And this one is called Life is Precious. It's my favorite manipulation. :)

Well, there you have it. Manipulations in all their manipulated goodness. I really love photoshop. Maybe someday I'll be able to buy a newer copy than 7. It's really outdated now, but hey, it's better than nothing!

Ok, so anyone who really knows me knows I'm not the neatest person in the world (possibly a serious understatement), but that I would like to be more organized. Even now, here I am blogging, when I should be cleaning up. I'm still going to, after I blog, but it feels like a daunting task at the moment. See, I don't just want to put the laundry away and do new laundry, I want to do a complete overhaul of the "things" in my life. Since I have such a hard time organizing, and staying organized, I know I just need less STUFF.

The problem with that however, is that when I start going through things I say, "no....but....I could use this someday!" Or, "but...but.....I really like this!" (even though I never use it) Or sometimes it's something that is still good, but no one else may want it (i.e. bath and body products...perchance partly used...or sometimes not). What would I do with them? Just throw them away? How wasteful.... Everyone and their brother gave me bath and body products for every Christmas and birthday for a few years. Now I have this huge collection of stuff I'll never use up until I'm 80.

So much of my things are like that. Stuff I just really don't know what to do with, but may be difficult for one reason or another to get rid of. Why oh why must I be a packrat? I already gave up a lot when I moved, because it just wasn't possible. I mostly took just clothes, some books, and my craft stuff. But still.....I'm feeling crowded. (Part of that may have something to do with the fact that I live in a room that was full when I got there, and it's about as big as some people's closets.)

I think it would be a good philosophy to live like I may need to move, and fit most of my things into a few suitcases if I had to. And whatever I don't use on a normal every day basis needs to be in some kind of organized storage, instead of disorganized chaos. You don't have to worry about straightening up your things if you don't have a lot of "things" to begin with.

So I'm going to try and get rid of a bunch of clothes. Clothes I haven't worn in a while, or things I just really don't need anymore. And everything else is going to go on those storage hangers. You know, the kind that you can load like normal clothes, but then collapses. I think those would be perfect for my closet, and a lot easier to use than the couple of verticle ones I already have. Then I'm going to go through all my paperwork and really file it, like it's supposed to be filed. Not just strewn here and there and everywhere. I have a filing box for them all, I just haven't used it like I should. So I have a lot of paperwork to go through and figure out.

Then I need to organize all my craft and business stuff. If I'm going to start up this business, I should at least be organized when I do it, so it makes my life easier.

Ok, well this post is getting ridiculously long, so I guess you just get the "art and life" part. "Other musings" will have to wait. Oh and I'm sure you'll be waiting, with bated breath.....

Labels: art, organizing, photomanipulation