(Still no wedding pics.)
Ah, I’ve been so focused on selling crap. It’s that need for money. Plus the need for an excuse to go out and buy more crap. But right now I’m in the mood to stay at home and enjoy decorating and cleaning the house. Did I say “cleaning”??? Hmmm… Maybe I need to see a doctor. That’s not normal for me. The staying at home and puttering is, but cleaning is definitely not! Oh, wait. It’s got so dusty, cobwebby and messy that it’s getting on my nerves. That must be the reason. And I want to organize.
I’ve also got the creative bug. Haven’t had it in awhile. Focusing on the shop then the wedding, my creative juices seemed to have dried up. Erin was gung ho, enthusiastic, wanting to make things for the wedding, but I couldn’t even get fired up about that. But that’s all past and maybe, just maybe I’m feeling a season change in the air which always makes me want to create. Don’t get me wrong. I love summer and don’t want it to go away, but there’s just something about a change in seasons that gets me going.
Anyway, I want to be creative, but my creative spaces are a bit… erm…. disheveled. This brings on a huge frustation. Trying to make my creative spaces functional and inspiring. Oh, how I wishIwishIwishIwishIwish I had a large room especially for me. A room I don’t have to share with anyone or anything else. I’ve never had that. For years my sewing space was a corner in one of the family rooms. Any other projects were done on the dining room table and I’m not one to clean up after myself, so they stayed, unfinished for months. Then the kids moved out and now the sewing “room” is one of their bedrooms. But what’s worse is that room also became the I-don’t-know-what-to-do-with-this-throw-it-in-Erin’s-room room. And the stuff has literally been thrown in. Actually, it would be carefully placed on her bed, but when she’d come home and spend the night the stuff on the bed was carefully placed on the floor – and left there. Then more stuff would be placed on the bed and later moved to the floor and the cycle repeated itself so many times that there is a mountain on her floor. Or should I say, “There’s a floor under there somewhere??” I think it would be so nice to have a room to sew in that didn’t have a bed taking up all the floor space. Or better still, a room big enough to sew and do other creative things in that not only had no bed, but had the wonderful things like we see in “Where Women Create”. But no. I have a 10′ x 12″ room with a bed in the middle and boxes and piles and just stuff. Fabric, button collections, sewing paraphanelia… I also have no time to work on it. Much. Maybe I can clean a couple of square feet a day. That shouldn’t be too intimidating.
I also have the back area of the shop. I’m cleaning it out to make room for some of Lisa’s overflow and so it won’t be quite so embarrassing now that I’m not the only person to have to look at it. Much of the junk is slated for a yard sale – to be had when that season change actually takes place. My vision for this area is another place to create. This would be the place I do all those projects I see in the Somerset magazines. I’ve got quite a collection of nifty things to create with. Just no time or place to do it. And for a long while, no motivation.
So what do I need? More time, more energy and functional spaces. Tomorrow, after I’ve been fully frustrated trying to organize an area, the mood might be totally gone.
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Things are working well with Lisa. I don’t find I have to chat with her customers – or not all of them – but do find it distracting that I’m trying to work with people talking just a few feet away from me. Not that they’re actually distracting to me, I’m distracted by the fact that I’m typing away while they’re over there talking. Kinda makes me feel weird. I do want to get the office arranged so I can work back there instead of right up front. ‘Course, then there’s the problem of having to get up every time I hear someone come in to see if they’re her customer or mine.
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I want to change the look of the blog again. I can’t get rid of that bold type. I’ve tried everything I can think of, but it’s persistent. And I have ideas of how I want it to look, but can’t quite form them into something I can do. Wish I had the money to hire someone, but if they charge over $10 I’m out. LOL
Time to get ready for work.
Wanda
missed you Wanda. Where women create…isn’t that a cool site. Some of the spaces are just too serene and clean if you know what I mean. Damn there I go with that rhyming thing again! I do so many different kinds of stuff, I can never seem to keep neat for 2 long. Once stuff is cleaned up, I get motivated and messy all over again…vicious circle! Get that bed out of your room…or at least downsize to a daybed that folks can still sleep on and you can sit on when no one is visiting. I phased the bed out of my son’s room years ago…got a couple inflatable matresses @ Sear’s and we’re good to go. Not classy like some of the guest rooms I drool over on blogs, but hey…works for me. YOU need the space! Have a great week *elaine*
Glad you’re getting back in the groove Wanda! Estate sales tax? Not here…not that I know of…never had it happen…
Sandi
I’m in the sales tax capital of the world — California — and I don’t recall ever seeing sales tax at any of the estate sales we have here. The pros here take credit cards, but so far no tax.
I’d have put everything back too — that’s crazy not to have discounted the hangers. I’m sure the family would so want those hangers back instead of cash, right?
I’m reading down the page — so really nice throw on a really nice chair
Jacki
Loved reading your “Oh how my moods change” post. It was like reading my own thoughts. So nice to see I am not alone in my struggle with my addiction to buy stuff or to stay home and work on the great things that I find. I’ve buckled down on going to less sales, I actually have passed some up reminding myself that I have plenty to sell on Ebay to make needed money and plenty to stock my booth. I have such a creative mind and have a backlog of projects that I want to complete. I come home after work and have been focusing on my work space and straightening up my piles of junk wishing it would all happen faster so I can get on with it already. And as far as the bedroom thing, I do exactly the same thing. Things are go on the bed and then I have to move them when my kids come home for a visit. So I just try to pace myself and remind myself that a little bit each day will get me to where I want to be. Stay focused on your goals and you will get there! Aim for a manageble point and remember that it is always a work in progress.
Also loved your bubble wrap post. I always get so excited when I get free packing supplies!
In Wisconsin I have paid sales tax at some professionally run estate sales but not all. I usually pay cash, not sure it that makes a difference or not.