Arizona build'n: January 2013

About Me

Location: Arizona, United States

Welcome to my site. I will be Chronicling the construction of our new home. Here is a brief history of my experiance in this area. I moved every few years as a child. As an adult I stayed in one house for 25 years, but helped remodel it four times. From a minor bath redo to adding an entire second story to the house. Now my husband and I have moved to AZ to care for my elderly parents and are undertaking to be the owner/builders of a custom home. Some people don't like change but I guess I'm not one of them. Or perhaps it is just limited change I like. To my husband's current dismay I helped build a 4000 square foot house in Romania in 2001. We took it from slab to fully furnished in 11 days. I therefore have meager patience for the pace of building here in Arizona.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Finishing Touches

I have been making fabric baskets to hold extra sewing "stuff". Probably need a few more still. Today I put together some fabric in hoops to add some color to the walls. May add a few more of those too.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Laundry/Craft Room Redo

Bet you thought this blog was done. Well, I resurrect it every few years. Back in 2007 we declared the house done except for the decorating....well that continues to this day! On December 2, 2005 I posted photos of the laundry/craft room. Except for adding the washer, dryer, and lots of "stuff" that is pretty much how it has looked ever since. In the last 3 years I have been on a roll putting all those boxes of photographs into scrapbooks for my kids. I have finished and given them 8 so far. Still working on the family Christmas album and have the high school album for the youngest to do. But our daughter announced that we will soon be grandparents and I switched into sewing mode. One messy hobby in a small space is bad enough but add another and the room was out of control!! So I began looking for organizing ideas and this weekend I began to turn all the ideas into reality. Now as I remember it, blogspot posts my photos backwards from what I think I am doing. So you can put it all together, there will be some of the baby sewing I have been doing; then my new shelf above the sewing area; my new project board--with a fabric I absolutely love; my new project board cover for the ironing board cabinet; other miscellaneous shots of the room. And probably in reverse order!

I want to post some new items on this blog, but there seems to be a problem in uploading photos. This is testing mode.