Odds and ends

[melaniesuzanne]

My bedroom is finally clean. As a result, the craft room looks like a bomb went off. The weather looks like it will cooperate this weekend and I can paint the craft room and get all the bits and pieces in their respective homes. I can't wait to have that room under control.

Of course, once the craft room is under control, I get to mess it up again with my dayshade sewing project. Sometime in the future, I want to assemble new silk pennants. I took a good long look at the La Belle standard this weekend and realized that it isn't painted: the different colored silk pieces are sewn together. Hm... I could do that. Probably not as neatly as ichseke did it, but I could still try. Of course, I have to get over my fear of working with silk first. Plenty of time to sidle up next to that fear and bop it on the head.

Work is pretty hellacious with bossman being out. But sunshine through dogwood and cherry blossoms plus a warm kitty body make things tolerable.

Bedtime reading this week: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. There's nothing like reading the lurid details of what exactly Ebola does to the human body to give one pleasant dreams.

Comments

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Silk is a joy to work with. Unless it's super-satiny habatoi, it likes to stick to itself and uses fewer pins.

[draakken.livejournal.com]

driven by the old monkey house a few times... so I hear its a day care now.

I wonder how many people know the history of the site where they drop off their kids every morning.

[strawberrykaren.livejournal.com]

I'm from that town. A lot of the buildings there are new (they'd torn down the old ones, IIRC the places were the old buildings were are now sort of floating in the parking lot). The laboratory's old mailing address is now the home of a Kindercare, but it's not in exactly the same location, from what I remember.

[ichseke.livejournal.com]

Have you given any thought to organizing things professionally? I'd be delighted to have our house be a class project ...

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

I have thought about it. I remember the first time I saw a professional organizer on an HGTV program and I thought, "Oh my gosh. I didn't know you could get paid doing that!"

But, and this is the same doubt that crops up when friends tell me I should be a decorator, I know what *I* like and how *I* want things organized. I don't know that I could work with someone else's vision.

I'll let you know if that changes. :)

[ichseke.livejournal.com]

Well, if HGTV is anything to go on, most clients don't actually HAVE a vision and are delighted to have someone give them one! And those that do have a vision will be looking for a decorator who understands & can support what they want to do -- so I guess there'd be some self-selecting going on on both sides.

And you could probably get some training that would help you suss out how to handle this.

I think you'd be really good at it.