Work

So for the last week and a half I've been cleaning out the storage shed/new sewing room. While cleaning out the inside part of the shed I found Christmas ornaments that were missing, a newspaper from November 23,1963, and pictures of Dad when he was a teeny little boy. He looked like Judah. :-) He was cute! So after I cleaned the floor, it was time to fix the door knob and the windows. One of the windows was broken by yours truly (I told you I couldn't aim well), and the other one was broken by Timmy. He has no excuse for bad aim. Come on, he plays baseball. He has no excuse for hitting the window instead of the tree. ;-) I successfully removed what remained of the bottom window without any thing or any one getting hurt. Then I moved on to the top window. Removed the glass but not without a trip to the house for some hydrogen peroxide and band-aides. Ouch! So now I'm working on cleaning the outside portion of the shed, which has been used as a place for the bikes, lawn mowers, spare washing machines and dryers, and in the rare event of a hurricane ever hitting us, a goat shelter. I've also found out that this is where our dogs bring the little "treasures" that they find in the woods. You can not imagine all the things that they've brought back from their daily wanderings. So by tomorrow evening I'm hoping to have the entire shed cleaned out and organized so that on Tuesday I can start moving my sewing stuff in there. I can't wait!! :-)

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year!! I remember what I was doing a year ago today. I wonder what I'll be doing on this day a year from now. You never know.  :) What I do know is that before then there are a lot of things that I want to accomplish and do. I have a new years resolution list, a new years list of goals for myself, and a  list of dresses that I want to make in the next year. So which list shall I start with? Lets start with the resolutions.

New Years Resolutions

1~ Read the Bible every day.
2~ Brush my teeth every day (I know, that sounds weird ).

Goals/ jobs for the new year

1~Clean out the storage shed behind the house.
2~ And there was some thing else that goes under this category, I just can't remember it.

And last but not least, the list of dresses that I want to make this year

Susan's red battle dress from "Prince Caspian".
Eowyn's green dress (aka the stable dress).
Susan's purple traveling dress from "Prince Caspian".
Eowyn's shield maiden dress.

Hmmmm. Does any one notice a general theme here? ;)
Oh yeah. And the dresses that I have to make this year.

Linnea' ball gown.
Sara's ball gown.
Grace's ball gown AND camp dress.
My camp dress/ ball gown.

Yet another themed sewing list. :)

So there's my list of things that I've set for my self to do in the coming year. But all that sewing will have to wait 'till the sewing/storage room is cleaned out and organized. So do I have any volunteers? ;)

Whew!

It has been a  very busy Christmas season. Lots of fun, lots of laughs, and lots of sewing. In the last 15 days I've sewn a St Lucia gown, a frilly night gown, and a cloak. The St Lucia gown took 4 days, the nightgown took 7 days, and the cloak took 4 days. I love sewing! It is so much fun!
And for Christmas Mom and Dad gave me a sewing room. We are going clean out and organize the storage shed so that I can spread out my sewing projects and sew without getting in any ones way. I can hardly wait! There will be a place for my sewing machines, a place for the fabric, a place for the sewing patterns, a place for every thing and every thing in its place. I can't wait! :) Mom also gave me a binder with every thing that I need to write down all my ideas for different dresses that I want to make. She and Dad are so thoughtful.

Cleaning

OK. So yesterday I was forced to do a job that I had been avoiding for quite a while. I had to clean out any and all junk that had accumulated under my bed in the last three to four months. How and why was I forced to do this? Well (this may sound a little weird to any city person) I had a goat sleeping in my room. Yes a goat. He was not feeling well and the cold weather was making it worse. So he got to sleep inside. And that goat sure did make a mess out of my room! He decided that he was going to show his appreciation for the warm room by making a mess on the floor. Guess who got to clean it? :-) So I pulled the bed away from the wall and began to clean. You never know what you might find under a bed. So what did I find?
Here's a list:

8 books (of which only two belonged in my room)

 2 laptop chargers

$1.51 (wow, look! Mom was right. It pays to clean your room.)

 a fabric marker
 
and 11 of Seth Logan's toy farm animals

I should clean out from under my bed more often. :) And now my floor is clean again.