This is my desktop today. Actually, it’s not really a desktop, it’s a drafting table, and it’s more for projects than for office-type work, but you didn’t know that. The contents of the table depend entirely on what I’m focusing on at any given time. Sometimes it’s covered in beads and wire and pearls for jewelry-making, sometimes thread and scissors and the sewing machine, and sometimes photos and albums and scrapbooking papers. And then sometimes it’s just a catch-all for things going in or out of my studio.
Right now it’s covered in stacks of letters, documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, lists, and other ephemera. This is a chunk of family memorabilia from Sean’s family, specifically from his grandmother and great-grandmother. There are some amazing finds in here and my current project includes sorting and scanning all of it. All the genealogy clues will go into my Ancestry.com family tree. These piles will all go back into storage, albeit in a more organized and archival format. Then it’s on to the next giant box of stuff. If I don’t get sidetracked into another project in the meantime…
BTW, I took this pic in crappy light and it looked crappy, so I ran it through a Photoshop action created by Daniel Box. He created a series of PS actions that imitate Instagram filters – download them at the link. I used “Gotham” here. I think it gives my boring, badly-lit snapshot a vintage feel that suits the subject matter, don’t you?
