What holds you back from scrapping?

I completely understand! I have a nice room, bright, and cozy. Sometimes I love it in there, and other times I can't be productive there. Sometimes it feels like a haven, other times it feels way to far from the main hub of the house- I live alone, so wherever I am is the hub. :-) But, somedays, it's hard to make myself "move" into there,
My only advice is to give up the guilt! just go with what works for you!! IF that's the kitchen table, embrace it.

Is there space in your room to have someone come in and scrap with you? If so, maybe you need to make an appointment with yourself AND A FRIEND to scrap together. Sometimes it helps me to have someone coming over to get that kick in the butt that I need to work on something.

It also sounds like you are just plain tired. I think when you're out of the house for such long stretches at a time, by the time you get home, have dinner and clean up all you have energy for is sitting in front of the tv or Pinterest! 

To answer your question, right now the major thing getting in my way is that my studio space is a disaster that found a place to happen, LOL. We moved into our house almost 2.5 years ago, a house that has a HUGE finished basement that is for the most part all mine. I was able to get it painted before I moved anything in, so that is done. Moved all of my furniture and my boxes of junk in but could only justify unpacking the things that I need for work (I design and manufacture page kits and work from home) because by the time I paid for a new desk and some wall shelves above it, I ran out of money to do the rest. I still need to get a bunch of cabinets/counters installed and more wall shelving as well.

The money for the buildout is supposed to be coming from my Mom's estate which has been tied up in probate for almost three years. The final hearing is today, so hopefully there is a light at the end of the (very long) tunnel. What complicates things is the fact that I have a preschooler at home with me and the entire space is completely NOT child friendly or safe. She's pretty good for the most part, but she does sometimes get into things. And because everything is such a mess of boxes and stuff, I hesitate to bring a bunch of her stuff down there for her to play with so she gets bored quickly with the stuff I do bring down there for her to do. She will sit and watch toy videos on YouTube or cartoons on NetFlix for a short time and be happy, but I don't want that to be the only thing she does all day, you know? I save that for the times when I'm really desperate to get some work done.

Because of the long delay in getting this buildout done (which was originally a top priority when we moved in, thinking the money would come much sooner than it has), I've been in a holding pattern for both work and with my personal scrapping which is my primary creative outlet. I think about scrapping day and night but have a hard time doing anything about it. Looking at that mess kills my mojo. Not being able to find any of my personal stuff is frustrating and it kills my mojo. I don't like having people over to scrap because of the mess down there. When I do force myself to have friends over and try work on something, I spend more time looking for things than I do scrapping and it just drives me nuts. I'm normally a pretty organized person, so trying to function with all this chaos for so long has been really hard for me to deal with.

The absolute worst part is that I dislike even complaining about it because it's such a first world problem, but really does impact a big part of my life because this isn't just a hobby for me, it's my work that's negatively impacted too. I have been so blessed in so many ways it seems ungrateful to feel the way I do about it. I totally get what you're saying, OP. Thanks for letting me vent a little as well.

No mojo
Internet
Messy room
Not the right pics for the paper/project I want to make.
I can't scrap without my place being clean...if I have dishes in sink ...floors not cleaned ect I can't scrap.

What holds me back:
Not much time - work full time, 2 young kids
I have no dedicated space - all my scrappy stuff is in Iris boxes, an Artbin and a large Rubbermaid bin. If I want to scrap, I have to schlep it all, or part of it, to the dining room. PITA!!!
I don't feel like crafting should be something you have to do all the time if you don't feel like it. It should be fun and relaxing

I'm in this boat too.

I have my own space on the main floor of our house and it sometimes becomes a dumping ground of other people's stuff. You know, all that stuff that DS and DH don't want to put away.  I don't want to go in there when it's a huge mess. So, I don't scrap until I get in there and clean it out. I would love to have a TV in my room, but I might feel guilty about not spending time with DH. 

I suffer from this as well.

The only thing that stops me is time. I WISH I had more time to scrapbook. I seasonal camp and some of my camping buddies are scrapbookers and we set up all day crops outside but that only a once or twice during the summer.

The biggest thing holding me back from scrapping right now is rheumatoid arthritis. :-(. Prior to the last week or so, I had some awesome scrapping momentum going on, then it rained. Since I have a severe case of RA, if it even thinks about raining, I hurt. Well the past week or so, it has either rained or threatened to rain, so I haven't been able to do much besides watch tv; and it kills me not to be able to scrap.

I was able to get to Michael's today, because DS needed something for school. I bought a cute 6x8 PL binder to organize my Citrus Twist and Scraptastic stamps. And I've been reading the first issue (January) of Create magazine, but that's been the extent of my craftiness. Chronic pain is a b*tch! It isn't suppose to rain for a few days, so hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow and can get dome things done. If I wasn't in so much pain, I would finish editing and ordering some pics, then I'd get to work on the "Killing It" challenge over on the challenge board. I have a kit all picked out to "kill," so hopefully it will be dead by Monday. Lol

My main set back is kids----and everything that comes along with them. So I guess that being said, it's time. My kids and the many others who frequent my house SUCK ALL THE TIME from me. I'm cooking or baking for them; then cleaning it all up. House work and juggling schedules. My kids are very involved in activities.
I have a wonderful area to scrap and my eight yr old has a table set up too BUT it's just finding the time to do it.

what a great question!! I think a big part of it for me is I like the social aspect of scrapping and don't like doing it all by myself, at home. The other part is that when I scrap at home, I feel like I'm being anti-social to my BF, and I get interrupted a lot- by him, by the dogs or cats gettin in my room or in my stuff, etc.

Aside from the mess in my room, because it's usually very disorganized-- even if my room WAS clean, I don't like being upstairs away from the action in the rest of the house. The last few times I've actually done anything scrappy ws because I took all my stuff to my not-so-local scrapbook store and rented classroom space during their 'open lab' time, or signed up for their 12-hour crops. (thanks for the reminder, actually- I need to find out when their next one is!)