WOYWW: Home Sweet Home

Can you believe it?  It is already September and in the Philippines, I would not be surprised to hear Christmas carols playing once the "ber" months arrive! 

I am back home after two weeks out of the country.  I am blessed to be able to travel, to enjoy the novelty of new places, and to visit family and friends who live far from us, but it is good to be home and I am blessed to have a lovely family to come home to.  The temperature is hotter here and the streets are not as clean and orderly but it is still home, sweet home and I delight in the ordinary schedule of waking up to the sound of singing birds, an early breakfast, work in the family business, dinner with the family and free time for art.

 

Coming home means putting away all the stuff that was left all over in the rush of packing, as well as finding space to keep whatever new things we have brought home.  And so goes the never ending battle of trying to make a creative space out of the chaotic state that I find my desk in when I arrive home.  I actually enjoy all these attempts at organizing!  I got myself some new boxes (covered in paper designed by yours truly) to hide my junk and arranged some of the wonderful giveaways I won on my shelf...

After my attempt at organizing, I started on some projects.  I covered a giveaway fan with wall putty (wall putty is a low cost gesso substitute which you can buy in the hardware/construction supply store).  I am planning to collage or paint it...

It used to look like this (taken last night)...

And I am making an ATC of the Palace of Fine Arts which I will send to Carola if she wants it (a prize for guessing right).  I have finished the inking (copying from the computer) and will color it in later...

And here are some one dollar rubber stamps that I bought (I know, I know, I like one dollar buys!)

Hope you enjoyed your peek into my desk today!  Head on over to Julia's blog to see what's on everyone else's desks today!