Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

When I flew home from Columbus my flight was canceled. They rescheduled me on a flight 3 hours later, which also ended up being canceled. I had to spend an extra night in Columbus. Since I have been home I have been working on the basement almost non-stop. The carpet was scheduled to be installed on Tuesday, but we postponed it. They are coming on Friday now. So much to be done and I am exhasted!

Pictures of the walls with the white stuff on them. This process is very slow. The rock wall is hard to paint (seal) because you have to make sure that every little nock and cranny is painted.

I have painted the floor under the washer and dryer.

We removed the carpet last night because Wednesday is Bulk Pick-up day.

There is all our bulk garbage on the side of the road. (I hope they will take everything.)

Yesterday at the annual Trash to Treasure sale at the Village Squares Quilters I took approx. 130 yards of fabric and sold it. It felt great!

This will really help in being able to fit the fabric back into my studio. I want to continue to lighten the load.

The work on the basement continues – they are finishing the sheet rock. Does not look much different and the other pictures – put it will make a big different when they do the painting. On Monday I decided that I needed to do something fun – so I continued to work on the lap quilt for the sewing room. Here is what I have so far. I have decided that the fabric that I was going to use on the border is not right – so it will probably go on the back (maybe). I think that I am going to put a black border on this quilt and then call it quits.

The electrian has the wire outside waiting for the outlet and light (with a switch inside – no more having to string an extension cord outside and putting a lamp on the ledge). The work on the wall as you go downstais. See where is still looks kind of wet – the plaster was missing in that BIG area!
They have not wired for the outside outlet towards the front of the house – need to remember to ask about that.

Remember what this use to look like?
Pictures of the back hole – not so yucky now and they are not even finished.

NO JUNK ALLOWED!!!!!!!!!!!

Full view of the ceiling – I can’t believe how great this is turning out!

They are doing a great job of having the ceiling come together with the wall that was on the stair way. It’s great to have them doing a good job. It seems up to this point that Tom would always have to get involed in some of the finishing to get it to look as nice as I want it to. I remember when we redid the ceiling in the dining area – he had to do this task (ceiling to stairway wall) on that project. Not to mention the work he had to get involved in when we redid the little bathroom. Maybe when things show down on this project I’ll share pictures of that project. Thinking about all these projects makes me realize all the work we have done on our home in the past 10 years!

When we first moved into this house we place a 4′ bookcase in front of this small wall. Last night when Tom and I were down looking at the progress I looked at the bookcase and realized that the wall shows above the bookcase a few inches. Up til now you could not see the unfinished wall because I had so MUCH stuff crammed on the top shelf. With my desire to dejunk some, I wanted the wall to look nice above the bookcase. So, Tom and I moved the book case and I asked the workers if they could also put some sheetrock on this small wall.

This is the corner where the cabinet will be for the laundry supplies. One of the workers just showed me a cabinet as an option – it was BROWN. I am sorry, but with everything else being white, I didn’t want a brown cabinet. So, I am off to Home Depot in a while to see what I can find. (I know- pickie, pickie, pickie!)

The workers were able to raise the furnace vents to 5′ 10 1/2″ – just alittle higher than its original height. What a difference a few inches make. With the work that they had done earlier this week, the vent had slipped down to 5′ 7″, Tom could no way walk under the vent at that height. When I walked under it, it brushed my hair. Now that it has been raised up, it just brushes Tom’s hair.

Just before going to bed last night I just went down and sat in the basement. A while later Tom came and asked if I was dreaming of what it was going to be like when it is all finished. I really am excited. I can’t imagine what it is going to look like with it is all done. The ceiling is looking so much nicer than I ever imagined it could.