All right, you want to hear my fantasy? Do you? Are you ready for this?
There I am, at a neat, orderly work table, with all my tools before me in clockwise order.
All my beads and crystals are sorted by color, shape and size.
The cap is not glued to my epoxy.
I know where everything is and I can easily reach it.
All my dichroic pendants are perfect, even, and have matching earring drops.
I have every kind of finding, clasps, earring hooks, bails, headpin, string, and wire, in all the right colors.
I have a nice cup of tea in reach, a healthy snack, and classical music is softly playing.
No stacks of books falling into my jewelry-making work area.
No dirty clothes on the floor.
No piles of shoes that didn’t make it back to the closet yet.
No heaps of necklaces I’ve worn and not put away again yet.
No computer behind me that needs updates run and a full backup way overdue.
No bills that need attention splayed out on the desk.
No dirty water glasses wait to be taken to the kitchen.
All my finished work is cleaned, price-tagged, and sorted, ready for the next sale.
Everything is Mis en Place.
See? I told you it was a fantasy.
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In looking for a photo of a messy studio online, I came across this site: http://www.beadbugle.com/html/bead_studios_of_our_viewers_-_.html which had a contest for neat/messy studios. Here is a photo from there. It isn’t my studio, but my work table would qualify on the messy side….
