Who made this mess? Okay, who made this mess on my desk? All right. Oh, okay. All right. It was me. It was me. That's true. That's true. Hi everybody. This is Pam at the paper Outpost and I am sitting here at my very messy desk, and I was just wondering if you could relate to the messy desk situation and I have just finished a pile of crafting it.A lot of fun. I was making embellishments for my junk journals and recording some videos and this and that and I am faced with the reality of the evil of my ways because there is stuff everywhere. I've got scissors. I've got rulers. I've got jelly pens. I've got everything all over the place and I thought I would talk with you about the State of Affairs when a crafter has a messy desk and is it a good thing? Is it not a good thing? Is it showing that there's activity in life of the desk or is it just a lazy crafter who doesn't put away their stuff and that could be that could be both cases actually, but as I'm cleaning up here just like to talk about the desk or the space that you actually chose as your special place to work and we all pick something you got to have a surface to work on. It makes it much easier if you have a surface. And there's so many little nuances about the desk. I know with me when I start to craft even if I start with a perfectly clean desk, I am down to about a foot by foot working space in about 10 minutes. No matter what I do it always seems to end up with that amount of working space. As soon as I start pulling out stuff and I start crafting and I start making the ephemera and the embellishments and everything goes crazy and Creativity is flowing and life feels great and next thing you know, it's it's crazy town and disaster pants here. I've got everything is all over the place. So I am cleaning up and you know, it's kind of part of part and parcel of being a crafter, you know, sometimes the craft desk is not cleaned at all that exists in a lot of Crafters worlds. I can handle it for about 3 days. I have a three-day Bell that goes off where Can't stand working in the small space anymore. And I need to blast everything off my desk go through my clearing Zone clean it all off pull out the you know, the cloth to wipe everything down organize all my little ink pads all over in one little pile. So I know where they are. And actually I should put a lot of I don't need to have 75 out on the desk. Why do I do that? I'm trying to get into my ink drawer and used. Different colors, so I'm breaking away from my classic brown green pink blue choices and trying some different colors. So I'm putting those away and you're welcome to come on and clean up with me here. If you'd like, you know, maybe we can just spend a little time cleaning. I think it's it's a good thing for the mind to set a clear healthy space for oneself, but this is not mandatory of course and this is there's nothing wrong with that well, Of dwell rummaged desk that has crafting Joy all over it. I totally get that and respect that and there's I honor that and that for people's choices. I don't feel like a craft room has to be spotless all the time. You know, I would say that as long as you don't kill yourself walking across the floor by jumping hurdles over giant piles of scraps or Fabric or and I have done all of this. So I am I am definitely guilty. LT then it's a good thing if it becomes a work Hazard where you are taking your life in your own hands just because you haven't quite gotten around to Tiding up yet. Then maybe just maybe it's time to con Mari or space. That's right pull out the old Marie kondo book and clean up Sally and make your life a lot easier just so you can you can actually see things that you forgot. You pulled out on your desk and I misplace things. All the time as you will well no and well agree that when I am making stuff. I can't find my Basics my scissors my glue my ruler where to go where to go where to go. I live in the land of where'd it go? And I know that there's tips and tricks around that and I'm doing my best to a apply them but I don't always I'm I don't always follow the rules and I don't always put my glue back at 3 o'clock and my scissors at 6:00. Clock like I plan to and I think it's such a great idea. My brain would only adhere to it but I get caught up in the joy of crafting and everything goes out of the window and then I am here with my messy desk. So sometimes life feels good on the messy desk. Sometimes you get to see things put together in a way because they landed that way on your desk and your become completely inspired by messy desk and it also keeps your items. Very close. You don't have to do all that reaching and and and everything is right there at your fingertips, which is also Nice, so there are benefits to messy desk, you know, so let's let's hear it - you know hip hip hooray for messy desk I get it and you know, we can we can advance from Messy desk. There's also messy under desk. There's messy over their desk, there's messy, you know table over here. There's messy Bucket over there and messy basket over there and there's just a lot of plain messy going on and but I think that That you know, when you see the messy you also see something that was really lived in you know, somebody really got into it and had a good time there because somebody spent that time to make that spot messy. They went to town and Doug stuff out and routed around and pulled stuff out and but now I am getting to put stuff away. So as I clean my desk here, I thought I'd just have a little chat with you guys and let you know what I'm thinking as I'm cleaning my desk and You can kind of see how long it takes me to clean my desk. I guess it's going to be I honestly don't think it takes more than 15 minutes to clean your desk. You really get serious about it. There's a little text block I book I have gutted the other day that's got to be put away here. Some twine looked wine is out that can be put away. There you go in your little twine happy place. Okay that big clump of stuff. There's a pile of ephemera here that I've been trying to go through my scrap piles. I have four big piles of scraps in different baskets and I randomly grab a different basket and try and pull from that basket soy get some new things new ideas to make things and right now I just got a big pile this little container on my desk and I'm just drawing and I've completely forgotten about so many things that were in there. So I am glad that I did that. I'm sure that others struggle with the scrap issue and You know, there's I almost feel like no matter how much and how much time how much effort I make to use up my scrap pile. It's just never going to happen. I'm never going to get to the bottom of it. There's just so many things that you can make with scraps and but I am going to try I am committed to trying and I think that's that's a good thing. Okay, so we're gonna stick this tile a clump back in the scrap pile all sorts of interesting things in there. I forgot I had All right. There's a little note to self. I keep a little handwritten Note book on my desk for when I get a video idea or get inspired by somebody's comment on a video or I think of a podcast idea or I think of a page layout idea I capture capture capture. I mean that's a that's a help very helpful technique for me and I do it several different ways one is just physically writing it down number two as I log it in my phone I have Notebook app that I grabbed everything with and whenever I think of it, I just pop it in there. As soon as I think of the idea or else is gone and I can't I cannot tell you how many good ideas I've lost because I just didn't capture it. So I definitely use the capture idea and then and then I came up with this. Well, it's not really a new one, but I came up with new way to capture a different way to capture ideas. If your I just started jogging again recently. It's sad. It's very sad. It's very slow. But I I'd start whoops still Yes. Okay. Have a good. Oh, I hit my phone. Okay. I just started jogging again. And I had to I was listening some to some inspirational things as I'm jogging and I'm starting to get ideas of things. I'd like to do in the in the junk Journal World in the crafting world, and and I had no way to stop and write things down. But I used this old thing. I learned many years ago called the memory Peg method and it's this way to help you, you know memorize grocery lists a whole bunch of items is basically you have to remember ten things and then these individual 10 things if you can stick whatever it is with emotion onto that one thing that like Slifer excite cantaloupes and you stick cantaloupes on this one memory Peg and you use like emotion craziness Insanity since you sensationalize it like maybe I picture Easy cantaloupes laughing and giggling or something. I don't know just bring some kind of Oddity to it some weirdness some so something that makes it stick in your head. It's a great way to help you remember lists. I generally do this when I'm grocery shopping is I don't really take a list with me. I just used the memory pegs and there's lots of videos and stuff like that and and information on how you can learn that system. It's a great system and I'm really surprised. We don't teach it to all the kids in school because Would certainly help with basic memorization which seems to bog down so many so many kids in school. So yeah, so that's what I do. I'm jogging and I memory pegging my ideas as I'm jogging no pain needed and so that's how I'm organizing in my mind my idea so that when I sit down at the table, I feel a sense of organization when I'm going to start and that helps I'm going to put away my pens now and also the physical act of organizing the data. Desk, I feel translates into organizing your mind. I feel more organized when I'm organizing my desk. I feel like I'm putting things in place. I feel like things are finding a home in there there. It's a happy home and I feeling good about it. And now I'm very aware very very acutely aware that when I start to craft next it will be a maximum of 10 or 15 minutes and everything will be back to my one Foot by 1 foot space and that will be the amount of space. I have to work with again because as I pull things out and this happens, I'm going to put away some punches now pull out little punches every now and then all right. We're about 95% clear here. Things are looking pretty good. I can actually see some white space on the top of my desk there some cheesecloth. I use the other day tuck that away. Okay, so I am never alone in the garden. There was a really good line from a book. I tore out the other day and I couldn't find it for the life of me because it was buried on my desk and that's the price I pay for having a messy desk. I lose the things I want to grab and but then I end up grabbing something else. So everything generally turns out okay in the end. So here's some little bits and pieces some little doodads. We made the other day. Here's a pin. I used to close my glue with Very handy don't want to get stuck with that. Nope. Here's some sprays and some glimmer. Mist will put all you away in the spray bucket. My little dried leaves over there my water bottle my ever-important water bottle to keep a water bottle close when you're crafting. I highly recommend it. It's very good to stay hydrated while you craft because it's very very easy. I found to get lost in the crafting but the time will just disappear and you won't realize how long it's been since you had a drink and I think if you want to Rejuvenate your creative spark taking a big drink of water is an excellent place to start sometimes that's what you need is just a little free flow and the flow of water can get you flow into now this may cause a few more bathroom trips. And I know that's highly interrupted and frustrating when you're crafting last thing you want to do is jump up and run off to the bathroom. But sometimes that's part of the part of the process and it's necessary, but it's more important to stay hydrated because your brain will work better. And your ideas will flow more easily. So I say go for it drink your water and off to the toilet you go. It's okay and it doesn't matter how many times you go. Just make sure you're getting enough water. So your brains working. Okay, here's some paper punch other one. I can put away don't need that one. And I would say we have pretty much wrapped it up here. So thanks for hanging out with me at the messy desk, which is now the cleaner. Desk, and now I have some Elbow Room here. I can actually make things to the left of me to the right of me in front of me. I've got easy access for everything. I want here and I am I am looking forward to more stuff coming your way of a whole bunch of video ideas coming at you very soon. And I've got some different takes on things coming you'll see them as they come out. Basically I'm going to go through Several of my older journals one was for my husband. I made a specialty theme journal for him and it's on a lost treasure concept and I'm also going to show you a journal I made to honor my grandmother. She I happened to come into a lot of her old papers in her house when she died and she much of it was from when she came over from Europe many years ago and she actually saved all these these little bits of very old papers ephemera from the boat. She came on over with her young son at the time and just so many very cool things and like Grandma in a bathing suit, which you know is not looking like the bathing suits of today at all very different. So I think you might get a kick out of that. It's probably the second Journal I ever made and while it's not that fancy and style. It is certainly houses a lot of precious items and I just You might like to see that so lots coming your way and I'll be popping out another podcast suit on a random topic of the joy of junk journals. And I hope you're enjoying this series. They're a lot of fun for me to make I do have the YouTube channel. If you're not aware of that add the paper Outpost. You can also find me on Facebook Pinterest Instagram and Twitter. I'm tweeting now. I still can't believe I'm tweeting but I'm tweeting and And that's pretty much it. So I look forward to seeing you all soon. I love interacting with you with your comments and things like that on the videos and on Facebook and actually on Instagram and everywhere else, too. So, thanks a lot guys, and I look forward to much more coming at you very soon. Take care. Everyone have an awesome day. And remember the fun can be simple and create with Rex Reckless. Abandon. Have fun. Everyone. Bye. Bye.
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