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August 25, 2008
smell this!
I finally finished these prints I started oh, a way long time ago now, and got them listed up in my etsy store. These last few weeks I've spent too little time in the studio and too much on the front porch, although Peter's vacation time coming to an end coupled with cooler days should take care of that and get me more motivated to work indoors. We did complete much of our list of tasks around the house, including building this new set of record shelves, for which we've had the wood sitting around all summer:
The old record storage was a little shelf with a crate on top which had overflowed into another giant crate that's been sitting in the middle of our living room floor for a couple of months. But not any more! We're pretty excited about all that empty space waiting to be filled with new records. We're going to need to ramp up our record shopping in order to get some of those spaces filled up before we end up putting books and yarn and bags and stuff in all the openings, which you can see we've already started doing, a little. Old, cluttery habits die hard.
Of course, in order to get a good photo of the shelves I had to move an armchair (that doesn't quite fit so well into this corner anymore) and its side table out of the way, and strategically place myself so as to crop out two guitar cases, a xylophone, a heap of wool cloaks and a mandolin. This is how we live, just mentally editing out the clutter when necessary.
We're getting better though: in the last few days we've gone through almost all of the boxes of stuff that have been sitting in the tv room since we moved them out of Claire's bedroom, which used to double as storage since she rarely slept there but had to be converted to a real bedroom now that she lives with us. Also by the end of today we'll have that wonderful, sought-after thing: a clean, empty dining room table. Cue the children's choir. My so-called "home studio" is another matter, with unsorted piles of fabric and paper and giant snarls of thread and little hand tools I don't know what to do with and unfinished dresses and, beneath all that, drawings I really want to work on. I'm so tired of this being my life, this mountain of stuff in the way of what I really want to do with my time. Before we went on vacation we were decluttering like banshees, and donated to charity enough stuff to fill my old apartment, but it only takes a couple of lazy weeks to unravel that hard work. My goal for tomorrow is to clear out my working space again; my goal for the rest of my life is to keep it that way.
Posted by jodi at August 25, 2008 02:36 PM | categories: projects
Comments
I like your goal. Can I have it too? Sometimes I wonder if I should out myself in the clutter department so that I'm shamed into doing something about all.
Posted by: Sandy at August 25, 2008 03:54 PM
Delurking after many years to say that I love the bird print and went right over to your store to buy one. Nice work.
Posted by: Andrea at August 25, 2008 04:49 PM
Somebody gave us a stack of old vinyl recently... don't know if you'll want any of them or not, but I thought of you because on the top of the stack was a recording of "The Girl from Ipanema"
Posted by: kelly at August 25, 2008 09:48 PM
Cool shelf! I dig the blue paint.
Posted by: Meem at August 25, 2008 09:53 PM
I can really relate. I've started to say to my husband, "I'm sick of accommodating our stuff." If I have to do it on my own, so be it.
Posted by: Mary W at August 26, 2008 10:25 AM
Hi there! Funny, I was searching for pics of Stompin' Tom and it led me to your blog. Even though I don't know you, it's very entertaining reading. Cheers. ;)
Posted by: freddy at August 29, 2008 11:48 AM
it's a sin but I covet your lamp. the record shelves look great too. But I covet your lamp.
Posted by: Nancy Jo Cullen at August 31, 2008 10:39 AM