Tragedy Struck

A couple days ago, I came into my (sewing) room to find that tragedy had struck: Several of my shelves had fallen. I guess the weight of my quilting books was too much for the L-shaped brackets that were supporting them. So, off came everything to be sorted and rearranged. The shelves were redone w/different (straight) supporting brackets. Nothing like being forced into redoing and organizing. :-)

Then I cataloged each and every book, and arranged them alphabetically by author (by title within each author as well) and re-shelved them with a better redistribution of weight per shelf. (Can you see my Todd Library experience here?)



Material came next. This was more difficult as there isn't a hard & fast rule. Some are by color, some by design, some by type, some by size.





What a mess. Under all this is an ironing board and my adjustable table w/my Janome 11000.



My 1600 & frame is more of a material stand.



I also cataloged (yes, I truly have a program for this!!) all my patterns & kits to store them on the shelves. I may be ADD, but that doesn't prevent me from being anal about my sewing!!



This is my cubbie with my Janome 6600. I don't like facing the wall as it is uninspiring. The next day, after all the sorting was completed, I loaded some design programs and spent quality time on the phone upgrading my digitizing program. This saved a lot of money and I went to bed pretty pleased with myself!! (And, I might add, made my husband very pleased as well!!)
I had every intention of waking up yesterday and teaching myself the new program ...