The Sewing Mom

I’ve have been very busy this last week doing some very in depth cleaning which has been long over due. One of the first things I did was to clean and organize my sewing room. In fact, I cleaned it so well that I’m not even sure it is still my sewing room! Even my sewing machine has been put away (temporarily).

We do have some very special out of town guests coming to visit this weekend which did give me the incentive to get things done. I’m sorry I don’t have a before picture, but just imagine these cabinets opened with their interiors spilling out, 2 folding tables set up plus my full size ironing board right in the middle of all of it. There was truly barely any room to walk.

I’m very happy with the way the room looks, even if it means that I can’t sew right now. I don’t have time to sew anyway, so it takes away the temptation! Oh, let me just warn everyone, DON’T OPEN THE CLOSET DOOR!

I really wanted to be sewing over the weekend, but I decided it was more important to take a little break. There are actually a few reasons, but the most important one is that my mom is on her way and will be here later this evening. She’s driving in from Arizona and I wanted to make sure the house was neat and orderly. With all the sewing I’ve been doing lately, the household chores have taken a back seat to my sewing machine!

Amazingly, the house wasn’t too bad, mainly just a lot of clutter. I had to spend some time sorting through papers and getting rid of junk mail, as usual, but once that was done I just had to dust and vacuum. I cleaned all the bathrooms too which always makes me feel better. I hate doing the bathrooms, but I sure do feel like I accomplished something when they’re done!

Probably the worst room in the house was my sewing room. I’ve just had so many projects going and haven’t stopped long enough to reorganize. It had reached a point that I thought I was going to have to put on some tactical boots to protect my feet from any pins or needles that I may have dropped on the carpet! There were so many thread clippings on the floor that the carpet was looking like it was shades of many other colors! I got the vacuum in there and it looks so much better!

I also ran to the grocery to pick up some things for tonight’s dinner and some muffins for breakfast. Thankfully, my husband is grilling the steaks I bought so I had time to go out and pick up all the mounds of grass my daughter raked up yesterday after she mowed for the first time this season. I also managed to cut back the mums which are right by the front door, so things look pretty decent outside now as well.

Hopefully Mom will be here in the next few hours. It will have been a very long day of driving for her today, so I’m sure she’ll be anxious to get off the road.

I hope you all had a terrific weekend! I think I’m going to sneak back into my sewing room now and see if I can start the second block in my block-of-the-month club.

This week I decided to tackle something that’s been annoying me for quite some time, the kitchen island. There are so many days that I wonder where all the crap that lands on the island would go if we didn’t have an island at all! This is definitely something I need to keep up with on a daily basis or it will look like this again, in a hurry. If you really look in the picture, you can see that the counter had actually overflowed onto the stools, we couldn’t even sit down!

It really did take me all week to get it looking like this. There were a lot of papers that needed to be filed and items that needed a home. I didn’t just want to move the mess, I wanted to eliminate it. Plus, every time I would get it partially cleared, somebody would drop something new onto the counter. It’s definitely an ongoing, never ending tackle.

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