Spring cleaning in the autumn

Around here I tend to get serious about deep cleaning in the spring and in the fall. Spring cleaning is good for airing out the house and tidying up after the house plants are getting moved outside. Autumn, cleaning, on the other hand, helps me prepare to settle back into the house and studio as I say goodbye to warm days and lay the garden down for the season.

Today I decided to tackle cleaning the carpet in the studio. If you are a messy artisan like I am, you are likely wondering why anyone would have carpet in their studio. I wonder that myself!! Truth be told, my studio may have been a family room/office in a previous life, and we just haven't gotten around to replacing the carpet. So...I protect it as much as possible and clean it when necessary. (Someday "replacing the studio flooring" will percolate to the top of the "to do" list.)

Here's what the studio looks like during carpet-cleaning season. Hopefully it will dry quickly and I can get back to painting in a couple of days!