on moving furniture at long last.....

 two years ago I decided I wanted to rearrange my studio so I could have a new (BIGGER!) design wall, since I had begun making pieces that were bigger than the space I had

as with most of these kinds of projects, I encountered the "what do I have to do first?" issue --- at the ripe old age of 71, I can no longer shove around every piece of furniture in one day and then have a fun evening with friends --- my method of younger years was to push everything into the center of the room and then start putting things into the places I wanted them to be -- um, not so much now days

there has been, however, some real progress in the last week or so

this is the newly installed shelving in the back room of the studio where all of the "paper crafting" and the family history projects go on --- in order to set wood shelving on top of a metal file cabinet safely I built a wood top for the cabinet --- a piece of plywood with pieces of 1x2 on each side measured carefully so it is a really TIGHT fit so it won't slide around, then all of the particle board closet shelves stacked up and connected with small dowel pins to stabilize them

it gives me a safe and convenient place to store boxes of pictures as well as the certificates and photos that we have found that are bigger than 8 1/2 x 11

and this is the long planned stacking of two cabinets that began their life with me as storage in the kitchen of a different house, and then sat side by side in the studio

just like the shelving unit in the other room, with the help of my wonderful son-in-law who lifted the one on top and then fastened them together with metal bracing and the appropriate screws, these are safe from shifting, and I will be using them to store things like my tools --- electric staple gun, battery powered drill --- and other supplies like Madera 1000 spray fabric glue, E6000 glue, Alene's Clear Gel Tacky glue, textile medium, gel medium, starch, etc, etc, etc

so now I'm ready to move my stereo system (don't laugh, it's an ESSENTIAL part of my studio set up!!) over into the space vacated by the cabinet that is now on top --- soon, like maybe tomorrow

there has actually been work on art projects this week too

the stitching on this piece is finished, I just need to do the edges, which I'm still thinking on -- leaning toward doing a machine satin stitch around the outside edge and having an irregular outline -- I'll take it to my art group on Monday and see what kind of feed back I get on that idea

I've also worked on the bird quilt this week -- the second bird is nearly done, and I'm pretty sure I've decided on a background, so I'm happy with that 

all of the pieces for the bulldog are done, so I'll be putting him together so I can measure to knit his vest

moving along nicely despite loosing most of 2 days this week for the most dreaded of all medical screening tests - the colonoscopy - I survived another one!!  the test was done Wednesday and I'm still feeling the unhappy gut issues, but I don't have to have another one for 5 years, so I'm happy

time to get moving on some projects