Haven't seen you around Melikia. Hope things are okay.

I'm still tidying. :-)

hey mycat!

I've been around, just very quiet =D  took longer than i had hoped to recover from surgery this past february.

by the time my body finally settled down, my parents & daughter came up for a visit.

im still recovering from THAT (and its been a month LOL)

no worries though... once snow flies again (mid to late september) you'll be seeing a lot more of me - to the point you'll probably be begging me to hush already ;)

im also in the process of convincing people to try the PLE - and then getting them hooked... MUAHAHAHAHAHA.

even my daughter had the basics figured out in 2 shakes of a lambs tail.  at some point, i shall have to get vue for her.  she keeps getting overwhelmed looking at the poser 6 i got her LOL.

"MOMMY!  SHES A PRETZEL!"

good, honey... now - remember those dials?  twirl 'em =D

but its difficult teaching long distance like i have to with her (until someone decides to give my dad a job up here)

chuckles

good news is, even with all the chaos in my life (i really have GOT to get a better nickname for myself - the chaotic kitty just adds more chaos LOL), i managed to land a job illustrating a children's book with a local published author - so, i foresee a few months of being "quiet" again - once they get what they're wanting to me LOL.

uggg - i need to tidy things and then find my camera LOL.  ebil hubby hid it.  i know where the tripod is - not that THAT helps.

how is it in such a small space, i can still lose things?

My room is a complete dump :p
Wall to wall with D&D and art stuff...old Iron Maiden, D&D  and Christos Achilleos posters :)

But some folks (men in particular) seem to thrive better in messy dumps.

:lol:

I have a low untidyness threshold, easily solved by frequent visits to the charity shop and eBay.

Gill',
true! true! ;)
hm, dunno if you know the UK celebrity naturalist/animal conservationist, David Bellamy, I kind of look like him with the beard my pals say...
lampoons David Bellamy, but in his own bedroom!

*"The flowa and the fauna of the avewage Man's bedroom is wondewfully wich stuff! Mmmmm, look at those socks! Looks like they have been bweeding! There's tons of the buggers, evewrywhewre!"

:lol:

Well as the addage goes...."If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what's an empty desk the sign of?" :)

It has taken me most of my life to graduate from male slobhood and in fact, it was our craft that helped me. Once I realized how very important it is to keep one's files organized and started doing it, it sort of oozed out of my machine and into my surroundings. It's not perfect, of course, but a far cry from the maelstrom it used to be.

Quote - Gill',
true! true! ;)
hm, dunno if you know the UK celebrity naturalist/animal conservationist, David Bellamy, I kind of look like him with the beard my pals say...
lampoons David Bellamy, but in his own bedroom!

*"The flowa and the fauna of the avewage Man's bedroom is wondewfully wich stuff! Mmmmm, look at those socks! Looks like they have been bweeding! There's tons of the buggers, evewrywhewre!"

:lol:

Yea, course I know David Bellamy (not personally of course!).  Socks are bad enough, it's when the manpants start bweeding under the bed that makes me barf   :lol:

Gil,

looks at her location in left of text
*"DOH!" 

• Location: Olde England
  :p

Hehe!! Long as they aren't the genus Skiddus Markuss, it's ok!
But then again, gals seem to think their handbags are the TARDIS...
:woot:

Monsoon,
yeah, I get the urgings ot tidy up as I get older..I resist, mostly... :biggrin:

Oh crikey - do you put your bum on that?  I like my comfort - an old Edwardian nursing chair with an added feather cushion on top !! 

My bum may be well padded but I couldna sit on that :lol:

Vaaern: At least you have someplace to let it sit overnight for those long renders. I use the dining room table, and unless I put my 'toys' away, no one gets to eat dinner.

haha, yea but my problem is on the other side of the picture, and that would be my door, i'm living with my parents and I must put my computer off after midnight, so no overnight renders for me (the sound of my laptop would irritated me endlessly so i don't mind :p

aren't you glad vue can pause & resume renders?  i jumped up and down for joy when i discovered that feature =D

.....am waiting for hubby to bring me new desk inside & for me to get to organize it before i take a pic.  i DID get the old desk clean, though =D  ... mostly ;)

Depends how old your desk is.  I'd love an old antique oak desk to work from rather than the ucky orange pine one that I have.   I may paint it one day....white or pink.....

I have this ikea dumpster like thing :p it's falling apart but as long as it doesn't collapse, me happy :p

my "old" desk is only a little over a year old, but its really too large for this infinitely tiny place.  once we can build, this one will come out of storage.

my "new" desk is 2' deep by 3' wide, came from the transfer site (reuse section), and hubby is trying to build shelves for me.  good thing is, new desk is short enough for me, too =-D

now, if it would just stop raining so we can get this done....

This is a music studio, too, but I did away with all external gear other than an interface box and percussion and key controllers (Thank gawd for loops and VST instruments). I don't miss the days of miking drum kits, calibrating tape machines and hand-splicing 1/4" tape.

As a drummer, I tend to program most of my rhythm guitars, but should I get stuck, I'm fortunate to have some good guitarist friends who are willing to e-mail me real tracks. I love the net for  working collaboratively!

That's Princess Magoo under the throne.

Have to agree that Wabe's place owns those of us mere mortals, but we soldier on! *D

Why buy a desk when you can recycle some crates and a door !  If it works for you then it's great!

Looks like you have a comfy chair by the window too.

BTW, I found it amusing that you have a forum page (probably this one) on the screen when you took the photo and with my avatar showing :lol:

PS - I'm not bragging about the nice place I have, but I'm not apologizing for it either, done my share of living in slams and also done my share of only being able to paint on the dinning table when we dont need it for dining with guest, when the kids dont need it to do their projects, my husband doesnt need it to prepare his lectures...

The view from your window is really lovely!  Must be good for the inspiration

Having a place where you can just go and work whenever the mood takes you is a blessing.  I love it for my computer work but I have your old problem when I want to sew - I have to use the dining table as there's no space up here for all my sewing paraphenalia.  Trouble is, the dining table is in our conservatory.  Sometimes very pleasant, but cold in winter and often like an oven in summer

Gillbrooks, you have a good eye. That is indeed this forum page on my monitor. Reading it was what prompted me to take the shot. *D

Artpearl, that is a lovely view from your window.

An update...I now Vue 32 inches at a time:D Now if i can only find that elusive "make art" button:D

I wish mine was that big!

Puts my 22" to shame :crying:

WOW !! That is one big piece of a monitor :-)
I wonder, is your mouse pointer not often lost somewhere in that amount of space ?

I have a wacom tablet now, but before that, i used a regular mouse and with my dual 20" widescreen monitor setup, i often had to search for the mouse pointer in all that space LOL !

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=3287780&ebot_calc_page#message_3287780

Yeah, I hear that all the time:P

Honestly though, I am having issues as of right now. go here if you wanna know why not to buy one:P

Hey Gill, you'd like my chair.  It used to have the same material you see on the back (burlap type stuff).  And the seat pad wore out.  I re-upolstered the seat and arms with ultra-leather.  The seat is tripple padded (never sink down to the wood at 190lbs) and the arms are double padded).  It's pretty comfy!

Hi krickerd,

Looks like you got the same monitors as i do (Samsung SyncMaster 206 BW)
Am i correct ?

Quote - > Quote - This is my comfy seat of power

Hey Gill, you'd like my chair.  It used to have the same material you see on the back (burlap type stuff).  And the seat pad wore out.  I re-upolstered the seat and arms with ultra-leather.  The seat is tripple padded (never sink down to the wood at 190lbs) and the arms are double padded).  It's pretty comfy!

You've got a really good dedicated space there !!  You even look like a reposed Bruce Willis in the photo :lol:

Not sure about the chair - sounding very unladylike leather often makes my bum sweat !  :blushing:
Plus I'm more of a floral person as the photos may show - I've yet to see white leather with floral motifs printed on but I'd consider buying some if I saw it - as long as I didn't use it to cover a seat !

Quote - Hi krickerd,

Looks like you got the same monitors as i do (Samsung SyncMaster 206 BW)
Am i correct ?

Close... mine are 906 BW.

The shelves on the desk fell into my hands at just the right moment, same with the ones between the couch & tv.

THIS is my office/living room.  My throne of power (and i fight for my chair).  yes, that is the fridge to one side of my desk, marking the edge of the kitchen.  The fridge is almost directly opposite the front (only) door.

The images pointing towards the TV were taken in the MIDDLE of my "kitchen", with only slight cropping to remove the trash can from the photo.

I DID blur/block identifying features in photos of my daughter, as well as blurred any writing that was personal or could have a copyright issue (looks under desk at the row of cleaning products & canned air)  tried to anyway ;)

Gill -  i think you would suffer greatly in my house.  If i covered everything that visually disruptive, it would feel extremely closed in.  This is, strangely enough, the most open this trailer has felt since the day we moved in.

as you can see... every inch of space has to count.  Its also a work in progress =D

After i post this message, will post the second pic depicting the "entire living room/entertainment room/office"

if you're claustrophobic....

i wouldnt recommend visiting =D

WOW, who is the poor soul who's face is burned out of the pic on that wall:P

My daughter - the primary focus of my protectiveness.

Well, I sort of know what it's like dealing with small living spaces - though ours is just the holiday caravan that belongs to my in-laws.  It's 38' x 12'  but it doesn't house all our stuff - only what we need while we're there and I never toake my laptop with me so no computer stuff either.

*grins...
i finally measured the length of this thing... 32' (inside - give or take a few inches)... and 7 & a half foot wide (inside).  again, give or take a few inches either way for the "STRAIGHT" walls that the landlord remodelled long ago... chuckles

the smallest place i ever lived in was, if i recall correctly, approx. 18' long & 8' wide.  did that for 3 months, but the good thing was, it was in my parents back yard, so could go inside the "big house" during the day - where there was a kitchen, a tv, computers, and most importantly, a working bathroom.

oh wait.  wrong.  it was a very large 8-person tent for a summer when i moved back up here to alaska.  big enough for a futon mattress on the ground and our suitcases. 

grins travel trailers are fun.  as long as you're not living in one permanently and have attempted to shove 50 pounds of (CENSORED) into a 2 and a half pound bag.

thank goodness my main creative outlet is now poser & vue.  i clutter my hard drive, NOT my living space =D  (dont get me wrong... i have several large boxes in here full of craft paints & glues & other crafty things that cant freeze - the rest of my crafty things are in a storage unit until such time as my living space grows.  it will happen.  eventually.)

Meanwhile, i keep finding creative means of storage & downsizing - and i have also learned what a person can actually live without LOL.

and what they can't.

Anyone want some snow?  I got a yard outside with snow almost 2 feet deep.  come & get it & its yours!

I just made some Vue snow so that'll do me for a while.  We had a bit of snow last month but it didn't stick.    Boring at the moment - usual cold, wet and windy 

I would show my little piece of area I call my own computer networking  but with college collection of paper work and books and other things I'm almost embaressed to show it
Just picture if you will a desktop with scattered paper and some were under it all there is a keyboard and mouse :P

Mine's not quite as tidy as that first photo I psoted.  Hardly been up here for over a week due to our new arrival (paws not feet) so everything's just getting chucked on here.  Had to clear a space tonight to sign my hubby's anniversary card (20 years tomorrow - blimey!!!)

:b_shocked:

Happy Anniversary!!!!!

Thank you !  We didin't get chance for a lie-in (hubby has a few days off work) as we were woken by a hungry pup at just after 7am.  

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

:blink:

We don't go to South Wales often enough......lovely scenery there, but our caravan is just on the edge of Snowdonia so we tend to stick to North and Mid.
We have a few places earmarked that we want to go.....maybe next year we'll get round to it !