Make It Monday: Moving Day

I did not make anything yesterday, but I did move my desk to a different orientation in my office/craft basement room. That has resulted in a huge mess, but it has also allowed me to see things and evaluate how things are arranged in my living space. It was worth the strain on my back to have a new orientation for my working space.

I am almost finished with the transition. I still need to move things off the desk and into more permanent locations, but I am not finished figuring those places out. I have invested in lots of different types of storage options for all the different things that I have collected, so I am trying to figure out where these things will live from now on. The main problem that I have is that I have to remove things from places so I can fill those places back up with other stuff...

As I move things, I often find inspiration in the form of notes or resources that I have collected and then not looked at for a time. I have old ideas that I want to develop further written on post-it notes. There are theme ideas and half-finished products in stacks of paper. It is easy to get distracted by the thoughts that swirl around in my head as I move things and sort things as well. I try to sort as I go, but then I feel overwhelmed and have to abandon the entire project in favor of rest.

Perhaps my "Make It Monday" project was making a new environment for me to work in. 

There are eight work days left, and I am feeling scattered. I am ready to sleep until I can sleep no more. I am ready to say goodbye to my current clients and my co-workers. I am going to finish moving things to my house and continue to sort things into piles - donate, sell, keep, trash. 

Once I have those piles, I can keep the process going by assigning places for the things I am keeping, and moving things to those places. I dream of having a full inventory of all the things that I have for my music therapy sessions so I can go straight to what I want when I want it. That's my dream and is something that I am good at - once I get everything sorted. 

In my work situation, I have an organizational structure that makes sense to me. I am not sure it made much sense to my interns, but that was one of the things that I insisted on. I made my interns use my organizational structure rather than trying to make their own. This was after one set of interns completely rearranged our storage and put things in places where my brain could not go into automatic mode. After that, I asked interns to keep my organizational system as it was so I could find what I needed to find without having to stop the flow of the session to search for the shaker eggs. It takes some time to get used to new ways of doing things, but that is part of what my next iteration is going to be - new ways of doing things in my music therapy existence.

This weekend is my third crop weekend at my local craft company, and I am trying to figure out what I am going to take with me to work on. It is an entire weekend crop, so I will have lots of time to work on stuff - potentially thirteen hours (if I stay the entire time, which I don't usually do). I need some projects. I think I will take my LOVE book and do some personal journaling and some book making projects that I have in the works. I might also make cards. We'll see.

I like these types of crafting opportunities. I am less likely to sign up for the card making project classes than these crops. I do not feel like I need to be told where to put things when making projects. I prefer to work on my own things in my own way. Perhaps I will also take my trip book and finish up the winter trip journaling as well as my trip to Brick Con earlier this year. I am behind in that journaling. Lots of things to make and take.

It is now time to get going to my job. I hope that kids will be able to swim this week (they are very tired during swim season which tends to be a good thing), and I will move into the last two weeks with a positive attitude.