Well, I haven't had much time to craft lately, as we started packing up the house to get it ready to put on the market so we could move after I retire. While doing some of the work, we decided that it would be less expensive to just take the money we would have used for moving and a new house, and put it towards fixing up this one and staying put.
We are doing much more work to the house than we originally were going to, since we are going to be staying and are about half finished with it. We bought all new appliances for the kitchen, the oldest was my refrigerator at 30 years old, purchased when I first bought the house. The dishwasher was replaced a couple of months ago, when we first started talking about moving, and the range was replaced this past weekend. We also purchased an over the range microwave. We are going to be putting in a wood floor in the kitchen to replace the vinyl that Dan put in when he moved in with me over 10 years ago. (Got the flooring on clearance at Home Depot for 50% off, and it is exactly what we would have picked out if we had planned on doing it with out seeing the clearance).
We are also rearranging our living space, so that I'm going to have more room for my crafting, and Dan will have his own room for his office, and the dining room can become a dining room again instead of an extension of my crafting area. My new crafting area will be large enough to put up all my sewing machines and my Silver Bullet, and have room for my computer, and even a Long Arm quilting machine, when I'm ready to purchase one of those.
We went looking for new furniture and bought a sofa and love seat for the living room, a China cabinet for the dining room and a dresser for the bedroom. We still need to find some nightstands that will fit in our new space for the bedroom, but I think that is the last of the furniture we need. Dan is going to be painting all the walls upstairs, before the new carpet gets installed.
Once we finish the upstairs we will work on the basement, which is where our bedroom and my craft area is. So I get to design my sewing/crafting area, and set it up exactly how I want it.. just need to figure out how I want it... LOL But it will be a few more weeks before it will be ready for me to start moving all my crafting stuff in there. We will be putting new carpet in the basement as well, and it will be the same through out the house.
I'm still planning on retiring Dec1, or I may move it up to Nov 30, not sure one day will make a huge difference either way, other than knowing I won't have to work at all in Dec.
I'm so ready to retire... and spend my days quilting and crafting and doing what ever I want to do. I was looking forward to the adventure of moving, but I think I will be happier staying where we are, and it is an adventure doing all the renovations to the house.
I try to get on here and see what every one is working on as often as I can, but with needing to do things around the house to get every thing finished and back to normal, I don't have as much time as I would like. But since I can't do any crafting until my new craft area is set up... at least I can see what every one else is working on.