My first post! Thanks Gingerbug.
I am somewhat combining last weeks houseworks chores with this weeks since my office shares the same room with my creative space.
I'd like to share something that I tried a few years ago that worked really well for organizing my creative projects, whether it was sewing, painting, crochet, gardening plans, beginner knitting, or soap making. I would begin a project and inevitably life would interrupt my creativity. I'd put it down and if I wasn't able to come back to it fairly soon then it became abandoned in stacks and piles everywhere. I had those clear sweater boxes coming out of the wazoo from a business closing so I put them to use. I gathered every single project along with instructions and everything needed to complete the project and placed each one in a box with a large label on the outside with the project name. These were able to be stacked nicely and when that creative juice started flowing and I had a little time it was so easy to grab and box and pick up right where I left off and not have to figure out where I left off or go ransacking the house to find missing pieces, tools or supplies needed to complete the project.
I lost my home in Rita and my beloved project boxes. Needless to say I'm up to my eyeballs in projects everywhere once again. This is the room that the door stays closed because I'm so ashamed of it. Until this weeks Holiday Houseworks Plan was read I'd forgotten all about it. I just returned from Targets and the craft God's must have been shining down upon me because they have all of their good Rubbermaid and Sterlite storage containers on sale for very reasonable.
Something that I think I have finally come to terms with is the fact that I do NOT have to store every single project in my small creative space. I hope I am not the only one that sees a project and hurries up to get everything to create it and then seldom finds the time to actually start it so there it sits. I've decided to go ahead and put all of the projects that I will not be working on in the next three months into my attic. In other words, if it's not for the holidays or a gift then out of my space it goes and into the attic or storeroom in waiting. I find it difficult to give a project 100% focus and be creative when 20 more are staring you in the face, tucked under your feet and shoved in every nook and cranny you have in your creative spaces.
So please share your ideas on cleaning and organizing your creative space.
P.S. - I did print out my weekly assignments as well as my calendars for my Holiday Planner. As a reward for finally clearing off my destop I decided to purchase a new wall calendar for my desk area. OMG, it's a dated jungle out there. I felt like Goldilocks. They were too big, too little, too cluttered, too plain, pockets, magnetic, files.......................................... What happened to nice and simple?
