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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Uninspired. . .

My husband and I cleaned the kitchen table (my work area) for my daughter's birthday party and now I can't work. All that neatness and order drives the creativity right out of me. I really do need chaos and disorder to create anything. I don't know why. I can't stand a neat work area. I need a great big huge mess. The bigger, the better. When I had the entire table covered with beads, I was making and listing between 1-3 pendants a day. Now, I've come to a screeching halt. I need to find a place where I can make a mess and leave it. I can't clean up every day. It's counter-productive. Of course, half the time I can't find anything in my big mess, but I certainly can't find it when it's put away either. I need to find a balance. Or a new area that I can leave a little messed up. I wanted to get a big roll-top desk and have my mess on that and then just shut it when company comes. But my husband had to have this little useless antique secretary's desk. It's too small for anything. Now, I have to find something else to mess up.

4 comments:

TWO BEES IN A POD said...

agreed the messier the better!!!!

Unknown said...

I had to make a bit of a mess today. ;)

John Dyhouse said...

I entirely agree... unfortunately my wife insists that i clean up after me so I have had to move my crafting/art area up into our loft/roof space. Ofetn too hot or too cold and definitely too something or other all the time. But at least I can leave things how I want them. And I so agree about not being able to finf things when they are tidied away.
-John

Unknown said...

I hate putting things away!