This is my art room, which is one corner of a room that my significant other and I share. He has an office of sorts on the other side. At the moment, my corner is a mess, so I got up early this morning and started to clean. I do this about 4 times a year, and it usually stays pretty organized for a month or so, and then things get out of control.

All the stuff in the photo on the right was crowding my little black chair. It is about a year's worth of ephemera I need to sort into categories and/or colors. I do enjoy doing this, but I tend to get distracted by bits of paper and decide I need to use it that very minute, so I rarely ever finish sorting it all. This morning is different.

I have sorted all of it. Every last bit. And though the photo to the left looks like chaos, it makes sense to me. I have labeled storage in my art room for every bit of this ephemera. Well, actually, I don't. I have a pile of stuff that I know I won't use and I will just put in a bag and probably eventually throw away. I just can't throw it away at the moment because something might be useful. This way lies madness.

And my next project, after putting all the sorted chaos away, is to tackle my desk. It gets like this all the time, but only takes me a few minutes to clean up. I need to focus on keeping the desk clean because it will be impossible to do a handmade card every day if the desk looks like this.

Tomorrow card 1/365 will leave my house. And I am looking forward to creating one handmade card every day for the next year, and documenting here, and in a small journal that I will keep throughout the process. This will be fun! Thank you, Andy!