How was your weekend? After my first five day work week in a long time, I was more than ready for the weekend. We headed to Roanoke after work on Friday for a Brad Paisley concert. It was an awesome show and I’m now an even bigger Brad Paisley fan than I was before the…
Creating a sewing room upstairs required moving some furniture from the current sewing room to the guest bedroom. Luckily it all fit and I actually like the room better now that it has more furniture in it. This room is definitely a hodge-podge and not much matches. To me it feels like a room at…
Better late than never is what I have to say for Valentine’s decorating. One day I remembered that I had some heart towels, circa 1991, that I thought could be transformed into a table runner. Do you remember when hearts were the rage? Along with geese…and ducks… I ironed them, put them on my table,…
When I was organizing my sewing room I realized that I had way too many things and not enough places to store it all. I thought about what I might have that could work and remembered an old filing cabinet in the basement that my mom gave to us. I think this originally was a…
Have you been using your gym membership in 2011? I’d like to share some gym tips that I find helpful. We are all busy and fitting in a gym visit is sometimes difficult. The following tips have helped me to make the most of my precious gym visit minutes over the years and I hope that…
We spent the weekend at the beach. I hadn’t been to the beach in February in many years. The weekend had many highs and a big low. The Highs! We were out of town for the weekend. Getting away ever once in a while is so much fun. We had some really good food. Chili…
After sewing on a kitchen table for years, sewing on my new table is going to be a dream. This cube…. Unfolds into this! I love the storage. And I especially love the work surface. I predict that many an hour will be spent happily sewing at this table. Bring on the snow so I’ll…
Organizing my sewing room was hard work. Trying to combine my things with both my grandmother’s and mother-in-law’s made for a lot things that needed a new how. Where did I put all of those notions? Let’s start with the rolling wooden cabinet. This cabinet’s door is on wheels, when it opens, it stays open. Inside are…
I’ve been working very hard on and off the past two weeks to turn a catch-all room upstairs into a sewing room. I didn’t take official “before” pictures, but here’s a shot of the room when I first starting bring home my late mother-in-law’s sewing things. The first thing that I had to do was…
Have you ever completed a project and then were just not quite satisfied with it? I stenciled the wall behind our television in our family room back in August and at first was very happy with the results. Later I realized that what I did wasn’t quite the way I wanted it. Take a look…
Do you ever have trouble figuring out where to put things when you are organizing? I certainly do! We live in a Cape Cod style home and have crawl space attic storage under the eaves of the house that is full to the gills. I’ve been working hard this week to turn an upstairs bedroom…
I feel like I don’t have much to show for this weekend. Usually I complete a project or accomplish a few things that provide blogging material. This weekend I didn’t accomplish much of anything other than running, playing tennis, and adding to my soon to be a sewing room mess. My father-in-law has generously let…