Busy and Lots of Progress

When we moved into this house, our main goal was to get everything put SOMEWHERE! I can't say that we've done that yet because we still have three rental storage units but we would like to make progress and eventually get rid of those. There are several rooms in the house that have become "storage" rooms, aka . . junk rooms. The "sewing room" has become the biggest, messiest junk room of all. It isn't a fun place to be. All of the fabric from my quilting days is in there, along with ROLLS of batting, which takes up a lot of room. There were tubs and tubs of yarn. Most of my canning jars are now in the sewing room. There's a long arm that has never been put together in the 5+ years we've been here. Now there's cross stitching - tubs of linen, bins of charts, lots of floss. There's a large cutting table, several sewing machines, a serger, a cover stitch machine, an ironing table and, the latest, a tall shelf unit in front of the double door with my seedlings growing.

There's a bedroom in the basement but it's a "non-conforming bedroom" because it doesn't have a second way of egress. There are no windows in the room. Three walls are concrete. It's a very safe room, completely quiet and very cool. A lot of nights, I end up in the basement. Vince likes it way warmer than I like it. In the summer, he's very happy with the thermostat at 74 or 75. If the upstairs is 74, the basement is about 65 so many nights I end up downstairs. Or, Vince goes to bed at 10:30, I say I'll be up in a few minutes and the first thing I know, it's 2:30 a.m. I figure I'll wake Vince up when I go up and it isn't that long until he will be waking up - just as I'm getting to sleep so I just sleep in the basement.

The basement bedroom has no way out other than the door which leads into a little sitting area, then the family room, then the downstairs garage . . a long path to get to the outside if there's a fire. So, I asked Vince what he thought about moving all the yarn tubs and some of the food storage into the 'bedroom' and moving the bed into the sewing room. He was fine with it so we did it.

There's a double door that goes from the sewing room to the outside and there are two small windows that are plenty big enough to escape through, and two regular size long windows. 

Then there's the love seat. It's the one I bought when I rented the apartment in Nevada, MO before we moved here. I never used it because I only stayed in the apartment three nights and here. There's a recliner in there and I would sit in that with Boots so the loveseat has never been used really. So, it's in the sewing room and it had been piled high with "stuff". In fact, we bought blinds for all the windows in the sewing room and Vince had put them all up except that one because he couldn't get to it! Now that I have the sofa cleaned off and the space in front of the sofa cleared, he can move the sofa, get behind it, hang the blind and . . he'll be done with the sewing room.

The best news . . today I got an extra magnifying light set up, an extra Lowery stand set up and a tablet holder set up. Vince loves to watch TV. I do not. I don't like movies. It doesn't bother me for him to watch anything he wants to watch EXCEPT I don't like bad words and loud shooting and blowing things up so . . Mars vs. Venus I suppose. I guess the most important part of this story is that we only have one TV and it's in the basement family room. The dogs don't go upstairs so I pretty much live my life with the dogs in the basement family room so if Vince wants to watch TV, he has us to deal with. Now, I can take the dogs and go into the sewing room. I can stitch. I can listen to Pandora or have YouTube videos on my laptop and Vince can happily watch what he wants to watch with my "input".  :) The dogs are happy to sit with me and are kinda getting past the stage of getting into everything, although there's a lot of interesting stuff in there, especially if your'e a little dog.

There's still a LOT of work to be done in the sewing room but I feel like we've made some very useful progress.