There is absolutely no sarcasm in that post title. In most cases, I like to be involved in decisions involving me, but this time, I'm so glad this decision was made for me.
We're moving in April.
For those of you who haven't known me all that long, let me give you some back story. We worked alongside Kyle's parents in a prosperous family business when we first got married in 2006. In 2008, we became some of the early victims of the credit crunch and on the front end of the recession. In April of 2008, Kyle had to lay off me, then lay off himself. We were left in a very nice, expensive home with no income. After many more layoffs (recession), fast forward to 2010. We finally had had enough of trying to recover, and chose to sell our dream home.
We sold our home, paid off ALL of the debt we had from being scantily employed over 2 years, started completely over, and rented a house in Trophy Club. (That story is an interesting one all in itself, but I'll get to that another day.)
Over the last three years, we have built a new life here - we've gotten to know our neighbors, became a part of the community, and brought our first child home to this house. We love it. We also built ourselves back up financially, got back on our feet, and are now ready to buy a home again and get settled.
After speaking with our landlord yesterday, he is not ready to sell this house, so with that, we gave our notice that we will not be renewing our lease. This decision has been weighing on us for some time: if he wants to sell, do we buy? What if it's too expensive? What if he doesn't want to sell?
The decision was made for me, and I'm grateful. Our plan is to stay in Trophy Club or Roanoke, as I want to stay as close to my students as I can. Please pray for us as we house search, as we apply for a mortgage with one totally self-employed person, and for our sanity, as moves can be stressful all in their own.
I'll have another goodbye to this house post at a later date, because I'm sentimental like that, and I'll tell you all about my OCD ways of packing that have only just begun. :)
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Saturday, January 18, 2014
Sewing Corner
"Sewing Corner" sounds like it should be the name of a show on PBS, but no, it's part of my house.
Kyle got tired of my sewing machine being in the living room, and I got tired of having to drag it out every time I wanted to do something. It needed its own space, and I needed to be able to sit down and sew when I had time.
We haven't talked about this a lot, but we haven't really made it public either. Our lease is up in April, and our landlord may or may not want to sell this house. We are ready to buy, so we may very well be moving in a couple of months.
So basically I needed a permanent space in a place that may not be permanent, and not to spend any money on something that may not fit in a new house. I made some space in our guest room and went to work finding something around the house I could make work to put my sewing machine on. I'd been using an antique table that belonged to my Nanny we had in the living room , and that seemed like the perfect thing to move use.
This table was the perfect size! I added a lamp we had sitting around not using, and boom. Sewing Table. (And yes, that's a Dr Pepper back there. Everyone needs Dr Pepper when they sew! Or wine. Wine works, too.)
My mom gave me a thread rack for Christmas, so I put that on the desk nearby, since we're not putting anything else on the walls right now.
The antique sewing machine here belonged to my great-grandmother.
Now where to store all my fabric? The women in our family have a slight fabric addiction. When we cleaned out my Nanny's house, we cleaned out an entire room of fabric. My grandmother once had an old fridge in her dining room with all of her fabric in it. My mother turned one of her rooms into a sewing room, with her multiple machines and the closet solely for fabric.
We have a problem.
This dresser was mine as a girl, and my mom's before that, and already in our guest room! It's now filled with my craft supplies and fabric, and out of the way!
So there you go! My absolutely free sewing corner that can move to anywhere we go!
What creative ways have you come up with to make room for your craftiness?
Kyle got tired of my sewing machine being in the living room, and I got tired of having to drag it out every time I wanted to do something. It needed its own space, and I needed to be able to sit down and sew when I had time.
We haven't talked about this a lot, but we haven't really made it public either. Our lease is up in April, and our landlord may or may not want to sell this house. We are ready to buy, so we may very well be moving in a couple of months.
So basically I needed a permanent space in a place that may not be permanent, and not to spend any money on something that may not fit in a new house. I made some space in our guest room and went to work finding something around the house I could make work to put my sewing machine on. I'd been using an antique table that belonged to my Nanny we had in the living room , and that seemed like the perfect thing to move use.
My mom gave me a thread rack for Christmas, so I put that on the desk nearby, since we're not putting anything else on the walls right now.
Now where to store all my fabric? The women in our family have a slight fabric addiction. When we cleaned out my Nanny's house, we cleaned out an entire room of fabric. My grandmother once had an old fridge in her dining room with all of her fabric in it. My mother turned one of her rooms into a sewing room, with her multiple machines and the closet solely for fabric.
We have a problem.
What creative ways have you come up with to make room for your craftiness?
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