 Hey guys, we are here with another art hop for pick your passion. So Last month we talked about watercolor this month. We're going to talk about a passion. I've had For the past few months. I just can't help myself and I've talked about this in a couple of videos Recently and I know I did do with speed through video where I was making paperclips and tags paperclips This is Lollipalooza's fault if you don't know who she is. I'll link her channel in the description below I saw her make one of these on her channel. I thought oh, that's cute. I should give that a try and Yeah This isn't all of the ones I've made I do have a Storage book that I did and I have yet to film a DIY on at this time, but hopefully by the time you all see this I'll have done that one already That has paper clips in it also, but I've done a lot of them I think I've done one almost every day for the last two months So, yeah Anyway, they are a lot of fun And they are a great way to use up all those little small bits and pieces that we've been collecting in our room Which is a passion of mine to collect different weird little objects, whether it's old keys or buttons or flowers or handmade embellishments or Broken pieces of something I just collect all kinds of weirdness and when you do mix media, you know, you never know what you're gonna use This is an old luggage lock that I don't know where the key is, but I've got the lock and so I did that Here's a little bottle that I got some pigment in That I didn't enjoy but I saved the little bottle when I was done with it and This one has a broken CD on it I just I Yeah, all kinds of things some of my painted feathers that I did and then had a drawer of what do I do with those? Well, they work great on a paper clip so Making paper clips one of my passions now. How do I? Have the Stuff on my table to make paper clips with without having to run over to the small bits like every two seconds to go Look for something. I do still occasionally do that, but let me show you something. That's part of this Which would be this? So this is on my table there the base is a wooden tray I'm gonna actually lift everything out and show you and then I have bins and containers of different bits and pieces and as I am Journaling or creating paper clips or tags or something I'm using up what's in here first and then if I can't find something that's in here to use I go to the bank of ephemera and small bits now once every couple of months. I go through this I Pull everything out of it or most out of it I put away the things that have been in here for God knows how long and I haven't used them And I put them away or I toss them if they're just not speaking to me anymore And I don't toss them toss them. I put them in a giveaway box And then I refresh it with new things. So let me Hang on one second Okay, it barely fits in camera shaky camera. Sorry it barely fits in camera. So this is the largest Wood tray that I could find I knew I wanted wood because by the time I got it filled up when I want to lift it up and carry it And take it off the table If it was just plastic a couple times of that it's probably gonna crack With all of the weight of the paper paper weighs a lot So I found this at Marshall's it was $20 and it measures how much does it measure the interior measures about 13 by 20 and a half approximately I Wanted to get as big of a tray as I could that was super important to me Then I took a bunch of small containers some that I had some that were repurposed for instance, these are from What do you call those? It's a to pull a chicken veggie and rice bowl you get these in the produce department They're they've got the veggies at the bottom that you warm up and the toppings and you add and you warm it some more Anyway, it's just a repurposed food container and so I have my Tag clothing tags. These are clothing tags product tags from different things. I've bought over the years That I've been collecting tags since like probably 2012 Another oops produce container filled with Paper blank scrap paper and some hand-painted and vintage paper then we've got a skinny container Which is from Target with some scrapbooking paper and other little paper bits that things I want to use up and then I started arranging them in the tray so that they all fit nicely I've got two more the same size containers with fabric and smaller scraps and stickers in it Including yo-yos. Anybody still have fabric yo-yos around Okay, then I have this little tiny basket that has Scraps from other things. I've made already in it and that fits there I have a muffin tin with teeny tiny bits and charms paper clips the little wood bases Safety pins and things like that that fits up here in front then I have These three little teeny tiny And they fit here now these Little jewelry parts just came in and there's actually room to have them live right there And then that sits over on the side of my table Very nicely over there and I have all of the bits of hands that I want to try to use up and Create my tags from and my paper clips that really works well for me. I'm really passionate right now about having my parts and tools accessible, but also having them out And stored in a way that when I need to quickly clear the table because I want to switch gears from making Tags and paper clips to creating a painting or doing a sewing project I can quickly lift that tray up put it on one of the drying racks on either end of my work table I've got two one on each end I can the tray will fit on one of the shelves in the drying rack the tables quickly cleared I can work on the other project and then when I'm done with it. I can bring that tray back Yes, and that works really well for me rather than just having a scattering. It's of crazy Messy just stuff everywhere that I just can't clean and I end up scooping into a box And then that just that's gets chaotic. I can't deal with the chaos This kind of organized chaos works much much better for me also, I'm going through my small bits and pieces and finding things that don't serve and Like I said once I'm every month or two I go through the tray and I clear out what's on there on either put stuff away and pull new things or I say You know, I haven't used this. I'm probably not going to use this in needs to go and that's really working for me How can you? Work your space so that you can quickly and easily get to the products tools and supplies that you know you have and you want to use Easily quickly, but then cleanly and quickly clean up your space and switch gears when you need to without leaving a Disaster in your wake because having chaos is one thing and we all are messy artists and things get chaotic But in between we do need to clean and we do need to try to keep it organized because I don't know about you But the chaos makes me completely insane. This works for me Anyway, what works for you? Okay, so you've seen some footage of me creating some tags and paper clips catching up because I didn't do any over the weekend oops I'm going to show you how quick and easy it is to clean off the table using my train method so Let's get to it. Shall we? So that's my passion at the moment besides watercolor, which is a constant thing for me I love my watercolor making tags and paper clips. I Don't know but I love that when I want to do something like that if I have my room set up correctly I can quickly pull that tray out make a few paper clips and tags and then put it back away again And my table's clean and I can get to watercoloring sewing. I'm going to film a bookbinding video right now Whatever the project is I can quickly clear off the table and get started on the next thing and switch easily Without creating a disastrous mess in my room that gets to be so bad at times that I can't find anything So I guess my other passion is staying clean and organized in my art room as much as is humanly possible What about you? That's it for right now. I will link all the other videos in the description below Let me know what you do in your art room to stay clean and stay organized And go show everybody else who is doing videos for this some love Like share and subscribe if you want to follow me on social media and Or support the free content here on YouTube or over in the art groups on Facebook Use the link tree link in the description below and you'll find all the different places You can find me and support me and the most important thing is to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it find your creative passion Follow it listen to it and have fun with it. I'll see you later. Bye guys