July 2013: Cleaning the House, July 26, 2013

I just realized I have five more days, and still a ton to clean.  But I can say this: the progress I've made has been wonderful, and I'm enjoying it a lot.  I also don't know if I'll be able to get much done tomorrow, but I'll post pictures explaining why if nothing gets done.  It's a cute reason, if I do say so myself.

But tonight I was back in my sewing room for a little more cleaning.  I have a lot of boxes in my living room now that need to be sorted through, so it's a false cleaning in some ways.  And tomorrow those boxes will move back into my sewing room until Sunday or Monday.  I can't believe next Thursday I'll be starting on my second month here--and a whole new project.  (Full disclosure: I'm both nervous and looking forward to it.  It will be a wonderful learning experience, I hope!)

So, sewing room.  I found more stuff that needs to be washed, but that will have to wait for another day. 

Look at that pile of stuff.  Well, you really can't see it all, but there's stuff just piled there.  Not as much as I thought, but more than there should have been.  And now?  It's much better.

The bags on the floor there are more bags of things that don't belong in here, and will be sorted out and new home given after the weekend.  The pink bag on the chair is keeping it away from kitties.  I like the bag, and don't want it wrecked.

Look at that huge pile of bags and fabric.  And a beach towel I won at work.

And now because I have significantly less stuff, I can move my ironing board much closer to the bookshelf, so I can actually move around in my sewing room!  Weird!!  And in other good news, I finally found one of my good shoes that's been missing since this spring sometime.  I had one shoe, but had no idea where the other one was.  I finally located it, and now I can wear those shoes again.  They're open-toed, so I can only wear them in summer, and I haven't been able to.  I'm not sure why a bag with three shoes in it was in my sewing room, nor why the pair of shoes got separated, but that's all irrelevant.  What's relevant is that now I can wear my shoes again!