are you standing up or sitting down?

This burning question has been featured on so many scrapping sites that it must qualify as a top-priority identity issue, like which side did your history books suggest won the Civil War. Do you stand or sit when you scrap? Do you favor the close-up perspective of sitting among your stash piles on either side of your ever-narrowing workspace, or do you get inspired by the bird's-eye view of standing tall above the fray?

Or maybe you are like me, up and down as the spirit moves me. When I'm concentrating, I'm usually sitting down, running my ATG gun like a madwoman, adding foam dots wherever I can, ruffling ribbon to hide inconvenient fold marks (although the ribbon iron is only a couple steps away), layering chipboard elements and painting edges . . . But before I get too layered and glued down, I have to stand up for perspective. I don't actually cross to the other side of the room, like I used to when painting my large works that I tacked up on the studio walls. But I still like to see how the parts work as a whole. Here is my current workspace in mufti as I start preparation for another class I'll teach in May.


Oh, and I also stand when the music simply allows no more sedate wriggling in the seat and demands a full-out dance routine. Right now it's my Putumayo collection featuring reggae, Afro pop, Latin and other world beats. It often defies sitting -- as the kids who are one of its target audiences already know.
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