I got my honey to photo my poor hands…
I do miss my daily hand quilting time… I have yet to get back to Brandi’s quilt Starlight… Starbright… but have plans on Monday to return to it!!!
The main reason to show you a shot of my hands… is to share how pretty my mothers ring is now… I got it cleaned at the jewelry store and they did a magnificent job!!!
Above is a close up for you 🙂 I am asking for an ultrasonic jewelry and glasses cleaner for Christmas now too! My honey thinks Santa may accomodate my request! lol
I have been cleaning… the closet is about done… I have some albums to add to my scrapbooking sale pile yet but that is about it….
See how neat and tidy it turned out… if you missed it… here is the BEFORE shot…
See what a mess of stuff it was!!!!
Now it only has 2 things on the floor… our dirty clothes basket and some wrapping paper in a holder 🙂 Yippee!!!!
Next I moved to the bedroom itself… which just needed a good cleaning more than tidying really… and it is done!!!!
Finally I got to go into the sewing room.. wow it was a mess… it had taken lots of hits from the closet as I emptied it and found fabric.. and needed a good tidying overall and a cleaning too…
Unfortunately I was sooo excited to get to this room I forgot to get you before shots… but I could not walk through it!!! It was a clustered mess of stuff… I haven’t seen my cutting table neat in over 4 years y’all!!!! 4 years!!!!
Now look!!!
My cutting table is clean and tidy… with the exception of those 2 stacks of boards awaiting the pile of fabric pointing to below!!!! lol This is today’s project btw!!!
Here is another view of the cutting table with my awesome design wall in view too… I love it!!!
The boards I showed you above will have wrapped 1 yard and less on them of my fabrics then be organized for my fabric chest…
I also have lots of fabric I have purchased in a lot long ago from an estate sale… a bit of it has polyester in it and will melt into plastic under my vintage piecing iron… so I have organized it in one of my scrapbook drawer organizers repurposed for this job…
I nicely took this shot for you all with a repurposed bubbler we brought into the Florida room… you can see the far end of the Florida room and my color organized fabric drawers too! The fabric is next to the steamy iron and ironing board for pressing to check for poly mix in each piece before using it in a quilty project!!! Yippee 🙂
Here is my thought now that I see what all I have available to me in my stash now… I wanna make some pumpkins using yellows to orangy reds in them… Bonnie Hunter inspired this project and here is a pic of her making hers on grey backgrounds into a snuggly quilt… but I want something different from mine… we shall see if that happens this year.. or next! lol
So next up is wrapping and organizing my fabrics in my stash… and fitting them into my fabric chest!!! This will be an all day affair I think… mixed in I will take breaks and organize and clean our bathroom as I haven’t really given that room any attention yet!
I have gone through lots of old pics and stuff… sorted them to give as Christmas gifts to my kids so they can take their own private walk down our family memory lane… and I found this that I scrapbooked several years back… now I want to frame it!
Getting my Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing was a HUGE accomplishment and one I am very proud of! My whole family was there to watch me receive my diploma from a wonderful school in Florida (I did this online from Tennessee) Here is the frame and picture and tassel from getting my degree…
And I can see this every time I leave my bedroom too!!! I had planned to hang this in the office when it got repainted and I moved back in… but I think I will hang the scrapbooked photo there and leave the formal frame and honor cords in the bedroom where they are now 🙂
While cleaning the bedroom I came across a stocking I started about 5 years ago!!! I finished one for Rick but never finished mine!!! So between working in the house cleaning and organizing and running errands for this and that… I am trying to take time to work on this some too…
I doubt this will be done for this Christmas but it sure is fun to have something to stitch on out in the Florida room while I listen to 2 bubblers bubbling water and enjoy the light breeze fall brings to Florida!
My son James…
Will turn 26 in a few days… in celebration he bought a side by side 4 wheeler vehicle…
Here is a posed shot of his family as he snapped the shot of his new “toy”!!!! Zach is behind the driver’s wheel and is 11… Heather, his fiance and Zach’s mom is holding Kaydence in the passenger seat 🙂
And here is a shot of CJ ready for Halloween!!!!
So that is quite enough info for one post I think… but I wanted to keep you up to date on why I haven’t had any quilty progress to show here or on fb… I have just been too busy with all else since Matthew the hurricane left our area!
Hope whatever you do today you take time to…
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You will get organized eventually and then be able to crank out a lot of work in the quilting room. Sometimes we just need to take a break – your closet puts mine to shame – I need to do the same with mine and totally clear it out – I have things piled on shelves that have been there for 20 years I bet – Goodwill here I come – I think when we get home from Houston I need to tackle that closet – and another one!!
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Look at you go…. you've been busy. Your nursing degree pic is very pretty; something to be proud of forever. I looked at a book with cross stitch Christmas stockings today at Goodwill. I put it back without buying it, as I don't think cross stitch is my thing, even though I used to love it when I was younger. I hope you get your stockings done.
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