Spring Cleaning

Since today's post is about Spring Cleaning, I figured it would be fun to show you some pictures of my massive reclamation project to reclaim some personal space in my house. And I thought I would share my work-space with you.

The first pix is my current work space. The other two room shots show my progress at about the 80% point.

And the 4th picture, the painting, is a called "The Studio."

I don't know about spring cleaning.... Never really understood that concept, but I was raised by wolves.

What I've been doing lately is clearing out, cleaning out, getting rid of things I have no use for anymore. And it is Spring.... So I guess, this is the first spring cleaning of my life.

So far this year I've completely reclaimed an entire room from being a soul eating pit of clutter. It was so overwhelmingly cluttered that we would open the door, shudder then quickly close the door. No way to even know where to start. But that room is now my studio/craft room. I just decided that the far corner would be the perfect place to put my work table.

I literally carved a path to the back corner, stacked stuff on other stuff, hauled a work table up from the basement *(at 4 am no less!) and just went one piece at a time until the room is mostly done. I did NOT do this as a marathon cleaning/organization session. Instead I did this in chunks of 10 to 15 minutes at a time. Sometimes I went longer, but mostly it was little tiny sessions that got it done.

I had wanted to paint the room before I put it together, but that was not going to happen, not this year anyway. And I wanted a place where i could be, that was just me.

It's funny. When I started cleaning and organizing that room, I was not paralyzed by the clutter. I was not owned by it, It had no power over me. It still has no power over me. And that amazes me. It's only been since my BLA that I've felt this freedom, and I'm not sure where it comes from. I haven't had a High since the BLA, and I'd had plenty of Lows before, so I don't think it's connected to that sort of cycle.

The next/current project is laundry. I think I have about 8 loads that need to be folded, and there are probably 5 or 6 more loads that need to be washed. Think I need to go through and weed out some fabrics????

I still have so many boxes to go through though. Condense and condense and condense.