in which a thing is made easier

[kellan_the_tabby]

[ A wooden table sits in the corner of a room. It has a set of shelves on the back half. The shelves are covered in a variety of boxes and baskets containing various shipping supplies; so is part of the table, but there’s a nice open space in the middle for actually doing stuff. ]

Ever since we finally moved into the house last November, all of the business workspaces, & a lot of the storage, has been upstairs in the house. Along with my bed & the very few personal things I could fit. In a 12×16 space, with slanted-in walls & a stove pipe.

It was PRETTY TIGHT up here, is what I’m saying.

I was hoping to start moving things downstairs in the spring, but what with one thing & another, by which I mean ‘we are all busted & also not very good at getting around to things’, I finally managed to move my setup for packing orders downstairs last week.

Y’all. It is AWESOME. (Yeah it looks like a bit of a mess but everything is organized now? I love it??)

Even though I’m using the same table that was up here, there’s more space, because half the table isn’t tucked under the slanty wall, which means I could add shelves. Plus I can roll the chair back a bit without having to worry about hitting the soap shelves & knocking them over! Again! That sucked a LOT!

I might get licked on the butt by a dog, but that’s a risk pretty often here anyway, I’ll take it.

There’s a LOT more to get done — I need to bring down the stock shelves, the folding table, & the cabinet I use to cure soap, & first I need to MAKE ROOM for all that, & it’s gonna be a complex process, because while I’m doing that I’m also going to be installing PROPER insulation up here, & putting plywood on top of that. I wish I could’ve worked on that over the summer, but with everything up here, there just wasn’t space …

… it’s gonna be a whole thing, & I honestly doubt I’m going to get through the entire insulation & plywood thing this winter. But we got through last winter with crappy insulation up here, so even a little bit is gonna be a HUGE improvement.

& having more SPACE for making soap & packing orders downstairs? Plus having Morgyn & Jasper being able to help without having to haul their way up the horrible stairs? That’s gonna help SO MUCH with Giftmas.

It’s gonna be AWESOME.

What projects have you got going that’ll make your life easier?

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Comments

[azurelunatic]

The burn salve helped me get through radiotherapy (to the junk)!

[kellan_the_tabby]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I AM SO GLAD IT HELPED ALSO NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE OW

[danabren]

I do not understand your chosen life but it makes you happy and you make things and do other things which is impressive and I support you.

[kellan_the_tabby]

<333

[stitchwhich]

What projects have you got going that’ll make your life easier?

I'm learning kumihumo braiding. I've been down about losing my ability to embroider, and avoiding sewing (bending over the table to cut fabric hurts) so have been doing nothing, nada, zilch in the way of crafts. But then I remembered my little foam wheel for braiding so contact our Queen to see if the Royals could use some medallion cords and she said that she'd love that. It's working - I'm having fun and am inspired to learn more than the basic spiral.

But besides that we laid out the funds to get the atleast-10-years-empty main bathroom clad in walls again and prepped for painting, then extended our laziness to contracting for the painting to get done by someone else and the vanity/sink and lighted mirror put in. I don't even regret the cost. Much. And we know that this next Pennsic is our last camping event so I've been buying new equipment for it. Yeah, I know, but we're not packing the heavy wooden tables this time, and reducing the weight we have to lug in and out of the truck as much as we can. Everything I'm buying now will work for modern camping as well as SCA daytrip events. It won't be as period as I would like but I like my back more, now, than I do my authenticity bend.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Ooo, kumihimo has always looked fun, but I've never had the spoons to give it a shot. But I found out a couple years back that my mom took one(1) class,& then was turning out kumihimo that looked like stuff made by long-term SCAdians & fiber geeks. Apparently she just has the knack for it?

... of course she's since given it up *overly dramatic sobbing*

Yay for getting the bathroom done, yay for being able to get someone else to do the hard stuff -- that's SO nice when you can manage it -- & yay for getting set up to make your last camping event a pleasantly comfy one! tbh I don't know if I'd be camping at all if I didn't have Tyrava to do it in -- I did stay in a tent or Battlemoor & you know what? That shit HURTS.