A Fresh Start (Part 2)

We are well into 2011, and despite my attempt at getting my new craft room finished for the New Year, we are pitifully behind schedule. All of the pieces of cabinetry I had designed for the room has not yet arrived. (The Winter Holiday is the time for cabinet factories to shut down completely and for all the employees to take deserved vacation time.) I still have yet to get the wallpaper border removed. The Christmas decorations have been taken down and tossed in there and the door closed to keep the cats out. Oh well.


Shall I concentrate on the good news? All the difficult sorting of stuff I needed to keep and stuff I needed to toss has been done. A ton of old fabric has been carted to the thrift shop and donated. The fabric for the windows and the new closet opening has been purchased. I also have the “Dif” product which promises easy wallpaper removal. Decisions about how to store various items for the many crafts I enjoy have been made. New light fixtures are waiting for installation. (I will finally be able to see well to sew!) The design is pretty much refined to a point where I just want to get on with it, but as in many home improvement projects, we have to remain patient. They ALWAYS take gobs more time to complete than we estimate. I know it will be worth the wait.