Mr. Clean and I have a date with the dirt...

So now that I have these beautiful refinished floors I've been cleaning like a mad woman. I spent yesterday cleaning the kitchen...and I mean pull-out-the-stove and clean where no one will see cleaning!

Today is the dining room. I am washing every single piece of china, crystal and sterling and putting it all back into my just polished hutch.

My husband thinks I have gone 'round the bend...so- no art making for me at the moment...unless you count housecleaning as art...

cleaning my studio - no art making

Since I got home from my summer vacation I've have not made any art. I am taking a break and 'filling the well', so to speak. After a long run of painting almost daily, I find I need to stop.

So I've been cleaning my studio. Dust had an amazing way of getting into everything! I love cleaning/organizing my studio- I discover things I had forgotten about- either art supplies I bought and forgot about or some cool trinket I picked up at an antique shop.

During these times of rest, I like to go back and look at my old journal entries. I often find inspiration from this. I have an 'idea' journal that I use to jot down ideas, thoughts and to keep samples of art from other artists who's style I like. Last night I stayed up late and went through my idea journal page by page, looking, remembering, thinking. I guess it is part of my 'well filling'.

I wonder how other artists fill their well- what do you do to rest and regroup? I would love to hear from other artists about your own personal well-filling process.

organizational skills

Or maybe it is more like...I can't find one matching sheet or towel set anymore...

A part of me is saying "don't you dare post these pictures"...but the the less sane side of the grey matter won out.

So...

Behold the mess...

And for your amusement, a close up (I cannot believe I am actually doing this).

Notice that the sheets and towels are in complete disarray...

No artmaking for me today...NO-SIR-EE! I got obsessed with cleaning out my linen closet. All week long it's been like this- obsessively organizing and cleaning. I figured that I would go with the urge, as it doesn't strike me often...

and now...(drum roll)... my clean linen closet, with matching sheets and towels.

ahhh.... :-)