Hope you are all getting ready for the holiday season. I have been working on house projects. We have 'junk days' here in my little town twice a year. You can put out almost anything and they will pick it up for free. I had 3 twin mattress sets, 4 outside damaged chairs, and some other little things. On the day before the pick up I decided to remove the carpet from my master bedroom and master bathroom. It was a big job and I was doing it all myself. The bedroom is 225 sq. ft and the bathroom is small about 8x12. The carpet in the bedroom was over 30 years old and bright red. Yuck! The walls have never been painted and where white. I am going to change that. Remember a while back I mentioned I was doing secret sewing. Well, it's still a secret and will be shared after the holidays. But the person I am sewing for does construction and we are swapping services. I am finally going to put in wood flooring. The materials have been ordered and the room should be almost complete by Thanksgiving. I am so excited to have my own bedroom. I am currently sleeping in the spare room and there are lots of boxes to go through in there. I am also going to be painting the room a light gray color. Hopefully by next weekend. Here is a before picture of the floor after I removed the carpet:
The carpet was glued down so I am still scraping and hoping to have the room ready for the flooring when it comes in. It was a big job but it only took me 3 hours to get that and the bathroom floor out and to the side of the road. Success!
I work for a large medical software company. I work in Reception and when I started there were only 6 of us. Our team has grown to 14 which means they have run out of space. We were in a large open room but it's so hard to hear our customers. They decided to make us individual offices. It was all so exciting! I helped coordinate the move out and move in. We were sent to different offices in the building for 5 weeks while they created our space. I am so blessed to work for this company and have such a wonderful work environment. I thought it would be nice to give my coworkers a little gift to welcome them to their new spaces. I ordered these plastic baskets from Dollar Tree and filled them with tissues, lip balm, lotion, hand sanitizer, paper and pen and mints. I also included a pack of cookies and of course a handmade coaster. I made 24 coasters just to have enough.
Another success!
The day after the move, I traveled to Las Vegas for my friend's 60th birthday. We had a lot of fun and ate too much food. It was a nice long weekend. Here is a picture from when we landed in Vegas.
It was actually pretty cold there. I froze the first day as it was 40 degrees. It did get a little better by the time we left.
This week has been successful in the sewing room also. I made these Advent Calendars.
My long arm quilter has quilt number 11 which is the secret sewing I can't post yet. I am working on the border for quilt 12. Looks like I should make my goal of 12 finished quilts this year!
Time to make my goals for next year. Do you plan out your year or do you just make what you like? I usually just make what I like, but since the move I have seen how many quilts I have started and never finished. This feels so good!
Blessings
Amy
