I’ve been a little under the weather this week and haven’t been working very much, but have managed to keep up with one of my 20 MInute Challenge projects, the decluttering of my studio.

I’m amazed just how much stuff there is in there (I’ve been unpacking, sorting, recycling and throwing away for what seems like years, and still there is more!) but I think I’m finally nearing the end. I’m planing a very streamlined space, with the minimum of materials. I love the idea of the Living With 100 Things challenge, and would like to translate it into my studio, hopefully with a lot less than 100 things. I’ll keep you posted.

One of the things I discovered during a 20 minute decluttering session this week, was a box full of mugs that I must have brought from my last studio and never unpacked.

There were mugs there that I’d completely forgotten I had, bought, I think when I ran classes in a previous studio and made tea for my students. The interesting thing was, even though I hadn’t thought about a single one of these mugs in the time they’d been hidden in their box, they were all suddenly very attractive and difficult to part with! I had to ask myself very firmly if I really needed all these mugs. The answer was clearly no, not if I hadn’t missed them in so long, and so, en masse the box was moved to my charity box pile.

Actually I lie, I did rescue one mug; a flask mug that I’m going to bring my morning coffee out to the studio in. I really am very weak-willed when it comes to mugs…

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