I need to clean the Dirty Footprints Studio. It has become a total disaster. Not good.
I use the studio for art making, yoga practicing, computer surfing, impromptu dance parties, and hanging out. I love my studio!! It has a great huge closet to keep everything in, a juicy red rug that I do all my creating on...and in one corner is a set of great windows where I keep an alter--a constant reminder that this room is sacred.
But creating has been at a minimum lately in the studio.....and I know alot of it has to do with the mess that is building up.
So, I'm making another Art Every Day Month pact here (my first one was that I would buy guitar strings and start rocking out again!!!).....I AM GOING TO CLEAN THE STUDIO THIS WEEK!!!! I am going to wipe the dirt, get rid of the clutter, and organize my stuff again---to make room for a plethora of paint drips, charcoal dust, and a new round of sticky mod podge spills!!!
Just because the Dirty Footprints Studio has been less then par, doesn't mean I haven't been creating! That's when my Dirty Footprints Traveling Studio comes in handy (pictured above)!!!
I get emails often from Creative Juicy Lovelies expressing that the THING keeping them from living the artist life their heart longs for is that they lack space. That's when I tell them about the Dirty Footprints Traveling Studio! You don't need a lot of space to make art--to art journal--or to get those creative juices flowing!! Noway!!! You don't even need an old Samsonite traveling case--but it sure makes it more fun!! For years, before I fell in love with my baby blue suitcase I found at a thrift store, my traveling studio was an old tool box I picked up at a garage sale. Anything you can keep some supplies, a plastic table cloth, and a few trinkets that inspire and remind you that your present space is sacred is enough to constitute for a sufficient traveling studio. I know the wonderful Leah at Creative Every Day has a little traveling studio she keeps in a picnic basket---how stinking cute is that!?!?!
So....don't let poor housekeeping, lack of room, or a small studio apartment keep you from creating and living your Creative Juicy Life!! Decorate a cardboard box, ask Granny if you could have her old luggage, dump your hubby's tools into a garbage bag and claim the box as your domain, or simply spend the weekend cruising the aisles of your near by thrift store. Your studio is waiting for you...your life as a working, Creative Juicy artist, is in your grasp!!
And if you do get a new Traveling Studio...or already have one...I'd love to hear about it. Share!! Share!! Share!!......please.
Peace & Love.
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See if you can't get hold of some lavender and put it in a pot on your altar. It's a favorite of Hestia, goddess of home and hearth. (I've been snipping lavender and moving it around all week while I scrub my house from head to toe.)
Good luck!
I love traveling art studios!! Even if you have the space, being able to pick up some supplies and change up the scenery is a beautiful thing.
Hi Connie,
That suitcase is sooo adorable!
You gave me another idea for my blog post tomorrow!
Making zines at a cafe (next to a copy shop ) with a friend.
Oh My!
Love the suitcase!
I have learned to create this way if I'm going to get to create at all.
My "studio" is upstairs. Since I haven't been able to get up the stairs in the past year, supplies have had to be brought down for me to work at the kitchen table.
And with the Art Every Day thing...wow...what a mess! :D
And I just remembered that I've got to finish that art journal and clean off the table....birthday girl and her siblings will be here for dinner on Sunday. YIKES!!
But maybe I'll take pictures first.....hmmmm.....
Wonderful idea! My studio is a mess and I'm in the process now of doing a clean out (came down here for a coffee and a peek at what you are up to!). I feel cramped and unproductive when I'm surrounded by clutter. My additional problem in there is that one of my son's prefers to sleep in there -- it's the spare bedroom the elder one uses when he's home from University but the younger likes the sunlight and the warmth as it's over the furnace room! Trying to carve out a space that is just for me is tough -- but a traveling studio sounds lovely!
Another great idea! and so cute too!
I need to clean my room too, I'll help you if you'll help me!!!
xoxo,
ja
aedm
I love your idea for a traveling studio! Common sense and creativity united. Wonderful and you made it really interesting too. I bet it's lots of fun to bring it out. Now, I need to make one. Thanks for the idea.
Yes yes yes! I have been a gypsy since August, living out of a bag and travelling from one friend's house to another... (just got out of the military and haven't settled back down)... Right now, my traveling studio is in a plastic bag but soon, oh so soon, it's going into something more inspiring... :D Thank you!!!
A traveling studio. I so love this idea - I can't even tell you! Connie could you please please please show us and tell us what is inside that juicy blue suitcase!? I have two reasons for wanting to see inside. The first reason is practical. I want to join an art club that meets Saturday mornings and I REALLY need to make something like this. The other reason is that I'm a total voyeur at heart and just love to see what other artists are up to!! Pretty please with sugar on top!!
Brilliant! I must admit that I get all jealous of those artists who have a nice, big dedicated space -- which I don't have. :( But I do have a bright yellow -- and currently empty -- picnic basket.
I feel inspired. Thank you!
I love this idea! Love your colourful bag!
Mine isn't so much a travelling one as working out of tubs! I park them on chairs in the dining room and pull out what I am working on.
Eventually I will get my studio but this works for now.
I absolutely love this post and the photo and the whole idea of portability and do what you can where you are -- or MOVE and take it along with you! Brilliant. Thank you for sharing this.
The plastic tablecloth -- genius. I'm always so worried about getting paint on may landlord's fancy rug. (And I have done it, managed to get it out, don't want to go through that again!!)
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