Creative Clutter
No matter how much I try to clean, this room always appears messy.
Unless you are a crafter, you probably don’t understand how someone could love being surrounded by so much stuff. I have been involved in some form of arts & crafts as long as I can remember. I think my earliest recollection of crafting was when my mother was pregnant with my sister who is five years younger than I; so I must have been five. I recall taking a walk with her in the fall of the year and gathering beautiful leaves that had fallen. When we got back to the house, she took out the waxed paper and tore off a piece; then she told me to arrange the leaves on the waxed paper. After that, she put another piece of waxed paper on top and ironed the paper which melted the wax and [basically] fused the two pieces together.
I recall someone giving me a small sewing machine and I learned to use it. Eventually I took every Home Economics class I could, and enjoyed sewing more than others.
I learned ceramics when I was in about the sixth grade. Years later, I worked for a while in the ceramic shop on the Naval Base in Key West FL where I poured many molds.
There was a cross stitch era as well as tole painting for several years.
I’m sure I’m forgetting something, but my point is that I have done some form of crafting all my life. Nothing kept my interest, nor excited me as much nor as long as crafting with paper: scrapbooking and rubber stamping. I simply cannot get enough! There’s always a new technique to learn; someone is always coming out with a new, amazing product or using an item in a way I’d never thought. I am constantly inspired and amazed by all that others do.
The pictures on this spread were taken a few years ago. I stood in one corner and took a picture of the opposite corner, then moved around the room doing the same so that I could document all that was in there at the time. What a mess! Taking whatever I could find that might be useful to work on/with, the room filled up quickly. Then, I moved most of it to the other house last year and had a wonderfully huge room in which to work, but didn’t have an appropriate table…so Santa brought me one!
Everything fit much nicer in the bigger room.
When we moved everything back to our house, the table came along and went into the same room I used before. We “repurposed” the big corner desk to our son, and the small white table is still folded up elsewhere. The big black table is in the middle of this room too as well as some other storage items around the perimeter walls. As big as this table is, and as much room as it has, I am ever amused at how the space on which I am working shrinks to less than 12″ square. No matter where I am working, the same thing always happens!
For the spread, I used the Retreat 2008 kit from ClubScrap with the addition of a rub-on from Close To My Heart and googlie-eyes in the two zeros in the date…which somehow seemed appropriate! The design was made using the ALSB patterns for the kit. The letters were cut out with my QuicKutz squeeze tool using the Typewriter font.
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