thanks to everyone who gave advice, words of encouragement and ideas of what to do to keep me busy in the meantime!! I will try to take some of them into consideration and maybe find some time to work. the addition is a brand new kitchen, master bedroom and master bath. we currently have a 1000 sq foot home w/ 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. and we have 2 kids. so this was sorely needed. I have a sewing/office room finished in the basement, that room isn't going to get any bigger and I still have to share it but like I said it's full of stuff that needs to be out of the way for the addition. we are making great headway on the addition though, they are taping the walls this week and then hopefully we can paint and put flooring down in the upcoming weeks!!! it's going to be so nice to have so much more room and even nicer to be able to use my sewing room again. sigh........