A HUGE MESS

 I have been sewing consistently for about SIX MONTHS.  Almost every day in fact, unless we have been away.

And what's happened is that I've gotten into a huge mess in the sewing room.

It may not look like it, but I have boxes and containers all over the place, waiting to be put back in their rightful place.

All the little scraps of fabric have been thrown into boxes under the working trestle, not in the scraps boxes.

Because the Scrap Boxes are on the other side of the garage.

So I decided last night to make a start on getting all the fabrics sorted and back into some sort of order.

First up, move the scrap boxes BACK into the sewing room.

Which means MOVING the brown couch out of the sewing room.

AS A CONSEQUENCE ... that means moving a whole shit load of things in the garage and sun room.

It's going to take a lot of juggling.

I had thought of just giving that brown couch away, but when Stew came home last night he worked out how we could juggle things and keep it.

But OMG, it means moving about 8 different 'things'... the couch, shelves, 2 marble top units, plant shelving and various other bits 'n' bobs.

Why is nothing easy???

I can do quite a bit of it myself, but Stew will need to help me with some of the stuff.

I'm no longer able to move really heavy, bulky stuff on my own dammit.

ABOVE:  It's started....

And I think this job is going to keep me busy all day!  Cos I'm only able to keep working for about an hour before I need to take a break!

Getting old sucks.

10.36 am:  And for once I got up before 8 am!

I dreamed about the sewing room, and all I had to do in there, so I simply could not stay in bed.

ABOVE:  3.5 hours in, and believe it or not I'm definitely making inroads with the chaos.

There's still heaps to do, but I reckon I'll have the sewing room done by mid afternoon.

The garage has the brown couch in it for now, Stew gets to move that into the sun room either tonight, or tomorrow.

12.30 pm:  And it's DONE!

ABOVE:  My mission was to get all the scraps of fabric back into the scrap bins.  DONE.

And tidy up the fat quarters/slightly larger scraps. DONE.

ABOVE: The next job was sorting out fabrics that were in 'PROJECT BAGS/BOXES', and put the fabric back into the fabric cupboard for general use.  DONE.

I do have a few project boxes still, but I've certainly HALVED how many there are.  Any fabric in those project boxes is only suitable for said 'PROJECT'... so I don't have to worry about not using fabric that is in a project box.

ABOVE:  SEWING ROOM .... DONE.

The garage is done, but there's a few cardboard boxes to get rid of.

The sunroom can wait until tomorrow, when Stew can help me.

Now... back to normal work.  Soup Bowl Cosy's. 

But first... I'm taking a break!

4.45 pm:  After my lengthy break, I did go into the sun room and make a start in there.  But I've decided to now wait till Stew is home, as I think the configuration needs to change from what we had discussed earlier.

I've cut my 2nd lettuce from our vege pods.  Dinner this evening is going to be Pork Chops, Lamb patties, potato wedges and a lettuce salad.

Sounds rather yum eh?

Dinner was very good, but as we often do, we had too much.  I now have acid reflux!  Damn.  I hope it doesn't keep me awake or worse, having to sleep in a chair all night.