Yesterday I puttered around in the Imaginarium all day. I got one of my framed Tolkien posters up on the wall ... it adds a very homey feel to the place.
I got my dresser moved upstairs, and sorted a bunch of semi-scrap material by color.
Why so anal? Because there's something I've been wanting to do for a very long time - a picture quilt, or landscape quilt. So having the material sorted by color makes it much easier to know what I have and find what I want. I have larger pieces of material too, like whole pieces bought for certain items of garb that I've never made yet, but I have a great place to store them too ...
... in the cedar closet. That's one of the things I love about this house ... no matter what I need to stash or store, I can always find a great place for it. Of course, this could be a little neater, but I'll get to that later ... for now I was just trying to get it out of the way of where I was working.
I have a First Project in mind. This is the area over the stairway as you're looking down the stairs ...
... which is just begging for some interesting decor. I've decided to make my first picture quilt experiment as a wall hanging for this empty spot. The whole idea and image came to me in a flash, but despite the small but serviceable array of fabric scraps, of course there was nothing just right for what I needed. So I ventured out today to pick up a few pieces.
Fortunately, for a smallish wall hanging done in 'picture quilt' style, the pieces needed can be fairly small, so I didn't have to buy much. A couple of 'fat quarters' and half-yards of some other stuff I liked. All in all a pretty inexpensive start.
I didn't actually get started on that project yet, because I have another I was anxious to try out. Some time ago I decided I wanted to learn a little calligraphy. I'm not necessarily planning to become a great illuminator or anything, but I wanted to try it out. I got a book and pen set, which was great, except I was having trouble with the nibs which came with it. So while I was out in the crafty stores today, I picked up a couple new nibs. I was excited to try them out, so I just spent the last couple hours playing around with that - but it worked great. So now that I can consistently get the ink in the pen and actually write something, I can begin practicing properly forming the letters (as opposed to just faking it and making it up as I was doing while messing with the nibs).
It is phenomenal to be able to be up here in the Imaginarium, actually dreaming up and working on new projects!! I didn't realize how much I missed this, until I finally got to start doing it again. It had ceased to be an option at the old house, with no place to keep anything, being unable to find the stuff I did have, and no decent place to work on things. This is fantastic.
I just wish it'd warm up. It's cold up here today, because it's freaking cold outside - in the 30s and snow! In April! WTF? I am hoping that before next winter I can get this heat issue fixed ... with, as I mentioned before, beefed up insulation. It doesn't seem like anything's going to help, but I have to believe that it can and will. Seeing as how there's none in the walls right now, leaving my walls radiating cold that's the same temperature as the attic (which is almost as cold as the outside). The only other thing to look at is the fact that the one heat duct in this half of the upstairs puts out very little hot air. That might need some tweaking too.
But that's okay ... summer's on it's way, and hopefully I'll get this dealt with before winter.
I got my dresser moved upstairs, and sorted a bunch of semi-scrap material by color.
Why so anal? Because there's something I've been wanting to do for a very long time - a picture quilt, or landscape quilt. So having the material sorted by color makes it much easier to know what I have and find what I want. I have larger pieces of material too, like whole pieces bought for certain items of garb that I've never made yet, but I have a great place to store them too ...
... in the cedar closet. That's one of the things I love about this house ... no matter what I need to stash or store, I can always find a great place for it. Of course, this could be a little neater, but I'll get to that later ... for now I was just trying to get it out of the way of where I was working.I have a First Project in mind. This is the area over the stairway as you're looking down the stairs ...
... which is just begging for some interesting decor. I've decided to make my first picture quilt experiment as a wall hanging for this empty spot. The whole idea and image came to me in a flash, but despite the small but serviceable array of fabric scraps, of course there was nothing just right for what I needed. So I ventured out today to pick up a few pieces.
Fortunately, for a smallish wall hanging done in 'picture quilt' style, the pieces needed can be fairly small, so I didn't have to buy much. A couple of 'fat quarters' and half-yards of some other stuff I liked. All in all a pretty inexpensive start.
I didn't actually get started on that project yet, because I have another I was anxious to try out. Some time ago I decided I wanted to learn a little calligraphy. I'm not necessarily planning to become a great illuminator or anything, but I wanted to try it out. I got a book and pen set, which was great, except I was having trouble with the nibs which came with it. So while I was out in the crafty stores today, I picked up a couple new nibs. I was excited to try them out, so I just spent the last couple hours playing around with that - but it worked great. So now that I can consistently get the ink in the pen and actually write something, I can begin practicing properly forming the letters (as opposed to just faking it and making it up as I was doing while messing with the nibs).
It is phenomenal to be able to be up here in the Imaginarium, actually dreaming up and working on new projects!! I didn't realize how much I missed this, until I finally got to start doing it again. It had ceased to be an option at the old house, with no place to keep anything, being unable to find the stuff I did have, and no decent place to work on things. This is fantastic.
I just wish it'd warm up. It's cold up here today, because it's freaking cold outside - in the 30s and snow! In April! WTF? I am hoping that before next winter I can get this heat issue fixed ... with, as I mentioned before, beefed up insulation. It doesn't seem like anything's going to help, but I have to believe that it can and will. Seeing as how there's none in the walls right now, leaving my walls radiating cold that's the same temperature as the attic (which is almost as cold as the outside). The only other thing to look at is the fact that the one heat duct in this half of the upstairs puts out very little hot air. That might need some tweaking too.
But that's okay ... summer's on it's way, and hopefully I'll get this dealt with before winter.
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