one corner of my storeroom….
I confess – I’m a packrat. My DH is even worse. Therefore it is fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on your preference) that my tolerance for clutter is rather high.
But face it – in order to put things away, there must be a place to put them! And when your stuff outnumbers the places to put them there isn’t much option left but to put the stuff in boxes and stack the boxes where ever there is room to stack them.
Which is one reason why I’m determined to use up some of my stash. No stash, nothing to put away……….
So it is that I am digging into the box in the foreground with the bit of white showing. This is the box with the painted soy protein and Tencel warps that I have been steadily picking away at for – oh it seems like months! In fact it probably has been months. :} And it will be some months yet because there are 12 more painted warps in that box, each warp producing 4 scarves. At a week (average) per warp, that’s another 3 months before I’m done. Not counting the time I’ll be away beginning in September…….
And then you see the box behind that one? The one piled high with more warps? Yup – another box full of painted warps destined to be shawls.
The shelves above the boxes are filled with mostly wool that I use in workshops. It’s not enough I have my production stash, I also have my workshop stash. The yarns that I send out for the various topics I teach. And then of course there’s my re-sale stash.
Then there are the binders full of handouts and bins of teaching samples to store somewhere.
Last but not least there are the drawers full of paperwork necessary to run a business. Not to mention various and sundry parts and pieces of booth apparatus for doing shows, a box or two of loom parts I daren’t get rid of in case they are needed late some night for emergency repairs, tools, and accessories required for the weaving process etc.
Is it any wonder I close my eyes to the mess most times and call it ‘creative chaos’?