Journey to My New Studio, Part 1

It’s been a while since I blogged and I’ve missed reading the adventures of the bloggers I follow. I did recently attempt a full catch up and if you know I follow you and I missed your old posts I will catch them next time you post. I plan to return to regular blogging again 🙂

We moved to a new house on March 5th and then a little over a week later we had our first out of town visitors to the new house and they stayed for 5 days. Their visit was planned long before we knew we would suddenly be buying a new house and preparing our old house for sale.

John did so much work on the old house getting it ready for sale (goes on the market next week) and I did most of the unpacking. We completely exhausted ourselves and forgot we were “old” and shouldn’t try to be doing all that at once. John hurt his knees and back (but has since recovered) and I twisted my knee (which is getting better). We really abused our bodies for over a month!

I am taking the upstairs loft as my new studio in the new house and here is what it looked like after we moved in:

Before our visitors arrived we put our all energies into unpacking and setting up the main floor of the house and the guest room.

After our visitors left on March 22, I got to work on sorting out my studio. I began the “Journey to My New Studio” which I will share in a series of blog posts.

Here is what it looked a couple days after working on sorting it out – very scary but lots of progress:

You can see John trying to help me set up something on the desk I will be sewing at.

I absolutely hate clutter, and there were times I just sat on the floor and cried in frustration! I moved from a perfectly cozy little studio I had just recently moved into (when I changed rooms) and here I was setting up everything again!