In news that is not fun: my health is still causing a lot of trouble right now. But I have fun news as well! My supply order was made…and arrived sooner than expected! Not only that…I made my new work area! To do this I had to:
- Move my piano.
- Buy 3 bookshelves
- Assemble the shelves
- Buy a melamine shelf (8 feet by 2 feet) and 2 white lacquered spindles.
- Cut shelf to 73 inches by 20 inches and take 4 inches off the spindles.
- Attach spindles to shelf and shelf to the top of the bookshelves.
And the result?

Then I left two shelves for books and the central one for supplies. Said supplies before I unpacked them, yesterday, and then after they were unpacked and organized:

I’m glad that’s done! It was a huge job, putting away 80 strings of beads! It may not sound it, but it’s actually very fussy work, getting them off the string and into the little containers without letting them spill all over the place. Then this morning, I took one of the supplies I found most interesting…a bag of wooden discs in different sizes…and made a pair of hairsticks. I call them ‘Groovy’. Take a peek!


So all things considered, it’s not going too badly.
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