enJOY it

My plan for today was to run some errands then go to Starbucks and dream up a website.

But instead I took a look at my messy TV room and nearly went back to bed. It looked like a craft bomb exploded. I have been organizing and packing etsy goods down there. And I have been using it as a creative space – because for the last few months my desk upstairs looked like this:

I know, right? A hot mess. And by hot, I mean ugly. So much stuff all over the table that I had resorted to using the floor. Which meant there was so much stuff all over the floor. And I would have loved to throw stuff away except my recycle bin was full. And why is that jar of ribbon there? I do not even use ribbon in projects. BLAH. Over it.
Four hours later : Better. Much much better. I moved the ribbon to the top of the bookshelf. And tossed a ton of crap. And cleared off the table space. And made room on the shelves for letterpress materials. So the TV room no longer looks like a hole punch factory exploded. And of course, I got rid of the frames. I debated for about 3 seconds over this decision. I did love the frames. But the fact is they are hard to change. And much of the stuff on my work surface was odds and edds that I wanted to save, but had no place for. Now they are all up. In my line of sight. Ready to be inspire. And much less likely to be thrown away.
To create a back ground for my inspiration board I hung up two long sheets of woodgrain contact paper – I just stuck it to the wall and pined the top corners to make it stick. It has tons of wrinkles and the edges are horribly crooked but whatever: I have no patience. Then I just used removable double stick tape and slapped everything up there.

Man. Feels good. My reward for hours of work is that I get to turn on the air conditioning. And of course I have a clean new space.

Happy Friday. Go buy the book 5.