Household upheaval, out with the old, and in with the...older...

I've decided I don't like wicker furniture, like at all.  I found a consignment store here in Norwich to sell it for me. Bye!

There's a whole bunch of excuses as to why I've been TERRIBLE keeping up with my blog, and here they are in bullets!

• My mom's household is gaining a member, which means all my mystery boxes of "I'll sort this later" needed to be dragged out into the woods and set on fire and brought to my place.
• Road trip to PA to visit Brent's family.
• Camera broke while on said road trip!
• My entire Etsy store needed to vacate the spare room because...
• My own household is gaining a member in December, which means all the crap I hauled over from my mom's needs to get the hell out of my living room gooooooooooo, as well as a couch and a bed and ALL THE WICKER FURNITURE and even more furniture...
• But then Brimfield happened.

• I came home with furniture.

My Etsy store, Blithe Button , has been causing problems in my living space since 2008.  I have a large amount of inventory including everything from an entire closet worth of vintage clothing to fragile glassware, and the list goes on, since I sell crafting supplies and hand made jewelry as well.  This all used to be crammed in my office--including a mannequin and four mannequin heads stuffed in the closet.  When I lived in my 450 sq. ft. basement quarters, it was right there with me for a year or so, until I finally rented a storage area.  Granted, this stuff has been collecting dust since mid-2010 because I didn't have time to work on photographing, measuring, & selling, while working as both a mail lady and photographer.  Now one of those jobs is out of the way, and I can work on this in my down time.  Question is, where?

Blithe Button found a permanent home!

 

My grandfather had the solution.  I'd been storing a good amount of the Etsy inventory I have yet to list in their home for a while, so he suggested building shelving and a workspace.  I can still create the hand made jewelry at my home on my custom built crafting desk, but now I have a place to work on the other 2/3 of that store.  I get to decorate that as well, because no one wants a boring workspace.

IKEA stool found at Goodwill for $9!  Just when I needed to find a specific piece of furniture...

The construction phase of that project was finished last week, and I spent all of last Saturday moving inventory and other things over to their place.

   Clothing rack on left= things currently for sale on Etsy.  Rack on right= my to-do list.

(January 2018 update: All clothing was sold to Civvies in New Haven in September 2017.  I really don't have the time to focus on clothing- I'd rather be focusing on buttons!)

Meanwhile, my home is not in any condition to be seen.  I have boxes of things absolutely everywhere downstairs while I wonder "what is all this crap" and "when did I throw everything up in the air and dump that on the floor" and "when was the last time I saw sunlight left the house?"

I think that's enough of a post for now.  I have a growing list of posts to write, including one about the crafting desk I've mentioned probably more than five times since starting this blog, and the orange chair, and the furniture I found while delivering mail, as well as seasonal posts.  Halloween will soon be upon us, and I'm decorating with all new decorations this year.