Moving On

Have you ever had an issue of having your creativity crushed by the room being too clean and neat? While it sounds like an excuse, clean, neat craft and sewing rooms really stifle me. I noticed them way back when I finally had a whole room to devote to scrapbooking.

Scrapbooking was a messy proposition for me. It always took stacks of papers, embellishments and more to create one page in my albums. Of course I did not use everything that was out, but I did need to get it all out to make decisions and to get inspired. On the rare occasion that I cleaned and put every little thing away, it would take days to get me back into my beloved room.

It is the same now with my sewing room. If all the fabric is put away, pins in their pincushions, thread in the thread boxes and so on, then I am not interested in sewing. Something about such a clean room is intimidating. I can wonder around in the room looking at this and that, but find it hard to settle.

So, to clean or not to clean? Of course right now there is no question. I have a big mess that is slowly getting put away – more about that later. But, what about when this mess is taken care of? I have about one more complete day to get it all done.

One way I do get around this and still get things put away, it to always have a project out and in mid task. That makes it easier to slide right back into the groove.

But there are times when it is necessary to get things all tidy. Like when company is coming. Or perhaps when the grandson is expected for a visit. At five years old, messy rooms are an invitation for disaster and MiMi’s house is supposed to be a fun place, not a disaster place.

So then what do you do?

Oh and here is just a portion of the problem.