I have to admit one of the things that inspired this cleaning frenzy was seeing posts on where other fellow author and illustrators work. Check out Jenny B Harris's and Liz Dubois's studios. Finish it off with where Laura Resau works, and I have some serious workplace envy!
My studio, which used to look like this has had to change since the arrival of my Sasquatch. Making my mess of a studio into more of an oasis has been a work in process. But at least now it is a clean one!
Because after a good 24 hours of organizing, decluttering, dusting and vacuuming, the studio looks like this:
It does still look a little cluttered though:
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My favorite studio revision is that I now have a little reading corner:
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with our wedding cranes hanging overhead:
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One of which is watching over my Newbery award!
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So my clean studio will probably last...a week? maybe two? I guess it depends on how much more work I have to