J wondered if I was really going to share pictures of my messy office. I reminded her that it isn't too messy for her to try to take over and that some of the mess is hers. It really just id a busy place as this is where two of my favorite
machines live--my sewing machine and my laptop.
There really is only room for one person to work at a time. I can sit in the old
rolling desk chair my mom and I got at an auction and reach my desk that was my grandfather's work desk, my sewing machine cabinet that use to be my grandmother's and my table which my grandparents at breakfast at every morning for years and years. All of which I refinished at some time (after college or in my first year of
marriage) they all
have the same stain and finish except my desk hutch because my dad made it and somehow the stain color got
miscommunicated.
This is the only room (other than the great room and kitchen) in the house with more than one window. I squeezed in as many windows as possible for lot of light. Unfortunately I sew after dark most of the time--when else do I get quiet
uninterrupted time?--and I need at least one more work light. It could be organized better, but I have wanted a room with these
pieces of
furniture for a long time and I got it before all my children left home--earlier than I though I would. So it works. When we get another sewer in the family we may need to spread out or give them their own work space and machine(s).
Remember clutter is a sign of a great mind. Or maybe just a busy mind.
This is the last of the bedroom curtains. I didn't get a good picture of the curtains because of the
sunlight. I
trimmed our bedroom and bathroom curtains with ribbon. I have more ribbon and plan to use it as accents throughout the room like on my bath "toys" basket.
This is what our island was made for.
This is my
second attempt at a Romantic blouse from Sense and Sensibility Patterns. I was not happy with the first one, but love how this one turned out. I have a jumper that goes with it,but don't have pictures yet.
This is T's favorite place, or on top of the island. She is there anytime J or I are
working in the kitchen.
Unfortunately while I sew I put my friend whom I have a love hate relationship with in charge of
entertaining the children. D and M get sucked in
immediately and stay. G and N went to play with the cats and J and T were "helping" me.
Actually this was a sick day when 5 children were recovering from strep all the same week.
This wood came from trees we had to cut down to have the pond dug. It is mostly white oak and some maple. We had a local man rough cut, kiln dry and plane it for us.
For perspective I wear a 10.5 wide shoe. This is one of the wider baords. They vary because they were cut form the outside of the tree in.
This piece was on top. It looks like the alien from the movie Alien. I love to see the diferent grain marks and make us stories how they were made.
The place that looks like a cut mark is actually smooth so the color variation is in the wood.
...in a Walmart far far away M and I spotted a fairy costume that was too cute to pass up. But the price wasn't. A few weeks later the same pattern was a 99 cent deal at Jo Ann's so we snatched it up. Then she chose the closest green fabric she saw--fortunately we were standing right next the the clearance bolts that we also marked down. So my little fairly who has been on a Tinkerbell kick got the makings for a Tink costume. I told her when it warmed up I would make it--hoping to get some "real" clothes done first. But the "Real" clothes didn't take long and even with cutting and sewing together 16 petal pieces neither did the Tink costume.
Here is another shot with the brightness reversed--it was about 30 yards away from the house with another larger deer, maybe a buck?, with it. But we never saw that one well.
