{"id":2081,"date":"2010-11-12T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2010-11-12T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:32:08","slug":"the-ugly-truth-of-how-i-create-artworking-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"The ugly truth of how I create art&#8230;working conditions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m doing this post for my <a href=\"http:\/\/debbiehodge.com\/store\/aj103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Journaling 103<\/a> class&#8230;kiwifarmer (from New Zealand, of course!) asked about how much space I work in.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s the ugly truth. Not much. lol! And yes, paint and ink get on EVERYTHING. When I got my new TV, my hubby asked if I was going to get paint on it. &quot;Ooooh, noooo, I won&#39;t!!&quot; I proclaimed. Um, yeah. Within a week I was scrubbing bright green dots of paint off the screen.<\/p>\n<p>*shrugging* It&#39;s just how I am and how I work. I&#39;m at peace with it. My right-brained self can get any more organized than this. In fact, I&#39;m so at peace with it that I didn&#39;t even bother to straighten up my table when I took this pic. With me, what you see is what you get.<\/p>\n<p>So, without further ado&#8230;my sewing machine. I love this thing. It&#39;s about 20 years old and it&#39;s a real workhorse. I&#39;ve sewn through THREE layers of chipboard with this baby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e2013488ed799e970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Working conditions 1\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451cff869e2013488ed799e970c\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e2013488ed799e970c-500wi\" title=\"Working conditions 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, my messy desk. Trust me, it gets worse. But rarely better. My mat is warped from my encaustic iron. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e2013488ed79ee970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Working conditions 2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451cff869e2013488ed79ee970c\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451cff869e2013488ed79ee970c-500wi\" title=\"Working conditions 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So there you have it, the ugly, inky, painty truth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m doing this post for my Art Journaling 103 class&#8230;kiwifarmer (from New Zealand, of course!) asked about how much space&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}