CREATIVE BLOCK!

CREATIVE BLOCK!  I've made so many things where is the next original idea going to come from?   Maybe go sit on the couch and take a nap or read a book.  Not a good idea unless you don't really care.  The best place for me to get creative again is to clean my art areas.  Amazing things I have forgotten, unearthed from beneath a pile of magazines, a new product I bought and put in a closet, out of site, out of...

By the time the room is about one third clean I have so many ideas running I can't wait to sit at my bench and work.  THIS IS WHY MY ART ROOM WILL NEVER BE NEAT!  It never takes long to get the brain spinning.  This is my excuse to do art and not clean and I'm sticking with it!

Finally! One room done, three to go!!

Finally, I have one room completely cleaned and organized.  Progress at last. I'm going to let the pictures do the talking tonight.  Sewing room done, art studio, jewelry room and etsy room to go.

Three Weeks and Still Cleaning the Studio!

Week three and I’m still trying to organize my supplies and art rooms!  Imagine spending that much time on a project and still not having it finished!  Yesterday I had shelves put up in my sewing room.  I spent the evening folding fabric and stacking it by color on the shelves and into giant plastic bins.  There are probably about 40 bins around the house now.  You should buy stock in RubberMaid.   

 

So many tubes of seed beads,  not just in the sewing room, they’re in the kitchen, living room, art room, probably in the bathroom if you open a cabinet and look.  My husband has (had) a really great wood chest for tools that I “borrowed” for the organization of seed beads.  Each drawer can have it’s own color.  About half the drawers are full so far.   It’s hard to stay on task and finish a project, too many things to excite me.    A beautiful bead I had stashed out of site, silky, vintage, satin ribbons in a drawer or an article pulled from a magazine for later reference.  How can I not stop and look?  I’m thinking probably two more weeks before this job gets done.  I’m not giving up though.  I work on it a bit every day.  It’s even gotten to be a pleasure revisiting some forgotten treasures hidden away in my unorganized mess.