The Chaos that is Me ...

I have a workroom. At some point it was called a study, but not much studying goes on anymore, so now it is just a workroom. It also doubles as my office, the laundry and a guest room. It gets messy very quickly. At the moment my desk houses my laptop, my scanner, stationery, various art materials, books, journals and correspondence, and filing that needs to be done. Oh, and some ironed laundry on the chair.

So when the desk becomes a bit crowded, some of the stuff gets shifted onto the floor next to my desk. Like magazines, boxes of pictures for collages, dictionaries for proofreading and editing jobs, baskets of clippings. Oh well, my second inspiration board takes care of six of the 7,834 pictures that I've collected. Yay. And look, on the bottom right are the (still wrapped) foldable cardboard storage boxes I bought to bring some order. Four months ago.

Of course, there is always my trusty old bookcase to take care of books.

Oops. I guess not ...

(The other six, scattered elsewhere in the house, are also overflowing.)

But wait! There is still some space on the sleeper couch, which I have cleverly converted into more workspace, by balancing a wooden board over the two edges. Yay, now I have space for my sewing machine and for extra books below. And the iron! Oh, yippee, I have found my old CD player! I was wondering where it was.

And all I really want is a workspace that looks like this:

And this ...

(From Marie Claire Idees, found via poppytalk)