I've cleaned my studio Woo Hoo!!

After the holidays my studio looked like tornado alley! Things were piled up to my nose and covered my floor to the point, one would have thought I was some sort of crazed hoarder. I have changed my piggy ways and totally revamped my storage & studio.  I like to call it "Controlled Chaos".
  I can actually find things now, because .. well it's all sorted, labeled and in containers. So far so good.
I finally replaced my plastic folding table from Costco and invested in a Martha Stewart desk. Her new line of craft units are really awesome, I was going to purchase the MS craft table, however after reading 55 comments on the 100 something parts,  the excessive amount of time and frustration the reviewers stated they experienced was enough to make me rethink that one. I bought the desk instead, the only assembly required was screwing in the legs. That was it! It has turned out to be an excellent choice. It has 2 drawers on the right, which allows me to keep my sculpting tools in the desk and off my work surface. The deep file drawer is now home for sketch books, books drawings. The center drawer, which would be for a computer keyboard is now home to my blank canvases.

 Since I work with clay, paints,glues etc, I opted to have a piece of glass cut for the top. It cleans up easily and protects the desk top.
 And look I actually have space to get some fun stuff done! It's all good! ~Susan

CHRISTKINDEMART IN AUGUST ! GIVEAWAY

To Celebrate the debut of the American Holiday Artists Studios Marketplace
***** AHA artists are hosting a blog giveaway ****
starting Aug. 25th!
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* THE GREAT AMERICAN HOLIDAY ARTISTS BLOG GIVEAWAY! *
To celebrate the debut of our new Marketplace our artists invite you to enter the world of Christkindlemart in the spirit of Europe's old world Christmas markets.
* Let us transport you to our virtual Christkindlemart marketplace. To start your journey,* grab your favorite hot beverage, then enter the winter wonderland of Europe, the air is crisp & *filled with the scent of freshly baked gingerbread, and huge decorated cookies hang from strings in the one of the brightly colored booths. Ornaments & tiny twinkling lights cover the* huge tree in the markets square, and before you is the first artist's virtual shop. * * * *
Each stop offers a chance to be entered into a prize giveaway just for visiting. There will be many chances to win, to participate leave a comment on this post along with your contact information should you be the winner of a blog giveaway prize. * * * *

Visit http://www.ahaartistsstudios.com/ for a complete of participating artists. I have listed all AHA artists to the left as well.

I will posting pictures my giveaway items later today