Moving things again

My staff at the library are known to moan softly whenever I say "I have an idea!" But they should be grateful that I worked some of it off moving all my own furniture, starting over Christmas, before I started moving things at work. I finally finished today (almost - still missing three boxes that are on order).

cozy corner with fancy things

cookbooks, sewing/craft books, fabric (waiting on bins to go in the empty end spaces)

work desk - currently working on stationery

larger view of work area. i have sewing projects waiting for when i finish playing with the stationery

picture frames waiting on my small work table

plants, tv, records, puzzles - my desk is behind the shelf, in the kitchen (it doubles as a kitchen table)

more fabric

library books, fabric, yarn, comics, felt

classics/series books

hallway closet. my landlord asked if i wanted the doors back and i said no, too much bother. more fabric, skirts, shoes, birdseed, gardening stuff, rowing machine (yes, it's dusty.)

bedroom plants and jewelry/candle making

bedroom shelves - sewing materials, extra blankets, paper towels/toilet paper/kleenex, air bed, craft stuff, and my extra vases, Christmas things, and some other random stuff is stored above

The blank space by the photo albums is for the stationery (the shoe holder has... more fabric)

So if you ever are not sure what to give me as a present, I can clearly use more fabric, storage boxes, yarn, books, or storage boxes...

Last piece of furniture

Truly. I will need nothing more. I'm sure. This is a tall table that sits in front of the window, with light from the lamps by the shelves at the right. There's a tall chair too. I intend for it to be my puzzle/beading table as both things need fairly close attention. Or maybe I just need new glasses.

Final, Final Organization of my apartment

I've been working on this for almost a year. I moved all the furniture, recataloged all the books, put up pictures and decorations and it's finally done! Pretty much. A lot of my miniature scenes are under construction.

This is a shelf my grandparents gave me when I was a teen. It has all my
little special things on it.

I used Ikea shelves to provide shadow boxes for my dolls and miniatures.
This is a Ginny doll that belonged to my grandmother (actually, it might have belonged to
my aunt, but I never met her. I was given it after my grandmother's death)

This is my most complete miniature scene.

This scene is, as you might guess, not complete. It's going to be
a sort of fancy music room/conservatory, hence the flowers
and the color scheme of mostly white.

Some of my Madame Alexander dolls that belonged to my mother
The teddy bear is mine and the big doll belonged to my grandmother.

I gave away most of the AG accessories, but I do have a few things left.

My miniature book collection and Beatrix Potter books

This scene is supposed to be a kind of funky cafe. I need at least one more set
of tables and chairs and some pictures for the walls.

This country kitchen is almost complete, but I need a stove - I think I lost
or gave away the one I had.

Beatrix Potter tea set I've had since I was little.

My stuffed animals and a pillow made out of my grandmother's sewing bag

The whole shelves

You can see my record collection here and my dried flowers and vases on top

My sewing desk is messy right now because all my Christmas presents
are on it waiting to be wrapped and my first of the catch-up projects - sewing
the head back on my tiger. My craft books are up with my other teddy bears
and the black notebook next to the thread has all my quilt designs in it.

My desk chair has a couple little blankets on it (ok, yes, that's a baby blanket
but I've had it since I was small and it's still in perfect condition) and
the shelf has all my series collections - girls' school series, my miniature books, Elsie Dinsmore
Rick Brant, Ken Holt, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and other misc. vintage books. Also my house music boxes

My reading corner - those shelves have all my children's books and my collection
of mini Ikea stuffed animals. The picture I bought when my library sold off our art collection

There are flowers drying under the tv, since there's a handy shelf there.
It's not really an ideal spot for the tv, since you have to close the blinds to watch
anything, but it's usually dark when I'm watching movies anyways. That
thing outside the window is where I hang food for the squirrels in winter
and a hummingbird feeder.

The whole thing! I do intend to get a small, high table to go in the empty spot by the window.
I'll use it for beading and puzzles.

The top of my lower shelf has various pictures on the back of the bookshelves and then
different things - mostly parts of my bowl collection - on top.

This is my to read/library/to review shelves. Oy. My cookbooks are behind the old messenger bag
(I just bought a new bag, for the first time since grad school. It's not a purse, it's a bag) and then various things
that need something done with them - I ordered a bunch of bags to try and need to return them etc.
The lower shelves have my yarn basket, photo albums, comic tubs, and patterns.

This little corner has my second chair, my dolls, my picture that my mom made, and some beading things I hung
on the wall, since I rarely actually wear jewelry but I enjoy making it.

My puzzles and various bits of tools and such. Still have a stack of records I'm going through
and you can see my new freezer!

My new freezer - and my new bag!

This set of shelves by the kitchen is mostly empty, but I do have some extra doll clothes
(with baking soda because they had been packed away for a while and smelled a bit musty)

A few more bowls and my Ikea guinea pig and panda from San Diego

This is going to be a kind of greenhouse

This will be a nursery/Christmas scene.

All the plants in the bedroom are doing well.

This is as tidy as my clothes closet gets (yes the vast bulk of my clothing
consists of t-shirts and socks)

and the craft shelves, which have not been organized or tidied and probably won't for a long time

Final reorganization of half the living room

Sewing table with puzzles, misc. and instruction books on the right, records on the left. Still more books to be cataloged and go into the empty bookshelf. I think I might store the rowing machine under the desk.

Miniatures and so on will go on the white shelves. I might get a small table to go under the window for working on puzzles and beading. The stepstool and vacuum will be gone of course.

Still stacks of books to catalog and the tv to rearrange. Also need another small stool, since I'm using the one I have for gladiolas but I might have one. Another paper lantern to hang and I want to get some more pictures for the bare wall. Only drawback to this arrangement is that the chair is now directly facing the a/c.

Moving continues

drying flowers and electronics waiting to be moved