I am making progress in my life in an attempt to get back to some art.
Obstacle #1 – Disaster in the garage. Back in the beginning part of the year, I had to leave the dye studio space that I was using. So I packed all my dyes, brushes, assorted chemicals, plastic, buckets, measuring tools, etc. into a huge set of boxes and moved it all to my garage, where it sat, on the floor for the next 9 months, making the garage an absolute disaster.
Obstacle #2 – Disaster in the basement. Over the summer, we replaced a 40 year old furnace and also added air conditioning to the house (which was a blessing….no more sweating my butt off all summer long). I work in the basement, right next to the furnace, the hot water heater and the washing machine. Replacing the furnace meant I had to dismantle my cutting table, and throwing everything (I mean everything, fabric, thread, rulers, rotary cutters, everything in a sewing/quilting room) hither and yon to make room for 2 guys to work in the basement. I didn’t get to picking this back up and this left the basement unusable for my work for 4 months.
It has taken several weekends, but I am happy to report that the garage space is now cleaned up, with my dye stuff being sorted a little more intelligently and put onto shelves in the garage and basement. If I ever find a place to dye paint again, I should be able to pull my stuff together in a jiffy.
The basement is now usable as a sewing space and the cutting table is back up. Yeah!
