Yesterday was spent clearing off my 8' x 8' design wall so I could put up the white curtains that I cover it with when taking photos of quilts. So in order to do that, I had to remove three pieces in progress of being thread painted and put them on a table in my multipurpose studio. Then I had to remove a very large art quilt from the design wall, but in order to do that I had to piece together the various parts of it. Since it has multiple layers of machine felting, fabrics made from bits and pieces and painted fabrics that had not yet been stitched down, I needed to use the PQ1500s-- which backs up to the PC420. But in order to do that, I had to remove the things off the table that sits beside the PC420 so they wouldn't get knocked off by the art quilt as I was piecing the bits and parts together (like your paper piles on your desk petthefabric). It mainly consists of things that I use with the PC420 all the time and like to have ready to hand. Anyway, all that stuff went onto the Sweet Sixteen table. Then had to put the PC420 on the floor so it wouldn't interfere with the art quilt going through the PQ1500s. Once that was done, I was able to get it pieced together, folded and set on the guest bed (which takes up most of the space in my quilting studio). Then I had to put the PC420 back where it belongs and take all the stuff off the Sweet Sixteen table and put it back on the table beside the PC420. But, at least I now have two clean white curtains pinned to my design wall and the most recent quilt finish is pinned on top so DH can now take photos when he gets a chance. Being vertically challenged, I had to run up and down the step ladder multiple times to get all that done.
I also spent some time re-organizing the toolbox where I keep all my framing and picture hanging stuff and inventoried my pan pastels and reorganized their placement in the pan pastel palette trays. That meant that I had to then clean off the large table in my multipurpose studio because it got pastel dust on it. That's the table that I use when I'm sandwiching quilts and squaring them up in preparation for binding, so no way could I just let the pastel dust linger there.
It sounds like a lot of work, but Still, it's a lot better than it was when I started my decluttering and reorganizing journey several years ago. And I did get a bit distracted by the sounds of a couple of Carolina wrens hopping up and down in the window behind my computer. I have had the bottom half blocked with a piece of foam core in order to cut down on the glare. So I removed the foam core (which involved hauling out the step ladder again) to see if any birds were trapped between the storm window and the regular window and needed rescuing. Instead, I discovered that there is no storm window on that particular window and the birds were building a nest in the space where a storm window would be if there was one. Anyway, I was able to watch the goings on for a while before they became aware I was there, so I put the foam core back (yet another trip up the step ladder) so they'd have some privacy and I would be able to see my computer screen without wearing sunglasses.
After all that activity, I slept really well last night.
Rob