Cleaning Up For Creatvity

I'm not a big fan of New Year's resolutions because, like most of you, I tend to set a high goal and then disappoint myself before February hits the calendar.  This year, however, I did set two goals in order to encourage my creative desires....one, to clean up and organize my scrapbook space; and two, to use up existing supplies before pouring more money into new supplies.  I hope you'll follow me here to see how I progress in both areas and I'll welcome comments with suggestions and encouragement!  :)

I am very blessed to have a dedicated room for my crafting, one that doesn't have to accomodate a guest bed or home office.  Unfortunately, having a 12 X 12 space seems to encourage my great drive to collect all manner of kitchsy and cute.  It also tends to become the family dumping grounds whenever we have an emergency let's-hide-all-the-junk-for-now moment.   Do you see where I'm headed with this?  Even though I have an entire room, I still struggle with keeping it organized and clean so I can get down to the business of cutting and pasting.

I've been working over the last several weeks to reclaim my scrapbook studio, purging as much as I could stand and paring down some of my knick knacks.  My wonderful parents, who have been encouraging my artistic side my entire life, contributed further by gifting me with an amazing Workbox for Valentine's Day!!  It has helped tremendously, stowing away nearly all of my embellishments and consumable supplies.  It's been such fun arranging the interior and I now have it just right and swoon every time I open the thing!  I plan to do a post soon showing more of how I organized the studio and the Workbox.  

Have you ever noticed how hard it is to clean up your scrappin area because you find so many cool things to play with?  Yeah, me, too!  I kept finding little bits and bobs here and there and my ADD brain would begin to piece together a card!  The good news is that while rediscovering "new old" embellishments and reviewing stacks of carefully hoarded patterned paper, I was greatly inspired and in the last week, I have been creating cards and even completed a layout for the first time in way too long!  Yay!!  It feels really good. 

Next I'll talk about my efforts to use up supplies and curtail spending on my passion, a topic I'm sure we all know far too well!  Thanks for visiting my blog and I'll hope you'll continue to visit me here.