Fibermania

Closet Nirvana

It took most of three days to rearrange our closets. Dave wanted a closet in his room upstairs, but it was full to overflowing with my sewing and painting crap. I said NO, and then reconsidered when he suggested I could have the huge main closet downstairs. Hmmm. I thought. Hmm again. Adding another shelf in there would make it GREAT for all my junk. And I wouldn't have to stoop over to find something in that upstairs closet. Yes. We closed the deal. Dave did most of the moving of my stuff, due to my bad knee, but now it's done and we are both sooooo happy.

Doesn't his closet look nice and neat?

Most of my fabric, yarn and mailing stuff is now visible and accessible. I have a dedicated step stool permanently assigned to this closet. I say most of my fabric and yarn... there are still a few more boxes in the garage and potting shed. We won't even discuss the garage stored quilts and picture frames. Eeek.

I hesitate to declare that we have finally found the permanent arrangement of bedrooms and closets, but it looks to be a perfect setup. It has taken us this long to make these choices because we have never lived like this in all the 30 years of our marriage. And the house is quirky in its layout, so we had to figure that out to make the most of it. Add to that the downsizing, which we keep re-doing.

And is it really downsizing when we have two extra buildings with huge amounts of storage space for all this stuff? I can't answer that.

Anyway now I am ready to make the damn living room drapes and after that return to painting again. I will try and do a quilting thing or two a week, but it will be paintings for a while, until garden time arrives.