Just a few more days...

And I can start moving things into place, and unpacking.  The flooring has been installed, and yesterday the trim around the floor was put into place.  Today, the caulking will be done, then I can start moving my bookcases and shelves where I want them.

 

 

 

He put my TV up on the wall, and it is all hooked up and live, so I can have that on for "company" when I get out there to start working.

 

 

There is still insulation to go up in the rafters, but that has to wait until we take down all the boxes, so they are out of the way.  Since they need to be brought down for me to go through them anyway, that will be done in the next day or two. Then he can get the insulation up, and should be about finished with what he needs to do out there.

We are waiting on delivery of a shed, that is going to become my "Annex".  Any of my crafting supplies that won't fit, or I don't want in my Studio will live there.  We already have placed some concrete pavers as a base for it, now just need it to show up, so we can put it together.   It is going to be close enough that I won't have to go too far, if I need to get something out of it.

 

Unfortunately, living out in the middle of nowhere, we have to wait until the delivery company has other deliveries in the area, to make it worth their while to drive this way, so the shed is sitting in Albuquerque for now, and they said it could take up to 30 days before they will bring it out.  Since we don't have a way to go pick it up and get it here, we will just have to wait for them.   I would assume that even if they don't have another delivery out this way, they will still bring it out to us, no matter what, but it sucks we have to wait up to a month just to see if they do get another delivery before they will bring it to us.  Even with the issues of trying to get large items delivered, I will take our location over living in a city any day of the week.  The longer I'm here, the more I'm liking it. 


Until next time... happy crafting!!!

Getting closer and closer...

Work on the Studio is coming along.  The painting has started, and we need to run into town to pick up more.  We thought 2 gallons would be enough, but the drywall just sucks it up, and this was supposed to be a primer/paint all in one.  At least we were heading to town tomorrow anyway, so it isn't an extra trip we have to make.

After the painting is done, the flooring will get installed.  Then a few more odds and ends projects, and I should be able to start moving in and unpacking soon.

We unloaded my new cutting table from my car, where it was staying until we had room for it.  And it looks good in my Studio. It is about the same size as my old cutting table, but stands higher, so I shouldn't have to lean over when I'm cutting fabric as much.  I still have my old table, and will probably find a good use for it.  Like a lot of quilters,  I have a habit of stacking stuff on my cutting table, and not cleaning it off until it gets so full I have no room to cut. So the old table may be a good place to stack things, and keep my new table clean and give me lots of room for cutting.  The drawers go all the way through to the other side, and will be a perfect place to store rulers and rotary cutters.  I don't know if I will keep it pushed up next to a wall like this.  But it's on wheels so if I need to get around to the other size, it will be easy enough to move it away from the wall when necessary.  I think this table will work out great for basting my quilts, and I may figure out a way to put both tables together, if I need more room.  I'm sure there is some way to raise the old table, even if only temporarily when I need a larger work surface.

I think the old table will be a good work surface, for times when I need something to work on.  I have some Tsukineko inks that I want to experiment with, and that old table will be perfect for that.  And I won't have to worry about making a mess or staining my cutting table. I may even start using my rubber stamps and all those supplies again. 

I'm getting excited with all the progress that is being made, and looking forward to getting all my things unpacked and organized.  

Until next time... Happy Crafting!!!

Morning Visitors

Since we moved into our house, the back deck has been redone.  We tore out all the wood, as a lot of it was dry rotted, it seems the previous owners didn't take care of it as it should have been.  We replaced it with Trex, a composite material that looks just like wood, but has little to no maintenance.  We used the railing as most of that was okay, but it still needs to be painted. 

The table and chairs, we moved from where you see it in this picture to closer to the house, so that we won't scare the birds away.  The feeders hadn't been put up in this picture yet, but they are just above the flower bed you see behind the table.

We started sitting out on the deck in the mornings with our coffee and waiting for birds to show up.  And we haven't been disappointed.  Some mornings we get more visitors than others, but we usually get a couple of birds showing up. (Or it might be the same bird showing up multiple times).  

Here are a few hummingbird pictures I managed to capture in the month of June.  

 

 

Not only are we getting Hummingbirds, but there are other birds that will come to the bird bath and drink the water there.

This first one is one of the baby birds, that was at the bird bath, after Mom flew off.  I managed to time it just right to see water dripping down after it had gotten a drink.

This is one of the red birds we see flying around the property.

 

This blue bird is one of my favorites, although we don't see many of them come to the bird bath.  So I was happy to get this picture when I did.

It's such a nice way to start our day, sitting on the deck, watching for birds, and drinking our coffee and chatting.  Now that it's July, the mornings are getting hotter, so we may have to get out there earlier.  I'm not sure on the Hummingbird migration path or times, so the feeders will be out there as long as we continue to see the Hummingbirds use them. As for the bird bath, I intend to keep that up year round, as long as we don't have freezing temps, as we have seen many birds this past winter.

Until next time... Happy Crafting!!