Piles & more Piles

 There are days when it feels like I am just rotating piles since I have tried to absorb so much of my mama's studio into mine. I have huge piles for my oldest niece but, I did keep back a bunch of things that I think I may play with eventually ( if I can stop tripping over the piles that is) and so, every so often I buy some new storage thing thinking this is going to help. today what came in the mail was this galvanized magazine holder from Amazon. ( its flimsy) it will do what it needs to do but, I need to have it bracketed by things sturdier than it to keep it from I think having those dividers snap off. I like metal things so when they knocked the price down a little I thought well, its about the same as buying a stack of the clear plastic ones from Micheals. ( I think the plastic ones are sturdier actually) 

 So I shoved it in the corner on top of the file cabinets managed to get some magazines into it. (I had a small pile of Stampers Samplers and take tens that I had not donated to the library and she had binders and binders full of magazines mostly from the UK that have tools in them, stamps or folders or dies. and I didn't mail the binders to my self just the magazines and tools so, they have been in piles. I started out putting them into job ticket holders from Amazon and ( I need many more packages of those) These are the same things I use to hold say Tim Holtz cling stamp sets. I just trim them down to 8 1/2" so that they work like pockets. Anyways the basket in front of that has stencils in it. Another thing that takes up some space that I keep moving around trying to find a home for them where I might actually look at them and or use them. They are kind of like embossing folders in my space and I know I have them but, they don't get used much. 

 This lead to me burying the top of the table and I need a little room to make some kind of a sample for the Inspiration challenge tonight. I had moved my markers and pens back to the table and this has not been touched since I put it on top of the file cabinet. I am debating about how much of those pens I should keep as. I find that what I am really enjoying the last few years is water coloring. I do sometimes pull out a pen to do some details into crevices but, for the most part I do not touch these I guess I should also make time to see how many of them are even juicy anymore. I will figure it out eventually but, I had to laugh at my self I used to play along with the Wednesday whats on your work desk blog hops way back when and I enjoyed seeing how other people organized things. So, if you ever wondered what it really looks like besides the finished projects or cropped shots on the table, this is a peek into the reality I am doing at the moment. I tell my self it will get better. I think I will be letting go of things faster than I intended to get there but, better days are coming and they are called Saturday & Sunday. Thanks for stopping by.