Cute pattern Julienm1. Makes me want to hit my scrap drawers.
Yesterday I managed to find places for everything in those boxes. It's amazing what taking several years to chip away at the disorganization and clutter in my multi-purpose studio has accomplished. Now the big thing in that room is keeping it organized and clutter free. I still have some clutter in the area where I store easels and keep buckets to dump my dirty water in after cleaning brushes, but that helps keep my dog from drinking the water out of the buckets so I'll leave it as is for now. For folks who paint using acrylics or watercolors, you might want to try this. I found out that those pigments getting washed into our water supply is a no-no. So what I do is use a big bucket to dump the water in from my brush cleanup. I then let it sit until the water evaporates away. You are left with a coating of paint skin dried on the bottom of the bucket, you can either peel that off and throw it away (apparently acrylic paint skins are safe for the landfills as they become inert once they are dry), or do as I do and just leave them in the bucket. Because I paint a lot, I have two buckets, one that I'm actively pouring paint brush cleaning water into and the other that has about several inches of water that I am leaving to evaporate. I've been doing this for the past 10 years or so and am still using the same buckets, they are holding up well and the water evaporates fairly quickly as long as I don't put more than a few inches in a bucket before giving it a chance to evaporate.
I'm taking a break from organizing today to work on some Christmas presents and my Big Butterfly UFO that I really want to finish this month.
Keep up the momentum everyone!
Rob