It’s another pissing-down-rain kind of day and I’m car-less (it’s in the shop) so we’re housebound. B is going a little stir crazy but I’ve promised him that when he wakes up from his nap if the rain has stopped he can go outside to play. The lid of his sand table is off and upside down and he’s dying to go and play in the collected water and, no doubt, the saturated sand in the table.

Me, I’ve been tackling some housecleaning. Not necessarily the mop-and-bucket type but cleaning nonetheless. I’ve cleaned up the kitchen counter (one of the corners always seems to become my bills/papers/magazines/purse drop spot) and spent a good portion of the morning in my sewing room. The sewing room that I have never sewn in. I moved into this house in mid-August last year and it was such a convenient room to put all the I’ll-sort-them-later boxes because I could put a kiddie lock on the knob, close the door, and B couldn’t get in (plus it got the boxes out of the way). It’s been almost a year since I moved in and the room is still not emptied out. It’s very much improved; before, you could not walk on the floor - it was precarious and you had to take huge, well thought out steps. So though the pictures below don’t look like much, believe me when I saw that I am freakishly happy with the way it looks. I’ve ruler-folded all my big/whole pieces of fabric and that makes me freakishly happy too. I’m not sure what one does with the oddly-shaped, smaller, or selvedge-less pieces but I’ve got them in labeled plastic tubs.

There’s a three-drawer dresser just inside the picture on the right, fabric next to that (obviously), a cutting table at the back, and a corner desk in the corner (can’t see it) that I will most likely move my coverstitch machine to. The sewing desk is a hollow-core door attached to and sitting on (one on each end) on those cheap pressboard Closetmaid shelves; there is a piece of 1x2 screwed into the wall along the back length of the door as well to give a bit more support.

The machines are my sewing machine (Huskystar 215), serger (White Speedylock 1600), and a Janome 1000CP coverstitch (or coverhem if you prefer). The tubs in the closet contain yarn (the lefthand stack) and the fabric (the rest of them) that didn’t fit nicely on the shelving. So for now, the closet is full. And you should see the stuff that didn’t make it into the closet! My mother got a huge amount of yarn from me. Under the window is where I’m contemplating putting my old desktop PC for B. He has a few pre-school educational programs/games that he’s constantly bugging me to use and I don’t want him on my laptop. I always rolled my eyes at the idea of very young children having a computer but hey, we all change when it’s our own child, right?

Maybe a little more work in there today. It might make me feel not so lazy for still being in my pajamas with bed head.