This week has been eye opening and lessons have been learned.
Yesterday was a day of complete happiness, it was gloomy, raining and super cold.
A perfect day to stay indoors. So that I did.
The little one was sleeping, a movie on in the studio and soft light to work by.
As I sat down in my studio I couldn't take it anymore. Do you have one of those closets in your studio that 10 things fall out when you open the door? I said to myself, "enough is enough"
This closet is stifling my creativity. I spent more time avoiding what I had in there than willing to dig and find what I wanted to work with.
Not only is it way too much for one person to own, it takes up valuable space in a small home.
I thought, if I clean this out it gives me more space to have my family come and stay.
And it clears my mind and I can breathe when I walk into this room.
I started and didn't stop until I was happy with what I saw...an empty closet.
2 bags of Trash and 1 huge box of donations and 1 trash bag full of material, donated to a freinds church sewing circle.
Wow, I feel renewed. I haven't been thrifting or antiquing in months and I know now that it was just a thing to kill time in my life. I didn't NEED any of the junk I was bringing home. It really had a odd sense of hoarding to it all.
Oh there is still so much more work to do and yes, my
etsy shop will be filling up of things no longer wanted and all at must move prices.
I have only the things that really MEAN something to me left in my room. These things make me smile and give me happiness to create with a free spirit and mind.
I am bringing back out the things with color and freshness to them. Pieces from my childhood that I have moved a million times with me back and forth across the country. These things are important to me and deserve a place over something that really wasn't me to begin with.
Maybe this post would have been better as a New Year's resolution or renewing post but I think it was better to do it now. Just before the holidays hit, the donations will aid someone else and I will go into the new year fresh ;)
I will join
Kathleen for a White Wednesday. Head on over to see a lot of winter whites:)
Can you believe it is Friday already??
We headed there and with a sigh of relief, just as I had suspected, not a soul in the place.
The history this amazing journal holds is a treat.
This is why I love paper and pencil, it is just so cool to be able to leave something from your life for others to discover and read through. Wondering, who was this person?
This week has been eye opening and lessons have been learned.
Not only is it way too much for one person to own, it takes up valuable space in a small home.
And it clears my mind and I can breathe when I walk into this room.
Wow, I feel renewed. I haven't been thrifting or antiquing in months and I know now that it was just a thing to kill time in my life. I didn't NEED any of the junk I was bringing home. It really had a odd sense of hoarding to it all.
Oh there is still so much more work to do and yes, my etsy shop will be filling up of things no longer wanted and all at must move prices.
I am bringing back out the things with color and freshness to them. Pieces from my childhood that I have moved a million times with me back and forth across the country. These things are important to me and deserve a place over something that really wasn't me to begin with.
We are still searching for a star to top our tree, they just don't have a selection fit for a candy cane tree. I usually make a star and I just might end up doing that, I really wanted one that lights up but handmade might be the way to go.
I have been working on another star in my Studio.
Our weekend was full of fun but now it is time to get back in the studio.
And I have BIG News...I have been asked to have a showing at a downtown gallery,
Even though I may blog, I still love my paper journals.
I love writing down things, and always prefer a pencil to do it with, always have. I can look back at journals I have from days long long ago. There is a basket in my studio with all my old ones collected in it. My husband loved that I would write things down, he could then sneak in and read a wish for a birthday or christmas and surprise me with something I jotted down.
I think blogging will soon, if not already, has started to lose its appeal. Times will change and something new and shiny will come along to take us on another journey in technology.
