Home sweet home.

A few weeks ago in the comments, Michelle suggested I share a little bit about my working environment.  Great idea...until I looked around at the disaster that is my studio these days.  It all began with a serious need to purge, a realization that I am feeling encumbered by so much stuff.  And it's more than a bit like a game of dominoes:  I've been wanting to move my studio to the light-filled spare bedroom upstairs, but in order to do that, I need to get rid of the extra stuff down here and up there.  Which means making room in the attic.  Which means organizing what's in the attic already.  Which means a garage sale in my future.  You get the idea.

I can't seem to begin any project without providing a little inspiration to see me through.  I do so love the big picture. 

This is simply an old bulletin board on which I posted inspiring magazine clippings I've saved through the years (so much more useful here than in the folder where they were).  I added a few key ideas to focus on, and over the whole thing wrote the William Morris quote that is my guiding principle:

Do not have anything in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Comments

[Krys72599]

Am SO waiting for your before, during and after photos and the whole story, from detail to detail!
I'm ready to purge my house, but surprisingly my husband keeps saying, "Keep it for a little while, we'll have a garage sale."
No we won't. It's October. I'm going to start purging this weekend!!!!

[shana]

I just came in {only minutes ago} from 2 days of being freezing cold outside manning MY garage sale, which started in the same where your future one did {reminiscent of "If you give a Pig a Pancake"}. I'll be out there again tomorrow . . . in the snow it looks like! Selling my junk. It's just so fun when someone is excited to take your extra stuff off your hands . . . AND give you money for it! Whoo Hoo!
Enjoy the weekend!
Shana

[billie]

Just found your blog via Mommycoddle. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing your process.

[chel]

I found your blog yesterday via Ali Edwards and have spent the last 24 hours reading all your archives, bookmarking several entries, writing down notes/inspiration/ideas (as well as lists of books I now must read!), and being incredibly inspired in a way I haven't been in about 15 years.

Thank you so much- your entries, your scrapbooking style, the things you share with us has awakened a part of me I feared might be gone. I can't thank you enough for that. I feel so authentically inspired at the moment.

Just... thank you.