Twirling Tour

This is a carry over from yesterday. This is the unfinished journal entry of the walking tour I took yesterday. I like what I started doing by stylizing the bark, shadows and tree stumps. I think it is fun to do the quick sketch while out and about and coming back later with no particular attachment to the initial drawing. I like thinking about how shadows fall on uneven surfaces, how to allude to a texture while not being married to it. So although I think this page still needs more, I knew I would forget to post it if I didn't jump on the idea. So there you go.
Staying with the theme of 'walking tours', I thought I would give a twirling tour of my sewing room. Over the next week weeks, as other rooms become more settled and begin to feel homey, I will continue with this theme.
Starting on the west most wall of the of my sewing room, you may recognize a tiny little bit of my CD storage unit, some of my storage bins, my XM radio hook up (very important to sewing entertainment, no TV for me. My chimney cabinet is filled with fashion cloth.
Odd bits of un-pack-ed-ness appear in the rolled up rug and the spare kitchen chair. I wish that I could just futuristically through a ball into the center of the room and poof, all our belongings would settle into livable, neat and orderly living space. oh well.
Here is my painting table, which used to fit so tidily into a dormer alcove. I am going to try to do without a long table, as I had in my last sewing room. I will hang shelves over this table and put my paint supplies above. As long as I am able to keep this area clutter free, I will be golden, otherwise I will figure something out. If it were affordable, I would put a doorway between right where this table is because the room behind this will be my dye studio. We will see.
I left out the doorway into the room which borders the left side of my design wall. You can see a tiny bit of it. I haven't quite been up and sewing yet. I am too busy having contractors in to give us bids, doing day long job interviews and unpacking.
Apparently Blue Bird flour is a favorite of those who eat fry bread. The flour is sold in 20 pound cotton bags printed with my new favorite bird, the Western Bluebird. I need to get my hands on several of these bags.
Well, I will have to finish this post some other time...
OK. Next day.
I went to the grocers this morning and saw this flour on sale. Fry bread must be the intention because they sold lard right along side the Blue Bird flour. I look forward to eat ting my first fry bread and wonder just how different it could be from fried dough pizza.
So this is my storage closet for all my sewing and painting needs. Once those shelves are up, I will have an addition area in this closet for sewing supplies. I will also be taking the bi-fold door from the dye studio and hanging it on this closet. I won't need the door in the dye space. That is a much more utilitarian room. This room needs it.
The previous owners had a challenge about doors. The only interior doors in the house are on the bathroom (thankfully) and the two downstairs bathrooms. There are a total of three closets upstairs, one downstairs that need doors. We'd also like a door to the room we will someday call our bedroom. They hung curtains over all the doors... YUCK. I don't know. It feels like the house and it's various needs were abandoned.
I have arranged my cloth storage bins differently from how they were previously and I quite like it this way. They create a surface area and leave an expanse of wall to hang a piece of art or cork boards or something. It is still a work in progress but coming along quite nicely.
I will not be leaving the tiny wooden drawers atop the cloth storage bins. I would like to get rid of them entirely or spruce them up, somehow.
And, my favorite part about this room, the windows. My sewing machine will find a permanent home in this corner. I am daydreaming about ways to extend my sewing surface by using my sewing table as a set of legs, creating a prop that is attached to the wall and resting piece of Formica with the proper jigsawed cut out across the two supports. Hard to describe, but I can see it working. Another 2 feet wouldn't go amiss and if I could turn the machine to face south and make sure I had table space to the right of my machine, I would be in heaven.
It is hard to see but I have mounted the bird feeder that my Pop gave me for Christmas just outside the window. Today, while out and running errands, I bought some sunflowers seeds. I tried to purchase a squirrel baffle but they didn't have any at the feed and seed store. This is a really great store called Olsen's. They didn't even know what a squirrel baffle is. Now I don't know if the squirrels around here don't cling to feeders and empty them or if Olsen's just doesn't cater to many birders. They did have a variety of feeders and seed...
Thank you Pop!