Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

Last Saturday Tom had a bunch of things that he wanted(needed) to get done. I asked him what I could do to help him. He started to name the things that he wanted to do and one of them was to clean the bathroom. I said I could do that. I got out the cleaning supplies and went to work. Tom came in the bathroom and mentioned that he had used the same supplies and could not get the mold off the bath tub. Well this is all that needed to be said – I was bound and determined to get rid of the mold now. I scrub and scrub and scrub. I then used some bleach and I did get rid of the mold. Well, now I was on a roll, I now continued to deep clean the entire bathroom. The last thing I did was to put the RED rugs and towels (which are only for looks) into wash. A while later I went to the the basement and realized that the carept was damp (no WET!). During my investigation of what happened I determined that a box of tissues had fallen into the utility sink where the washer drains and the water could not go down the drain and went into the floor. And alot of water went onto the floor.

I am sure glad that we decided to put the carpet down without pad. Made the clean-up from this mishap alot easier. In one area we had pink tye-dyed carpet from the water staining the carpet.
See our coast line – not quite what I wanted in my new studio.
While we had everything off the shelves and pulled away from the wall I decided this was the perfect opportunity to made the curtains for these shelves – so that is what I did. I really didn’t want to move the shelves again.

Today (1 week later) Tom is cleaning the carpet. We got the carpet dried and everything put back for Summer Sewing camps to start on Monday. But, there was a definate water (or soap) mark on the carpet. We want to try and get rid of that.
It is looking much better. Now to get the carpet dry again and everything in place for another camp to start on Monday.