Declutter Challenge Accepted

 As I've lamented about in several posts, my studio is a disaster area and I completely lack motivation to get it cleaned up and organized.  So when my favorite blogger/you-tuber, Karen Brown announced a declutter challenge, I felt like I had to join.  It is to be a 3 week daily challenge to help you get your studio together.  It starts on 1/11/21 and goes to 1/21/21.  I am excited to see what I learn.

But I did not wait to get going on this project. This is half of my studio. The floor has been swept and mopped, the bins have been re-stacked and somewhat organized. This took me most of last weekend and a good deal of work each evening. My long arm has at last been uncovered.  I think she is happy to finally be free. I did not get nearly as far as I would have liked. But this is definitely progress. And I am feeling pretty proud of myself. 

But unfortunately this is only half of the studio.  The other half  contains my sewing desk, a wire shelf full of bins and boxes, a small dresser and a rack of drawers, among other things. This is the other half of my studio.

As you can see a lot of stuff that had been piled under the long arm has made it to the sewing desk.  A lot of this is stuff that has been dropped in boxes instead of being put away.  This week, I believe, the evenings will be occupied with emptying boxes and finding homes for things.  I will probably continue with the tough call of keeping or tossing.  I know that part of the declutter challenge will be getting rid of stuff.  I have done some of that already but it is going to be harder and harder to do as I get further into it.  

But that is not all. There was a lot of stuff in the studio and it had to go somewhere.  This is my dining room/studio annex.  I am not putting anything back in the studio that doesn't belong there.  So that means I need to figure out where I can put it.  The house is too small for all of our possessions. Interestingly enough, the shed we finally got usable for storage is getting pretty full.  So I am going to struggle to find homes for everything. 

I guess I really do need to declutter. I need to find my timer under that pile on the desk before the challenge starts. Plus get some questions put on post it notes to help keep me focused. Oh and a project book to make notes in so I don't start new projects.  I know I have all of those things on hand and I am pretty sure I can find them. There is hope after all.

How about you? Is you sewing area usable or are you fighting piles of things? Are your drawers stuffed to the brim? When is the last time you couldn't find something and ended up buying another?

Maybe you should check out the De-Clutter Challenge.