Making room -

 

 

For some new toys - 

 

Which are going to be my birthday - 

 

AND - 

 

Christmas presents to myself - 

 

For the next ten years - LOL - ;))

I guess I should explain -

 

It all started with an email - 

 

Announcing a sale on the new "Cutie Frame"  - HERE - 

 

And a "Babylock Jazz II" machine - HERE - 

The sale was for the combo - 

And I checked it out - 

 

But I didn't particularly have room for the frame -

 

Or even like it -

So - I went down the rabbit hole -

 

One thing leading to another - 

 

And I spent a week researching various other combos - 

 

I won't bore you with the details - 

 

But I finally settled on this new toy - HERE -

Scroll down to the "Work Sitting or Standing" part - 

 

Where she's sitting down - 

 

That's what sold me on this frame!!! -

 

And I'm getting a mid-arm machine - too - HERE - 

 

Because I want the "controls" on top of the machine - 

 

So I don't have to chase a foot pedal around - 

 

And I am SO excited - 

 

I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas -  

Because it won't be here for a couple of weeks - 

But that's OK - 

Since I need some time to make room for it - 

 

Because this is my setup now - 

 

And it needs to change - LOL -

 

This is the view from the doorway of my "studio" - 

 

Looking toward the dining room - 

 

Where my die cutter lives on the end of the dining room table - 

All nice and handy -

 

 

This is to the left of the dining room table - 

 

The part you NEVER see -

 

Because it's messy - 

 

Now - 

 

If I stand with my back to the dining room chair  -

 

You can see the doorway to my "studio" -  

With my cutting table - 

 

And a little bookcase tucked underneath the one end -

 

And my awesome bookcase - 

 

Loaded with SOME of my books - 

 

ALL of which I have read cover-to-cover SEVERAL times - 

 

On the wall to the left of the bookcase - 

 

Is my "office" - with my computer and printer - 

 

And cupboards full of office supplies - quilting supplies- and more books - 

 

Here's the view with my back to the "office" side of the room - 

 

Looking toward the window - 

 

You see this view of my "piecing" machine and ironing board - 

 

Sometimes when I'm webbing a top - 

 

And to the right of the window - 

 

You see the "angled" design wall - 

 

With my Free-Motion quilting machine setup below - 

 

You see this view sometimes - too - 

 

What you DON'T see - is this - 

 

Because it's messy - 

 

And you think I'm organized - LOL - 

 

Here - you can see the rest of the mess - 

 

And the view back to the dining room - 

 

Obviously - 

 

I have some rearranging to do - 

 

In order to make room for my new toys - 

 

And I have some ideas - 

 

So consider these the "before" photos - 

 

And I will share some "during" photos tomorrow - 

 

Or the next day - 

 

Since this might take me a while - LOL - 

 

In the meantime - 

 

Here's one of my favorite pictures - 

 

Of a cat and a mouse -

I think that picture has been in my "office" - 

 

For over thirty years - LOL - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -