Everything needs to die in a fire

 I've had to stop making the quilt.  Honestly I have half a mind to send it to fabric recycling.  I'm so sick of the whole thing, and that's not due to the quilt, really, so I guess I shouldn't.  Not having my studio space set up is killing me.  Trying to do this shit in the dining room is killing me.  Having stuff all over the place is killing me.  

So many times last week I was tempted to either burn the place down or baseball bat everything.  Or smash everything then burn it.  Or burn the house down and baseball bat the ashes.  I'm pretty angry.  I hate mess and clutter but I don't have the health units to do anything much about it.  This house is new but sucks and there's nowhere to put anything.  I wanted to make some built ins but I don't have the energy and both my saws fell apart in my hands the other day.  

Kinda sick of it all right now.  I'll get better.

4.15.24 This Week

 Oh look, I can function!  I've been working on the quilt and I'm learning so much.  It's actually going really well?  I hadn't expected that, tbh.  The folks at my local Joann Fabrics have been super cool about answering all my dumb questions, which has helped immensely.  And trust me, they're hella dumb.  I think I might be able to pull this off.  Remains to be seen.

Returning to the land of the living kinda

 This is how I feel lately.  Trying to get into Spring but just feeling meh and absolutely rolling with it.  

I'm starting a new quilt even though I haven't finished the other one.  This will be made of bandanas put on the dogs by the groomer.  Her love language seems to be quilts, so I figure this is a good gift for her.  And oh, I thought I was so clever.  But a quick Google search tells me a zillion other people have had this idea.  Honestly, that makes me feel normal in a way I usually just...don't.  I just hope she doesn't have like ten quilts at home already made of dog bandanas.

My inspiration pic, onto which I've drawn instructions for myself.  This is from Sunshine and Rainy Days.  In about an hour I'll head to Joann for some coordinating fabric, the black fabric, and thread.  I'll get the batting and backing fabric later.  Instead of doing the small squares of plain fabric, I'll be using a black and white dog paw print and bone fabric from Spoonflower because I'm fancy like that.

What year is it

 

My back is getting better, but I'm still not up to much.  I did manage to sew a new insert for my piano (to keep the massive amounts of dust and animal hair out) and hemmed some curtains.  But mainly I've been in bed.  I've read like 900 books and watched just as many movies.  Ready to be done with this.

Blergh

I've not been well.  I pulled all the muscles in my neck and back, and have just been in bed with the heating pad.  As you can imagine, I'm extremely bored.  There isn't much I can do.  Still, I'm grateful I can move at all now, as that wasn't the case last week.

Boring garage things

 We're doing more work in the garage today and it's gotten me thinking about what I want to do on the floors.  We had originally had an estimate from a garage epoxy floor company, but I think we can do it cheaper ourselves.  Too bad really, because I liked the guy a lot.  But this stuff on Amazon is a fraction of the cost, and we've done this before, so we probably won't fark it up.  

I've chosen the dark blue because it's similar to the blue that's on our ceilings.  And obviously I have to add glitter to it.  With this blue/green glitter, it will look like the ocean.

 

For the walls, we'll probably just do BenMo's Chantilly Lace, which is what we've used on the baseboards and trim.  I'd like the garage to not be so completely different from the rest of the house.  And really, what other color do people paint garages?  I'm not doing black or grey, so white it is.

As much as I hate painting, I'm excited to get started on that.  It will be nice for the garage not to look like a junkyard.

This Week 3.26

 

Three Birds in Flight, One Green One Gold One White

I should be cleaning the house for guests tomorrow, but I'm doing this instead.  The last few days have been insane, so I'm taking some time to rest.  There are wildfires here in northern Virginia and we nearly had to evacuate.  Bags are still packed and we're monitoring the fire maps (the ones my husband built for NASA - no really).  I'm exhausted.

 

I bought this because I'm old

 

New office, same as the old office

 But with less dust.

Eventually I'll get a washable rug, as this one isn't even colorfast, let alone washable.  It's cute though, so I'll put it... somewhere.  And I will remove the chair rail because it's super 90s and I hate it.  But not today.  

I've removed a large source of visual clutter: my music books.  I'm sending the vast majority of them to be scanned and recycled.  There are still a few vintage ones in my antique sheet music cabinet, but I use my ReMarkable for vocal music these days, so there's no need for the physical books.  

This took like all day yesterday and I'm so glad it's done.