I Refuse to Show You the Rest of the Picture or How to Organize a Home Office

Pretty Teacups and the Paper that Surrounds Them

Isn't the vine in a teacup pretty?  I cut the end off of a sweet

potato and put it in a teacup with a bit of water 

next to my sink.  It sprouted and has now graduated to my desk 

next to the window in the living room. It's quite lovely 

trained around the lamp. 

I'm one of those people who has to live in a beautiful, organized place. I run two businesses out of my 960 square foot apartment so it can get cluttered.  I've come up with a few strategies to deal with it.

1.)  Years of meditation and therapy!  

Seriously, I've let go of my need to be perfect.  A space that's being used will never look like a magazine.  If the bones (i.e. furniture, spacial arrangement and org systems) are good it won't matter.

2.)  Baskets and bags

I've actually had two direct sales businesses that sold these.  (Longaberger Baskets and Gigi Hill Handbags.)   I believe in using what you sell and making money off of what you use.  Think multiple streams of income and feel free to ask me how! Nice.

The desk has drawers for office supplies, 

The baskets hold files and the Mary Clare 

Bag (Available from me now:) holds 

my Gigi Hill supplies

3.) Adaptable working space

I like to sit on the floor and  spread papers around so I can see everything.  I don't fight that.  I have a meditation pod that I use in front of my square (more space to spread) coffee table.  It puts me at a good height and counter-balances the horrible posture I use when I'm reading on the couch.  

4.) Two horizontal surfaces

A desk to work from and another table for organized chaos. I like to see my "stuff."  I have a hard time working in a room where I can't see the working files and piles.  Rather than fight it I make sure I'm able to see them.  It's pretty ugly on the dining room table right now but it's functional.  

OMG!!! Am I really showing you my dining room table?!  

These are my active files. It's time to move those puppies

out of here!  Organized chaos!

5.)  Leave  

Go out for lunch, take a walk at the beach and paint (oh yeah!), drive to Barnes and Noble to work!  Honestly, the hardest part about working at home is that sometimes I don't remember to get up and out.  The Prius I have is perfect for that.  I do keep my paint gear loaded in the back complete with sunscreen and hat.  Life on the road is another story though.  Enough for tonight!

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