There's many things that make me happy, and excellent, optimized, practical order is one. You wouldn't believe it from the child I've been - your regular messy room, messy everything child and teen - but at 23 something changed and went so far that I worked for a while at organizing people's houses.
It took a while to gather all the watercolor paints for my ideal palette, and while that was happening I slowly came up with the perfect setup for me, so here it is:
Why is this the perfect optimization?
- The paint tubs are magnetic, not on a rail, so they're much easier to get out for a limited-palette painting, or to reorder.
- They're arranged by manufacturer, then by temperature.
- They're spaced so that the label I printed can be comfortably read, and I marked those optimal spaces with a sharpie, inside the box.
- There are swatches because one can't always tell from the pan what the color actually looks like. They also show the current (optimized) arrangement of the paints, in case it gets messed up.
- The swatches are protected with plastic so they don't smudge, and the names on it are written on masking tape so I can replace them if needed, or if I change the order inside the box.
- The swatche page is glued with white tack; easy to remove or replace.
This makes me disproportionately happy.
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There's stuff to do today so I didn't get to painting yet; there were groceries, and it's been two weeks since Quazi came over for an Accountability Day so the paranoid cat forgot about him and had a fit when he showed up, and I had to fish him from behind the bed where he was cowering with giant pupils (the cat, not Quazi). And the kid had a major maths exam and came back all hyped; and it's a bit hard to focus.
But Now everyone's settled - Quazi is working, the cat is napping and the teenager is knitting or Minecrafting in her tower, and I can get to that pretty stylized undersea painting tutorial I found the other day and see how many time I mess it up before I manage. This is fun.
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