Needs versus Wants...

2 Things: I am NEEDING to clean and reorganize my craft room (aka home studio) so that I can get to ANYTHING without having to step over EVERYTHING, and secondly, I am WANTING to keep ordering, creating, and selling, which requires use of said craft room. Under current conditions, it is a danger zone! I have thought many times that if I am not careful of where I step, I am sure drag the spinning wheel at least a foot across the room before I fall over it inadvertently when it catches onto my pant leg, which happens when I raise my leg to step around the containers of sparkle, locks, and silk lying on the floor next to the carder, which I cannot get to for all the bits of roving laying on the desk from batts now completed, or waiting to be completed. 

But I am sure most creative fiber artists stuck in a small studio have similar issues. Right? (Or at lea

st I tell myself that to get out of the "you really should clean-up around here" guilt trip I put on myself)! I DO have a fabulously organized huge closet, and have a pretty good system for my smaller groups of fiber, it's just that when you are "in the groove", carding, spinning, taking photos (another blog on this later... ugh!), packagin

g, etc., etc., one must actually pull these fibers from their neatly stacked and labeled homes. And this, my Fun

kyFiberFriends, is why I live in this Danger Zone. After all, if it were neat and tidy all the time, how COULD one create?

Until the larger studio...

On a side note, check out what I spun up from the PhatFiber June Fluff Box! One good sized skein (90 yds) of all the blues, greens, purples, & white samples that came in the box were spun up very randomly. The second skein is a mini (40 yds) that I created because 2 of the samples I received were coral and tan (roving and locks). I added a little of some gold mohair locks I purchased from Goat, Goat, Sheep, and out came this beautiful tail spun creation.