by Angel135612 » December 8th, 2014, 6:34 pm
Well, I have been "offically" retired now for a week, and loving every minute of it. I think today I actually slept in until :gasp: 7:30, but then I was up later than I would have normally been... LOL.
We took a trip for 9 days, leaving the day before Thanksgiving, out to San Fransisco and back, stopping in Las Vegas both ways, and a few stops between home and Vegas each way. We had planned the trip to San Fransisco before I made the decision to retire, to go to their Dickens Festival at the Cow Palace. But after I decided to retire, we added a few extra stops on the way out and back. We had a great time on our trip, and it was nice to just relax for awhile.
I am still working on setting up my craft room, and I think I just about have my sewing area to the point if I actually wanted to do some sewing, I would be able to do it with out searching for everything I need. I still need to work on the Paper Crafting side of the room and get that all organized.
I do have most of my boxes unpacked, and now it is more just getting everything organized so I have room for it all. I'm trying to get like things together, so when I need something I can see all the items I have for that "thing" ie, all my markers or inkpads etc., and to put them on my shelves or containers where they don't waste a lot of space. I keep telling myself, that I don't need to get rid of anything, I just need to get better organized. But I may have to purge some things just to have enough room for everything. I would rather start crafting and start using up what I have been buying rather than just getting rid of it... but we shall see what happens. I still have some boxes in our utility room, that I need to bring into my craft room... can't even move around in there, and that is where my washer and dryer are. Have a little path to get to those, but that is about it, so that room needs a good cleaning out as well. I have some narrow shelves in there, that I have stored spray paint on, that is so old I'm not sure it would spray any longer, and I'm thinking that would be a perfect place to put all my jars and bottles of liquid glues or other mediums I have bought to use for my crafting. (I don't have any place to put them in my craft room, so I think that will work, just a short walk to the other room.. no stairs to climb... LOL) Plus if I get my utility room cleaned up, I may be able to store other things in there, that I don't NEED to have right at my finger tips.
I plan on spending more time back here now that I'm not working... and at least check in daily, and hopefully be able to answer some questions now and then. Not sure when I will actually start "crafting" again, as I want to get things a bit more organized first, so won't have anything to share for awhile.
Diane in Colorado Springs
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