Monday, November 3, 2008

CREATIVITY AND CLEANING...




...mutually exclusive???

I used to create...it could happen again. I have included some pictures to remind me of the things that inspired me...Barbara Chapman's fabulous doll, as well as things inspiring around my house. Now I need to create my studio.

There is an infamous room in my house. Quite infamous actually. I have been "working on it" for 8 years. I have finally decided that the only way to work on it is with the help of a dumpster...no make that a group of teamsters.

This is a very large room 17 x 20 I believe. A perfect place for me to have a studio....in that fashion every room in the house will not have to be a "temporary" workspace. That b
eing said, I must sort through to make sure that I throw out nothing important. I have found things that made me cry (photo of Andy, card from Samantha to Clifford), things that made me smile (Susan Schneider lighting the candles with Clifford), and things that take me back to wonderful times (my first collage artwork under the watchful tutelage of Vicki Fish).

That, dear friends and critics, is why it takes me soooo long to
accomplish this task that seems so simple to everyone else. Everything I find is a detour through my life.

I feel that once I get this room cleaned out, my
creativity will begin again....and make no mistake I miss it!