Monday, August 31, 2020

And Then . . .



The forest of Christmas trees has left my sewing studio.




The black and yellow storage boxes
and the overflow Christmas items
have left my design studio.




Our storage corner in younger son's
newly renovated living space
is finally ready for action.

(that furniture belongs to our DIL)

The two silver rolling shelves will
eventually hold an assortment of our items.

And . . . behind the silver shelves and 
below the knee wall's angled ceiling is . . . 




. . . this new table DH aka Mr. Diva 
built for our Christmas forest with space
underneath for those black and yellow boxes
stacked two high plus the large wreaths.

(Judy - because we have enough space in this room
we stopped un-decorating our table top trees long ago - 
much easier than decorating/un-decorating each year)

Be sure to notice DH's newly-constructed wall 
(on the right side of the photo)
that fits neatly against the angled ceiling.

(that ugly metal bracket has since been painted)




This is the opposite side of that new partition wall.

DH's cleverly-designed wall 
blocks this view of our storage and
provides a place for younger son
(need to come up with a better blog name for him)
to hang his favorite framed art
above one side of his L-shaped desk area.




And look!

Both of our cars are back inside the garage.

(the mattress is being temporarily stored
for possible use on Little Man's big boy bed)



Quiltdivajulie
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“Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you.  
Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.”
Buddah

9 comments:

Judy in Michigan said...

So nice to have a handy husband!! My DH can fix anything too, he just gets out the yellow pages and calls someone! LOL Thanks for clearing up the Christmas forest - we do a similar thing except we leave the big tree in the living room all year. It gets lots of surprised looks when people come over but we like it and light it up often when it gets chilly and we dream of the Christmas season up here. Weird? Maybe...

Wendy Caton Reed said...

Don't you just love re-organization?! Now on to more gorgeous quilts!

Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana said...

Great progress on all those renovations and clearing out/reorganizing, etc. It feels so good when it is all done. How great too to have such a handy hubby. Love your quilt top in the last post, btw.

Mrs. Goodneedle said...

I KNOW how much peace this brings to your orderly way of operating... believe me, I know. Whatever would we do w/o handy hubbies? It's great, Julie; and that DD10 is going to be positively wonderful! :)

Linda Swanekamp said...

Oh so lovely to put things back in order after lots of upheaval. Looks terrific, simple, and easy to maintain. Love the quilt behind your machine. Just noticing, on your sit down longarm, the machine is oriented horizontal to you and not perpendicular.

The Joyful Quilter said...

Success!! Congratulations, Julie.

Pamela Arbour said...

Ha! You did get your cars back in the garage. I hope you can keep them there.

Ann said...

Everything looks wonderful. It's great to have it all cleaned up. And I'm glad your son is with you now. Happy family!
I want to keep your tiny tree together from now on but it will have to go in a box.

Janie said...

Good progress, over the hump and winding down. Life is a series of ups and downs isn't it?