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Objects may Vanish or Appear at Will
Jun. 12th, 2016 08:20 amOr where are my eyeballs.
There is/was a TV show that Caroline liked when she was very young called Tiny Planets with Bing and Bong where they would go to different planets and do different things. One of the places they went to was the planet of stuff to which Ariel exclaimed at the time, “That’s Our House!”
We are the planet of stuff and it is a lot of different stuff that we have collected over the years. There are books and supplies. There is comic book art and costumes and puppets and well you get the idea.
Also I swear we have a pooka or two or one of the other wee folk that keeps moving objects around. Like the 6th Doctor Puppet that keeps appearing when I don’t need it and vanishing when I do. Which happens around here more times than I care think about.
Right now I have some fabric that I know I have that I need to find. I think I know where I put it last but if not the great fabric hunt of 2016 begin.
I do know where most of my eyeballs are but there is one package that I put in the wrong place that seems to be determined to stay in the wrong place when I could really use them right now.
I have learned that taking the extra 5 to 10 minutes to put things away correctly can save me between a half hour to an hour down the road. Sure it only took me 40 years to learn that but I finally did.
I read books on organization and drool over others studios with plenty of room for organization. My heart flutters in container stores. I do have a system but it only works for me and that doesn’t help the others in my household when I am not around.
Today is all about the puppets along with some writing. I have to put some puppets up and start on some bodies. I think I am going to complete a couple of bodies and then cloth them before starting on the next set dividing it between the sketch and the art shows.
I will say that I have kept the living room in better order this year rather than just letting it sink into piles of stuff so I know my mental health is better because the house tends to reflect my mind. So clean good and dirty not so good. And I can tell when I am slipping.
I will never be the perfect Good Housekeeping model but I can make the house work for us and we feel comfortable in it.
I am grateful for all the clever ideas for storage out there.
There is/was a TV show that Caroline liked when she was very young called Tiny Planets with Bing and Bong where they would go to different planets and do different things. One of the places they went to was the planet of stuff to which Ariel exclaimed at the time, “That’s Our House!”
We are the planet of stuff and it is a lot of different stuff that we have collected over the years. There are books and supplies. There is comic book art and costumes and puppets and well you get the idea.
Also I swear we have a pooka or two or one of the other wee folk that keeps moving objects around. Like the 6th Doctor Puppet that keeps appearing when I don’t need it and vanishing when I do. Which happens around here more times than I care think about.
Right now I have some fabric that I know I have that I need to find. I think I know where I put it last but if not the great fabric hunt of 2016 begin.
I do know where most of my eyeballs are but there is one package that I put in the wrong place that seems to be determined to stay in the wrong place when I could really use them right now.
I have learned that taking the extra 5 to 10 minutes to put things away correctly can save me between a half hour to an hour down the road. Sure it only took me 40 years to learn that but I finally did.
I read books on organization and drool over others studios with plenty of room for organization. My heart flutters in container stores. I do have a system but it only works for me and that doesn’t help the others in my household when I am not around.
Today is all about the puppets along with some writing. I have to put some puppets up and start on some bodies. I think I am going to complete a couple of bodies and then cloth them before starting on the next set dividing it between the sketch and the art shows.
I will say that I have kept the living room in better order this year rather than just letting it sink into piles of stuff so I know my mental health is better because the house tends to reflect my mind. So clean good and dirty not so good. And I can tell when I am slipping.
I will never be the perfect Good Housekeeping model but I can make the house work for us and we feel comfortable in it.
I am grateful for all the clever ideas for storage out there.
