Ouch, I can really relate to your situation. Why was she cleaning your sewing room in the first place? I feel your pain. When my MIL came for a visit - she started cleaning my house the next day. I was totally ____________(fill in the blank) and furious that she thought my house was so filthy. Martha Stewart I'm not, however, when I have company coming I clean. My DH once decided to clean out the kitchen drawers while I was out - I came home to empty drawers and 3 paper grocery bags of stuff he thought didn't belong in the kitchen, including: gravy mix, dry soup mixes, and the list goes on. I had a similar problem with my son, when we had to move out of our house - there are some things I'll never recover, some of them expensive, but no respect for my stuff. It's a good thing I can't run fast, or even walk fast, or I'd be hot on their trail. lol. Some people just have a lot of nerve.