Another weekend, time does fly!

Happy Sunday! I love my weekends, especially when there are yard sales! Can't say that they were the best this weekend, for having gone to three big community ones, there weren't too many people participating, funny, the weather was good. Hot but good. I did mange to get a few things, but honestly, did I need more?? No..........and if you saw on Facebook back some time ago, I posted pics of my basement, which I refer to as my "warehouse", you would sure know why I don't need more! I will share those with you and you will see.

 

Now as you can see, more is not what I need!

What I need now is time. I guess that is my major issue in life, time. I have too many things going on. Taking care of children all day for a living does not allow too much creative time. I try to grab an hour here and 2 there, but sometimes it gets overwhelming. The we have the yard and the house and oh my, what about me?? I think that me got lost in the basement.

Now as far as collecting this stuff goes, it is an obsession. Yup, that's what it is. I am not a hoarder, only when it comes to painting stuff, then ok, yup, I hoard. I see these wonderful things that people want to throw way and vision all kinds of gingerbread and snowmen and saltbox houses on them. You know, they talk to me!! If I could paint 8 or 9 hours a day, I could fill a store and then make that dream of painting for a  living come true. But then sadly, life comes knocking and it's kids and yard work and housework, "SIGH". Someday I keep telling myself, it''ll be the way I see it!

But anyway, the room I paint in is what we in this house refer to as, "the paint room", can be just as much an issue as the basement. I get lots of things going all at once, do I have attention deficit? Hmmm, maybe, big plans is more like it and not realizing that it all takes time, I am still waiting for my painting fairies to visit during the night while I am asleep, do you have a few I can borrow? The room is small, like only 8 feet wide and maybe 14 or 15 feet long. It was once a back porch that got closed in and we went a little further and insulated and painted and gave it new carpet. It is all windows, the sun comes up right here in the morning, I watch the birds and see the trees, it's a great room. I picked yellow for it to help me with my motivation issues. But this keeps the mess out of the living areas and is the first thing you see when you come in, keeping it neat is a challenge.

You can see that I have attention issues with all the stuff that has somehow, magically, appeared on my desk. Maybe the fairies were here, if they were, why haven't they finished this stuff yet?? I know, dreaming up new stuff!! I guess that I need to concentrate a little more, maybe put the kids in a closet with duct tape????????? If we didn't have to eat I wouldn't have to waste time cooking and cleaning that up, some more time found!!! Maybe if I didn't eat for a week or so, I could lose that last 15 lbs I have been trying to lose for a year and I would gain 3 more hours of painting time, YES!!!

I just must say, time is an issue for all of us that stay at home and work, I have always been real curious as to how others mange theirs. I feel overwhelmed many days and that leaves me feeling too tired to do anything at all. What about you?

And in case you are wondering, no I don't have little paths through my house with boxes stashed up to the ceilings, only in the basement, I don't like chaos that I have to live with daily, really I don't!! I have a fit if someone leaves a cup on the table or a dish on the counter! I feel obsessive compulsive! It's just those treasures at the yard sales that call me and I see gingers dancing around on that create problems for me!!

I hope you like the new blog background and layout, I wanted to be able to put a little more on it and I like the darker backgrounds, makes things stand out a little more. I had some help from Diana at Crocheted by Diana, I could not have done it without her for sure, and she has such infinite patience with me and my indecisiveness, I can't make up my mind and am very difficult to please. Thanks Diana!

As always, take time to count your blessings!