Plotting.. MuWAHAHA!!!

Guess what we're plotting??!!!

Another day to keep me on my feet the entire 24 hours!!!!  

And I (honestly) can't wait!  I've got the Facebook event page created and so far 11 people are attending but I know it will grow.  Plus I've emailed all my relatives that I have emails for and may or may not be on FB.  

It will be so great to get everyone together again.  Since our family post-Thanksgiving reunion has been here for many of the past several years, every member of my extended family has the dinner prep & tear down to a science.  It goes so slick!  

And the talent shows are always so great!  I think my talent this year will be sitting...  Not sure yet if anyone else has nabbed that corner of the talent.

However I do not look forward to the final check over of the hall after everyone leaves.  It's spooky and the metal stairs click clack quite eerily when you're the only one in the building, well except for the policemen downstairs.

But the falling into bed (even at midnight, when it always is) sounds so good, even right now...

Moving on

Meri is finally moving into Ryan's old room. It's been 2 months and he hasn't moved back home yet. We were going to paint it, but just haven't gotten around to it.

Does that mean I'm holding off doing it in hopes he'll move back?

Nope - it just means with school starting and activities ramping up, I've been too busy. I still want to paint, but it's not going to happen before she moves in.

Last night we moved her dresser in and all her winter clothes. She hung things up (yes! Meri!!) and folded and put things away so she could find them. Pretty organized! Better than I would've done. She still has too many clothes tho. How does that happen?!

Oh! And on freecycle last night, someone was offering a loft! I emailed immediately and got it! For FREE! I'll pick it up tonight after an auction that I'm going to. Meri was so excited when she overheard my phone conversation that she grabbed a piece of paper and wrote in crayon, "Are you kidding about a loft?!" We had been talking about getting her one for the new room, so we can fit a desk underneath for her. This was perfect!

Anyway - Ryan's old dresser will get moved back to her old room and Maddy will store her clothes in that "spare" room now. Maddy doesn't have a closet in her room and her dresser only holds so much... So I guess this room will double as her dressing room. Only parttime tho.

My plan is to make this spare room into my sewing room and get my dressmakers dummy and all my sewing things and fabric stash out of the diningroom and back hall. If anyone has plans on how to build a large light-weight but sturdy folding table that will fit over a twin sized bed, email me!

I plan to build a table that I can fold up and tuck behind the bed when it's not in use. The table should be big enough so I can lay out a pattern on it and cut to my hearts content. There will be another table where my sewing machines can be out all the time. WOOHOO! Right now, I tuck them into the cabinets under my hutch when we need the diningroom table.

If all goes well, I'll still have a place for relatives to stay over and not be too crowded.

Well - it's off to the salt mines! I've got a few miracles to pull off today at work. Wish me luck!