Monday, September 24, 2018

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.

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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!