What I learned this summer!

I would like to share an AHA! moment from the summer.

Seth Apter is a friend to the creative community.  I so enjoy his blog, The Altered Page.  He reposted a popular post and it is called The Studio Table.  There are 123 links to artist's work spaces.  At about the 100th link I finally 'GOT IT'.   Creativity is not really a neat process. :O   My fixation with having a photo ready site for blog posts is killing me creatively.

Vicki, at Field Trips in Fiber hosted a  Real Studio Tour.   I participated and revealed my sewing space.here, here, and here ,  But don't think I was convinced and I don't think I was honest in that I was influenced by the fact that this was going to be a photo op for the blog.   But the biggest factor is that because I spend more time organizing than creating and I am one frustrated gal. :O

I am not a neat freak because I can live happily with shutting messy drawers and pressing overflowing closets closed.  But there is a point where counter clutter and table turmoil gets to me.

But I still can't quite bring myself to publish ugly.  vbsigh  So I'll be taking photos on the clutter free dining room table.  lol  And I'll be trying to be more creative while trying to ignore my regular ugly clutter.  I will clear things from the edges because I need at least a two foot square working area.  I will put big objects in front of avalanching piles, shut doors and close as many drawers as I can because sometimes they become level surfaces! :(

Perhaps when I'm expecting company I'll make a Do Not Disturb sign because after all,  I'm an artist at work!  ;^)

wow, not sew much but...

I can show white stuff.  Not too exciting but I am sewing the curtains for my fabric shelves.  They'll do double duty as design walls.  I got better rods but the Rooster needs to make the last box for the top of the third bookcase.

A different kind of worktable. This is the dining room table.  The gate-leg table turned out so well, I decided to try this oak one.  In my haste I made a mess and my dsil re sanded it for me and I tried again.  Much better and now it needs some wax.

The ground itself has become a work table.  The rain has been causing some delays but progress is being made and mostly by my tenacious Rooster!

Then a nice cover for the worktable and it was time to get messy as we worked on a series of backgrounds.

We had the room to spread out and work on half a dozen pages at a time.

Fun!

And some more fun!