Where This Woman Creates

Have you seen the latest copy of Where Women Create, that gorgeous, slick, pricy magazine from Stampington and Company?

In their words:  Where Women Create invites you into the creative spaces of the most extraordinary women of our time.  Through stunning photography and inspirational stories, each issue of this quarterly magazine will nourish souls and motivate creative processes.

Where Women Create is truly a beautiful magazine.  The photography is just as stunning as claimed, and will generate lots of "I wants" from me with every issue.

Except...I couldn't work with all that stuff surrounding me!  I'd spend all day marveling over the multitude of things in jars, plastic cubbies or baskets on all the various shelves or in the various cabinets.  When would I have time to create if I was out and about, busy collecting all those things?  And where do you go to find all that "stuff"?

Please don't get me wrong - I am absolutely in awe of some of these studios, but I personally need open spaces and light!  While I draw my inspiration from patterns and colors of fabrics, too much of anything is sensory overload for me.

A spacious and clear cutting table, a bulletin board, a long desk of a comfortable height for my beloved Janome sewing machine, and my lovely mannequin, Betsy Madelyn, for modeling my creations are all I need.  I love the organization of my fabric on shelves with spools of thread in a large, penny candy type jar and buttons in another - bobbins do really need organization, but I'll figure out something soon - and that just about concludes the tour.

Well, I guess I could use a couple more jars for other items, but that would truly be all.

I hope I'm still the fabric artist my daughters think I am, even though I don't have all that space filled up with all that stuff.  If I'm not, I'm going to be really sad.