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a tidy studio

August 18, 2008

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This is my desk today.  It is so neat and organized. Hooray!  I even took down my inspiration boards and cleaned them off and put up my current inspirational images.  And there is room to work.  To the right you can see my machine, off in one of the two window nooks in our bedroom. The other nook looks like this now

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I seem to have a lot of glue.

There are art supplies and books in there that I’ve held onto for nearly 20 years and that I still love.  And now I can see all of it!  We still need to get to Ikea for shelves that will line the other wall and will mainly store fabric and wood, but this was a major improvement.

I have many, many pending deadlines now and I must get to work sewing birds.  I am very good at time management, but I must say I was a bit stressed laying in bed last night thinking of how many places need to get birds between now and November.  And then I have a spring show to think about, too.  But it is good stress.  Creative stress.

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Comments

  1. Beth says

    August 19, 2008 at 1:11 am

    Is there anything better than a neat and tidy workspace? It looks just great. Now you are ready to create.
    I am so anal about where I work, if it is unorganized I find I can’t think straight- although I don’t seem to mind it when it is covered with new fabric swatches or new books to browse!

  2. Jen says

    August 19, 2008 at 4:59 am

    Ah that looks lovely!
    Can I come round and play??

  3. beruta says

    August 19, 2008 at 7:54 am

    Those working tables seem so comfortables! And the natural light that you have in sewing machine is just great!

  4. geek+nerd says

    August 20, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    Well at least you have a lovely clean slate to start all of the work that you have coming up! Good luck with making all of those deadlines!

  5. sulu-design says

    August 21, 2008 at 11:43 am

    Don’t possibilities seem endless when you have such a tidy workspace? Enjoy it, and good luck with the upcoming work.

  6. Rachael Rabbit says

    August 22, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    I love organizing things into their correct place … it takes about two seconds for me to make a considerable mess again though!

  7. anna barrow says

    August 26, 2008 at 11:32 am

    The perfect space! I just love how it looks!

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