Sharing Our Personal Steemit Workspace: Steemit Challenge: #behindthecurtain

byn (63)in #challenge • 6 years ago (edited)

I'm kind of off schedule this week. I'm struggling with some changes that are coming around the bend, I'm trying to find a job that will make use of ANY of my actual skills (Trying to find work after being a stay at home, homeschooling mom for 20+ years is difficult) and not stress me out too much... well, it's a challenge. I'm escaping my own reality for a while by doing this challenge and writing about my little cozy space that makes me happy instead. That's kind of like Therapy anyway!

Well, I know I'm WAYYY late to the party, but I've been wanting to do this post for a while. I read this post months ago by @coyoteom Steemit Challenge #behindthecurtain: Sharing Our Personal Steemit Work Spaces

Fellow user @freedomtowrite started a steemit challenge called #behindthecurtain.

I had taken some photos and then forgot all about it. Still, better late than never, right?

So, on with the show. This is the view you see when you open the door to my room:

_{Okay, so it's the view you see when I've straightened things up so I can take a photo.}

If you sit on the couch, this is the view you will see, My "office" space:

I have a laptop (that I often use whilst sitting on the couch like the lazy bum that I am), but also a regular desktop computer that I use mostly for Photoshop and video editing. I used to try and do it all on my heavy duty laptop, but it slowed things down too much and drove me to pick my ass... so now I just use both. Often at the same time.

The artwork on the walls (left to right) is stuff from my kids. The first two are from the way back machine. Framed art from the elementary homeschooling days that I've been moving from house to house for well over a decade. The two portraits are part of the Christmas gift that @abyni painted for me for Christmas of all of my kids. The last one is a painting by my other daughter @loliboofae of a girl with an umbrella.

If I look to the left, this is usually the view I see My Assistant Petrie Petrie likes to sit in his basket or in the window, where he tends to meow at me to open it. Even in the winter. :/

Either that or he just tries to guilt me into letting him outside by sitting in the stillness, looking longingly outside at the squirrels and birds he could be chasing if ONLY his humans would let him go outside for a while... poor, poor kitty cat.

This artwork is a bit of a collection.

At the top is some artwork that I did with my grandkids last year. We made two copies. One for their mom for Mother's Day and one for "Grandma Byn's" house.

Under that is one of my favorite photos of the boys that my daughter, Sprite took.

And below THAT is a painting that Abyni did years ago when she was around 8-9 years old and loved doing silhouette paintings. She hates that I have this on the wall right now, but I still love it!

Some more of the portraits that @abyni did for me: Jazz, Sprite, Jaedin @knightengale and Kainan

A small canvas from a friend when I did a painting class with friends. We used silicone caulk for texture and old book pages for the background. I loved this project!

This was my version of the art project that we did. I love working with simple ideas and messing with textures. I kinda want to go do more painting now...

My bookshelves (I have so many books again that my bookshelves are already piled two levels deep, even though I got rid of thousands of books before we left for the boat. I love love LOVE to read. You can see more about THAT hobby in my post My Favorite Hobbies

And, of course I have to leave some space on my shelves for my "Wild Things" featured in my posts on my Wild Things Tattoos... and on my wall murals that are also in that post My oldest daughter Sprite bought me these stuffed animals for Mother's Day one year. I absolutely LOVE them! We all have such happy memories of this book!

This is my bulletin board. I made this using cardboard and some fabric that I found really cheap somewhere (that matches the fabric that I used to cover up the two box springs that make my "bed frame" under our mattress). The favorite thing on my bulletin board is the artwork from my kids and the fuzzy sloth that I made from a coffee cup lid that we got on our road trip with Abyni when she went to audition for America's Got Talent.

And then, just as I was finishing up with taking photos of my room, My oldest son Kainna showed up for our weekly lunch date.

He works from 5am to 1pm, so he comes over for lunch... and quite often flops down on my bed to groan about how much nicer our bed is than his :)

Annnnnd.... last, but not least, the dog, Tiberius who is a permanent fixture in our room and who loves to moon over the poor cat, who doesn't seem to want anything to do with him.