When Necessity Rules - (Ironing Board Cover Tutorial!)

Life is so much better with a new ironing board cover!

I’d been needing to do this for the longest time – and the time was never right.  And there wasn’t the right fabric or supplies on hand – or so I thought.

Now, I’m not one to diss a hard working ironing board that shows signs of much pressing and productivity.  Don’t get me wrong.  I firmly believe that an “always clean” ironing board is evidence that someone isn’t sewing hard enough! LOL!  But there comes a time in every board’s life to retire the old and update with new.

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When Simple Sewing is the Goal -

I feel like I’ve been on a sewing diet.

And like I’ve been running a marathon, still 6 miles from the finish line and running out of gas.

But there is hope for sewing time on the horizon!

And even some blatant “Playing Hooky” time in the midst of all of this moving in chaos fit the bill of feeding my quilty soul when there is little to no time for actual stitching.

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No Procrastination Here!

Yesterday.  Oh, yesterday.

200 miles round trip on the van. Basement Office packed up and loaded, Merchandise from the storage closet/room at the house packed and loaded (Some back stock left behind as there was no room for it ALL.) Dining room set up disassembled, packed up and loaded.

Whew.

I am taking a rain check on this little sign I found (great for a giggle!) and plan on calling it into action in the near future.  

When I have a day where I have little or nothing to do, can sit on my butt and read for hours with Sadie at my feet, put in even more hours of leisurely hand stitching or hand quilting with nothing else to do but worry about the weather. (Yeah, like is this ever going to happen?)

But not now.  There is too much to do, and I’ve been waiting 13 months to get to this point.

But not now.  Too much going on!

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Turning Pages on to New Chapters….

Yesterday’s round of baseboard painting.

100 feet complete – 2 coats.

This post is a bit later in publishing this morning as I got up early this morning and made the decision to drive 100 miles home to Wallburg while the morning cool was still on the air, and do this from “home” which isn’t feeling so much like home anymore.  Things are in transition.  As I knew they would be.

But I wasn’t prepared for the barrage of feelings that would hit me as I start making lists in my head of everything I need to move over to have this new part of my life click into place and function.

Computers, monitors, printers, store merchandise, shipping supplies, are really only “Things” that can function anywhere I move them – but there has been so much living in this Wallburg house over the past 11 1/2 years. I feel like I am abandoning it.

No, we are not putting it up for sale just yet.  The Hubster and I still both travel for a living – Greensboro is our closest airport and the Wallburg house is only a short and convenient 25 minute drive to the airport.  I’ll be back here on Tuesday as I have an appointment to see to, and I fly out on Wednesday to Minnesota.  Everything I need to prepare for that trip is here.

It’s just that the cabin in Virginia has been the “Get away for long weekends” place – but home has always been Wallburg.  Now that is flip-flopping.  I suppose it’s no difference really.  Half-Here.  Half-There.  But it feels different somehow as I move my mail order fulfillment center to Mouth of Wilson, Virginia.

My emotions are just very close to the surface today.

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