Last week, I wrote this post about what I dubbed My Creative Mess. 

MY Creative Mess

It’s true - my studio is usually in a state of creative disarray which always dismays and disappoints my Other Half, also known as Britain’s Tidiest Man.

However, there are some redeeming bits of tidiness in my studio: my Pockets of Organisation, dotted throughout this mess.  I’m going to show you a few pics of these pockets, just to prove that I can be organised and tidy!

There’s the gorgeous gingham ribbons in their little basket (and behind them, the pegs I use for the children’s artwork hangers)

gingham ribbons in their little basket

the paints and whiteboards (the whiteboards help keep me organised on busy days as they get updated with orders waiting to go out)

the whitebaords and paints

the paintbrushes in my favourite Uncle Joe’s Mintballs tins.  Actually, I can highly recommend the mintballs, made not so far away from here in a traditional way, as well as the superbly useful and gorgeous tins which just beg to be reused, recycled and proudly displayed.  What a great excuse for buying sweets (though once you’ve tasted Uncle Joe’s, you won’t need an excuse).

paintbrushes in recycled uncle joes mintballs tins

the clock parts

clock parts

and even the padded envelopes

envelopes

I can be tidy, you see.

I just think, like everything else, tidiness has its place.  Most of the time, I love the untidiness of the studio - the splashed paint . . .

paint-splashed desk

and the gradual spreading of paraphernalia . . .

desk area

I’m still working on striking a balance . . . chaotic untidiness seems to take over far too quickly in busy periods!