Friday, October 20, 2006

Here I Go Again...

I'm going to clean up my sewing room. Yes. Wish one of those television organizers would appear and help, but adherence to an organized life would probably not last very long. Since I'm on my own, maybe just clearing off my cutting table (read: location of all miscellaneous fabric, tools, books, etc. that have not been put away) is a good place to begin. Not only is the normal pile of fabrics there, but items collected from other places in the house where I've littered (brushes from the kitchen sink where I cleaned them and instead of putting them back where they belonged, dropped them here; the plastic cross stitch kit I bought for Mila, but failed to interest her, etc.)




Just last week all was in order; not wonderful or well-organized, but clean and cleared. Even my desk was orderly -- all papers filed, no coffee rings, pens and pencils put away, dusted. Some people never learn to make cleaning after themselves a habit...no matter how many attempts have been made, how many resolutions posted, how many oaths pledged.


The one thing I can do is get it done when the realization of just how bad it is finally becomes apparent. So rather than clean up after myself each day, I'm reduced to a weekly horror show.

9 comments:

  1. Isn't it amazing how quickly the studio/sewing room can becom a diaster? I find it impossibole to keep a really neat work space because if I do, I am not getting any creating done!

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  2. Doesn't look too bad to me =-) I'm intrigued by the things hanging on the wall behind the table...Have fun! I need to join you in a big clean up...

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  3. Gerrie - I know, keeping everything clean all the time would slow any project to a crawl, and we'd probably get bored and abandon it. I would like to halt the mess while I could still find the table, though. :)

    Debby - Post a picture before the big clean up! The stuff on the design board is usually something I make that has no purpose (don't know what to do with it yet) or else I just don't know where to put it. I have another design wall, but this one is almost impossible to get to because of the table.

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  4. There's something about a nice empty cutting table that invites things to come and live there ... when you find out how to prevent this, you'll be able to sell the solution and make a fortune!

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  5. Margaret - I'm waiting for someone else to find the solution. I'll be the one buying!

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  6. are you gonna post an after organizing pic? :) i'm a clean fanatic but hopelessly very cluttered.

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  7. Maybe. If I ever get it finished. :) I start the organizing and then leave the room. There is more stuff than places to put it.

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  8. LOL That's exactly what I do. I call it project cleaning, because cleaning is a project rather than a daily occurance.

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  9. :) Yes, every project makes a mess that becomes a project so that you can start another project.

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