what's in here?

I know this looks all pixelated. Perfect metaphor for life in the studio this week. Can't make anything out. Can't make sense of the place. When I opened this book awhile ago, I was surprised to see what I had done to alter it a few summers back. Last time at the beach, we found vintage books on the street piled up ready for the trash (not cool!) and altered them on a rainy day (lucky find!). One is still my favorite cut-up book. Anyway- I can't find anything in the studio...not even this book or the other. Everything is jumbled around and unorganized and piled here and there. Like a storm tide, it's continuing out of the room into other parts of the house. Whatever work I need to do requires a total sorting of bins and boxes and the scary looking piles. So, I guess that's what I have to do. Off then to surf the stuff- in a life jacket. But I won't be putting piles at the curb for the trash. The church is accepting donations....for the fall sale. (Can't wait!) xoC

 

   

Comments

[Mrs.Staggs]

I love your book Charlotte. It's beautiful. Some of your older collages are favorites of mine. I still have an issue of Romantic Homes that I saved because of an article that shows a few of them.
I can totally relate to the crafty mess. I'm slowly sorting through mine. I share my craft room with the guest room. Whenever anyone comes to visit, I end up stuffing things into boxes to carry into the basement, then I end up not remembering what's in them over time. I've even been known to run out and buy something that I know I already have "there" someplace!

[Tracy]

Good luck with the cleaning! Crazy as it sounds, I love to clean. My mother always said I was an odd child because I would clean my room for hours at a time, loving every minute of it.

Loving that altered book of yours. I'll have to keep that in mind the next time I find some old books!

[tea time and roses]

Charlotte..

The book is beautiful... I really love altered books, what a lovely way to recycle old books. You have inspired me to one day soon give it a try!

Smiles...

Beverly

[Diane Duda]

I may have you beat here.
My grandmother passed away a few months ago, and the task of cleaning out her house has fallen to me. So, I not only have piles of my stuff (and her stuff that I want) at my house, but also even bigger piles at her house for everyone else to go through.
Does that make sense?
Anyway... I hear ya!

[lauren Mumford]

Miss Charlotte! HMPH! I am sitting here on the computer trying to get my mind OFF the fact that I need to be doing exactly the thing you are talking about here! Thanks so much for breaking my computer induced reverie and reminding me of the tasks that should be getting done!
HMPH!
(heeheee...)

[deb]

The book is so wonderful and inspiring. And I'm lovin your new beachy-looking blog header!

[carolyn]

The book is great and I'm so pleased to hear that your de cluttered stuff is going to a good cause I can never quite understand folk who send their unwanted stuff to a landfill instead of giving it away.

[paige]

the altered book looks wonderful, pixels or no pixels!