SEWING AREA

 

That crazy cow (above) is how I feel when I look into the garage at my sewing space.  There's boxes of shit EVERYWHERE, and it is probably going to take me ALL DAY to make any sense out of it.

It's daunting.  I dumped all the craft boxes in there as well.

I know that most of the 'other craft stuff' will be going to the Op Shop.  I simply cannot keep it.  I am going to concentrate on my sewing, and forget about knitting, painting, card making and so on.  It all has to go. Someone else can enjoy using it.

But before I do all that, I have a few things to do.

- Do a run of stuff to the Salvation Army Op Shop. DONE

- Do a run of stuff to Va Va Voom Hospice Op Shop.  They take the more 'pretty' things like ornaments. DONE

- Swap the winter jacket we bought for Coco yesterday afternoon with a bigger one.  DONE

- Get a length of dowel for the laundry.  I'll show you why later.  DONE

- Go to the supermarket for a few items.  DONE

ABOVE: Steve got our lovely big, ornate mirror hung yesterday.  I was concerned that it wouldn't fit on any wall here, but it does.  So relieved.  I've had to get 'rid' of so many of our lovely things, to not have that as well would have made me cry. 

I know it's only a 'thing'... but I like my bloody things!

ABOVE:  Opposite the big mirror in the hallway is this collection of paintings, depicting where we have lived.  I couldn't fit our large Cambridge painting on this wall, so I have gifted it to a friend in Cambridge.  I will find a new, smaller one at some point.

Right, that's me for now, time to get up and do something productive, before heading out to do those other things.

It is 10.10 am.  I've been sorting and putting in it's place, all my ornaments, china, serving dishes, and so on.

It has taken two hours, not bad!

 

ABOVE: Those are not what I had planned to put on this shelving unit, but they looked best there.  And I'll have you know, I put in the Op Shop Box any double ups!  So I only have one of each now.

I am very proud of myself, cos I love my little bottles.

ABOVE: This shelving unit took a bit of thinking about.  Lily is into everything right now, so I put larger things on it, hoping she will learn not to touch soon.

ABOVE: Apart from it's light fitting, this area is DONE.

ABOVE:  I took some of the Britto out of this cabinet, it was just so overcrowded.

ABOVE: Now some of the Britto is in here.  Along with my lovely Polish Pottery, and a few other precious things.  I knew getting this cabinet was a good idea! 😊  It gave me more places to put my pretties. 

ABOVE: All the day to day serving dishes etc are now in the credenza.  There is no room for them in the kitchen.  As the credenza is like, really close to the kitchen, it hardly matters.

And now... it is time to head out and drop off all the boxes and bags of stuff to the two Op Shops I have in mind.

Then I have a quite a list of other things to go/get while out.  So I'll be back later.

It is now 3.16 pm.  I've just arrived home from doing those errands.  I also spent an hour talking to The Manager here about 'an issue'.  Hopefully it gets resolved to everyone's satisfaction.

I was brought to tears over it.  I won't say what it was, until it is resolved. 

I had FIVE things on my grocery shopping list.  I spent $649 ... something tells me I got more than those FIVE things.  😖😒

Some people are just so NICE.  I took a big box of lovely pretties to Va Va Voom, Hospice Shop.  I must have looked frazzled/upset because the lady in there just up and gave me a big hug!  She said it looked like I needed it.  Awwww.  So nice.

I WAS frazzled and upset.

The groceries are now away, and it's probably time I had something to eat.  Not had a bloody thing all day.  Too busy.

Ha!  I finally had my lunch at 4.45 pm!  

Then I fluffed around a bit more in the house, got some washing dried, and now... totally relaxing in the lounge.  

Catch ya tomorrow.