My life seems to be all about piles lately. I am racing at top speed trying to get everything done and keep house and heart and work and school and everything from bursting at the seams. It is really frustrating.
![Desk pile Desk pile](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/PICT5416sm-300x224.jpg)
This is one of the piles on my desk. It is the pile next to my computer; the working pile, often. It is a combination of project notes, book reviews (took this photo while I was writing the review of Taking Flight), bills, reimbursement requests from healthcare, etc.
![Book pile Book pile](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/PICT5414sm-300x263.jpg)
This is the pile hat spurred on this post. It is a pile of books on the floor next to my desk, which are waiting for my attention. One day, I was leaning over to change the radio station and the fell all over the place.
I put all of my craft and quilt books into a database to which I refer before I go to buy a book. My rule is that I only buy quilt and craft books, mostly quilt, though, unless I think I am going to read some fiction book again. I try to check every book out of the library and review it before I buy it. I, frankly, don’t have the space to create a library in my house, no matter how much I would like to do so.
![Another Desk Pile Another Desk Pile](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/PICT5415sm-269x300.jpg)
Periodically, I will rip inspirational pages out of magazines and then file them. This pile, towards the bottom, is a big group of those ripped out pages. Somehow I got sidetracked or ran out of space in the middle of filing and it never got done.
Cleaning this up is not yet on my to do list.