For Christmas, my mom got me an artist’s taboret. It is blue.

I cannot emphasize enough how useful this has been already.

Taboret:
-noun
A small, usually portable stand, cabinet, or chest of drawers, as for holding work supplies.

Besides functioning as storage for the supplies that have in the past been overflowing onto my desk, dresser, and floor, this piece of furniture encites me to paint more. It functions as a surface to hold my new easel and light as well as having a glass pane on the center surface that I can use as a palette. It’s a lot easier to use the materials stored within easy reach than to hunt down everything I need and a lot more comfortable painting sitting in a chair or standing up than crouching on the floor.

Thank you to my mom and a belated merry Christmas to everyone else!