T Stands for the BIG Project continued

 Hi everyone. I hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day if you celebrate. I know some people always seem to do dinner or something for this day, and others, like my husband and I, don't really do anything much. We never have, even though we've been a couple for around 40 years now.

Since it is Tuesday it is time for T day again over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog . Today's post is a bit long. Just warning you. Smile.

Last week I mentioned we are redoing one of our spare bedrooms. It's where I keep my art supplies, and where I  spend a lot of time. Here's what's been happening with  my big house project in the past week.

 I did lots sorting (not really cleaning) and  packing up of supplies last week.  Luckily lots of my supplies were already stored in organized bins as you can see in the photo of my mess below.  

Then this past Saturday is what I called Moving Day. First my husband and I moved the Christmas decorations up into the attic, and then  most of my supplies got moved out of my art room. Luckily for my stuff, not so lucky for me, we have an unfinished addition on the side of our house, something my husband decided 22 years ago we needed. We did get a garage  and some great attic storage space out of it, but we have a downstairs room and an upstairs room which have just become storage space.  

(The outside of this addition is finished off and makes my house look a lot larger than we actually live in. My husband decided this was his project, and he was not paying for a contractor to do the project. We did pay people to come and do particular items, like framing, and it was moving along nicely until we could not get an electrician to wire it, so my husband took that on. He got it almost completely wired himself, and then life got in the way. We started putting things out there, and now it needs a big purging of "stuff", especially things my daughter didn't take with her when she moved but that she says can't be thrown away as she wants them when she finally gets into a house. Once the addition gets purged, then we can move forward. I'm guessing one of these days we might finish it off.)

Here's about half of the supplies out in our addition.

Because there is no heat in our addition, some things can't be put out there. I did clean out a lot of the mess in my daughter's old bedroom, but somethings are just going to have to be stored there so they don't freeze. Plus, I refused to pack up a too big stash of paper, (much of it old and back from my scrapbooking days, but still good), so I moved some storage cubes off to the side and put all my paper there.

But before any of this occurred, I realized I wasn't as excited about the project as I should be. Yes it's a lot of work that didn't excite me, but also, I was feeling like I had no place to be creative. It actually made me quite sad one morning, until I realized what I needed to accomplish first was to get a table set up where I could work. When I mentioned this to my my husband he suggested I should pick up my sewing table in the dining room and work there. It's mind over matter, isn't it? That's the first thing I did, and I will say it made all the difference moving forward with this project.

This past Sunday was what I call Demo Day #1. It started with me doing some more packing and moving boxes. If you compare this next photo to the first one in the post, you can see what I spent my morning doing.

It was time to take the sheetrock down, starting with the outside wall of the closet. First we pulled off the old IKEA CD shelves, which fit some big steel ruled Sizzix dies perfectly. Those went out into the addition also.

One side of the closet wall's sheetrock comes down.

Then we're breaking through to the other side, in the actual closet.

Sheetrock's all down. I carried 7 trash bags of the scraps down 2 floors to the basement for next weekend's trip to the dump. Boy those bags were heavy.

Then it was time to pull out the studs.

My husband was having a lot of fun by the way. I think he could take out some of life's frustrations as he demo the wall. Smile. If it hadn't been so close to Superbowl time I think he would have kept working.

 Now there isn't much of that wall left. We do have to still take down the front of the closet, where the door is.  That may be next weekend's project.

This week I can pull some more carpet and pack up some of the other half of my supplies. 

Oh yes, and my T day drink reference.  Sunday night, after packing and studio deconstruction, a shower to clean off the dust and a little Superbowl football. a cup of Strawberry and Black tea is just the ticket.

This is my drink for this week's T day. 

Thanks for getting this far in my post. I hope you have a wonderful T day and week ahead also.