This was a cleaning weekend—or, perhaps more accurately, a “reverse cleaning” weekend? A “putting everything back where it belonged” weekend?
We had painters come in this past week to paint three rooms—a downstairs powder room, our mudroom, and our guest bedroom that has become my husband’s home office. The powder room needed very little prep. My husband took care of his home office but mostly was able to just slide stuff to the center of the room, so not too much got displaced to other rooms. The mudroom was a whole other matter. Our mudroom serves as kitchen overflow so the shelves are half appliances or larger pots n’ pans and half outwear and dog gear. It all ended up in the dining room.
We’d also originally intended to do my daughter’s room but it turned out to be too difficult to get everything moved out in time so that got bagged…but not before a whole bunch of my books got moved from bookshelves in her room to cartons in the upstairs hallway.
Painting now done and thoroughly dried, my husband and I spent the afternoon today moving the boxes of books to the areas they were headed to (mostly the back of my car for donation and to take into my region office) and reorganizing the mudroom. The mudroom is actually exciting as I was able to get rid of some stuff, move some stuff out of our kitchen into the mudroom, move some things from the mudroom to the basement…. It all makes so much more sense now.
As long as I don’t look at the basement. But that’s a job for next weekend.
The only time I spent in my quilting room was about an hour doing my pre-cutting for eventual cutting of the Storm at Sea blocks on my Accuquilt. I’d hoped to get all the lights pre-cut today but didn’t quite make it before my arthritic foot gave out on me (with all the mudroom work I was already pushing it). I did enough, however, to be able to do the math to realize I didn’t have enough light batik fabrics. I just placed an order with Hancocks of Paducah for another 3 yards or so (in half-yard increments as it’s “scrappy”) of lights.
Feels like this quilt is going to be humungous.