computer area and we had one hall closet that I used to hold my stock and stackable drawers to hold a bunch of my paperwork and event supplies.  For 7 years I prayed for a bigger house and we worked hard to pay off our debt and save up a down payment and FINALLY found our forever home!  I love our home soooooo much and one of the things I love most is that I now have an official OFFICE!!!!  *SQUEAL!!*  (We also have a real dining room!)  So this post is where I'm going to share how I decorated my space!  I'm not completely done with it.  I need to find just the right wall decor and I bought a chandelier that I need to sweet talk my hubby into wiring and hanging for me and I want to build a cool hutch to store some things on and get a new desk but for now, I still love it and it's serving it's purpose wonderfully!  :)

 

I chose a Scentsy purple to paint on the top half of the walls and bought some beadboard and crown molding and painted them a bright white and had hubby put them up on the bottom half of the walls.  I got the grid wall racks from www.buystoreshelving.com and I LOVE them!  It's so nice to have all of my stock out on the wall where I can see what I need to order more of and when people stop by for last minute gifts or what not, they can see what I've got without having to dig through boxes!

 

I searched and searched for these curtains online and they were sold out almost everywhere!  Finally I found them on Macys.com and they were on sale!  WOO HOO! 

 

And to think back at my old house the closet there was even smaller than this closet and it's where I kept almost everything for my business!

I'm going to eventually cover the closet door with chalkboard paint so I can write inspirational quotes and favorite bible verses on it!

 

So that's my office!!!  I'm super in love with it and enjoy spending time in there working on my business stuff! 

My Scentsy booth display at the County Fair

I was so blessed to be able to have a Scentsy booth this year at our local county fair!!!

In previous years it's been a couple of ladies from a town about 3-4 hours north of my town and not even in our county and it seemed as though no one from our county was going to get a booth.  When I had called and asked if someone from our county could have a booth I was told that the other ladies had first dibs because they'd had the booth the year before.  Last year our Scentsy Convention was held the same week as the fair and I assume the ladies attended Convention instead of having a booth because there was no Scentsy booth to be found.  Finally...I had my chance!  :)  WOO HOO!

The ladies from the fair office called me in March and asked if I'd still be interested in having a Scentsy booth and HECK YES, I jumped all over that!  Hee hee!  I was so nervous about the whole thing just because I'd never done such a big event before and wasn't sure how much stock I'd need.  I also spent countless hours searching Pinterest and Google for display ideas.  Scentsy colors are usually purple & green with some black but that's not really my style.  I'm more of a shabby chic/rustic/country type girl so I decided to go with that.  I've shared a few of the projects that I worked on in previous posts so thought I'd share how everything turned out!

 

Since there was a booth right in front of me it was hard to get a straight-on shot of the booth but you get the idea.  :)

 

The metal display stand on the right, in the back is one I ordered online from a store that sells display stands for stores.  I can't remember where I got it exactly but it's come in handy for every event I've done!  I think I paid around $60 for the stand and 30 hooks.  The black shelves in the front I got at Home Depot for $24.

 

 

I loved this table!  My hubby built the wooden crates and the birdhouse and I painted them cream with antique glaze.  I made the burlap banner and the tablecloth was a great find at a flea market for only $15! 

 

 

 

See my handsome helper in the back?  Isn't he the cutest?!  :)

The black stand here is one that my Director's husband made and gave to anyone on the team that sold at least $2000 in one month.  YAY!  I love it!

My super fabulously talented friend, Heidi from Everyday Cookies made the chalkboard toolbox which was PERFECT for holding my catalogs!  Go check out her blog!  She makes the cutest wooden signs too!

One of my warmers was broken so my husband took out the electrical insides, covered the bottom and then I used it for a pen holder!

The tablecloth is the one I posted about earlier that I stained using tea bags.  I love how it matched everything so well!

 

 

My husband built me this little shelf and the wooden signs.  I used chalkboard paint on the signs and they ended up being perfect for my display!

 

 

 

It was a VERY long 5 days but totally worth the 13 hour days and very little sleep!

I got to see so many of my wonderful friends, made some new ones, sold almost all of my stock, got lots of new customers, a new possible recruit, lots of people wanting to have parties and Lord willing, I'll do it all again next year!  :)

 

My Scentsy burlap banner

 

I am having a Scentsy booth at the Coos County Fair in Oregon next week and I'm frantically getting things together and trying to figure out how I want to decorate my booth.  I found this super cute eyelet ruffled tablecloth (well, it's actually a bedspread but I'm using it for my table) at a flea market type store in town for $15 and fell in love!  It doesn't really go well with my black Scentsy tablecloth so I set out to make a burlap banner to hang from the front table.

 

I cut burlap into about 5" x 6" squares (they don't have to be perfect, that's the beauty of the project).

I then googled "star template" and printed it out and painted white stars onto each piece.

 

Next I printed out the word using the "MTF Jumpin' Jack" font which you can download for free HERE.

I cut out each letter and used it as a stencil.

 

 

I used a multi-purpose acrylic black paint (Martha Stewart) to paint on the letters.

 

 

When it was all dried I took some twine and thread it through each piece so I could hang it from my table.  I think it turned out awesome!  Can't wait to set my booth up!!

 

 

 

 

What has two thumbs and the world's best husband??? THIS GIRL!

Last night the kids & I went to church and hubby stayed home which is usual for us (someday it won't be *wink wink*).  I came home 2 hours later and hubby surprised me by working on a display stand for my Scentsy booth at the local county fair coming up this month.  The awesome thing is that I forgot that I had mentioned wanting him to build me this stand but he remembered and built one for me!  What an awesome guy he is!!!  He finished it this morning with the help of my stepson, Taylor!

 

 

It still blows me away that Taylor is now 16 and a head taller than both hubby & I!  Josh & I started dating when Taylor was just 2 years old so I've been in his life from almost the beginning!  Man, I feel old!  LOL!  We don't get to see Taylor very often so it was a HUGE blessing getting to spend the day with him and watch him work on a project with his dad!  I still pray that things will change and we'll get to see him more!  Nothing is impossible for the Lord! 

 

So, here's what the project looked like all put together:

 

Isn't it AWESOME?!?!  I am obsessed with birdhouses and cute birdie decorations/pictures so this is perfect for me!  I even have a little birdie family tattoo on my arm, that's how much I love them!

 

 

Because I am going to use this stand to display Scentsy plug-in warmers I wanted it to be a pretty neutral color so as not to take away from the plug-ins.  I painted the stand with about 3 coats of cream colored paint.

 

 

Then I painted the "door" and "window" frames a cranberry color, sanded it down and used my favorite antique glaze.

 

 

Isn't it super duper cute?!?!  I'm in love!  :)

 

 

I can't wait to use it for the fair!  I'm sure I'm going to get lots of comments on how fabulous it is!  :)  My hubby ROCKS!!

 

***Well, decided to paint a little birdie in the "window" just to give it a little more detail.  I love it.***

 

 Sorry for the poor picture quality, I used my cellphone and we don't have much lights on in the living room right now!  :)