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Saturday,
January 1, 2005
NEW YEAR'S DAY
Happy New Year!
I just checked the admin announcements newsgroup at SFF.Net, where I learned that not only are the lovely boys at my favorite ISP now running 2 T1 lines, they've also bumped up web storage for personal domains (aka this site) to 80MB, which means that I can finally get off my ass, finish loading all the archives onto the site and become decidedly profligate with the pictures. Mellie is a very, very happy camper.
Mellie has also realized that she now has five and a half years' worth of archives to upload. Sheesh.
Anyway, the year has kicked off with a big bang at Casa Fletcher -- Lyndon is in the middle of cleaning his office. That looks so prosaic on the page, until you realize that he could barely get in there because of all the stuff racked along the walls, and after he got home from Atlanta he couldn't get in there at all. We're talking packed to the gunwales, people.
So, the first order of business is to unpack, clean and reorganize his closet. Once that's done, he can put away a lot of the stuff he got in Atlanta, then start working on the room proper. I keep hearing odd bangs, thumps and the occasional obscenity drifting out of there, and an amazing amount of stuff is being piled up in the hallway and my office, so I presume he's making good headway.
In the meantime, I finished what I started yesterday -- namely, making the slipcover for the new ottoman. And if I do say so myself, it is a thing of beauty and indistinguishable from one that you could buy in a store. The cats, of course, immediately jumped on it and deposited a fine coating of cat fur, so I need to clean it off before I can take a picture of it.
Well, once I finish the quilt, See, since Lyndon was hard at work cleaning and I'd already gotten the sewing station set up for the slipcover, I decided to pull out a nice batik wall hanging that I'd finished paper piecing some time ago and actually quilt the darn thing (this is why it's good to have a variety of battings in your crafts closet). It's about halfway done, and I'm hoping I can polish off the bulk of the central quilting tomorrow -- I have no idea what I'm going to put in the borders, but I'll think about that tomorrow, at Tara.