The Big Move

       So Saturday we did it.  The Big Move.  Family and friends showed up to move my studio from the walk out basement room to three rooms upstairs; living room and 2 bedrooms.  What a day!  Craig hitched a 4X6 foot trailer to the riding mower and they just kept bring more stuff.  And more stuff.  And more stuff.  

       These two pics show one very small room.  There is a larger bedroom full of plastic drawer sets piled 6 1/2 feet high except at the two windows.  Closets are packed in both rooms.  The living room is twice the size of the two bedrooms and will need 1 six foot table for sewing machines and 2 six foot tables for classes and my own work.  Things will fit a little better after I rearrange like boxes and totes with each other.  Still, there will be extra boxes on the floor.  This particular room above will have all my books (two 6-foot shelves full) into it so the shelves will be empty for the craft show in 7 weeks.  But now I have my supplies where I can get to them to begin getting ready for the show.  I have a handful of finished dolls that will just need pulled from totes, a double handful that just need embellished and lots of little odds and ends.  I won't be sure until I get through all the box labels since I didn't touch everything while packing.

       So am I diving in to "unpack?"  Heck no!  I leave for the Windy City Doll Conference in a day and a half.  I've got other things to do.

My Life Is Flying!!!

                          

     My life seems to be flying at me.  Saturday we move my basement studio to the first floor as I have trouble getting down the stairs and want to create and teach again.  BTW- anyone available who would like to pitch in we begin moving things around 10 am, doughnuts and pizza for payment.  Then I prepare for a doll conference and I leave Wednesday.  That will be great fun as I am a student not a teacher, however I will know where nothing is for packing as it will all be in boxes that I hopefully labeled well. Before leaving I need to gather goodies to make at least 1 auction basket, print a single page pattern for their welcome bags AND I want to put something in the bags that advertises me in a way that they will all want to buy my patterns and take my online classes. 

              THEN when I return home Monday October 1st I have to start working on my craft show that will be here Nov. 10 & 11.  I need to unpack the studio so I can find stuff I already have in stock to sell, find supplies to make new stuff, and all the fun stuff that goes with planning the event.  At least there is a month before that is due.  Then it will be Christmas in about 5 minutes and Parker will be entering high school in ten!  I'm exhausted already, but the conference will be great!  I have the hotel room to myself a couple nights so I can hand at the bar with the girls or veg in my room with cable TV.  No cooking no unpacking, no making my bed.  Ahhhhhhhhhh... I need this!