Greetings all,
My Creative Space this week is creating a NEW Creative Space!! Do you love your children enough to give up this much of your studio?? I've dug deep, i love mine 25m square worth of floor space!! I'm chopping my studio in half. This empty space + pushing those racks of fabric further back (forming a faux wall/ divider) will make this room even wider . . . so the children can each have a bedroom. My eldest will move into this space, we'll seperate the twins, the boy remains in his fabulous room. Easy??
My Creative Space this week is creating a NEW Creative Space!! Do you love your children enough to give up this much of your studio?? I've dug deep, i love mine 25m square worth of floor space!! I'm chopping my studio in half. This empty space + pushing those racks of fabric further back (forming a faux wall/ divider) will make this room even wider . . . so the children can each have a bedroom. My eldest will move into this space, we'll seperate the twins, the boy remains in his fabulous room. Easy??
Just a few weeks into school this year i could really see the twins need their own bedrooms as they approach the age of 10. So it's room swapsies & making this 4 bedroom house into a 5'er. They didn't ask, i could just feel it - they weren't as happy as normal (i'm a drama avoider). This space also removes the high schooler from the 3 younger siblings, to the other end of the house, for more peace & quiet. I'll do my studio first, then move the girls - life here is a giant puzzle.
Oh dear, that rack just couldn't be moved one more time!! I combined the two to make one non broken one so all was not lost!!
This girl found an old size 1 Marcs skirt she used to wear as a toddler. I kept it to copy, it's such a cute skirt. She's also trying on her old plain black one piece for the swimming carnival - honestly, she doesn't out grow anything that incy wincy child.
Photos in reverse . . . that mess behind her is 'the before' of what i had to sort through after taking trestle tables to the market & dumping everything on the floor, the shame of it all.
Cool things i 'found' again in the rubble - Smiggle animal 3D cardboard calendars, favourite tiny super sharp scissors & gorgeous soap from Thea&Sami which Thea sent for Christmas, smells divine!!
Are you the type of mother who buys gifts & puts them away, then forgets?? I picked up these French wooden blocks from Donna Hay's General Store like 2.5 years ago . . . with my helper one step ahead of me in the clean up, she discovered this box & said "please tell me these are for me". "Yes, for Christmas 2008 i think!!" So in the middle of all that mess, she started playing with them.
Then i started playing.
How gorgeous are they??
How did i forget these were in my house??
How did i stop playing & get back to cleaning, sorting & tossing??
I really should set these up & create a header or logo or something??
So, i'm setting myself a deadline, Sunday morning i want to be able to wake up to a fully organised & functioning studio. So far i've tossed 3 garbage bags worth of junk & have 3 garbage bags filled with scraps/ remnants/ can't-bring-myself-to-throw-that-tiny-piece-of-fabric-yet. I'm going to bag up all my bits & sell them in $5 bundles at the next market, huge value, but in a 'share the love' kind of declutter. Then i'm going to set myself new goals about how i work, in my new half sized studio. I'm going to sell all my vintage Ts, toys & supplies on line in a huge sale.
Next week, oh la la, i'm going to reveal my new pigeon hole world's-most-organised-craft-shelving-unit-of-all-time (well that's the image in my head) on My Creative Space. Love Posie
Next week, oh la la, i'm going to reveal my new pigeon hole world's-most-organised-craft-shelving-unit-of-all-time (well that's the image in my head) on My Creative Space. Love Posie
