What A Weekend!!!

I have had such a lovely weekend taking care of my girls while Mummy did her work from home. Lots of playing and dancing, cuddling and laughing and then a rather messy crafty session with Ruby on Saturday. I have a feeling Mummy night just kill me for buying Ruby the big pack of jars of loose glitter....lol.

I joined a Facebook group a few weeks ago called Sewing Room Ideas. Some of the rooms on there are jaw droppingly huge and gorgeous but there are lots of storage ideas which can be used in more modest rooms. I have been looking at ways to store my fabric more efficiently. Even though I don't have the hugest collection I still have a fair bit. In the USA it's a big thing now to wrap your fabric onto comic boards which are stiff boards used in a film bag to store comics to keep them in pristine condition. Well I wasn't going to be buying those but I did have a huge box full of A4 cardstock so I picked out all of the white and here is what I have done........

All fat quarters in one box. Individually wrapped around a C6 sized piece of card.

100% cotton fabrics all wrapped around an A4 card folded in half down the length.

More 100% cotton fabrics.

Having the boards inside the fabric makes it really easy to pull pieces out and then pop them back in.

Being next to the kitchen I have to store my fabrics in boxes but you should see some of the the wonderous collections stored on shelving........most of them look like shops....lol.

I currently have $%*^ boxes of fabric not counting the two boxes that hold felt, net and lace but I feel I will use it more now that it is so organised.

The workers are back at work today and boy am I ready to have my house back to myself for a while each day.

This morning I have been doing laundry and tidying things away and then as soon as Andy goes out the door I will be throwing the hoover around and doing whatever I can get done before 1pm and then I shall be grabbing some time to sew more of Andy's quilt until it's time for DD to get in.

We are also back to our quick and simple meals when we are on our own so tonight it will be beans on toast and a nice cup of tea.....absolute bliss......while we watch Gone With The Wind which DD has a hankering to watch having just finished the book.

That should be finished by about 9pm so I may get the layering and pinning of the quilt done before bedtime.

I feel like a whirling dervish today....how is your day going?

Sheila-x-