When Life Gives You Lemons....

...Make Lemon Meringue Pie....I woke up this morning with a very sore index finger on my right hand. I deduced that it was from doing all of the carving yesterday. I tend to lean too hard on the Exacto knife with that finger. I decided that I would make Lemon Meringue Pie by re arranging my work area in the family room so that I could work at the smaller table in the corner. It doesn't specifically take the index finger of your right hand to rearrange furniture.

Tessie volunteered to help! Here she is waiting for me to open the sewing cabinet at the left so that she can shot put the spool of lavender thread into it. This is kind of like a "Where's Waldo" thing. You have to find her.

As you can see, I didn't even have enough room on the table for the house. So I played "Free Style" like the show of the same name on HGTV.

On that show they simply rearrange the furniture and bring stuff in from other rooms to make the room in question stylish.....Sometimes I really do think that they buy things specifically for the restyle and squirrel them away in other parts of the house so that the designer can magically find all of the right things for the room. I had it on in the background this morning and they found 4 amazing yellow and green throw pillows in a bedroom that was basically decorated in red and black.......What's wrong with this picture? The room that they were restyling was decorated in, you guessed it, yellow and green!

Anyway, I did the same thing that they do. I stripped the area bare and started from scratch. The only thing left was the table and the chair. I went out in the garage and hunted up a large artist's drawing board that I don't use a lot. I hangs over the top of the table about 6" on all four sides. Then I went and got a tablecloth that I have used only a couple of times because it is so big and put that over the board. I will put a piece of clear plastic material or a vinyl tablecloth over the top to protect it.

After I finished, I had lots of room for the house(with Tessie hiding inside)and all of the extras that go with it while I am working. I stuck a task light, that I bought for twelve dollars at Wal Mart, in the corner.

I stole a bench from the computer room. It wasn't being used in there anyway. Now I am all set to work there.

The Lemon Meringue Pie was going so well that I didn't want to quit. I decided to re do my mini fabric stash.

Mind you, this is about 25 years of fabric. There are three drawers full and that is not even mentioning my stash of regular fabric for sewing and quilting. That's in part of two closets.

If it's not Tessie getting in my hair it's Mookie. They are a great tag team. As soon as I got the drawers out he got an evil grin on his little innocent kitty face. He jumped in the drawer on the left after I took this photo and tried to go to sleep. He lost all interest in the project as soon as I started stripping the drawers bare. It's no fun if he can't pull things out himself.

I put the ironing board on one side and the baskets from the drawers on the other side. No. I know you can't see the baskets.....That's why I have to sort everything.

Here's what they look like now. I still have another hour's work to finish the pile that is hiding behind the drawers. I love the crop option when playing with photos.....

I have them sorted by color on the left and middle and the drawer on the right has upholstery fabric to use for carpets. I know it doesn't look like much, but each of the drawers is two deep in baskets and each basket has at least 10 different fabrics. Some have as many as 20.

I am so happy with the fact that I will be able to work in the corner of the family room now and that I will be able to find the fabric that I need at a moment's notice. I'm afraid that this entry wasn't very exciting for anyone else, but for me it is very good Lemon Meringue Pie!

See you tomorrow.