When inspiration fails, try changing your surroundings

Despite everything I tried when it came to my bead making there was one major issue I couldn’t work around. I was working in an energy sucking hole - my basement. The walls were dark concrete gray and while they were poured to look like brick the pattern didn’t fool anyone, the whole thing looked and felt like a dungeon.

Working in a dungeon killed my creativity and made me want to get out of there as soon as possible. Therefore I never cleaned up after myself when I was done and that made things even worse when I couldn’t find my tools, or the glass I wanted to use. It got frustrating and lacked efficiency so I finally decided to do something about it.

Here is the before -

And after -

Dramatic difference don’t you agree? I painted the concrete with white drylock and then rolled the light blue on the brick so that it only hit on the high areas. Then I painted the rack I store my glass in and did a general cleaning and purging.

I now have a bright cheerful workspace, hopefully bright cheerful beads will follow.

Heather blogs out of her home in Watertown, WI. You can see more of her work here and read her blog here.