The Twist & Turns of Life

So all the time I was writing about moving & downsizing I was working under the premise that I would have a reasonable sized room to work out of and that the entire house would be at least 1600 square feet (we currently live in well over 2600).

Wellllll.....to make a long story short we decided NOT to buy a house. On a whim on Sunday we decided to go find an apartment. We made the decision and within 2.5 hours we had put down our deposit, filled out the application & had our application accepted too.

Here's our new space:



After much deliberation we decided that we would not be using the dining area to eat in, but rather use that for my sewing space. So, I have about an 8' x 10' space to play with....



Of course it will be nice to actually work near my family, but I do worry that work may consume me. Which that will be ok since my family will be RIGHT THERE!!!

I am excited but wary.

Tomorrow the hubs and I will be moving all of our furniture (thank goodness we sold most of the heavy stuff). On Friday my FIL will be coming over to take the stuff we need to store at his house (lots of stuff -- two full sized dining room tables, a china cabinet, a couple of dressers, and at least 40 boxes of books). On Saturday we will be moving out other large items that will go to my sister and my mom. I will also be freecycling more furniture (pie safe, tv stand sort of thing, possibly a desk or two and so on).

Like I said, I am excited but wary.

When I started downsizing I only allowed myself to keep enough bolts to fill up 3 rows of my shelving unit with them lying a certain way (that is a HUGE reduction). From every bolt, I only allowed myself to keep at most 3 yards of fabric and I had to sell the rest. Now I am thinking that in my new space I will need to take each 3 yard cut and sell 2 yards or so of it.

I will primarily be using my pattern cabinets for storage. I am thinking of different ways to fold fabric neatly to do that. I think that the pattern cabinets will be AWESOME for storage. I will also have 3 bookshelves solely for business purposes -- 1 for fabric, 1 for buttons, and 1 for current inventory....well, that's how I have it in my mind anyways. We'll see how it all works out once I actually get there. It may be that most of my fabric goes into storage in the room my husband grew up in :)

I'm going to have to get clever, but I think I can manage it *smiles*

Hello There *smiles*

Goodness it has been a busy week! I'm still focusing all my energy on packing, sorting, packing, organizing, cleaning, packing and packing. Yup lots of packing!! I'm so proud of myself because everything is really well organized so moving into the new space will be easier.

Packing is kind of boring & cutting fabric to sell is even more so. I have been feeling a little bit soul sad since I haven't been able to sew :( I got lucky and a really sweet person requested a custom order from me so I made these for her:



How cute are they?

I also made a set of sparkly star tacks at the same time as the custom order:




So, it was fun to play with buttons for a while. I get to start a custom wedding bouquet in a few days & then after that I will be 100% focused on packing packing packing.

In order to fully focus on the whole packing task, I will be listing my last ebay auctions on Thursday so I need to get my butt in gear *smiles* I have dozens of auctions that need to get listed between now and Thursday night!!!

No news on the house hunt front. We will not know until Thursday how much we are able to get a mortgage pre-approval for. There is some issue with using my self-employment income -- I don't quite understand because I have my business on the tax returns I provided the lender, I have a current profit loss sheet, I have a current balance sheet.........*shrugs*