Sewing Room

I had the garage sale last weekend and overall it was a success. It always amazing me what sales and what doesn't and how people will offer pittance for something that is just about new. With a few exceptions, all of the left overs were taken to the hospice, SPCA and Restore thrift shops or the Goodwill. Both cars fit in the garage again. YEAH.

Now that the garage sale is done I could move the folding tables back into my sewing room.  My poor sewing room went from this...

Very old picture, but you get the idea. To this...

Boring!!!!! Those four things are the only items in the room. It looks so small...okay it is small, but with everything that was in it before it didn't seem small. I covered the folding table with a quilt just to add some color to the room.

And yes, that is Bella watching TV.
  

Progress

  
I'm not as tired as I was. I have bit of time when I can just sit and do nothing...except I feel guilty like there is something else on my lists that I should be doing - now. All the stuff that has to be done now is done. I've even packed up part of the kitchen just cause I had boxes that worked for kitchen stuff. I look around and feel like I've done a lot, then I'll look again and think there is soooo much more that needs done. But until I find a house there is only so much I can realistically do.

I've found batting and flannel scraps are great packing material:

Bella has been helping with the packing:

I had packed up all of her toys, but then she found the toy bag:

And unpacked them all:

My coworker, Elizabeth, gave me this Christmas ornament a few years ago - it always makes me laugh. Bella likes to play with it.

EVERY nook and cranny has been gone through and the garage sale pile is HUGE.

Hopefully all of this will be gone Saturday afternoon and I'll have made enough money to pay for moving the rest. Hahahahahaha I'm so funny.
 

The Search Continues

 
I took a truck load of stuff up to my moms last weekend. While in Grants Pass I looked at houses again. I put an offer on another house, then rescinded it. Loved loved loved the house, it had the perfect sewing room and a huge kitchen, but it also had no real back yard and a very steep incline from the front of the house down to the bottom of the house which continued on down to the street behind the house. It just made me nervous. I know the house would not slide down the hill, but all the tan bark that had been put down would eventually and replacing it along with pulling weeds would be a challenge.

I am still packing up / sorting things in the house. The painter comes tomorrow and the carpet cleaner next week. Then I can stage the house and have the realtor come in and take pictures for the listing.

The sewing room is empty. It is one of the rooms that will be painted. The only thing quilt related I did was a quick stop at Jordan Fabrics to match a Moda Grunge color I ran out of. I knew they would have the right color and they did - Yay!

Since I have to include a picture with the post, and there is nothing quilt related to show. Here are my girls:
 

Bella the bag lady.

And Spooky playing ying and yang with the stone cat.
 

I'm Tired

 
What a difference a week makes! Last week tons of sewing, this week almost none. I did get my May Aunt Addie blocks finished. The June blocks will probably have to wait until July when the finishing instructions are released.

I decided to put my house on the market June 30th. Somebody slap me upside the head, what was I thinking! The bedrooms are getting painted on the 14th and 15th (everything off the walls). The carpets cleaned the following week (everything except the large furniture needs to be cleared out), then I'm having a HUGE garage sale on the 22nd (every cabinet, closet, nook and cranny must be checked - no mercy must be given). PLUS at least one trip to Oregon to look at houses and take my niece some furniture I no longer need (load the truck).

I've had over 11k steps on my Fitbit for the last three days and I haven't even left the house!

This makes me sad...

... I guess buyers don't want to see a large quilt frame in the middle of the living room.

I took this picture of a rose I saw outside of an office building...oops, forgot to stop and smell it.