Today is a cold, gray, icy day. The sky is almost white--you know how it looks when it's going to snow? That's how it looks but apparently it's just teasing us...no snow in the forecast this week.
Work progresses on the upstairs bathroom. It's down to studs and today Tom is going to try to demo and remove the cast iron tub, using mostly a sledge hammer. I'll post an update soon.
In smaller news, I got a new craft table. It's for my sewing and paper crafts. Here it is--it's that cupboard on the right with the bright light shining on it.
I got it from Walmart--online...not available in our little Podunk town Walmart but I could order it online & have it shipped to said Podunk Walmart. Walmart was selling it for $99 and the next cheapest place was Amazon for $169.
I actually ordered it in December, and it didn't arrive until January 17. So I didn't purchase it in January..in keeping with my
$0 Budget January.
It's one of those
Sauder pieces. You know the kind--mostly particle board, and you have to put it together yourself. In my case the assembly took me about 2 hours. You have to match every little screw to the picture on the instructions!
It has rolling casters on the bottom so I can move it into the room and have more space to spread out.
The tabletop extends to 6 feet long and is braced by the open cupboard--which has these handy little plastic compartments. I can take out the dividers to make bigger spaces--like for scissors or rulers or something. And the right cupboard has 3 adjustable shelves for bins or fabric.
I can sit here and see the TV while I work.
Oh good grief...see the baby oil bottle? Well, I didn't see it when I was taking the photos--honestly! I can't stand how I think I'm taking a nice little photo and then when I go to post it here, I find there's a bottle of baby oil right in the middle of it. (By the way I had used the baby oil to get the sticky residue off of some of the craft surfaces where there had been stickers. So it's not so totally random after all.)
I got this craft table because Tom & I had a bit of a
marital dispute rational discussion about this AWESOME, made-to-order, craft space in the basement, which Tom insists on sprawling all his computer stuff all over. Look:
The previous owners left us the desk, which is a nice, big, smooth, flat surface that would be PERFECT for cutting out fabric and paper and painting and all sorts of stuff. I envisioned a space like this:
(Found on Pinterest; original source not known)
But no, Tom wants it for computers.
I wanted to paint the desk black. Or white. And get rid of the shelves that sit on top of it. Paint the little triangular wall space behind it a cool color...or maybe put some cute wallpaper back there. And then I was gonna put up these
Ikea shelves on the back wall and make the space really pretty like in this picture.
Isn't this just so nice? I could picture myself spending many productive hours in my little basement craft space.
But no, Tom wants it for computers. Tom: 1, me: 0. He'll never love and appreciate it like I would have.
So I got second-best. The factory-made craft desk on wheels, and I sulked while I put it together, and I had to squeeze it behind the sofa in the basement.
Anyway it's kinda cute and it was a good price. So I'm trying to sell it to myself as a silver lining to the ugly cloud of disappointment of not getting my perfect little triangular craft area.
Oh and see those vertical blinds? I used to ignore them and/or pretend I didn't see them. Like the baby oil bottle. But now that I will be spending hours sitting next to that window, those blinds are coming down and I'm putting up some curtains I found on clearance at Lowe's yesterday. They're supposed to be thermal and block 25% more cold air from coming in.
I'll show ya when I get them up. Which won't be for a few weeks, because I don't want to purchase them in January. :)
So anyway, my craft table is definitely not my first choice, but I'm making the best of a bad situation. Lemons from lemonade if you will. So to speak. As they say.
I've even begun my winter sewing project--Joey's T-shirt quilt. I've made a nice pile & I've started cutting.
I usually get my way. So it really pains me when I don't. But don't lose sleep over me...I'll survive this horrendous treatment and come through stronger on the other side.
Once I stop sulking.