How is it already time for a June Studio Organizing Challenge? Can this year really be almost half over? I do know that summer has hit full force here. The heat has all the animals off their feed, and I’ve switched from hot coffee to iced coffee for the season! And it seems like just last week I was complaining about the cold. Time sure flies.

How did you do with the last challenge? In spite of my overly-busy schedule that has been completely insane of late, I did manage to clean out my pen and Pencil collections. I was happy to throw away all the dead ones, and surprised to learn that I had more highlighters than I thought I did, because I had it on my shopping list to buy more highlighters, and now I don’t have to (for quite a while, it would seem). And I may never have to buy another lead pencil ever!

I cleaned out all my quilting and sewing marking pencils:

Then I went through all the ones in the office:

I cleaned out all my various coffee-mug pencil holders, and now everything is grouped together by like kind, extras are stored away, and it’s much easier to find a pencil when I need one.

Who knew that would feel so good and make such a difference? How did you do?

I’m thrilled that it was an easy task, and I could sure use another easy one this time, too. I’m also thrilled that I had the great idea to make this deck of cards, because my brain is too busy to think up new tasks right now, so I can just let the cards tell me what to do. This time, I randomly chose this one:

And altho I seriously don’t have time in my schedule right now to start anything new, this one has been on the docket for awhile, so I’m getting ready to cut into this glorious bundle. It’s appropriate for the season, after all, so I feel perfectly justified, especially since my cards told me I could do it!

Do you have the urge to start something new? What will you be giving yourself permission to start? Even if you give yourself permission to RE-start on an old project, just go with that. Sometimes old projects can feel like new ones, if we’ve let them marinate for long enough (speaking from experience, of course).

I’m interested in hearing what new project you’ll be starting or re-starting, even tho I’m afraid I’ll be tempted by some of the things you present to me, but I’ll take my chances — leave a comment!