Mother's Day and Continued Organizing . . .

Today is Mother's Day.  I miss my mom each day but I am so glad I am a "mom".  My sons, Stan and Roy have brought great love and joy to my life.  Stan and his sons, Weston and Walker, came over yesterday afternoon and got all my planters ready for new plants.  And they brought me a beautiful hanging plant. 

My Portland son, Roy, called visited on the phone.  I will see him in a week or so when I go out that way.  I

I did get more organizing done today.  It has been a process of getting some kind of shelving or cupboards in the right place and then deciding what goes where.  In addition to that, I am setting things aside for a coming garage sale my son and daughter-in-law are having in a few weeks.  I am also setting stuff aside that is best donated now such as quilt practice tops going to the animal shelter.

But to make it kind of fun - I am doing the "10 minute routine".  I am taking a before picture of each little area and then an after picture. 

Here is the corner of the "fabric study" room - I just made up that name as it is the area you enter when you come up the stairs.  The first picture is the before followed by the after - it took 2 - 10's.

I hung one of my early quilts and you can see into the new little bathroom on the right.  The rest went to the garbage, the donation pile, the "garage sale"pile, the "find a way to store it better" pile and the "return to owner" pile.

It is nice to see each section become a cozy, organized, functional area.  More later. . .

And now where to put it all . . .

Everything from my studio was stored in my office while the construction was going on.  I am a great "packer" so there was a ton of stuff in this room.

 And now it all has to be put back into the finished studio.  What?  Where do I put it now?

The studio work continues -

We have spent the day hanging window coverings. I want vertical blinds near my longarm so I can adjust and direct the light - not have the shades up or down.  We have mini-blinds on the other end over a window and on a door window.

We have laughed at ourselves silly - two old farts - trying to figure out the best way to do it and then up and down off ladders.  Then we had to shorten a couple of the blinds - cutting the slats on those verticals and shortening one of the mini-blinds.  We wouldn't want to hire someone to come and measure, make the blinds and then come put them up.  LOL  That Bob continues to amaze me!  Love that man!

One good thing at our age - we don't worry about how long they will last.  They will last longer than we do for sure!

We also cleaned the bugs out of all the light covers - yucky job but someone has to do it.  We finished some touch-up painting yesterday and today.  So now it is just a matter of trying to get it all back in the right place.  More pictures to follow.

How many times can a woman start over . . .

Well - as many as it takes to get it done! 

Here I am again.  I am wanting to blog - to share my work, my creating processes, my words, my thoughts, my actions, my travels, my world . . .  I want to be short and sweet with a picture or two.  I want to do it when I feel it and not when I think I "should". That is my plan.  So here goes.

This is what I am working on now.  It is an erratic story connected to being out of my studio while it was getting some changes. It is appropriately titled: "Change Without Grace".  That is how I traveled through the construction - without any grace. Working on it helped me find my humorous and calming place when needed. Now to finish sewing it together and quilted.