Spring Cleaning Challenge

Well, the gauntlet's been thrown down. I and a very special person have made the challenge to each other to have our over-cluttered, box-filled, less-than-picture-perfect studios in ship-shape within 30 days. I (if I want to be smug about it) have the excuse of just having made a major house move. This could be positive or negative, depending on how you want to look at it. It is, however, a perfect time to do some major purging. And I want my studio to be a clean, welcoming place for me to go to each day to work. Who doesn't?

This is not exactly the kind of picture one would find in Studios magazine, or Where Women Create, now is it? No, this is not where I want to find joy in creating each day. This is a place I want to escape from each day! But just you wait, in 30 days this ugly duckling will be a beautiful swan, ready and waiting to be everything a studio should be.

Want to join the challenge? Then do it! If your studio, sewing room, creative space is not too bad but you do have that one closet that no one is supposed to open... then accept the challenge to make it right. Spring clean it!

On 18 April 2009, I will show my before and after pictures. And I'm pretty certain that this very special person who has made this challenge with me will also have her before and after pictures to share with you.

If you want to share your own room make-overs, feel free to leave a comment with links to your before pictures here. On 18 April you can share the amazing progress you have made in your own personal creative space. Let's get cleaning!