One woman's trash is another woman's treasure OR this makes me happy...

The other day I was sitting at my dining room table working on a project...I looked around at this

and I realized that this makes me very happy!   Now, I understand that for most people that would not be their first thought about the contents of this table.  Their first thought would more likely be - EEK! I need to clean up this mess...

Not me - I am sitting in the midst of all this and feeling happy!  No really I was...let me explain.

As I was working away I realized that everything I needed to make my project (and probably about 9 others) was right there in front of me.

• Stamping supplies
• Glue
• Ruler
• Coloured pencils
• Paint
• More glue (a different kind of course)
• A bowl of beads
• My iced coffee (yu-um  left-over coffee, lots of ice, 1 tsp sugar, and some french vanilla creamer)
• Way in the back you can see a frame - that is the coolest flamingo pic that needs some work before I can hang it up...
• My glasses (well there's the case the glasses were probably perched on my nose)

• There is the globe in case I suddenly need to know the location of a certain place
• Paper
• I think I see a camera tripod in there - don't really need that ???
• My sharpies - can't live without those sharpies...in fact I just bought more at Walmart because they were only $2 for a pack of 8 or so!
• More stamping supplies
• More paper

Now once in a while I stack like things together, throw away some bits of trash, maybe put a few things away...but pretty much it can be known to stay like this for days.

Here's the other side of the table...

• Paper punches
• Scissors
• Way in the back is the hair dye solution to remind me to go and buy the colour because I am looking a bit gray...
• Of course the usual two forms of communication
• The planner that the girlies and I bought at the $ store - sounded like such a good idea until we found out it only went til December...
• Brian's fancy leather book that holds his info for Preservation Big Band is under the planner
• I see the paper cutter
• Oh, some left over orange juice from breakfast (which was probably eaten at around 12...you know us the early risers!)

So, for now this little mess is making me happy - I am getting a bee in my bonnet to have a dinner party though...then this mess will have to go and I will wonder why I ever let it get like that in the first place!

And believe it or not this same table can actually look like this!!!!!!!

Now I am going to go and plan my menu...


xoxo    Elizabeth