Current Mood : Ready for bed !
Current Image Notes : Here's the 'D' from the freebie alphabet I'm collecting. So pretty ! And I experimented with PSP X2's clone stamp - something I never quite got right in 5.03 - to eliminate some clutter in the background. Yaaay - it works !
Another 'stay home and clean' day, which is fine with me. Our beautiful Spring has reverted to early winter for a few days, so the house is closed back up for the heat - and that always makes the enclosed spaces look cluttered and crowded. Time to work !
Getting rid of our dining room table was a great idea, but it didn't ditch our very nice dining room chairs - we kept those. Only problem is, six of them don't fit in easily without a table to cluster around. Beloved Hubby uses one as a computer desk chair, with another beside it, for space and seating. His desk is only about half the size of mine. I should know, since his desk used to be my sewing table. There's two more in his Studio, and one in the garage. The remaining one was in the way a lot, but it didn't have much of a choice. I'm always in and out of the pantry, but the door's usually closed. So I was constantly moving the chair in front of it, and to get to the computers or kitchen, ya had to pivot around it.
Too much in the way for me. At the same time, we were missing a bedside table for Beloved. The one he had just got new wheels attached and is a rolling cart for tattoo supplies in his Studio. Hmf. He fully intends to make himself a new table, but I know his schedule - by the time he gets time off, he'll be too tired to craft much of anything. I'd offer him my bedside table, but it's packed fulla various permutations of Fashion Plates. And the plastic drawer set he had before is now holding socks and underwear in Dearest Son's closet.
Hmmm. Spare chair. No bedside table. Solution ! Yup, I moved one of the armless chairs beside his bed, and put his lamp and book and pencils on it, with his other books and papers underneath. If he likes, he can even pivot the chair around so the cane back blocks some of the lamp's light, if it's too bright. At least it keeps his stuff from being a floor pile. And once he makes a better table, it can always migrate back to the living room or somewhere.
I also did a bit of advance computer work - I now have stitch guides edited and saved to the hard drive for the entire 'Lily of the Valley' embroidery design set I'm collecting. It's just up to 'J' today, but all I have to do now is just save 'em off. Editing all those images is kind of a drag, but doing it all at once streamlined it, and nearly made it fun. Still, I need to back off on the design collecting. Even if they are free.
Well, back to the laundry. I got six loads washed and dried - now I gotta put 'em away. And there's only two more loads left ! Whew !
