Declutter Flu

Been away a little long. I caught the declutter re-organizing flu. I've still got a touch of it and it may be a long recovery. The good news is I am feeling a little lighter and less bogged down. May be able to go in my studio soon and work on creative projects without feeling the weight of all that needs to be sorted out and cleared away.
I feel like I'm making room. Opening up space. Making room for more clay projects and more multi media and collage play. I feel as if each thing I find a proper home for and each thing I release to a new home is opening up an area in my life that will allow for new friends and new work and new creative inspiration. Each little project that has been waiting because it was a low priority that I take care of releases that "I did it - I finally did it - energy!"

I didn't realize I was complaining about the mess and how it didn't work until my husband seemed so proud of me for doing something about it rather than having a meltdown over and over again about it.

Having to clear out my mother's home this year really taught me a lot about what's important. You can't take it with you. So I am finding a balance of keeping things I love - letting go of things that are getting in the way. Finding other ways to honor the past without allowing it to be a space hog crowding out the present precious moment.

I was at the library this week - looking for low fat cookbooks (another current project of mine). Along the same aisle, I passed the organizing books and Sandra Felton's book Organizing Magic leapt out at me. Now I realize reading about organizing doesn't get one any closer to getting the job done. But it looked like a little book to inspire me while I'm down with this declutter flu.....

Here are a few quotes from Felton's book:

Organizing is not nearly as important as many other things in life. But what it delivers often is priceless. - Sandra Felton

A year from now you may wish you had started today. - Karen Lamb, author

Every minute you procrastinate putting something back where it belongs is a cluttered minute. -Sandra Felton

A habit cannot be tossed out the window: it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
-Mark Twain

So, this is where I'm at......away from the computer mostly.....I have my clay work in an art show at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque. Next week - I'll show you the work - you had a sneak peak earlier here.

I'll leave you with some images from the last week of my sacred life - clouds - more clouds I can't seem to help myself they have been so magical this year