is it friday already??? WARNING photo intensive

ok so i have to tell you, it's actually thursday afternoon as i type this, i may add more tomorrow but right now....thursday

now yesterday we got that daniel smith order...here is the first box as i opened it, and there is half & full watercolor pans, that are empty and waiting for colors

and palettes, as they were 3.00 each i got 5 of them, regularly over 9.00 each.... i may give one to bernie for his models if he can use it. ( i don't know how the pictures are going to show for you  folks so bare with me ok?) then today i ran and got the small screws to attach the casters as well as another set of casters that may work on my drafting table which would be good......although i most likely will fall over as i lean when i work.  they didn't have mouse traps so i have to go out again tomorrow.

then in honor of fixing or muddling that shelf thingie into a cart thingie.... or a sort of half ass taboret of sorts (my old taboret was all drawers and that is next for a makeover) i CLEANED part of the studio..... ahem..... except the floor...... and the cobwebs (which i like to think makes it halloween all year, as after all i DO halloween stuff occasionally too.......)

then i arranged some stuff on that half assed cart/taboret..... and i have the pictures to show you folks. please excuse the mess ok?

i mean what is a few cobwebs and some papers on the floor between friends right? you guys ARE my friends right??? this isn't going to appear on america's most messy artists show right??????????????? oh man

now the first picture is a terrible side shot- i have another shelf to add to the bottom which i need some help cutting as the saws vibrate too much for my bad shoulder to hold them and the wood.

i am also going to spray paint the entire thing cream as soon as the weather is a bit more predicable anyway there are some of those little plastic drawer unit thingies. top shelf has watercolors in tubes, and the clam shells with cut watercolor paper in it (quarters if anyone is interested), my humidor for the working rapidograph pens, and that turny thingie with brushes, pencils and stuffs like that

 second shelf has palettes with watercolors, sponges, tapes, the other rapidographs, some of the intense pencils, old brushes, pastels (not many, and the drafting brush tucked in between the two drawer thingies

the third shelf (there will be a fourth eventually) has office type stuff as well as my india inks (center thing) with the full set of intense on top.. saral paper, ballpoint pens, cutting things, tools, small note pads etc.  THE FOURTH shelf shall hold heavy stuff to keep the cart/taboret thing from being tippy, so that gets gallons of glue, bulk stuff that's heavy (possibly the cut paper clam shells if i get a few metal ones....that stuff is HEAVY) so there you go......that is what i am working on in the studio at the moment

how about THAT?

any organizational suggestions would be most appreciated btw, i keep the refrence drawings in manilla envelopes in my magazine files that i made..... cool huh?

edited to fix some spelling and to tell you that i have been tweeking that area so it functions a bit 'cleaner' i'll do the floor later i suppose