The mind is working...

If only I could get the hands to start creating. I have vines and leaves on my mind lately. Ideas pop up at weird times, when I can't write them down - like when I'm driving. I see company logos on trucks, vans and billboards ("put up a bill board upon a hill, because those billboards give me such a thrill" - a song from camp, am I scattered?) and they make me think of shapes I could use in my claying.... if I were getting to the table!!!

My living space is as scattered as my mind. Or maybe my mind is scattered and cluttered because of my scattered and cluttered living space?

Caring for 2 more people, who have lots of appointments and lots of needs, is making it hard for me to focus on anything.

Help!!

"Slip slidin' away...
Slip slidin' awaaaaaay....
You know the nearer your destination,
the more you're slip slidin' awa-a-a-y"

Slip Slidin' Away by Paul Simon

a few "before" pictures

I have been working on the space so it looks better, now. Marginally. No after pictures, yet. These photos are of the clay area. The one on the left is looking across the table. The one on the right is the right side of the table and a little bit of the shelving.

I have not yet brought the downstairs portion upstairs; this is what I left upstairs and have been dreading facing for months and months. Maybe even a year.

I am uploading a video I took with my camera before I started sorting and tossing. Notice that I almost trip over debris as I'm walking in. I decided not to narrate it. I'd love to hear from others who understand where I'm coming from....



I almost have enough room cleared now to start pulling some boxes down to pare down what's in them. Fabric doesn't do you much good if you have no room to put your sewing machine!!!