Finished ~ I think!

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Earlier in the week I showed you the progress I'd made with the sorting and rearranging of my craft room.  I've been working away out there some more since then, and I think it's just about how I want it ~ for the time being, at least 😏

As I mentioned in that previous post, the stuff I'd put to one side for donation was collected last Friday, so that left me with a nice space... 

which I have now filled with a smaller sideboard, moved from beside the door.  I still need to empty it out and sort through what's in there, but I'm pleased to now have more floor space to move around! 

My craft book collection has been considerably reduced, and as I mentioned previously it now fits in just these two narrow white bookshelves.  As you can see I have also gone through my doll collection, keeping only a few of them ~ another of those Very Big Decisions 😳

The brown bookshelf (which was actually where Adrian housed his LP collection back-in-the-day!) is now devoted to sewing ~ books, patterns, fabric, etc.  The fabric had previously been stored in the large pine sideboard that was donated, and as a temporary measure I have simply wrapped the pieces in bin-bags.  I will eventually sort the fabric in a more orderly fashion, though.

The white plastic drawers, which are filled with dolls' house odds and ends, fitted between the sideboard and bookshelves beautifully.  They are now tucked away, leaving more space within the room, but everything is easily accessible. 

And this is why I wanted to create more space: to make myself a little sewing area 😊 I did have a pretty old sewing machine, which I donated as it wasn't working properly.  Restart, I hasten to add, have qualified staff to check over and fix electrical items that are donated to them.

I decided to use some money I had inherited to buy myself a modern sewing machine, something I'd been wanting to do for a long time but felt that I couldn't really justify.  I've wanted to try my hand at sewing for a very long time and now I have the space and opportunity to do so 😊

I also got myself a dressmakers dummy as I thought it would be easier than just struggling to make alterations, etc, on myself!  She is, alas, not as chunky as your's truly so I will have to add padding to Miss Flossie at some point😳  I started off with the sewing table (which belonged to my mother-in-law and still has the original sewing machine inside!) and Flossie positioned as above...

but it didn't feel quite right, so I shunted them around to this position ~ you wouldn't believe how heavy that sewing table is 😒

I didn't really like Miss Flossie standing with her back to me, though...

so I swiveled her around...

which was, I felt much better 😊  I'm so pleased with the progress that I've made in the craft room.  It wasn't an easy decision to cut down so drastically but I know that it was the right thing to do ~ and who knows, I may yet decide to do little more downsizing once I get going with my craft projects again 😉