SIgh

 Kids.  You gotta love ‘em.  And I do, I really do.  I have been so blessed in the grandkid department, I couldn’t have asked for more or better.

So, current situation.  My decreasing mobility is making everything a little more difficult and definitely more S - L - O - W — as in I have to rest a lot and take breaks and it just makes the smallest thing seem monumentally difficult.  So, that’s me.

I have finally given in to the notion of needing help, at least for bigger projects.

Cue Bean.

Bean needs something to do to get her off her phone and less attention paid to the boyfriend.

Solution?  I am breaking up my needs into projects and giving her a job every afternoon after school since she is here anyway.  

So, yesterday we went upstairs to my play place — a very large game room that has become an enormous dumping spot — my husband and I are great dumpers — and it is to the point that we can no longer enjoy the space.  

When we got upstairs we talked about what needed to be done, she assessed the situation and we made a plan.  We cleaned off the coffee table and then she said she wanted to tackle the craft table.  That was quite a chore.  I should have taken photos.  

So, tackle she did — keep in mind that most of the stuff has to do with card making and there is a lot of it.  A LOT of it.  So, she separated all the paper, hands on hips she sighed and said “Nona, you have an absolute tree farm here”.  Bless her little heart.  And then I have a 7 day chest of drawers with more stuff, she opened the drawers and said “Nona, what is all of this — so much, and more of the same thing”.  Sigh.   What can I say, my name is Melissa and I am an addict — and a hoarder — really bad combination.

The top of the table is clean, the trash tossed, the paper still needs to be sorted and I need to find a place to store it logically.  But, it is looking better.

I have hope for the space.  We talked about it and we are going to move the furniture around to make it cozier.  It is an enormous room — large enough for a pool table or possibly a snooker table.  Everything is just lined up around the walls with this big open space in the middle of the floor.  Not inviting at all.  We have nice furniture in there, lovely art work, the carpeting is good and we have a large tv but the arrangement isn’t conducive to wanting to curl up and read or watch tv.  Not to mention the monumental mess — but Bean is taking care of that.

The next project is to sort cross stitch stuff.  I am going today for another of these —

I have one in a lovely green and I am thinking of getting this one in pink or maybe orange — not sure — but it stores bobbinated embroidery thread beautifully and I have a ton of skeins of thread that needs to be dealt with.  SO, the Bean is going to be putting the thread on bobbins and storing by number.  She is gonna hate me — 

So, I should have taken photos of the “before” but honestly I am so embarrassed by what it had gotten to be that I just couldn’t do that.  I will, however, take photos of the after and you can just use your imagination in regards to “before”.

If I don’t get back to card making soon I might rehome all those supplies and just focus on cross stitch.  My quilting days are over and cross stitch is about all I can manage right now — and a bit of sketching now and then.

So, anyway, that was yesterday — I am so looking forward to cleaning out the craft “stuff” and having some empty space - you know, empty drawers are a thing of great beauty.  

Have a good day! Getting ready to hobble to the Container Store for an overpriced, very small, cabinet of drawers.