Nothing going on the 'making' department. I'm packing up my craft room in readiness for our renovation...which will include painting this room. Sigh.... we don't even have a start date yet, but if you know how long it takes to pack up years worth of stuff in order to vacate the whole floor of a house....well, you know.....
I need to make a start. A really good start. Small stuff will go into the storage area... a very large storage area under a newer area of the house that we added several years ago....(we've been renovating for 24 years, yeh, I know....) ..the rest will go into the garage as well as down here. I hope it all fits somewhere. At least this time we don't have to sleep in the garage ...we did on the big reno about 15 years ago...hahahha...there we were stuffed between motorcycles and house plants...our clothes hanging on the garage door opener rails.... washing dishes in a bucket.....
This time...we will be living on the lower floor of the house... the basement actually, but our basement is lovely and bright and will be just fine. Although, we will be using the laundry room for a kitchen/laundry room/bathroom... there is a toilet in there. Here, look it is a very nice laundry room..it's not as bad as it sounds.
A nice sink for washing up .... cupboards for toiletries and other small stuff ...
...space for electric frying pan, toaster oven and crockpot.... I could live here for a year if I had to....but, it won't be that long.....
We did this room a few years ago.. all by ourselves...right from the cement out .... including a ceiling....and we're pretty proud of our handiwork, but, this time...somebody else will be doing the grunt work. My back won't take it any more... and of course, my wrecked elbow....and poor Mr. BV wrecked a knee on the last one...so... yeh... time to let others do it. It'll be hard to let the reins go though...reeeeellly hard..... just one more thing that lets me know I am getting ..... o..oh...oh, how I hate to say it out loud ...older......
I'm trying to pack up a small box with little things I can work on during the time... big enough to contain entertaining bits and yet small enough to carry around to wherever my 'desk' happens to be on any given day during the disaster.
Oh, I so hope it isn't a disaster of any kind. That's the reason we began doing it all ourselves in the first place. We had no luck at all with contractors and tradespeople ...none at all. Some of the the stories just make my blood boil. Not going to think on it...just think about packing up dolls ...bears....stuff.....and more STUFF!@ That does it ...I'm purging.
Hmmm...somebody doesn't look too happy about being boxed.... even if I am building a box tall enough for her! This is my tallest doll at 26 inches.... it was for a challenge to do a Raggedy with a twist. I did her as a ballerina...
If you want to see more desks, workspaces and more about what people are dong with their spare time...hahhah...and every other minute too.... check out WOYWW over at Julia's...