can there be too much stuff in my life?

[pensnest]

Hi. My name is Pen, and I'm a stationery addict.

We're having our boiler replaced at the moment (actually, it's now 6pm and the poor chap who has been chasing all over several towns today has had to give up, he hasn't been supplied with the last essential part, and we are thus to be heatless over the weekend, sigh); anyway, the electrician needed to turn of the power briefly this morning, so, deprived of computer, I went to make a start at tidying my collection of paper and card makings. I got about, hmm, half-way, but it was a fair effort.

I have about a thousand* envelopes. I have a mountain of fancy paper, from recycled wrapping paper to pretty stuff I couldn't resist from wherever. I have pots of paint, and pots of ink (woot! I'd forgotten those!), and too many varieties of sequin to fit into my miniature cabinet of 16 drawers. I have ribbons, lace, stamps, beads. Pretty scraps of material. Stickies. A selection of cutting tools from scalpels to scallop-edged scissors. Books on tape, for when I'm out there making cards. I have enough card base stock (either uncut or ready-to-use) to last me the rest of my life.

But I'll probably see a pretty paper bargain next week...



* Okay, I have about three hundred and fifty envelopes.

Comments

[zillahseye.livejournal.com]

Dude, I hear you SO MUCH. Not as much with stationery, though I have quite a bit of that, but with fancy paper and/or blank books. I could run a fucking store, man. My shelves are like a Barnes and Noble.

[pensnest]

They're so *pretty*! I can't walk past a Paperchase or an art shop, any more than I could go past a book shop.

[hsw.livejournal.com]

You and my boy should talk, although it's not the pretty that grabbed him, it's the opportunity to make props for games.

He has a set of six scissors that cut in weird ways, a cutter that will do perforations, god knows how many pretty blank books of various sorts, a laminator, a guillotine and a glue gun. Oh, and a cutter that will do rounded corners. Believe it or not, this mostly goes into various ID cards. Oh, and printed stuff on acrylic.

Don't ask, and by the way, pray that your son doesn't get into doing this stuff.

H

[pensnest]

My son, alas, completely lacks the Wells/Uff Artistic Gene and has no interest in any of that stuff wot Mum does, except during a brief phase when he played Warhammer 40000 and got me to paint all his tiny chaps. Which was quite fun.

I get Very Cross when the fancy-edged scissors and edge cutters are too wimpy to deal with actual card, and will only cut paper. :-(

[rikes]

Ahahahaha, I've seen your crafts room! YOU ARE! ;D

[pensnest]

I'm a hopeless case. You realise, I had an entire room built to put my Stuff in!

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

yikes - hope you survived the weekend sans hot running water.

You have many many pretties, which you *use* to give pleasure to both yourself and other people, so - I am totally helping you justify your addiction here ...

[pensnest]

*Still* no working boiler! Fortunately we go to the gym for showers.

As addictions go, it's not a bad one, really. I don't think I've ever staggered up to bed after a day's card-making feeling that I oughtn't to have done it!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

You still have no boiler? That's shocking!

[pensnest]

Yep. No hot water since Thursday. Fortunately it hasn't been too cold, so our fleece dressing gowns and hottie have been adequate defence, but. Grar. I see refund in our future.