I'm (almost) back!

Howdy folks! I've been rather quiet lately so I felt a little update was in order.

After the craftsplosion that generally characterizes my pre-holiday preparations each December, we headed to my in-laws for Christmas. Upon our return on New Year's Eve, as I reflected on what I wanted to accomplish in 2010, I was surrounded by the carnage of Dremel dust, carved rubber stamp shavings, and scattered screen-printing supplies from all my gift-making. I decided that part of the problem was that my workspace was not conducive to my project flow. I am a big believer that "a place for everything and everything in its place" is essential to keeping tidy, and that wasn't happening in our upstairs office-studio area.

But perhaps an even bigger problem, I just didn't find the place creatively inspiring. Thus I constantly found myself bringing projects down to the living room or dining room, where we've taken more care to make the rooms aesthetically pleasing. And as long as I was spreading my supplies all over the house, not only was I messing up our living spaces, but it was making it impossible to keep things organized upstairs as well.

So, since then I've been head-down concentrating on redoing my studio to be both more organized, and just a pleasant, inspiring, creative place to spend time. I'm now close to the end of that project, and I look forward to returning to the real world, where I try to focus on more than one thing at a time – including posting on the blog! (My tendency is to want to completely immerse myself in a single task at the expense of the rest of my life, but I decided to make an exception for this project, because I think my husband was getting close to imposing sanctions on my crafting.)

So, stay tuned for some fun features of my new studio space, and perhaps you'll get inspired for the re-organization projects on your own list!

In the meantime, here's a sneak peak of a pegboard I made to organize all my sewing stuff: