One creative space, ready for use!

I am ready to begin creating in 2013!

New rule : 15 minute clean up every night. If I obey myself the room will always be this peaceful. ;-)

**Need to make a new machine table cover, and a cover for my chair.**

 

 *dream* was a Christmas gift from my adopted little sis, Vikki.

 

 

*My daughter Kezzie hand stitched that lampshade for my birthday last year.*

   

 The stack of small plastic containers hold all my projects-on-the-go. 

(How do you store yours?)

 

Don't you love the fabric I've used to cover my cutting table?

 I bought 4 metres at Spotlight last year, and have used 2.5 metres on the table. The remaining fabric will become an apron and perhaps a pillow...?

I know it's easy for me to start designing this year with my creative space all fresh and tidy. Having everything organised really frees up my brain space! 

~ decluttering and donating ~

Many of you have shared in your comments recently, and also HERE on my Facebook page, that your craft rooms are messy and in need of a good clean out. Can I encourage you to stop sewing for a few days and just dive into that room and give it a good going over? 

As I was unpacking the boxes in my sewing room yesterday I filled three huge plastic tubs with fabric and sewing notions to give away. 

There were fabrics I'd had for ages that I was sure I would never use, and heaps of extra bits and pieces that were lovely, but which I'd bought on impulse and knew I probably would never play with.

When Blossom and I drove to the Endeavour Foundation this morning to donate those big three tubs of goodies, I felt a huge weight lift off my heart!

Hanging on to stuff that won't be used is a sure way to accumulate more clutter in your sewing area than anything else. 

Do you have more sewing bits and pieces than you need? An overflowing pile of craft magazines perhaps? Why not grab some empty tubs (Rubbermaids in the US?), and start working your way through your stash. Make a clear decision to only keep what you know you love, and will definitely use. 

You may find that sewing space suddenly a lot roomier.

Let me know if you're going to take this challenge by leaving your comment below. You will be a great encouragement to others! :-)

Lazy weekends....

I love lazy weekends. Not rushing to do anything, just enjoying each precious hour of down-time with my husband. 

After our regular routine of a casual walk down the street to the newsagent, picking up some fresh fruit and veg from the farmer who sells out of the back of his ute at the park, and a liesurely coffee on the back verandah, we do some chores - he mows the front lawn (we actually have grass after the rain), and I hang washing. That done, we settle down to things we enjoy. 

Hubby headed downstairs to his motorbike, the need to polish it was too strong for him to resist. And I finished up yesterday's re-organisation of my sewing room and the front verandah. 

 

I also put a pot of gorgeous red gerberas on the back table where we have coffee outside...

...and hung bags on the hooks in the hallway.

After lunch I finished the embroidery on a sweet new design...

...and made a Pumpkin & Kumara salad, plus Chick Pea balls & Harissa, to take to our friend's house for a pot luck dinner. 

Now Saturday is almost over. I wonder what Sunday will bring?

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Before I sign off I wanted you to see Stephanie's birds.

Aren't they gorgeous!? 

This is very inspirational for me as the Birdcage Weekend Sew-In is only two weeks away. 

If you plan to do this with Wendy and myself, perhaps you can start making your birds now? I will start making mine soon, and spend that weekend making the cage. You can email photos to Wendy and I after the weekend for a special 'Sew and Show'. 

I have a lot of wonderful links to bird making HERE, and you'll find more that Wendy discovered HERE. 

Perhaps that's what I'll do on Sunday. Make birds. 

For now, I'm off to enjoy some Red Clover tea and honey before bed.

Have a lovely weekend, in your neck of the woods too.

Hugs

Jenny

xx