june at noon

I don’t have material for a proper post today, because I’m still busy working away at my organizing, rearranging, clearing up tasks. I got quite a few things accomplished over the last week, including washing, ironing, and arranging my gone-hazardous fabric stash. It feels good to get straightened out, and I’m going to carry on until I’ve gotten my whole list completed, hopefully by week’s end.

In the meantime, my brain is full of creative ideas, probably so many that I won’t be able to get to them all before I’ve lost interest or momentum. Better too many than too few, right?

I’m in a real organizing frenzy right now. There is a List of Little Things, small messes or unimportant things-to-do, like winding spare bits of yarn into bobbins and resorting fabric stacks and making up mailing supplies and so on. I just haven’t bothered with them because they weren’t big enough to really be noticeable if I didn’t do them. I’ve been happily ignoring them for a long time. But for some unknown reason, I’ve started minding them of late, and I just feel the need to clear it all out. I actually feel like I can’t be truly creative until I do, it’s nagging me that much.

So while I’m off busying myself with the Little Things, here’s a shot of someone else exercising her creativity:

Yes, it’s the ever lovely Jane Ann. Doesn’t she look happy with her chalks?

This week’s creative space is full of baskets.

A new work-in-progress basket, a Christmas gift from my mother-in-law. It’s the type used by scrapbookers, and it’s got lots of little pockets and dividers for storing things. Most of the things I make don’t require a carrier that big, but I’ve found it’s perfect for storing multiple projects that are unfinished, current, or future. It’s easy to keep all of a project’s pieces together and separate from others so that I can grab it quickly and pick up where I left off.

A yarn basket. This one has been collecting leftover bits of yarn in varying amounts, and it’s getting a little difficult to keep them all stacked in there. I recently discovered a tutorial for winding butterfly bobbins and have decided to convert to them in the hopes that they will be a little more stackable.

A basket full of goodness collected for the shop. This is where I keep my stock once it’s finished and waiting for new homes (along with a few Valentine’s surprises for the kids). I enjoy seeing the basket empty out, of course, but I do like to see it all filled up with pretty things!

As for actual projects, I’m putting things on hold for a little while so that I can finish some other, more practical tasks that I’ve been putting off. The shop has plenty of stock in it at the moment, so instead of working on an update for next week, I’ll be organizing, rearranging, cleaning, fixing…. Crazy person that I am, I will probably enjoy all of that just as much as the creative stuff!