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About two years ago a young lady was going to come live with us until she could financially get back on her feet. I re-arranged one side of the house, pulling all my art supplies and sewing stuff into one room so she would have one complete bedroom to herself and we'd still have a guest bedroom for company. And then she decided not to stay with us.  Since that time frame, I have slowly organized, re-arranged, divided, and sorted that one room that became my studio (or sewing room, since that is primarily what I do there).  I still have several big projects I hope to tackle and then move out, but this year I've really focused on tackling some of the "smaller" projects as a way of creating floor and table space. And here's two of the results:

 Um, well, obviously this picture DIDN'T turn clockwise. Anyway, we bought this rocker at an estate sale several years ago, and it desperately needed refinishing, something I've never done before. I'm not totally satisfied with the bottom pad, but this was the second one I made and it was semi-presentable, so for now this project is classified as "done".  It's nice to actually have this item out of my sewing room (along with all the projects I had stacked up inside it).

 
Several years ago our summer children (we used to host foster children from an orphanage in Belarus) demolished a pillow Bobby had. I had saved the pillowform inside of it, and when his "elevation pillow"  (a paralysis thing, I'll have to explain that later) had seen it's better days, I took the form and make two pillow cases for it. I should have put a zipper or velcro closure on it, but I was in a hurry and didn't, so now I'll have to remove an outer seam whenever I need to wash it. (Although I discovered it's too big for my washing machine; not sure what to do about that one.) But I was pleased with how it looks and was pleasantly surprised how the red matched and popped in our blue & white room (although I do have a yellow summer quilt on the bed).
 
So even though I'm not posting as much this year as previous years, I'm actually getting more stuff done. :)
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