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A Sewing Room of One's Own....

...is now what I have! It will do double duty as a guest room and that is fine by me, since I plan to decorate it so cutely that it will be a lovely room in which to be a guest as well as to sew in. It is exciting enough that we have just bought our very first house, but getting that sewing room just puts it over the top. I would like to thank my lovely daughters for growing up so beautifully, getting married and moving out, which makes that 3rd bedroom so available! I'm enjoying making the house ready to move into and I know I'm going to savor getting my room set up just right. Regular posts will resume eventually!
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Time-Out

Taking some time out from regular blogging because we just bought a house and what with the housing hunting, inspections, signing of papers and moving there won't be time for much blogging for the next month or so. Still gotta get those shirts done for dh, though. And--I've lost some weight and my clothes are too big (yay!) so I need to do some taking in. Our house will have a sewing room for me! (double yay!)
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No Sew

No sewing has happened for weeks at my house. Why not? I'm trying to figure it out. First off, Dh & I radically changed our eating habits by giving up sugar & refined frankenfood. It's not the first time we've done that, but this time it's do or die (and I mean that literally, what with the high blood pressure and all). A body can only handle so much change at once, plus it takes time to shop for and prepare actual, real, true fresh food. It's worth it, though; we feel great and are losing weight, but I haven't got any sewing done. Just when I started getting used to our new eating habits & thought I might get my sewing groove back we noticed that house prices in our neck of the woods have stopped going up; indeed we are now seeing such phrases as, "price reduced" and "motivated seller" in the local real estate ads. So we're checking out the housing market. Going to open houses affects my sewing time! Plus, if we do buy a hou...
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Fresh Start

I had a week off of work and did I get any sewing done? Nope. I wanted to, and after a couple of days of vacation I'd finished up some other stuff & was ready to, but I organized the sewing area instead. My (small) fabric stash has been swatched onto index cards, with the fabric itself neatly tied into rolls and stored in a labeled flip-top bin. Gone are some once-promising but now-wadder-chalk it up as a learning experience-projects such as my bodice sloper and a previous princess seam blouse that I had altered into oblivion and could no longer figure out where I was. I am sticking with 3 of my basics at this point: Basic princess shell Basic darted blouse Basic pants with the princess shell at the top of my list, since it's summertime and this is a sleeveless top (however, I would wear it under a jacket or sweater at work). Both the shell and the darted blouse are very close to becoming well-fitted, tried 'n true patterns and I'm excited to start making them in d...
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We Bought A Couch

Yep, we bought a sectional sofa with ottoman. BRAND NEW. With cash money that we actually saved up special (we no longer use credit cards). Here are pictures of the same design & swatch of our color: We got this 3-piece set from Costco for just under $950, which, after traipsing to every furniture store in town and much internet searching, we knew was a great deal. One internet furniture store wants $1500 before shipping for the same 3 pieces. My obsession over getting just the right sectional at the right price was eating into my sewing time, so I'm glad it's finally done! And it looks fabulous!
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More Purse Organizers, New Habits

My purse organizer has been getting some attention. My daughter wants me to make her one for her diaper bag, and my nail lady has offered to trade a fill for one. These actually go fast for me, unlike almost all my other sewing. I'm looking forward to doing these in some fun fabrics. It'll be nice to get back to sewing; for the past couple of weeks I've been giving priority to making major changes in how I eat (see my new blog, HealthQuest ). The changes are slowly becoming habits and as things settle down I can resume my princess shell and start planning my fall wardrobe.
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Cutting Table

Not much sewing has got done, but I did get a folding cutting table (with the help of a 40% off coupon from jojos): Now I can keep our dining table freed up from sewing stuff. Next sewing room organizing project: Pegboard!
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