Art as distraction

 There has been some pottering in the last wee while and another small jewellery commission or two to do, but my main making seems to have come about because we are heading back to Maleny soon. On my to do list was "clean up art desk", and so I dutifully went upstairs to begin said task.

But the task involved picking up all the paper scraps I had lying around, along with picking up pens and glue sticks that needed to be put back in the drawer.

That all came together and before I knew it I was making cards and book marks. Galore!

Not once, not twice, but at least three times I attempted the task and each time I got distracted. I am nevertheless now proud to report that the desk has actually been tidied. I got there in the end, but there were a bunch of wonderful detours along the way.

So lots of small collage pieces became cards, using up the scraps of black card I had left over from the Pop Up price tags.

B had the good idea to cut an equal size piece of white paper and stick it on the inside, allowing folk to write on the card even if they didn't have a white or metallic pen. Smart move.

I decided to make up two packs of four cards and sell them as a bundle.

And then there was some leftover brown paper. And I spent many a happy moment drawing lines on it with my white pen. Then doing a few flowers and sticking them together and sticking them on cards I found I had made last time but not used.

All good tidying.

Random lengths and widths of black paper and card have become bookmarks.

And moremeditative line drawing and flowers have come together as a variety of black and white cards

Here is the result of my to do list item tidy art desk.

I was showing a friend some photos of my silver nest and she saw these images on my phone as I flicked through and she asked about  them and went on to purchase 5 cards and a set of the 4 small ones! She told another friend who bought the other set of four cards and three more of the others. So an added bonus is more room in the suitcase!

Evidence of the tidied art desk - tick!