Since I opened my store, my husband and I have been talking about taking down our barn (it’s really old and too far gone to restore) and putting up a building that would house my “store” and his workshop. That was well over a year ago. We have “sold” it on eBay twice and most of it is still standing. Yes, we sold the wood from the barn on eBay. The buyers cam and took whatever wood they wanted from the barn. There’s really old oak beams still left in there and we hope to salvage them when we take it the rest of the way down. It’s actually sturdier than you would think. We had some trees logged from our property and several hit the barn on the way down. The barn shuddered, but is still standing – and that was AFTER 2 people had taken wood out of it. They don’t build things like they used to.
So, my business is in my basement, which is finished and is supposed to be our family room. Little by little though, I’m taking it over! I started with 1/3 of the basement and now I’m in 2/3rds of it as of this past weekend. I keep running out of space to put things and store my fabrics. My Indonesian buyer has 90 bolts that she’ll be sending to me within the next week. So . . . I went to Lowe’s and bought two 6′ x 6′ x 24″ heavy duty metal shelves. My daughter-in-law, Candy, came over and we put them together and rearranged most of my stuff. I can’t believe how open it actually feels down here. I don’t know why! We actually have the same amount of stuff that we started with, but it is organized differently. I’m still not sure where the 90 bolts are going to go. I have room for some of them . . . as long as the grandkids (above) will stay off of them!
I must have gotten through to my husband though about the barn, because he finally went out there and took the pump out of it so that we can finish tearing it down. Yeah!
I cut out one quilt yesterday, it’s a blue and yellow quilt I promised my sister years ago! By the time I get it done, she may change her mind. I’ve also cut out a table runner and a wallhanging for quilt show samples and to put in the online store and gallery. As I sew them I’ll put some pictures on here so you can see my progress. I’m not going to tell you yet which patterns I’m using. Two are from my online store and the other one is one that I’ve just ordered for the store. See if you can figure it out!
Back to doing my filing. Fun. Not.
Patti
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