The Random Items Drawer ...

We all have a junk drawer

in fact some of us lucky souls have more than one

I personally am aiming for junk drawer quantity rather than quality

I have one in the kitchen

which is the black hole of junk drawers

one in the study which I think shares a lot of similarities with the Bermuda Triangle

and I have a drawer of mystery cosmetics in my bathroom

I have no clue how I came to have a drawer half full of lipsticks

I never wear them

like never ever, yet there they are

like some weird magical super girly ghost has thrown up lipsticks in the drawer

but lipstick conundrum aside, I do have a favourite

My studio junk drawer is hands down the best of them

the studio is the only room in the house that is organised

partly because it is teeny tiny

and I if it wasn't organised to death I wouldn't be able to fit in here to work

and also because it has 39 drawers

yep... 39

just counted them...

so there was always going to be a much tidier junk drawer here

and it therefore makes sense that it would be the place to find one that is drawable

some of those other suckers are so crammed with stuff

you take your life in your hands just opening them

let alone trying to draw the contents

but this one I can paint without having a breakdown

I actually think that junk drawer is a harsh title for this drawer

especially taking into account the epic nature of some of the others I could have chosen

but random item drawer doesn't have the same ring to it does it

and the prompt at List it Tuesday was 

what is in your junk drawer

no what is in your random items drawer

So in this junk draw you will find...

a glue bottle that always leaks

but it is acid free so that makes up for it sticking to the bottom of the drawer apparently

fifty different tubes of partly dried up glue sticks

the hard drive back up thingy that is a life saver

as my computer is becoming increasingly temperamental

or it would be a life saver if I remembered to use it

glasses cleaning stuff and cloth

lots of tape... and an empty tape spool

an emergency hand cream

which you will find in almost every drawer in the house

you can never have enough hand cream people

emergency paint wheel thing

hole punch

white sticky dots

and those weird bobble hair things

which I bought in some nostalgia haze one day

but have never used because I am waaaay too old for them

and I have never really mastered them without having them ping my fingers

It was quite fun painting this up

and I now feel quite virtuous in not having cleaned it up

as I wouldn't have had anything non life threatening to paint

If you feel like a bit of good old fashioned stick beaking

head over to Artsyville and check out the other participants

or even better join in and tell us what is in yours...xx

here are the links to my last few posts if you want to catch up...

The New Alarm Clock ...

Summer Studio Time ...