Crafting - or rather, creating art - is SO much fun! And it is SO messy! And, dare I say, sometimes just a wee bit dangerous! Today I have been slowly slogging away at cleaning up my paper art area. I have made more than a few projects without tidying up and it has been getting deep around here. Hence the "perils" as stated in the title of this little essay.
"Perils?" you say.
"Why, Yes! Settle in and just let me tell you!"
Art can be dangerous. Just over two weeks ago, I was working in the Paper Arts Studio - ok, it's actually a corner of our bedroom - and as I worked, my Pokey Tool rolled off the desk and stabbed me in the leg. It is only just now healing up! Truth!
Today I managed to stab myself in the finger with the very same Pokey Tool. Teach me to try to open a jar of Crackle Paste with tools!
The carpet in the bedroom has seen a variety of creative accidents. Ink pads suddenly drop from aching hands - and no, they do NOT land on their feet like cats. They land face down on the carpet and swarp their hateful inky pads across the weave as you try to pick them up! And Heaven Help us ALL if you happen to roll your chair over them. We won't even TALK about that!
Tools go walk about on a regular basis, never to be seen again. Or they fall off the desk and hit the poor dog in the head. She gets very indignant when that happens! Three weeks ago, I lost the fancy diamond top to my glue press. Imagine! Found it today, under a ton of paper at the foot of my desk. I'm still looking for the holographic little stars that I bought from Amazon 2 months ago. They looked great when I took them out of the bag. And that's the last time that I saw them! Glue bottles suddenly fall off the desk and squirt glue all over the carpet. And trust me - Fabri Tac can remove the finish from a laminate floor. Ask me how I know, but Pahleeeeese don't tell my husband!
And so here I sit, at 9 pm at night, staring at a piled up desk - I've moved every pile to the center of my u-shaped desk - and I am writing a silly blog, while listening to a movie with one ear. (Ok, 1/2 an ear). I am determined to at least clear the middle portion of this desk before I go to bed because I have several crafty creative things I would like to get done tomorrow. If I only get all the stamps and dies put away, that will be great progress! And so, as I survey my kingdom, my Arty Domain, I make yet another promise to myself...Hereafter, I Will Clean Up As I Go. And if you believe that, well, I have some beach front property in Ohio that is for sale at a great price! Somebody please tell me I am not the only creative that has these problems! And remember - I share these ugly truths so that YOU don't have to!
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