Please dont look

[glassdog]

I look at every body elses nice neat studio and wonder where I went wrong. I guess I'm going to have to hire a maid or better yet get an apprentice. Anyway I have always heard that "a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind" or was it the other way around? I cant remember. Oh well
Thanks
Mike

[Phoenix]

Where did you get that picture of my table?

[cghipp]

Don't worry about it - that looks totally familiar to me.

Courtney

[tehale]

Looks perfectly normal to me!

[Karen Hardy]

shlob!

[shawnette]

I'm right der widja, man!

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[FordGirlGoneBad]

I am so JEALOUS! Look at all that glass and chaos - just makes you want to dive in and torch something.

[shawnette]

shlob!

Psst! She's just jealous!http://www.websmileys.com/sm/happy/581.gif

[RuskinDesigns]

Boy! I thought I was a slob. Mine I guess is pretty neat!
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[silkys]

I want to go live with Shawnette !!
Will bring my Kiln ! you wouldnt even know I was there .
I could sleep in a box in the corner . Look at all dat Glasssssss .
I think I would have the Big O just walking in and seeing it .

[Donna T.]

I don't know how in the world you guys can create in that chaos!!!! I have to tidy up before each session or it bugs me having things around all over the place. And I'm not a clean freak like my DH.
............However.....maybe I need more chaos in my life.......NAH!
Clean that stuff up! Ya'll driving me crazy. I hope I don't accidently wandering back in here or I won't be able to sleep at night!! Maybe I DO have OCD..............

[loribeads]

Ditto, Donna.

[glsgrl]

makes me want to post a pic of mine...I'd feel right at home now....too bad I don't know how to post photos....my motto is, the messier it is, the more creative you are!!!!

[Dawn]

I don't know,I thinkI might be OCD, all my glass is organized and the only ones out are the ones I'm using. I think I need a good stiff drink to loosen the hell up.
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[shawnette]

I don't know,I thinkI might be OCD, all my glass is organized and the only ones out are the ones I'm using. I think I need a good stiff drink to loosen the hell up.
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Funny you mention that. My glass is organized by the color wheel. I'm very anal about that part, lol! It's just the other areas that are all jacked up.

[BeverleyH]

I love to see everyone's workspaces but I COULDN'T work in that mess. Sorry, don't want to call it a mess.... hell, it's a mess! :)

I don't care what my tidy space says about me I just can't work in a mess.

Another reason for me - I was working at the torch the other day and getting off my stool I could see a LARGE drop of something dark red and dry on the floor. Looked down at it and wondered, what's that? Wiped it up and then spotted under my work bench a VERY LARGE pool of stuff which had clearly dripped profusely - same colour. (I know, too much detail).

Cleaned that up (or at least tried to but as it had dripped onto wood and SPLATTERED, it was difficult). Turns out it was, you were ahead of me!, blood. Even worse, it was my blood. Euck!

My foot was bleeding and I didn't even realise it. Had a butchers and could just see a small spot and my only conclusion was it was a bit of glass in there. I've always been a bit anal about cleaning my studio floor mainly because I have a dog (who won't leave my side) and 2 cats running about so can't take the risk, so imagine if I left it to build up!

I think however you work is fine - it's what comes out of the chaos, or order, that counts. :)

[Beyond the Bead]

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Dang Girl! That is impressive! Want to see my glass stash...
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I actually have an additional box of "gifted" glass from Chuckie and Beach beads that is not in the picture...I'm just impressed with all of yours!

See the quote below! I live by it!

[LadyCrow]

I just don't have enough glass (yet) to be that messy....lol

[ConnieRee]

Hey Shawnette, I think you have me beat! Then again, maybe not. :-P Ahhhh.....chaos, how would I work without it?

What's that saying about mess and brilliant minds?



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[bclogan]

Well, I hate to admit it, but I'm at the "neat and organized" end of the spectrum. When the West MI Gathering was at my house someone asked if I cleaned up after every session. Um.... Yeah.... doesn't everyone...???? LOL! I'm also slightly OCD... it's that anal-Virgo thing...

Part of my excuse though is that one of my cats LOVES to sneak into the room with my studio. And I don't want any vet bills from glass shards.

[fritobsessed]

I can vouch for the cleanliness of her work area!!! And she's got lots of glass too! I too have an anal-Virgo thing, but mine is more organizing than cleanliness. It may be a mess, but I can find anything I want at any time!

[HannahRachel]

Whew, I thought that mine was a mess and thought I must be the only one...

But I am so jealous of all that glass...

Who's studio has the color chart? Its Brilliant! Simple solutions are the best - you go!

[playswithfire104]

Any and/or all of you OCD'ers are welcome to stop over my place and organize my mess if ya want!! :-D I couldn't stay organized even if I tried! ](*,) I sometimes look at my mess and wonder how I get anything done.

[ConnieRee]

Whew, I thought that mine was a mess and thought I must be the only one...

But I am so jealous of all that glass...

Who's studio has the color chart? Its Brilliant! Simple solutions are the best - you go!


If ya mean the color wheel hanging on the Ott light, that's me. Funny thing is, I forget it's there half the time. Not surprising in all that mess!

[nivedita]

Well, my own studio is known as ~ Casa De Chaos~ but i figure if i can burrow in deep enough t fire up the torches, thats plenty.

[River Horse Studio]

Wow Shawnette... your actually worse then Lori Robbins and I thought she was bad. I cant go to her studio and play unless I clean up a space for myself first. I love that girl, but man her torch is messy!

Now I do have to admit I am a bit anal retentive or a bit OCD. Anyone who knows me know this for sure! I clean the floors in my house daily and I have to clean up my work area at least before I can start working.

[WhiskerWood]

I don't know how in the world you guys can create in that chaos!!!! I have to tidy up before each session or it bugs me having things around all over the place. And I'm not a clean freak like my DH.
............However.....maybe I need more chaos in my life.......NAH!
Clean that stuff up! Ya'll driving me crazy. I hope I don't accidently wandering back in here or I won't be able to sleep at night!! Maybe I DO have OCD..............


I am with you!!!!! I like my area nice and neat.
How do you messy people find anything?!?!?!?!?!?

[Kerry S. Caron]

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Well it is not the neatest but is sure as heck ain't the messiest. 2 shots of my work area with all the enamels that I have been working with lately and then the other is behind me is my phot area... Drawers are full of the bundles of glass and then I only have out a bit of each. Keeps me on top of what glass I am using and keeps the mess down as well.smiles Kerry

[fireflykat51]

I think I want to go to Shawnettes as well, I'm on a hot head :( Would bring kiln, notes and sweet puppy. Please be aware she flirts with all the guys and plays with kids. Will ignore us until feeding time.:tigger:

[shawnette]

I think I want to go to Shawnettes as well, I'm on a hot head :( Would bring kiln, notes and sweet puppy. Please be aware she flirts with all the guys and plays with kids. Will ignore us until feeding time.:tigger:

Laff! Puppy? Me likey puppies! (notice I didn't deny anything)

Oh, and I have Satake for your hot head.

[xtine sutter]

Arg! So jealous! Must...stop...lusting...after...everyones...studio .....I am...so....close.... but still deciding between O2 tanks and concentrator. Right now my mess is contained in a series of tool boxes and tubes to take to class. :rolleyes:

[Moth]

Crikies, if I have more than 10 rods out at a time I get jitters.

I'm sure I'd have some sort of seizure in your studio Shawnette. LOL

It's all good though...you like it that way and that's cool. You would probably have a seizure in mine. LOL

I pick up pieces of shattered rod with tweezers and put them in my water bowl as soon as they happen. When I'm done working my rods all get stowed and I dust-buster my work surface. Hahaha.

I'm not fun.

~~Mary

[Orchid40]

Holy Mackerl!! What's a dust buster?? I have an inch of chards sitting under my torch. I keep thinking that I need to clean them up.....and yet finding the time seems impossible. Who needs to clean when you have things to create!

Charlotte

[Kerry S. Caron]

Hey Mary you are way to efficient for me, I don't even own a dustbuster,,, laughing Kerry

[danelady]

Me too Donna... If I start when the table is a mess I end UP with a mess....What's worng with me? LOLI don't know how in the world you guys can create in that chaos!!!! I have to tidy up before each session or it bugs me having things around all over the place. And I'm not a clean freak like my DH.
............However.....maybe I need more chaos in my life.......NAH!
Clean that stuff up! Ya'll driving me crazy. I hope I don't accidently wandering back in here or I won't be able to sleep at night!! Maybe I DO have OCD..............

[FourTailsLampwork]

LOL, I don't have enough glass for that yet, but I'm at the sweep-up and clean up stage. For one thing, I find it hard to find things, and for another, as many people have said, I don't want vet bills from glass in cat or dog paws. And finally I am in the process of selling a house, and even the bloody garage has to stay relatively neat!

However, the setup one has is the setup one can work in. Folks who work with glass pieces all over the desk need that atmosphere to create; folks who clean up need THAT setting. As someone said, it's what comes out in the end that counts. We don't sell our workspaces, after all!!

[fireflykat51]

If you let me use your torch I'll bake and I make sinfull homemade Ice cream. Attempting to make the first exersize bike Ice cream churner. Use the calories then eat em pack up! He he

[Moth]

LOL, if you can believe it, I actually ASKED for the dustbuster as a birthday present one year. I know...I had a momentary lapse of some sort.

However, I use the darn thing every day for something or other. It's a good one too...sucks up dry or WET messes....like orange juice dumped from the breakfast table every other morning.

Anyhow, I agree...your environment is what you need it to be. My dinner dishes aren't done even now at 1:30 AM but by golly my torch surface is spic and span. LOL

~~Mary

[LaVere]

I look at every body elses nice neat studio and wonder where I went wrong. I guess I'm going to have to hire a maid or better yet get an apprentice. Anyway I have always heard that "a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind" or was it the other way around? I cant remember. Oh well
Thanks
Mike


In your photo, the hand torch near the front what do you that for. I just bought one at a grage sale for $4.00 with two tips now I don't know why I bought it or how to use it.

Gordon

[Rose Leslie]

Argh! Mike does some wonderful work in the space he has. Mine is about the same. It is a mess. I can't even get to some of the stuff stuck around. Will be happy to have the electricians come some time this month. They are waiting for the WestStar to come and look at the house power cable. So we wait. Yes I love the mess. At least I can't say I missplaced something. It is there.

[glassdog]

Hi Gordon,
The hand torch you see in the photo is my most used torch. It is a "Victor" welding torch, and I have a few different size tips for it.
I work primaryly in boro and have found that a "premix" torch works a lot better with the hard glass. The other torch you see in that photo that is standing on the flow is just a larger version of the same torch. And I have one more that is even larger that is not shown in the photo.
I have flames that range in size from 1/16 inch to about 4 inches in diamater.
I have used a lot of fancy (expensive) lamp working torches, but I always come back to these welding torches.
They are NOT good for soft glass though. You need the surface mix torch for the soft glass. And as you can see in the photo I use a Nortel Red Max. The Nortel torches work just fine for the boro also but you will not get the presise lampworking ability of a single candle flame as you can with the multi candles of a surface mix.
The reason the welding torch is not good for the soft glass is because being a pre mix torch it burns a lot hotter, even using the same propane and oxy as the surface mix. And the soft glass just can not take that heat.
So hook up that torch and give her a try. With a little effort and time you will master the premix torch for boro and then you will never go back to the others. (for boro at least).
Thanks
Mike

[witchwoman]

I am just so jealous! I can't wait to have that much stuff. I am still BROKE, so the stuff part is till taking way to long, but with the little bit that I have is in a wonderful state of chaos. You are my goal!

[artflower]

eyyyyyyyyyyyyy, and i was thinking only me is an chaos woman...wow, that looks like mine is always...

great, i feel now better.
thank you for showing me

[data_2]

I needed to keep my place nicer. I have a cat that will hop on ME and the table as I am working. If I can get him before I start I'll but him in a room.

[jonibird]

Me too!

[mz glitz]

I worked all day cleaning and reorganizing my studio! But like the desk pictures it will not last long. I work well in my chaordic room (Organized Chaos)

[Rose Leslie]

Oh man. I can't find the smaller victor torches any more. They are gone with the wind. Now will have to purchas a larger model. Yes. Will go with that one.
Only my studio is not here any longer. Wait until spring.
Then it will be a disaster again looking for glass in the pile.

[Birdsonawire]

I have to do all of my "stuff" in my studio. From beading to glass to packaging etc... Plus, we have our house on the market, so people are traipsing through at least once or twice a week. So I am like lots on here, messy while working, then clean up when done. It's twice as much work, but it looks like its a studio anyway : )
I love seeing everyone's workspace. Here's mine...

[jonibird]

I can't even stand to look at the pictures! Sorry, but I would go insane if my table look like that! But, that's just me! ;c)

[jonibird]

My husband bought me a little shop vac, it's my new best friend, lol

[Lorraine Chandler]

Crikies, if I have more than 10 rods out at a time I get jitters.

I'm sure I'd have some sort of seizure in your studio Shawnette. LOL

It's all good though...you like it that way and that's cool. You would probably have a seizure in mine. LOL

I pick up pieces of shattered rod with tweezers and put them in my water bowl as soon as they happen. When I'm done working my rods all get stowed and I dust-buster my work surface. Hahaha.

I'm not fun.

~~Mary

This pretty much sums it up for me too. LOL I must add that I am a Lucy as in 'I love Lucy" and I just know I would be full of glass splinters in no time. It is mostly for my own safety that I keep things tidy after every session.

[tnehlers]

These pictures literally make me nauseous! I can hardly bear to look at them. I'm another shop vac person. I pick out my rods before each session and put them away after, and my work area gets vacuumed on a regular basis. Of course, I switch COEs regularly and use every bit of glass down to the last splinter so that makes it a little more important!

[alb6094]

Here's what mine looks like after 8 hours work:

http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll126/lisa_boyd/LEetc/LEstudio01.jpg

I love seeing everyone's benches!

[Jo Ann]

Creative minds thrive on caos

[glasshobbit]

Sometimes its not only the bench that's messy. In my case it's the whole room. When I do start to clean up I find myself rearranging everything too. This is just a picture of "normal" . It's fun to have a peak into others work spaces. Nothing special but here it is. :waving:
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[Truewealth]

Shawnette....your pics cracked me up....I want to come and plunder!!!

Love all the glass...must.. get... more glass... soon!

I'm one of those 'clean up after every session' people...complete with sweeping and a wipe down....then I cover my bench/tools/glass with a large towel.

As clumsy as I've become in my.....er......late 40's.....I'd impale myself on a stray rod or step on one and roll to my death on the concrete floor, if I didn't keep it neat.

gotta have a neat bench...my jewelry bench is the same.

Just noticed how old this thread is!! :)

[sangell]

If it works for you....... Perfect...... I have found with everything If I don't have a system that makes sense to me, it all comes back out in a worse mess than I started. Not their with the glass yet, so my table looks like yours.

[Ravenesque]

I laughed the first time when I saw this at Shawnette's, that's awesome :lol:

And mine is close just not as much stuff, only because I don't have that much haha. But that said, getting a rather large chunk of glass in my heel today..upstairs far from my studio..that I'm going to try my best to be much neater. This time it crunched as I stepped and I was pulling out teeny pieces.
I always wear shoes, even if it's flip flops :-$ but I get way too much glass in my feet since it travels in my soles, and if I (you) walk anywhere wearing them it's bound to happen.

[tiptrinket]

This is my small space for glass. And my small area for putting jewelry together in the corner of the kitchen area. I have fun I guess that is what matters. I can sit and put jewelry together and watch my husband cook.(I have one of the sweetest most patient husbands in the world.) I'll have me a studio soon though. If you notice the map...I started sending Secret Santa gifts last Christmas and am marking with a push pin every time I send something to someone. Just thought it would be fun!
Tippy
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[Lizzydee]

239401239400so fun seeing everyones work spaces...heres mine

[ginger2]

Creative minds are seldom tidy. (that's just mho!) My studio stays in chaos as I only use my energy to create, not clean. I'm waiting for my Chippendale butler to arrive!
Happy creating,
ginger