Now I feel organised!

I have been a bit busy this week!

I wandered into the office at work with a sick child in tow (one of the downfalls of working in a school is how many times you have to deal with sick children)and was met by a whole load of new filing cabinets.  I oohed and aahed over them with the secretary (it would be rude not to) when she casually asked if I wanted the old ones.

My brain did that little think and my mouth said...yes please! I figured I would work out the logistics of if I had room for three filing cabinets later.  This coincided with my husband having a few days off work which was more than convenient.  I told him that evening that he would probably be getting a cabinet the next day, it ended up being all three as the secretary got overexcited and emptied them all in one go.

I arrived home after work and we stood in my sewing room, which is of course not a sewing room but my 'sewing things storage room'and tried to work out if we could get two in, let alone three!

This is sewing room before cabinets:

It is as tidy as it ever was going to be with boxes of stuff on the floor and trims scattered over the shelves, the wardrobe holds amounts of fabrics more than 2 metres, the boxes hold everything else material wise.

Number one cabinet went in, we stood and looked and I filled it up.  Then we took down shelves, moved the wardrobe to the opposite side of the room, looked a bit more and realised all three would go in...result!!!!!

I spent a happy time filling up the cabinets and this is how the room looks now:

One drawer holds more than one box so all the boxes left the building.  The wardrobe is now behind the door.

Would anybody know I am an obsessive sewist walking in my house now?

This then led to the caravan as I had found a few items of costuming hidden in the room and all those plastic boxes to put costumes in not those cardboard ones currently in use.  I did the deed I talked about and threw away all those items of clothing that had been donated last year and I know will not now be used.  I am pleased to report that I have a hanging rail full of clothes and boxes filled with others.  I just have three boxes to go through which I filled at this time last year when I was sorting out what costumes I would not be using for last years pantomime so they could be stored out of the way.

I am now feeling very pleased with myself and counting down the days to April 6^th...P day!  Or the day the pantomime is officially revealed and I get my grubby little hands on a script to work out the need for costumes from characters not from what I think there may be.

Then the shopping trip for trims and fabrics, then auditions, then I get sewing.

I feel that these two weeks are the calm before the storm.  My last two weeks of being able to do what I want when I want.  But with no real projects underway I will probably start on some adjustable waistcoats for the male members of the chorus just so I don't get bored doing nothing this weekend!