I think this might beat the infamous Robb's desk....I show you my workshop

[Mira]

You guys know I work out of my basement, if you have been paying attention.
About a month ago I walked through and shot these.
I think Wanna Jump should hire me to come and clean up his place.






On the very right, if you look closely, a camera is hanging on a hook

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. oh, but I only showed you one wall

when I get home, the full monty!

[Mira]

2. Sounds like....

all the more for me to come clean up for you !

[soup]

3. Oh, my goodness.

My eyes don't know where to land.

It reminds me of those puzzles where you have to find different objects in the picture.

for example:
a can of WD-40
an outlet
a blue notebook

With that much going on, you must be very organized.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. That is one serious workshop!

[alfredo]

5. Your workshop is bigger than my house.

[Mira]

10. 1100 squ ft -

I'm only showing two walls really, and less than half the floor space, it was important to me that nobody faints.
:)
There is one third that is curtained off from view with shower curtains, behind which I have an easel and oil paints, and a whole "other" life.

[alfredo]

13. 1,000 sq ft townhouse. I was lucky to find this place. If I had bought a bigger

place I'd been in deep shit. I got disabled five years after buying. I had just enough to pay off my mortgage. After the check was written I only had $500 in the bank.

[Mira]

15. I hear you, Alfredo. We do what we must, sometimes, and it's a great thing you

got it paid. I had to chose my house from the basement up. I was between many rocks and hard places at the time, and turned to the Real Estate agent in the basement and said:
Offer them 37 500.-. I can work here. And I can make do with whatever I find upstairs.
That was in 1979.

[alfredo]

18. I had rented a house with a first refusal agreement if and when the house is

to be sold. As it turns out, she sold the place and didn't tell me until two weeks before closing. I quickly found another place to rent but that fell through two days before I was to move out.

My landlord screwed up because she didn't give me a thirty day written notice. I waited until the last day before informing her of the law. She gave me notice and that gave me time to find a house.

[madamesilverspurs]

6. Color me green with envy!

Is that a plotter/cutter? I used to have one in my home office; when it was cutting repeating patterns it set up a great dance rhythm. . .

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[Mira]

7. You spied that correctly. One of my vinyl plotters.

I guarantee you there is order and method in the madness. I am shocked at how wildly disorganized this looks. In real life - not so much.
It's full of stuff to see, that's for sure.

[madamesilverspurs]

9. "Eidetic organization"

was used to describe my 'office' several years ago. To which I promptly said, "Huh?" I looked it up and I don't think it quite applies, but I can understand where he was coming from when the comment was made. I can, after all, find stuff in my office that no one else would be able to find with a map. I'm still adjusting to the much smaller space in my 'new' place; current office is only 11' x 11', a bit less than half of what I had in the last place. And some things just cannot be stacked, so the work bleeds out to the dining room much of the time. sigh


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[alfredo]

22. They say that Democrats aren't as good housekeepers as

Republicans. We demand less order in our lives. We don't pin doilies down on our furniture, and if our socks aren't neatly folded and sorted by color, we don't break out in hives.

[Mira]

23. Plus we have a multifaceted sense of the absurd and of humor,

we embrace the arts of all kinds, and we are people with empathy, help others, and ask questions.
And we read books.

[alfredo]

24. I'm sure the fiscal Republicans have a much broader

viewpoint than the hardline social/theocratic Republicans. The fiscal Republicans are the weak link in the party. Because they focus on economic issues, are not interested in oppressing gays or concerned that a Muslim moves next door, they are being marginalized, called moderates, or RINOS. If we can win them over with our more successful economic model, we can further erode the Republican base.

[Celebration]

8. This looks great Mira

And totally functional.

If your offer to help WJMS is serious, he should take you up on it.

Do you design logos too? I like that yoga logo.

[Adsos Letter]

11. Lots of space; that's nice, Mira. Are you an architect?

looks like lots of sets of plans laying about.

[Mira]

14. Architect is what I wanted to be. But no,

what I do is make signs. All kinds. And Logo design, and digital printing, and Bumperstickers and Decals and hand painting and lettering of awnings and lettering of vehicles.
I've worked here for about 30 years and it shows.
I used to screen print, also, and rout redwood. But there is a limit to my strength, and I'm slowly finding it.

I bought the house because it is situated on a hill and a corner. The back yard, completely gravelled, is my parking lot. It's quite bus like, many don't know I live upstairs, different entrance, on a different street.

In the South, as we discussed before, housing is way cheaper, and right now it's on Sale.

[Adsos Letter]

17. Interesting. I did some sign painting work for awhile

When I was a much younger painter I worked with the guy who had the contract with Ross stores, when they were buying up empty retail space, and expanding all over the country. We used to go in about 5:00 pm, after the construction guys had gone home, put on the ol' Walkman with our favorite sounds, and work until about 4:00 am.

We pounced the patterns onto the walls, and then free-handed the letters (they were pretty big, so the free handing wasn't too bad).

It was fun for awhile; traveled around (I didn't do any of the East Coast stores, though), and my cutting-in got a workout.

Painting the same old phrases store, after store, after store, after store... :crazy: THAT got old after awhile, as did looking around at 2;30 am and realizing you couldn't remember what town you were in.

I did a fair amount of metal leaf work in my day, but no signs; mostly architectural details on Victorians, etc, furniture, and some underleaf for decorative glazes.

"Don't pay department store prices..." :D

[Mira]

19. Nice! You sound like a colleague.

No need to tell you I understand everything you say.
I never had repetitive jobs like this at night. Just in the daytime, when people would stop me while I was lettering a wall and ask me about prices and availability of stuff.
I would then look at them, smile, and say:"I don't work here, it just looks like it."

Or they say: "You misspelled.... Yuck, Yuck...let's all laugh now, it's a joke"

All professions have their tales.

[tekisui]

12. Awesome space!

It looks like you could do some serious business there.

[Mira]

16. I did, and I do. Now the economy is so bad I have little work.

I'm even beginning to clean up. I also am planning to move to part time, and retirement and painting pictures or something.
Or take pictures.

[JeffR]

20. That's the space of a creative and disciplined spirit.

The amount of work that went into creating this workspace is humbling to see.

[Mz Pip]

21. Where's Waldo?

What a terrific work space!

Mz Pip

[qnr]

25. Very nice. I can see the inherent organization even through the clutter. I can't count

the times I've wished I'd had a vinyl plotter, but knew I couldn't justify it.

[Mira]

26. Thank you, I think I needed that. And if you need something cut, you just let me know.