Where Bloggers Create

I've seen so many beautiful work spaces and offices in the last week that are participating

in the "Where Bloggers Create" party at My Desert Cottage.  

I wish I could show you my beautiful, inspirational space where I create,

but I don't have one.  Oh...I have a space where I create, but it's anything but

beautiful and inspirational.  It's really not even functional at the moment,

but just so you can see what I true slob I can be, here it is, in all it's glory.

This is my "office".

In my defense, it looks even worse than normal because I removed a large

counter that held a lot of the junk you see stacked all over, because I may

be using it for another space.  But...it's still bad.  I don't have any air

conditioning, so I actually haven't worked in there at all in several weeks - 

it's just too blessed hot.  I share this space with wasps.

I want you to know - I'm not incapable of organization, I just don't want to take the time to do it.

Most of my days are spent taking photos for my shop listings, packing and shipping, answering emails, working on the remodeling inside our house and blogging.  After doing all that, the last thing I feel like doing is cleaning and organizing a hot, messy office.  But, if you don't believe me, it looked like

this before all the remodeling started inside our house last November.  All right, I admit, I think I took

this photo about 10 minutes after moving the desk in the room (which is an outbuilding) when we moved in, but it was clean and organized for at least a week.

 This is my sweatshop workshop.

It looks like it should be declared a disaster by FEMA.
As you can see, I have a chair addiction and no place to go with them,
so chairs and parts of chairs are stacked on my counter.  They've been a second level shelf.
I got boxes and boxes full of books and magazines last fall, that stack is just
a small portion of the magazines.  Believe it or not, I've gotten rid of most of them,
this is just the stack I haven't gone through yet.

 I had such good intentions for it when we moved in.

I thought that having my own workshop would be like a creative dream come true.

I had this big, blank slate to work in - it was going to be wonderful.

I was even going to use that walk in cooler as a paint booth.

And then I moved in...and went to lots of auctions.

Why did I think I needed 6 bed head and footboards?

I have no idea, but they were such a good deal, surely I'll think of something, right?

I actually may do something with them this week...possibly.

 More junk and a 7th headboard.
Finding what I need is often like looking for a needle in a haystack.
I have a door addiction too, but thankfully I've found uses for all but the one you see at the back.

Well, that's the grand tour of where I create...or where I'd like
to create, if I ever get the mess cleaned up.
Until then, I'm making new messes creating inside my house.

I'll be back later today to announce the winners of my
blog birthday giveaways.  I promised my youngest son he could draw
one of the names, and forgot to do it before he went to bed last night.
It's 3am now, so once I crawl out of bed in the morning, I'll have him
do it and will let you know who won what.

Blessings,
Angie