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Do you remember that last post about "Conquering the Cluttered Room"?  I need to revise the goal I asked you to hold me accountable to, as there's been a slight detour.  That wonderfully inspiring room painted to bring me to the right attitude...is no longer the craft room.

You see, we inherited a trundle daybed I've had my eye on my entire life from my grandparents' estate.  There is one place in my little house where it would fit so the "craft room" has now become the "guest room".  In other words, it's where Mom and Dad stay when they visit.

Do I throw in the towel on the idea of being creative?  NO!  I took a little tiny corner of the basement that was the office area, turned it around, stuffed some weird little tables in there and deemed it the new "Art Studio Workshop" - catchy, huh?  I am expecting that with a title like that, it's going to be the home of great things.  :-)

There have been a few bumps in setting all of this up.  We tried to move a couch from upstairs down to the basement (oh, that's where the Art Studio Workshop is) but it didn't fit through the stairwell.  We tried different tables but they were all too big.  Now, without any furniture to speak of to sit on, it looks like the TV area has plenty of room for all of those tables that were too big.

One More Thing...

Does it take much to throw you off track and stop your momentum?  Or, are you good at perseverance?  What do you tell yourself to keep you going?

Take care, and I'm always here to pray for you or simply to connect with.

Lois Lynn

Conquering the Cluttered Room

I have a craft room in my home.  It's a special place that is painted bright yellow - Kayak Yellow, was the actual color name.  You can imagine it I'm sure - picture the sun and add a lemon drop.  It's deliberately colorful, with the hope of creating inspiration.  In addition to the yellow, you'll find lots of red and bright blue.

It doesn't work.

This wonderful room, nicely laid out with all my craft stuff in the right places simply doesn't work.  The other detail is that I have a very small home.  You probably guessed what's coming next - my glorious little craft room has a nickname.  "There"  When we find things that don't have a home, we look at each other and say "throw it in There".

Well, I've reached my breaking point.  I want to create stuff, I want to paint, I want to stamp, I want to glue, etc.  So...with a few hours of love this past weekend, we found the craft room once again.

I'm telling you this to inspire you to "find that lost room" that you've buried and also so you will hold me accountable.  My goal is to post a photo of one of my paintings by the end of the month.  I've never really painted anything before, so it's just going to be some random expression that happens to use paint.  I didn't want you expecting an exhilarating watercolor or anything like that.

One More Thing...

What inspires you?  Is it a dream or a room?  Is it buried?  Can you dig it out?

Take care, and I'm always here to pray for you or simply to connect with.

Lois Lynn