 slacks you down in the chair a little bit so y'all can see me because you know professional youtuber here and you're propped up on a cell phone stand on my phone on a box of wipes you know anyway we are here for episode number four as I've said in the other episodes we are just talking through my journey and my thinking about creating a creative space for yourself that has a really pleasing creative flow to the space you can come in and you can be happy and you can be inspired you don't want to walk in the door and go crap and turn around and leave I know you all know what I'm talking about and I do think like some of my favorite channels including my great challenge and if you I'm gonna link some channels down below check them out it is something that you just have to do periodically once a year every couple years you don't have to go crazy with it and do it once a month but I think just revisiting things periodically I know for me when I feel like I maybe have a slump in creativity rearranging things in the art room help inspire me I'm getting to the point where it's more about really taking a look at the things that I've kept and not purged and really really really using up what I have and or getting rid of the things that I thought I should keep but I really don't want to today we're going to talk about making a cozy spot in your room if you can if you can to just read and chill in your space that's where I am right now I can sit here and I can read an art book I can read a tutorial book can watch some videos I can do some crocheting I sat here the majority of the time when I finished my sweater of many colors that's coming as I'm filming this hasn't come out yet but it's coming out soon I even have hold your shock a portable DVD player here in the corner with some instructional DVDs on watercolor painting and stuff I know I'm not going to get rid of it because I do want to watch the DVDs and that's an easy way for me to do it it is great having this corner I'm not going to lie I love this it's my new favorite space in the entire house this corner are there things about it I need to change or fix yes right now it's a hot mess there's like piles of stuff everywhere it's become a little hoarder corner sometimes and there are things about it that aren't exactly right I do also mostly eat my lunch up here so I do have a garbage can right here which is great I also have a stack of books down here that I would like to read and there's two downstairs because I keep taking them downstairs thinking maybe I'll read them more if I'm downstairs I really this is the place to read them I just need to be able to get to them easier so we need to work on that today I also think I need to work on a couple of things I don't know from the doom today or not today for the moment I'm going to focus on my calm space my my little corner my little nook for me that's not my chair at my desk in front of the computer because when I sit there I think oh god I've got to do computer stuff I've got edit video I've got to do paperwork that's not relaxing for me this over here is relaxing for me I can make notes about ideas I have in fact I need to make notes about an upcoming video series I've been requested to do I have been waking up in the mornings with my brain full of ideas so I can see here make notes while I'm having my morning coffee but it's just nice to just come here and just sit in a corner so I hope that you have a place like that in your art room your creative space however big or small it may be and if you don't I hope you can make one for you maybe it is the chair at your work table or your desk maybe that's the perfect relaxing comfy nook for you for me this this chair is great I have a chair and a footstool I'll show you in a minute I also want to tell you that if you're trying to figure out your creative journey and how you want to be creative and if you want to be creative maybe this will help you I wrote a workbook quite a while ago with my thoughts in it it's available on Amazon I'll put it down below the caption on the back says do you want to have a more creative self-expressive life so do I here are some things I used to keep myself on track they work for me who knows maybe they'll work for you this is page 47 in my book life life is a journey that should be enjoyed to continue to be creative we must food for move forward creativity feeds the soul but must be nurtured a creative life is not always easy it can be challenging and stressful the rewards though can be enormous so anyway my thoughts on things so maybe this will help and check out my favorite channels all of them are down below I am going to show you what the corner looks like in the moment in all its glory and I've got a basket and a bin out on the floor I don't know if those are going to help we'll see I think the first thing to do is move some technology out of the corner because I've got you can see the light right there I think there's that doesn't need to be there alright let's get to it I'll be back the corner right there and it almost always look like that looks like that like it's a rare that I can actually put my feet on the footstool because there's always stuff on the footstool so I think we need to start by pulling the majority of it out and I need to make that an easier place for me to get into and sit down in because that's what it's supposed to be alright let's get to it this is a sewing chest from my husband he got it for me years and years and years ago I'm actually wondering if that'll work for the books or something let's try it shall we perfect oh my god sometimes it's not about buying a whole bunch of stuff or making super hard decisions it's just about reorganizing things just a little bit I put the lights which I don't need all the time unless I'm having trouble lighting something I'm filming in the closet here and I put that sewing basket about the sewing trunk back there in the corner it's got all my books in it it's open they're standing up there's room for the two books that are downstairs my notebooks are right on top of it and they're off the floor maybe we can work on that other thing I was thinking of okay hang on okay this has been kind of my nemesis it's a bin of paper collage images tissue paper handmade paper some of it I love and want to keep others like this book that I just threw on top I've had this for like three years or something it's got some cool images in it I've never used a single one right away I can tell you it's got to go I there's so much in here that I just I even forget what's in here my water do I do I need to keep all of it I don't know you guys there's vintage patterns in here got those right here let's pull everything out let's see what we can do I don't know this is this is one of those bins I have a lot of books and stuff I pull from two and painted papers they're separated and sorted and I do use them not all the time but I do use them but this bin like yesterday I was filling up one of my drawing bags and that was the first time I'd been in this bin in like a year so yeah anyway let's pull things out I guess a clump at a time okay this is some tissue I was gifted or bought all of this and I do love this tissue paper so I do think I'm gonna keep it for the most part there might be a couple in here that I don't love so much but okay like this one it's not really my thing that one's gonna go I don't know about that one also not sure about this one for this I like the gold dots which is why I have so much of it you know it's not about getting rid of a whole bunch of stuff it's just about making sure that you have what you have you're gonna keep and use so I don't need this I do like the art tissue although obviously I haven't used it in a long time so let's put this in the maybe pile you guys forgot how much of this I had mulberry papers loads of handmade papers this is something I've rarely been able to get rid of because I really love handmade paper I can tell you right now that one doesn't appeal so that's gonna go beautiful papers but I don't think so yes Holly hobby wrapping paper so I sound funny to you guys well you know my asthma has been added again probably because you know spring is almost here at least I hope so these are painted dryer sheets that I did I did them I've never used them yeah they're gonna go painting papers not a big fan of the glitter and I do have a painting papers been so that these don't even need to be in here to be honest it should be in papers so those are completely in the wrong pin because I forgot they were down here okay I'm gonna keep all that all right okay I really love this this paper so we're gonna keep it I have a lot of it I know but okay these are I think paint skins paint skins are homemade washi tape or both or hot glue embellishments this is all good it's gonna go I don't need it I don't need to keep it I'm not using it I made it it was fun to make but then I never used it on anything and what's this one paint skins even some metallic ones yep they gotta go and this one more paint skins yep more paintings paint skins gotta go I remember making this that's resin so it's funny my most favorite pieces ended up in this book funny not funny this used to be an old ledger book and back in the day when I first started making homemade washi so this should go downstairs one of you all gifted that to me that should go downstairs into my drawing bag and probably this one too yeah because I'll use them down there keeping them up here doesn't nobody any good I think a lot of this has got to go pull out a few things that I know you all have gifted me and put them on my downstairs drawing bag and I think the rest of it I mean yeah it's got to go more collage images I do think I'm going to hang on to to these yeah I mean I do like to use pattern tissue and some of my work and I think I'll keep that so let's put this back in the basket before we do anything else now I do have a couple of old vintage books that honestly are out on a cabinet because there's no place else for them but I pull papers from them to collage which with occasionally and they probably ought to be in here we're also going to pull the label off the basket because what's in here is going to change a little bit so let me go get the books look at the books so I have an old hymnal some of these may have belonged originally to my grandmother and I haven't actually pulled any pages out yet but they are literally falling apart like this one yes I'm Italian-American this is an old dictionary trigonometry trigonometry yeah it's from the thrift store I get a lot of these from the thrift shops okay this one we're gonna set aside this is an old bank book and my grandmother she kept all Renato Branzini was my grandfather she kept like this is how you find her books so you know her books so put that one aside here's another one I think was from her yeah that's her handwriting yeah Jenny Bronsini this is a vintage hymnal and country living no sorry country home and American magazine so I'm gonna put these with my other books from my grandmother the rest of these can live in this basket now oh yeah yeah I guys I'm so tempted to just get rid of all of this I just don't use collage that way anymore and I just I mean this is all this is all jewelry and lighting when I do use images I use smaller images like this I don't I don't use big images often so I'm tempted to pull out some of these smaller ones just literally just handfuls and then let go of the rest and not even look it's just it's too much you guys and I've had a I've had most of these for so long and I know you're all like screaming no you know what if you want some of them let me know oh blueprints let's save those I love a good blueprint see more small we'll keep the small ones and I'll keep them out because that's the only way they're going to ever get used we'll keep the little ones including the prayer card it's from one of my grandmother's books oh or from one of my mother-in-law's books Marie Muller was my husband's grandmother oh see this might be the exception this is skulls and stuff I love skull well maybe it's not the exception maybe I keep these I mean again I haven't used these they've been sitting here collecting dust they're gonna go and then this this is just people this is just people well besides what's in this now this is this is small people this is yeah so this is small stuff so I think what I'm gonna do those ones I want to keep I'm gonna put them in here it's too much I think I just grabbed some handfuls and I put them in here and the rest of this has got to go I'm gonna save the box I'll use it for something else but I think that's it I'm gonna save this a little bit brutal but there you have it we have time do you want to do one more category neither of these last two categories are related to my company recent reading corner but that was so easy and so successful that yeah let's go through one more category okay they don't even all fit on camera I keep all my stamps this way I have four of these plastic trays which were originally from Target just full of art foamy's now I can tell you right now I can just put these back in the closet because they're not going anywhere I designed for art foamy's and I have my own I have KP's I have a number of other designers they are really good stamp and I will put a link to art foamy's down below I did have a little bit of a looks like a paint leak but anyway I keep my buddies in one of these with the foamy's and yeah these can go back these aren't the issue those are okay so let's put these back and let's look at these one of these bins needs to stay if only for sentimental sake this one because it's full of stamps I designed for rubber moon back in the day they're no longer available unless I suppose I could do a special order but that's gonna stay now I can't as you can see fit them all in there because these two are full and the other ones have our foamy's have I used any of these in the last two years no you guys so these are some gothic people some blueprint stamps these are like paper pattern math equation I love this little guy I guess he his little tag fell out but it's a little voodoo doll he's so cute I haven't used him though but let's see if there's something in here I can get rid of so I can maybe keep the ones I like I've got some botanicals what's this one a poppy butterfly flowers you guys this is gonna be hard handwriting oh I remember this one I've used that in a million years that one either to math hopefully you can see these because you know it would be handy if I did that this is a math one what is this one this one has some Tracy Bautista stamps in it which honestly they I like her work don't get me wrong I'm not doing this because I just like her work or anything but I don't use them better as full of KP stamps now I do love these so I'm gonna keep these and we're gonna keep them in here but I think the Tracy Bautista ones can go I think that one can go three spotters handwriting and webbing okay so if I have this one with writing on it instead I don't need two of those one the other one go I'm already losing track here these are indigo blue by the way and I love indigo blue stamps I do think I'm gonna keep those like that one though I'm gonna keep that one and that one this is indigo blue Mike Deacon for indigo blue keeping that I don't need to keep that one I have a free case and I can put these in here yeah another Mike Deacon I love this one it's like sand dollars here's another one I really love skulls I need to use some of these more because you know I don't know maybe I don't even know where that that one came from so we're gonna keep those no no keeping this one I'm gonna keep this one I'm gonna keep this I just like them so these people I like and I collected quite a few of them but Daniel Turrenti I never use them I've got three different containers of stamps I'm gonna let these go I'm gonna keep my little voodoo guy I can't really like him I like the style of all of these at least those yep this has some fairies I think I'm gonna let those go okay big big red poppy and I like that one I'm gonna let those go you guys one is empty all these blueprint stamps these are Tim Holtz blueprint stamps I haven't used them in a very long time does that mean I want to get rid of them I am not sure about that it's not about you know I have to get rid of it cuz no you don't it's just about clearing up the clutter and not keeping stuff that you're never gonna use why have it take up space if you're never gonna use it so I'm thinking I'm gonna keep my blueprint stamps I have one of my stamps I'm gonna put it in the front I think for the moment no you know what I'm gonna let these go I think and I have these souvenir stamps of Oregon which are cute I don't remember where I got them it has a little Japanese I think the hat says G now on it I think something like that I'm gonna keep that because I like that wow you guys okay we'll put these back in the closet as usual I started this video wanting to just do a little chit chat and maybe show you all my corner maybe fix a couple things in the corner I did not think there was gonna be a lot of purging today but holy cow I have an entire box of stuff oh yeah yeah by the way if you're local you'd like to pick it up you want me to ship it to you you're gonna have to pay shipping that might be too expensive but anyway let me know PM me email me something anyway let's get our book out we can cross off some more things and have another little chat I didn't expect that to go that way I really didn't I know I say that all the time but I really didn't my crazy notebook someday somebody's gonna look at it and go what the hell all right collage we did collage stuff we did stamps we did the books because that was a big thing the books yeah I think we're good so for my stamps and collage materials again I stick to the bin method or drawer method I relegate myself to a confined space and then when it gets to be too much like it was with the collage materials and or I haven't gone in there forever then I need to use some up get rid of some things do some purging before I can add anything to it or of course change it to something else if I didn't do that I would just keep everything and I wouldn't have any space in my art room to relax or to create for that matter it just wouldn't happen so if you're having trouble making space keeping space and having a nice calming workflow in your art room you know try some things that I've shown you in my art room make space I know in my old art room and I had this conversation with someone not long ago in my old art room it was 10 by 10 so instead of spreading out I spread up y'all know what I mean and I had shelves that went up I had a lot more stuff than I do now there but I was able to make it and make it work and it made me happy in my older videos in the blue room that's the art room I'm talking about the closet was full we took the doors off and had it floor to ceiling shelves so that I could put a lot of stuff there I had shelves under my table and I had shelves on the walls going up to see up to the ceiling and that worked for me and before I was doing mixed media it was full of sewing and sewing patterns so you know I'm sure you can make it work with the space that you have the other thing is you don't need to go out and buy a whole bunch of brand new fancy furniture of course if you have the budget for it and you want to do that cool but and I recommend something like IKEA but you could thrift for it I I mean you saw me I took a little break I turned off the camera I went into the other closet in the guest room and I looked up and there was that sewing trunk it works perfect and I already had it I spent no money on it yes what a table that's like up to here be nice but do I need it no the trunk works great I can see the books I can grab the books it's perfect so you probably have something that you can make work but you also can look on you know there's buy nothing groups on Facebook there's free stuff groups on the internet craigslist if you're in next door they have a marketplace and one of the categories in the marketplace is free there's also if you're in Canada there's Kaji Kaji but that's a reselling group I don't know if they have free there's another one I can't think of right now trash nothing there you go so there's lots of free groups out there I will try to list some of them in the video description so check it out and I hope this just gave you some ideas I just I tried to be brutal with myself not you guys and you know some of those stamps I haven't touched since I moved in 2018 they gotta go if I want scribbly circles on a journal page I'll just draw them I mean you know so anyway take a second look at your stash see what you can do if you need help fixing the flow in your art room I hope these videos help if you have questions comments or concerns to leave them down below if you want personalized help and you're a patron over in patreon just message me because you can get that not a problem and we can have a live Facebook chat or a video phone call or something and I can help you as much as I can give you some advice give you some encouragement if you're not a patron and you'd like to have that thank you about joining and you also get to support the free content here on YouTube would I which I appreciate you have your own private YouTube channel you have a private Facebook group and monthly posts for me with free stuff in them so yeah all right that's it for the moment above all go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys