Stack-alicious!

Seth, at The Altered Page, is celebrating his love of stacks today, and I can't resist the invitation to join in!

I am going to join some of my favorite "bloggy friends," including LaWendula, Quinn Creative, April Cole, and Parabolic Muse, and embrace my love of stacks proudly by sharing some of the stacks around my work space.

Stacks have always been my organizing approach of choice.  When I was teaching, I had piles of files, and now that I'm home with the girls and art-making, it really isn't much different.

Here are some favorite stacks around my art space right now:

I have a hard time keeping up with all of my magazines, and I have several from many months past still in my "read me" pile.  You will see all manner of Stampington and Company publications, as well as Cloth Paper Scissors, Self, Country Living, Parents, Whole Living, Woman's Day, and even a Buddhist magazine called Tricycle I picked up at Borders' going-out-of-business sale.

Just in case my magazines don't give me enough reading material, I have stacks of books next to my work table to offer me inspiration, and, frankly, procrastination.  Whenever I manage to find enough space to store them upright, I go on another book-buying binge and end up with more stacked on their sides.  I'm pretty sure the book case is a tower of disaster-waiting-to-happen, and I should really re-think the fact that my kids' books are on the bottom two shelves, next to their bin of musical instruments.  One false move, and that would be quite an avalanche!

Here's a paper stack for you:  It's a file folder that is beyond-filled, mainly with pages and images I've cut out from catalogs and magazines to use on art journal pages and for other projects.

Here are some more stacks of favorite artful supplies:

Above is a stack from my file labeled "postcards," spread around for show on the sofa cushions.

And here, similarly, are items in my "stamps" file, spread out for a little eye candy.

This file is helpfully named "ephemera", and has all manner of bits of paper for use with art journals, mail art, collages, and anything else I might choose to work on.

Here's a little peek at some of its contents:

Be sure to check out Seth's page for a list of Paper Stack Project participants, and if you love stacks like we do, then join in the fun!