My Life is in Shambles

I am in the middle of the studio fruit basket upset. All three rooms are a real mess (more than usual).

I do have the floor in the middle of the quilting room pretty much empty, ready for the boxes that are to arrive tomorrow. Without knowing how wide this new quilt frame is, it has been difficult to decide what can stay, but I think I have it almost ready. Just need to vacuum the floor. The other two rooms will get done later this week, or next. Did I share that I pulled a muscle in my back last Friday? That has really slowed me down.

And, well, there is one other thing that has slowed me down. Yesterday I decided to take myself out for a hamburger lunch: I had been working really hard and deserved a treat. So I walked out to the car and found this.

It seems that my DH backed his big red pickup into my little innocent silver sports car.

I tried calling him but he never checked his phone so when he got home he started to say “what did you do?” but I quickly cut him off and told him that I was never in the car and that he had done it. He says he had no idea but since there is silver paint on his bumper, we know that’s what happened. Anyway, he took it to the insurance company today and it can be repaired locally but not until next week and then they will have the car for at least three days. I must say that I was sick right after I found it and have not wanted to drive it, all messed up. Think I could put a sign on it saying that “DH did it”?

Whirlwind Weekend

Our quilt show was small, short and sweet. That little house was completely covered with quilts and except for a short time of rain on Saturday afternoon, the weather was cool and nice. I am working on a slideshow on to highlight our quilts and will get it up as soon as Blogger and I work it out. lol I tried to get pictures of them all but offer my apologies to my guild members if I missed some.

I worked the quilt show Friday and Sunday afternoon. Friday and Sunday mornings were spent moving sewing and quilting stuff. My studio is a three room mobile office and I am switching the two end rooms (sewing room and quilting room). I have ordered a new frame for my HQ16 so I am clearing out one whole room to accommodate the larger table. Meanwhile, I am setting up the new sewing room to accommodate four different sewing machines and a new design wall and I am using two 8’ tables to do this. But to make this work I have moved chests of drawers, big tables, machines, book cases, fabric and a very large thread storage case along with a lot of other stuff. I think I have touched everything at least twice. And tomorrow and Tuesday I have to get it mostly done because the new frame has been shipped and is supposed to arrive Wednesday.

Saturday was a mandatory Weight Watcher’s Leader’s meeting. It was fun and kind of like a coach’s pregame pep talk. We were introduced to some of the new things planned for 2010 and given some ideas for meeting topics.

With all this running around, guess what I have been doing for relaxation. I sew, of course. I have been working on a BOM, Eleanor Burns double wedding ring block. I can’t say it is going quickly since 10 – 15 min of sewing doesn’t move things along quickly. But I had one machine still set up until this afternoon and made myself a very small pressing place so I could have small moments of sanity. And on that happy note, I close to get back to work.