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January 1, 2025 · 8:44 am

New Year’s Day 2025!

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I hope that 2025 is a fabulous year for you, full of all the good things there are.

We had a quiet celebration here. I was hoping our backyard neighbors might shoot off some fireworks, but it was too cold, even for them this year. I’m glad they stayed warm.

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My to-do list is long today, but I’m still yawning and drinking coffee, trying to fully wake up. Our weather is definitely turning toward winter now, with freezing almost every morning and the ‘highs’ gradually getting lower each week. I really wish I could just LOOK at pretty snow pictures, photos of creative snow people and animals folks have made, watch videos of snowball fights, snow angels, and more – rather than to. actually. be. IN. it.

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My aim for the day is to clean off my drafting table in my art room in preparation for whatever comes next as a project. I almost need a bulldozer right now, but hope I can make good progress if I can just get up there.

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I’m on strike as far as cooking today. We’ll have our regular low carb lunch and hot dogs for dinner. YEA!

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Have a wonderful day. I hope that you’re off for the day from work and that you find fun ways to spend your day. Happy 2025!

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August 26, 2024 · 8:48 am

Monday 8-26-2024

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I hope you’re having a nice morning. We’re back to our too-hot-regular-summer weather here. Our plants are starting to revive a bit. For quite a while there, it didn’t matter that we were watering every day, even increasing the time on the irrigation system, things were just overwhelmed by the ‘intense heat warnings.’ It’s really nice to be back to ‘regular,’ where the tomatoes have started to ripen again, the elephant ear plants are sprouting new leaves, and lilies and roses are starting to bloom again. Ahhhh.

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It’s funny. I’m making progress on cleaning the art room, but the progress so far can only be measured by the fact that I have a 13 gallon trash bag’s worth of things I’ve gathered to throw away this week.

If you walked in there right now, it looks like someone needs to clean and reorganize. But that is better than wondering when the bomb exploded… Each day I’m enjoying doing more on whatever wood-burning piece I’m working on and then zeroing in on a table that needs to be cleaned off, or some things that need to be gathered and stored together somewhere. Something needs to be tossed. Something saved, but not ‘here.’ You get the picture. But it IS getting better daily.

Our only ‘have-to’s today are gathering and driving our trash down for pickup tomorrow and getting our mail. YEA.

I wish you a great day.

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August 24, 2024 · 10:15 am

Saturday 8-24-2024

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I started a new piece in my art room yesterday, plus I’m continuing to do a THOROUGH clean-out/clean-up/reorganization up there. I’m stopping when I feel myself starting to ‘stash’ things. I’m taking my time, trying to create ‘areas’ of activity or storage, so I can find things more easily, rather than it sometimes resembling a ‘treasure hunt.’ I’m trying to throw away things I haven’t used and probably won’t use, dried up paint tubes, ‘idea’ pictures that no longer speak to me, and more. I’m SUCH a slob… :0) I AM making some progress, though.

Our son left a picture on our chat program this morning. His friends, who have a condo in the same building, had a baby girl this morning. She joins their about 2-year-old son, so now they’re a family of four. Brian is an honorary ‘uncle’, having a great time being a part of their family and watching their kids grow and thrive.

A wonderful surprise! I found these just a minute ago. I decided to go out to check on the tomato plants, just expecting to see the same – plants with green tomatoes, looking kind of sad. Instead, I found ripe tomatoes! I guess the cooler temperatures of the last few days revived the plants. I had essentially written them off, so it was a super nice surprise. ALSO, I still have ONE tomato sucker plant that is really large now. I have no idea if it will produce tomatoes, but I staked it up this morning and will enjoy watching what happens. FUN EXPERIMENT!

Enjoy your weekend.

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September 25, 2021 · 10:10 am

Disorganized

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Yesterday I started trying to once again clean up my art room. A lofty goal, and one that I occasionally actually DO. More often, I START – find something wonderful – and then spend the rest of the allotted time playing. :0)

We converted a third bedroom into my art room years ago. My husband built shelves that go all the way across one end of the room for supplies. On the other end of the room, he built more shelves. On the window side I have two tall sets of shelves…

Then there is the closet which has built-in shelves on one side and a plastic set of shelves on the opposite side.

I have two counters, one long table, and my drafting table.

My art room is a place that allows me escape. Alone time. Time to nurture, to dream, to experiment, to play.

Right now I have to tell you that it looks like a bomb hit. I am working to at least be able to walk through without falling over something or having to move a bunch of stuff.

I’ll do a bit more in there today. Maybe I’ll actually get something cleaned off!

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February 6, 2021 · 4:44 pm

Art Room Honesty

Full disclosure – if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you already KNOW what a slob I am, and along with that, a lousy housekeeper. I decided that my current project will be cleaning up my art room – AGAIN.

The only time my art room is clean is when I’m not in there and have no current art projects going on. I have some images I took for my shops on Etsy, and they look really good. But nothing is happening in those images. :0)

I started cleaning in here this afternoon. I decided to start with my drafting table. I made a bit of progress, but then got caught up in a new idea for painted magnets. I started rummaging around, gathering things to try my new idea.

Under here is a drafting table, believe it or not.

And under here is a nice work table.

My art room has actually looked worse before. Sometimes it’s a challenge to walk from the door to the drafting table. :0)

Tomorrow I’ll show you more of the cleaning project, plus progress on the new magnets!

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February 17, 2018 · 11:55 am

Slogging Through the Art Room Clean Up Project

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I’m having to do really short sessions on cleaning my art room. I keep getting distracted when I find something interesting I didn’t remember I had and wanting to do something ‘artful’ with it, instead of continuing to go through things.

Last time I got the idea for a new line of stationery, note cards, thank you notes and greeting cards. The idea is rattling around in my head, plus I’m dreaming about it, so I guess I’ll need to make time and space to at least get started on the idea soon, but I really need to get the art room ‘healed’ first.

So far, I HAVE cleaned off my drafting table. If you walked into the room, though, you wouldn’t be able to tell anything else had been done. This is the kind of project that looks worse before it even THINKS about getting better.

I’m going up there now to see what I can do….

I would appreciate your sending good wishes, persistence, and focus in my direction today…

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January 17, 2017 · 11:35 am

Still Buried, but Peeking Out…

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This isn’t my art room, but it gives you an idea of what I’m trying to organize in preparation for actually working in there to give voice to some ideas banging around in my brain lately.

  • I’ve cleaned and organized a space where I can try to create jewelry.
  • I’ve cleaned and organized a table where I can work through the lessons from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, working up to enjoying all the glorious pencils my husband got me for Christmas.
  • I’ve cleaned off the counter top that runs from one side of the room almost to the other side under my shelves on the opposite side of the room from the jewelry area.

What remains is the mess in, around, and on top of my drafting table – the place I need clean in order to work on my latest ideas.

I DID manage to gather the wooden ornaments I want to paint as samples for some custom, personalized ornaments for the website. I also have the card stock and envelopes, plus paint ready for the cards, plus the letter stamps for the back of the cards.

I’m hoping that I can finish getting things either put away and organized or thrown away today so that I can start playing.

Wish me luck, please!

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