Work Space

A very timely Friday Five from revkjarla at RevGalBlogPals who asks about the tschotske (momentos, weird things, etc.) in our workplaces.  Timely because I have spent this Saturday morning creating a home workplace in the bedroom of a child departed to university. And yet it is still Friday in some places! I love these dice that revkjarla has in her space: with GOD on every side.

But for my five things:

1. Here at home I am in someone else's space and surrounded by shoes, boots, very interesting books that are not my own, paints and odd earrings.
2. It is also the temporary home of my yarn/knitting wool stash. Both inspirational and comforting.
3. I look out the door to a large print of a mandolin-playing angel (brought back from Rome many many moons ago)
4. At work I have a shelf with a small statue of Notre Dame (bought at Oxfam one Christmas), a season tree (removable/ replaceable leaves), a taonga from Aotearoa and other sentimental tschotske
5. I seem to be a paper magnet and as a 'piler not a filer' this tends to overwhelm.  I am beginning to get the hang of using my new and wonderful Kindle to reduce this aspect of my workspace.