My Workspace:

Welcome to my workspace.  Some of you have seen it before, but many have not.  I do know that I have added more to it since the last time that I posted about it.  It is a small bonus room off of our living room.

This is where I blog, where I research, Facebook, email and develop my pictures.  It is where Cary catches up with football news and his other computer stuff.

This is where I am going to write my books.

Known as the "Queen of Small Spaces", I fit as much as I can into each little nook and cranny.  Here is our desk:

Next to it is a work space for laying out stuff.  It isn't always this neat and tidy.  I spent all day Monday going through and organizing everything as I prepared for upcoming writing projects:

Here are my research books.  This cabinet was made in a shop class in Drain, Oregon and was given to my Great-Grandpa Ben Hedrick.  My Aunt Sondy gave it to me around 25 years ago:

This little display honors my Grandma Johnson, and many of the wooden spools of thread were hers.   I have some office supplies and card-making supplies on the bottom shelves.

The screen conceals a bunch of clutter, and the desk is Cary's.  He doesn't use it, but I put his stuff there:

The Letsom Letters are hidden behind the screen.  I still have so much organizing to do in this corner:

Here is Cary's desk again.  The chair was my Uncle John's.  My friend Patty made the M.E. quilt for us for a wedding gift:

Notice his Dad's hat, some of Cary's books and a lamp of my Grandma T.'s:

I like to surround myself with pretty things, and special words from friends:

My girls have been adding to my wind-chime collection, but some are too pretty to put outside:

There is another reason for showing you where I work.  I have big plans!  I say this every fall, but this year I am going to move forward with my writing.  I have so many books going through my brain right now.  Travel books, family stories, and some fiction creative writing too.  All I want to do right now is write, so that is what I am going to do.

To do that, I need to be organized, pulling things off of my blog and put them into notebooks so that I can see what I have.  I have been blogging for nearly 5 years now, and there is a lot of info gathered.

For instance, a while back, I printed off my Book Blurb Friday flash fiction stories.  They are all grouped into the notebook below, ready to expand on when I feel like it. 

How do you guys organize your work?

Thanks so much for stopping by to see me!

~ Kathy M.

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