Clearing Space

My kitchen peninsula has been a mess since I started using it at as my painting space. Yesterday I decided it needed to be cleared off. It's often our lunch space and lately there has been no room for eating there.

It looks so much better!

Except that now it's all on the dining room table...

We rarely eat in there so I have a little more time to get organized. It won't happen today.
The clay is calling and there are piggy banks that need assembling.

Out with the old...

One of the by-products of doing paper work is cleaning out some clutter. Jeff and I have a big coffee table with four drawers. I love having the drawers, but we all know what happens with drawers... they collect "stuff". When I was entrenched in paperwork, I realized I was missing an important paper. I decided to completely empty a couple of those coffee table drawers, thinking that it might have gotten lost in the "stuff". The handy thing about these drawers is if you have unexpected company arrive, and the table is covered with paperwork, you can quickly hide it away in one those nice big drawers. Unfortunately some things become lost in that black hole of a drawer.

What I was looking for was not in the drawer, but I decided that the stack of old Clay Times magazines didn't need to reside there anymore. Before I could bring them upstairs and place them in the plastic bin that holds my collection of pottery magazines, Jeff started to look through them. Needless to say, they haven't made it upstairs. Now I want to look back at them. I am sure I will find articles in there that didn't interest me 10 years ago... yes, those issues have been in that drawer for nearly 10 years. They even made the trip from New Hampshire to North Carolina in that drawer. I plan to spend a little time with them this week and then they will find their new home in the plastic bin... because I just can't bring myself to throw away ceramics magazines.

My mother would have thrown the old one out when the new one arrived. How about you, do you save certain magazines? Or are you good about getting rid of the clutter?

de-cluttering

it's a gorgeous almost spring-like day here in new hampshire. my plan was to do some laundry, go for a walk and then head to the studio for the day. i got a little sidetracked by my incredibly disorganized office... it was getting to the point where you could hardly see the desk top anymore. it took half the day to sort through stuff and put things away.

...i was too embarrassed to take a before picture

...the fun thing is my friend cindy called to chat and she was organizing her clutter as well... so we were able to catch up on stuff and get our work done at the same time!

...off to the studio now to assemble some oval bakers and get some more glazing done. i promise that the next post will really be about pottery and not this boring mundane stuff.