My work table, with the samples for Paperbag Studios' new line of rubber stamps: Mixed Media Essentials. When I'm working, I cover my table with a big piece of white wrapping paper so that I can test the stamps; the paper also catches paint dribbles and smudges, and is handy for jotting down notes to myself.

Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary--source unknown

You do your best, you try to work, but find you're spending half the day on the phone with people like Purolator and Bell and disembodied voices telling you to press 1 for this and 2 for that, and wait because of higher than usual calls and blah blah blah...
Deep breath. Time for a walk. Even though it's sticky-humid and a little wet.

Ná bris do loigrín ar stól nach bhfuil i do shlí. (Do not break your shin on a stool that is not in your way.)