First off I am grateful that my boyfriend was able to recover last night while he slept. No issues through the night, just a little grumpy today, but he has a pass. When you don't feel good you can be grumpy!
I can come to your house and organize your studio. I cannot seem to organize my own art space! It is really annoying! I have been working for a few months in art clutter. First my sciatica was a beast and I was able to get pain free for the first time since 2004. But the Universe has a sense of humor and the exercise I was doing on my bed hurt my left shoulder! So constant pain it is! For MONTHS...
(Still have to get an MRI can't find an open, will have to suck up the fear and do a large bore MRI that I have not scheduled to see if I need surgery! THAT is another story involving stupid health care!)
Anyway, I am a paper whore! I LOVE doing collage work in my memory journals. So bags of paper, bins of paper, bowls of paper, stacks of paper. Not being able to move my arm without pain I have let the projects pile up and not clean my area. And now I am annoyed, it has been too long and I can't find shit I need PLUS some of my supplies and journals are still packed and ready to go in case of fire. I am overwhelmed.
And acrylic paint, watercolor paint (I should be embarrassed by how much watercolor paint I own but I am not because I LOVE it!). Pens! Air tight containers on containers with pens. And don't get me started about my washi collection! OMG I am obsessed with washi! And stickers...that I can't seem to use in my journals...I have to start using them! It is that whole don't use the good stuff in my brain! It is TIME to use them or lose them! So everyday when I do my collage work in my memory journal I am going to use at least 1 sticker! Get it done!
So today I have decided to do 15 minutes every day to put things away and organize the papers. Throw out stuff I don't need and give away other stuff I may not need anymore as well. Today I organized my watercolors in one of my Ikea carts. Some wouldn't fit and are in my travel case and I had room on the bottom shelf to put brushes as well.
I am in a Halloween class next month and I need to organize the paper for that to be in one place. So I can easily find it and use it when the time comes.
My hall has a couple of cabinet, I organized the top cabinet last month, but the bottom one has to be organized too, so I need to spend 10 minutes a day on putting the things in the bottom cabinet in the boxes and then label everything. Step it out. Then I won't be embarrassed when people come over. My art space is STILL in my living room, so I really want that space cleaned up. At least have the part of the living room for visiting not impacted by my supplies and such like it is right now...every things has spilled over.
I want my two art tables to be cleaned up from the supplies so I can work the tables without being crowded. If I can't put my books on the tables it is hard to work! Duh!
The only area's I have been able to keep up with in the house is the Kitchen, bathrooms and our bedroom, including laundry. My house needs a deep cleaning. Once I get my art space in order, I plan on having a team from a cleaning service come in and do the heavy stuff for me. I vacuum and WGB mops the floors, I refuse to mop since that is how I hurt my back in 2004. I cannot do the floor or bathtub with out hurting myself so it needs a good looking after to.
We are still at 99 degrees today, and I feel like I am melting when I go out. I ended up going to the grocery store today, the highlight of that was seeing a friend there that I haven't seen in a couple of months. I miss her. It was a big haul today since its been too long and everything seemed to be needed to replenish. Can goods, fruit and veggies. Some meats for dinners. And now I am peopled out...I hate being around that many people with chin guards instead of wearing them as masks, and those walking around like we are not in a pandemic with no mask at all. I am double masked, I wear my N95 and one over it since it has a valve.
I was SO over heated by the time I left I was sweating so bad under the masks. So many shelves still bare, I don't get it, they wouldn't even look for the creamer I needed in back. Many of the paper goods not available. It feels like it did in the beginning of the pandemic. And our cases keep going up. Poke me with a fork I am so done!
I wish we were in a big city some times so I could get delivery. I just don't want to be around people I don't know.
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You have so many beautiful art supplies! I wish you luck with your cleaning. Here in Poland it is no longer mandatory to wear masks on the streets but in malls it is. Still...some people seem to go out of their way to ignore the rules. Strange.
Posted by: Tamara | Friday, September 10, 2021 at 11:48 AM
I hear you re peopling in a pandemic especially. Love your assortment of art supplies! I also totally get the overwhelm from supplies still being packed in case of having to flee. Just the overwhelm from that scenario in general. I hope you can get some ease from your shoulder pain. And the heat! Yikes!
Posted by: Sue Blott | Friday, September 10, 2021 at 07:27 PM