Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Scream :>( Blogger is not letting me to post comments HELP!!

Morning everyone... Just a quick question and to let you all know that I am having trouble posting comments.

Everytime I try to post to do a direct post a blog without the pop window it takes me to this message page.

Your current account (MyPrimCreations@aol.com) does not have access to view this page.

Click here to logout and change accounts.

Does anyone know how to fix this???
I have clicked the click here and signed in again and still it won't let me post. Weird..NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE.. and I have no clue how to fix it. I know nancy has this problem trying to post to my blogg and some others. Maybe someone out there has figured out how to fix it..
Of course you can't talk to a human at Blogspot to get a direct answer to anything.. so it depends on others who have blogs to figure it out...so HELP HELP HELP

Thanks from a frustrated
Tonya

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Tonya @ My Primitive Creations A to Z

Good Morning.. Carmen over at PrimCats posted the A to Z Challange & has invited everyone to join her in playing.. What a cute way to get to know each other... I'm sure we'll read some great answers and get to know each other... No my A's to Z's.. this will be a little hard for me to do pictures because I'm on the Island with only the laptop. so here we go Tonya from A to Z!!

A~Artistic~I've always been an Artist in some way or another. I took after my mother she was an excellent Artistic woman and so is my daughter.

B~Boating..I've owned my own boat for 13 years. I love the feeling of being out on the lake with the wind in your face & the sun on your back. There's a sort of peacefullness and freedom that settles over me when I'm on my boat. I live on my boat in the summers! 


C~Creating~I love to create things from disguarded and old stuff. Creating is the place I go to be one with myself~a place where I can allow my mind to wonder & be at peace~where there is no stress to crowd out the joys of life..just me & my mind creating something new from something old... Its equally a challange which I crave...

D~Dog~Puddles is my truest Friend. He's been with me 15 years. if you see me you will see Mr.P. Work, play, relaxing, Boating he is always by my side. I love him for always providing me with a best friend at my side!! I can't imagine life without him...It will be one of my hardest days when he leaves me...

E~Efficient~I'm extremely efficient in everything I do ..almost to a fault sometimes...LOL..

F~Faithful~I believe God has blessed me with so many good things in my life. I don't always understand why he leads me down the path he leads me or why he allows suffering in my life but in the end I know he is with me. I know he's always there to pick me up and keep me going!

G~Gifts..I love giving gifts to others and watching them smile! I don't receive gifts very often but when I do I am like a little kid..

H~Honesty~Honesty is probably one of the things I treasure the most. I believe that honesty with self is one of the hardest things we as humans encounter but when we are able to be honest with our self we can be at peace with our self and with others! With Honesty comes Freedom to be who we are not what others expect! 


I~Invision~I've been Blessed with the ability to see things that others don't see when creating and decorating.

J~Joints~LOL~ I've got a lot of achey Joints..


K~Kitty's..I have two Tasha & Mama Kitty. They entertain me daily & are the high light of my life!

L~Loves of my Life~My Family~My Boat~My Fur Babies~Creating~Reading~Good Friends~

M~Meticulous~ some say it's good to be meticulous and that I am but I sometimes it's to a fault and it drives me carzy.. Especially when I am creating...

N~Night Time..I'm a night person.. My favorite time to create is at night. I love the Sky at night. the Stars and moon totally fasinate me. weird as it sounds I actually feel the pull of the moon on me..I feel how it affects my moods!

O~Organizing~I love to organize things..Part of it is my need to know exactly where things are..part of it it seeing a mess turn into something neat and orderly...part of it is that Meticulous part of me.. yes it is also to a fault at times. but the best part of that is people hire me to turn there messes into organization and pay me very well for my ability to do it with ease.

P~Pet Peeves~People saying they will do one thing and doing something else. Not doing what they say they will do. People who stand in your face and straight up lie to you..Breaking promises!

Q~Quiet Time I love Quiet alone working in my shop creating! I love Quiet time reading a good Book! I love Quiet time with a friend just talking and sharing!

R~Reading ~I love to read a good book. problem is when I read I can't do anything else cause I want to finish my book. that used to drive my kids nuts...guess it was my way of escaping...LOL..

S~there are a lot of S's in my life~

S~Sunflowers~they remind me of the Sun that I crave so much~the Stand Tall against the wind~they feed the Red Birds~they smile back at you~

S~Sunshine~Sunshine makes me happy~light at heart~Without sunshine I'm crabby and moody. Sunshine makes them old joints feel better too! Sunshine makes sunflowers grow huge which makes me smile!! I crave it!!


S~Shop~The place I go to create~To let my mind go~Where I get to do a job I love..creating things that make others happy!



T~Trailer~My Trailer.. I've owned many houses some really huge ones..but I love my Trailer..It's small but its inviting, warm, homey, easy to care for & filled with Sunflowers.

U~Ugliness in the world~I hate the ugliness taking place in the world today. It makes me sad to see how ugly people can be to others. How injustice is common place~Where life is so throw away. Where pride seems to have been lost!

V~Victory~I'm proud of the victory's I've accomplished in my life! Parenting my daughter & foster children~Learning to Captian my Boat~ Running my own businesses~Surviving near death health problems~My fight against so many auto-immune diseases & still being able to work!

X~Xrays & Examinations~hate them all and I've had more then my fair share and then some. They cost a fortune & half the time were pointless. Others they saved my life but I still hate them...

Y~You~You in blog land have made my life so much fuller, happier, fun and exciting. You all have shown me another side of things, shared your life threw pictures, been supportive, giving and kind. I may never meet any of you but you have become my friends and what a treasure there is in our friends. God Bless you all!!

Z~Zoo's~ I love the Zoo.. I wish we could experience seeing all the animals in there natural homes but since we can't the Zoo is the next best place to go and see all the gifts in the animal kingdom that God Created..

So there ya have it Tonya from A to Z.. I hope you will join in and share of little of yourself from A to Z.. it should be fun to see how we all preceive ourselves.. Its hard to come up with some of them... but it was fun.. I hope you enjoy!!

I'm off to work... My last day of orgainizing my clients life from A to Z.. Yes I will have accomplished the set goal by the end of today!!

Have a wonderful Saturday...!! Until we meet again may your day e filled with memorable moments!!

Tonya

Thursday, October 13, 2011

5:57-Get up-NO-Get up NOOOO-Get up Mom-OK-OK I'm up alright already?

Good Morning all.... I would have posted at the the ungodly hour of 5:57 this morning but I'm one of those people who never moves when they sleep... Not good if you have that there Arthritis nothing works right in the morning..especially this morning ...My fingers were numb..Mama Kitty decided at this ungodly hour that she wanted some lovin & wasn't giving up till she got some... She was head butting me in the face and hands trying to get me to wake up and pet her.. but the hands weren't coperating at all so she just kept it up..kept it up till I gave in and sat up... Oh was she ever happy..More head butts Purring to beat all......paws on my shoulders head butting my face...talking away telling me all about her night I guess..
I had go giggle this is a cat who hated humans the first 3 1/2 years of her life... Tasha is still sound asleep at the foot of the bed and could care less if I were awake that early in the morning...She wanted nothing to do with it...
I worked my body into the standing position and made my way to the table where the computer sits, turned it on as Mama is still busy tellin me about her night slithering around my feet still talkin to me....as I try to get my bones to coperate with my brain signals...Fix myself a cup of tea and sit down to let the wake up process to take place..
What does mama kitty do but park herself right in the middle of my computer ..She has something on her mind and she is determined to get her point across... I can hear the determination in her talking purs " You will pay attention Mom...I'm talking to you"
So for a good half hour she talks away her purs getting louder and louder and continues her lovin dance....That's what I call it...On my lap, jumpin down running across the back of the sofa back on the lap more head butting... & then as quickly as she came to life she was fast asleep next to me on the bench at the table... It's now 7 oclock..I'm wide awake and miss Mama is content to be fast asleep with not a care in the world that she has managed to steel a couple hours of my sleep time...I just look at her laying there so peaceful wondering if she knows I wasn't ready to get up... Probably not..Should I go back to bed and let her sleep ..No may as well use my time to take care of business and Now here I am tellin you of Mama's Tale..
Looking out the window two Deer just bounced across the pasture and a squirel is climbing up the tree.. Where do they get there energy this darned early in the morning...?

My weeks work is starting to wear me down....Since my arrval on the Island last thursday I've done 10 regular house cleanings, One Super Fall cleaning, cleaned & organized one huge Attic, Deforsted three freezers after emptying them, washed, folded & put away about 30 loads of laundry, made way to many beds. Lord I'm worn out and I'm not done yet.. today we are cleaning and organizing closets and I'm talkin some closets that are full of nothing but junk I'd personally pitch most of it but the owner is a pack rat so it is a matter of organizing it....If I'm lucky maybe one small bag of it will make it ot the trash..A few things will make it to the Barn & the rest of it will remain to clutter up the closet... Were talking large walk in closets...
After the closets are cleaned we will then move to what they call the Annex which is a glorified barn where I will organize the  back portion of that ..the same situation...most of it needs thrown away.. but it will remain only it will be organized... thank god they pay me well to do this same thing year after year...
When I get all of that done I will work on cleaning there little house...They have two houses, one huge old 100 plus year old farm house they live in half the time and one small ranch the other half...the funny part is they are not but 1000 feet apart.. they have three glorfied barns, and two cottages they rent out over the summer...that stand between the two houses... yes I clean those as well...
Gona be another busy day & tomorrow... maybe I will get done and can take Saturday off ...Unlikely but it sure sounds good... then again the more I work the more I make so if I have to work Saturday I shall endure and prevail victorious...LOL..at least my purse will..... my body on the other hand may fall apart especially if Mama Kitty insist on waking me up before the Rooster Crows...

I'm off to work...so until we meet again ....Don't work to hard today.. I'm working enough for all of you...giggle...Relax, enjoy and be happy!!

Hugs
Tonya

   

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

No Sunshine To warm my Bones & Lift my Spirits today!

Good Morning all.. I do hope your week is going well.. I know I've seen some awesome post on everyones Fall Colors and decorations... So I know you've all been busy bees...
Looks like our sunshine has taken its leave again.. Darn it all anyway..it was sure keeping my spirits up and helping to keep my bones from aching..but so far my renewed energy level has remained higher then it was...LOL...of course as you know I planned a work week that would drain anyones energy level in a day or two.. But so far so good.. & I'm still feeling pretty good... Could be all those great pay checks filling my wallet contributing to my feeling so good... Sad that money can make such a difference in how we feel but it does..especially when we know that once we leave a job we are pennyless until we start the new money making work...
I discovered that I really need new tires Sunday when I found the loose Lug nut so I know where a big chunk of my weeks pay will go as soon as I get on the mainland... good timing tho... at least I won't be filled with worry on how I will pay for new tires... Best thing is I will have new tires just in time for the icey snowy winter Ohio weather... Thinking I will get new brakes too and take of all the car maintance while I have the funds in hand...

I had a super fun time with my girlfriends at dinner the other night...As expected we laughed and cried as we shared the summers memories..We had a great dinner too. We never made it back to the front porch for Wine but instead had drinks with dinner and then went to the Casino (not a real casino just the name of Club here) to have a second drink, after some more laughing and tears we found ourselves ready to retire for the night...so I've still got two bottles of wine...hehe...

After work yesterday I went out in the wood and picked a mess of Rose Hemp and Wild Berry's to dry. I'll use them in my fixin mix I make at the end of summer after saving & drying all the different things I find..

Yesterday morning before I left for work I took down My Dinning Canopy/Summer room. Sadly I discovered that after three years of use the top has dry rotted a lot with tiny rips in the fabric here and there. So it will need replaced next year...the frame is still in good Shape so I might see if I can use the frame in my red neck shed at home to hold up the Tarp Roof...and just buy a whole new dinning canopy... My side screens and covers are all still in great shape..

Yikes I need to get moving another long day ahead of me and here I sit just babbling away as if we have all day to chat..I'd love to stay and chat with you all day long but then I wouldn't make the bucks ... So I must bid you all a very good day...and drag these old bones out the door ....

Until we meet again may your day be productive and filled with good moments!!

Blessings
Tonya 

Monday, October 10, 2011

A Bowl of Ceral~Beautiful Sunshine~A Rested Body & I feel Great this Morning!!

A Wonderul~Glorious~Beautiful~Sun Shiney~Happy Good Morning to all my wonderful friends...I hope each of you are having a great morning!
I am happy to share with all of you that I had the first peaceful full nights sleep in months last night. I actually woke up refreshed not so tired I could hardly move... that may sound like nothing special but for me it is reason to jump up and down with joy..In all my ramblings about getting sick you've heard me say how tired & exhausted I've been.. No matter how much sleep I got it wasn't restful or refreshing it just made me even more exhausted...
I kept praying that feeling would pass. Maybe it has or maybe it is just a one night reprieve but I was totally shocked when I woke up this morning. I was actually able to sit right up no shaking, no serious pain to speak of, no dizzy, no sick tummy, no headache... I sat there a minute just to see if it was real...My Kittys woke up and started lovin all over me and I just started giggling...as I talked to them and petted them.. thinking I really do feel good this morning.. so I stood up to test the body.. yep it still feels pretty good ...walked around the trailer and it still felt good... I was like totally excited and did one of those YeaHaa's real loud and scared my kitty's half to death..lol...sorry fur Babies but your Mama feel good this morning...No she feel great!!
What a Glorious Day!!
I know it won't last cause I've lived with pain for 35 plus years but to feel one normal day in months with the usual for me pain and not all that other crap I've been dealing with is like heaven on Earth... I'm even looking forward to going to clean here in a little bit...

The gentleman that I cleaned for on Saterday that paid me so well I did the Happy Dance gave me Two Bottles of homemade Wine as a tip.
So I called my girlfriend and ask if she would like to meet for Dinner and Wine tonight after work and she said yes..figure we can celebrate my good day with a taste of the Homemade wine after dinner...this will be our last time to spend time together as she too will be leaving the island for the winter in the next couple days.. We won't see each other again till next summer.. so it worked out perfectly for both of us.. we have a another mutual friend that will be joining us.
Its rather funny but it is a good feeling to wind down the Season on the Island everyone is tired and ready to go home for the winter but we are also all really sad ... Its hard to walk away from your friends for months and all of the things you share together when you work the Island.. We'll sit and talk about this summers ups and downs and fun times and then hug and get all teary when we say Good night... see ya next year...!!

Hummmm.. I shall wait for this evening to get all emotional for now its time to go to work... see if this body is in tune with my Good Mood..hehe....
So with that said I shall bid you all a wonderful Day... May the shine on your face and make you Smile for today is a Good Day!!

Warm Blessings
Tonya

PS Do ya think maybe sitting down the last couple of evenings sewing/creating my Little Prim Dresses might have had anything to do with the restful Sleep... Hummm... I wonder as it is creating is my peaceful place!!
I finished 6 little Dresses so far...

Sunday, October 9, 2011

$210 Dollar Happy Dance~Made the aches worth it

Howdy & a Wonderful Sunny Sunday Everyone... Tonya is doin the Happy Dance this morning..Yesterday I took on an extra cleaning. I'd cleaned for these folks before a long time ago. they remodeled there house and it is just beautiful. They called & ask if I could do a Fall super clean. Sure why not..make every penny I can before the season ends...right?
I started cleaning yesterday around 10 and finished around 7:30 last night...Everything was a mess with all the remodel dust, dirt, of course Spider Webs and our famous Island bugs everywhere...so it made for a Long day but when he paid me with a Glass of Wine to ward off the aches and pains and handed me $210 I about fell off the stool..
He couldn't stop Thanking me & I couldn't stop Thanking him...Another Glass of wine and we were laughing about thanking each other.. Best part is he is having a dinner party Monday night night..... Could I come back to clean up after the party? You know what that means the piggy bank is gona get an extra deposit totally unaccounted for... I'm greedy when October rolls along because I know there will be Income down time for a month while I build up my Primitive Ebay sales in November and December..So of course I said sure I can work it in one evening this week... 
All my rentals have late check out today so I get to start cleaning later today so nursing all those aches and pains from the long day yesterday this morning...lol...Of course there's a down side to that it means I have to work later..three big houses today.. thinkin I might have some major aches and pains in the morning. the good side is that I do't have renters coming in so I can work at my pace not rush..Thank God!!

Guess what I did Friday night... I hand stitched little Tea Stained Prim Dresses to use in my Gatherings... I was so enjoying myself.. I finished 4... they are so cute..  I figure if I can get a few things made while I'm sitting here in the camper in the evening this week I'll be ready to start creating when the time comes. I want to try to create at least 10 dresses. Want to also make some crude little Bonnets to go with them... that should keep me busy, build up my stock & give me some relaxing time in my busy schedule...

Had an interesting little surprise yesterday morning...my van was making this really weird noise so stopped to ask a guy to take a ride with me to see if he could identify the noise... I thought brakes maybe..but to my surprise we discovered that I had lost a oug nut and tow others were loose on the left front tire... Great day in the morning my wheel could have fallen off going 60 mph... Thank god I was on an Island that the speed limit is 25 mph so if it had fallen off it wouldn't have been a deadly crash... We got the remaining lug nuts tightened up and I will pick up a new one to replace the lost one when I get back to the Mainland next week...I will be checking them there Lug Nuts regularly from now on...

HiHo HiHo...It's Off to work I go!!
Until we meet again May your Sunday be filled with warm Sunshine and Happy Moments!!

Fall Blessings
Tonya

Friday, October 7, 2011

Taking advantage of Beautiful fall Sunshine~What a whirlwind~

Good Good Morning everyone!!
I woke up to sunshine on my face one of my favorite things..especially after weeks of Rain. I've been sharing all my Trails of late and as I sit here I wonder where I've found the strength to keep up.. I'm so thankful that god has answered my prayers each morning to give me the strength to keep me going.
Have you ever thought about how waking up to Sunshine seems to give you that extra added boost to get motovated? I'm truly a Sunshine person so I often wonder why it plays such a role in my happiness especially in the Fall with all the burst of color around me. Just over the past week since I left the island the trees oustise my camper window have started to change and the view is so soft and warm and sparkling with every hue on gods color Chart... I just love it..!!
I'm back on the island for the next 10 days doing some Fall cleanings and of course my regular rental cleanings... I found myself adding "Dear Lord can you add this view and this sunshine to every morning while I'm here this week" It sure would make tackling all those houses a lot easier..

I had a great week off as you all no it really wasn't a week off but it was off the island and doing the same old thing. I forgot to take pictures but I spent one afternoon doing nothing but pulling weeds out of my Flower beds and preping them for winter. Someone gave me a box of possibly 2 or 300 Daffodil bulbs..Yeah!! When I get back home that's one of the first things on my list of to do's is get them planted...Now with the flower beds all prepped it'll be easy...They looked so pretty once they were all cleaned up.. U tucked in Three Pumpkins and hung a ScaraCrow I picked up at good Will...

I even found time to get the Air conditioner out of the window and clean my Trailer..it really needed it bouncing in and out for months had left it in dire need of some TLC... I  decorated for Fall..again forgot to take pictures Yea yea I know..but geeezzzzzzzzzzz I can only think of so much at one time.. It does look really cute tho..and clean to boot.. I look forward to going home and enjoying it..!

I've had a dentist appointment every week for a month to tend to those teeth that haven't survived the Sjogren's distruction...ugg I get so tired of hanging out at the dentist office.. but he found 4 more cavities upon my xrays yesterday...so two more appointments before the snow flies..Brush Brush Floss Floss...

At the end of the Month when I am home and start my creating again, I will be making a huge batch of my hand dipped spice rolled Candle Nubby's. If any of you would like to order some candles let me know. They will be Fall Scents like Pumpkin Spice~HazelNut etc.
Just shoot me an Email at Tonya6350@aol.com

Darn the clock says 10:20 I guess I best get moving two houses to clean today.. just wanted to stop in and let ya know I made it threw my vacation away from cleaning, ending the vacation week with much accomplished only by the grace of God for sure...happy Smile in my heart!!

Until we meet again may your day be filled with Sunshine and Fall colors to brighten your Day!!

Fall Blessings
Tonya

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Doin Happy Dance after Surgery & Building a Cheap Shelf Unit

A fine sunny Good Mornin to ya all .. I hope that the Sun is shinnin in your part of the neighborhood..
Finally Real Actual Honest to goodness Sunshine out there today ... I was starting to wonder if it really existed or not..hehe..Doin the Happy Dance.. I'm on the road again here in a few heading South this morning and surely wasn't looking forward to another 2 hour drive in the rain...

Thank all of you for your well wishes and prayers yesterday. It worked the good Lord was with me. Took me forever to wake up afterwards.. then I ended up sleeping all day. that was an after surgery first for me I generally wake up easily..Must have something to do with that crazy tiredness from the Thyroid...

Wanted to let you all know that everything went well yesterday with the Colonoscopy. The procedure was ordered to rule out any Colon diseases of course and to be sure that the Thyroid was the cause of my time spent sitting on the Throne. But the main concern was to check for scaring due to the dryness caused from my Sjrogren's Disease. Happy and relieved to say no diseases but not so happy to say that they did find scaring.
Thankful though it is not serious at this time. Sjorgren's disease is an auto immunine Disease that affects the wetting glands in your body. Causing Dry eye's, Dry mouth, dry intestines, dry everything. My Sjorene's is now considered severe/cronic. Since the body doesn't produce the proper wetness it causes my intestines/colon to be dry causing food to scrap the walls of the intestine causing irritated spots on the walls which when healed become scared and rough, making it harder for me to move things along.
Solution: Drink more fluids, eat more veggies and fiber..Ok I can do all of that I love my vegies and I drink non stop so I guess I have been doing all the right things to keep the scaring at a minimum.

I had a lot of questions about my shelving and cubes in the new storage area so thought I would share a quick tip for Cheap easy to create storage shelves for the craft room ladies.
I created the shelves out of old used heavy duty rubber covered wire type closet shelving.
You can find it at just about any hardware store, dept store or if you are like me yard sales and thrift stores.
If I see one at the thrift store I buy it and I store them till I finally get enough to build a unit.
Ok I know you are thinking they screw to the wall.. yes but not when you want to create a shelf unit to fit your supplies.
All You will need the same size or close wire shelves, heavy duty large, medium & small Zip Ties & wire cutters:

Looking at the picture above you can see I had some large wood pieces that would not fit inside the cubes I had. So I needed to build something to fit.
For the outside/ends I matched up same size shelves first and set them aside.
The end should be as tall as you want your final shelf unit to be.
Each shelf has a lip on one side and a flat side with no lip.
Take the flat side and but it up next to the lip side sot that the lip over laps the flat side.
Take your large Zip ties starting at the top and Zip tie the shelves together. Put a Zip tie every 3 o4 inches to make it sturdy. Now you have created the end base of your shelf.
Now choose a top for your unit.
Lay the top shelf on your two end pieces over lapping the end enough to let the little eds stick threw the top shelf as added support.
Now Zip Tie the top to the end supports. This is your main support so make sure you Zip Tie the corners tightly.
I usually put two Zip ies on each corner and several across.
If you want the unit to have a back to it now you can choose your back pieces and Zip tie them to the back of the base you created.
Depending on how long you are going to make the unit you will need at least one or two single shelf pieces to put under the top as support.
Example: I made my units 8 feet long/wide and 3 feet deep. So I choose to put two support pieces under the top.
Again let the little tops of the ends to stick threw the shelf and Zip tie them the same as you did the end pieces creating added support.

Depending on your floor and how level it is you should not have to do anything to keep it standing. if the floor is unlevel you can attach it to a wall for added support. The shelves I created are not attached to a wall or the floor.
These units are fairly light and easy to move around and can be any size you decide to make.

Another great use for these old used wire shelve pieces is to hang them on the wall to use for hanging your supplies.
I use curtian hooks the simple one that look like a U. hang the U hook over the wire and then yo can hang things from the hook.
I also use the metal cheap shower curtian loops that open up. hang them over the wire on the shelf and then hang things from the shower hook.
The best part is you can pick up all of these shelf supplies at the thrift stores and yard sales. Everything but the Zip Ties and you can buy a huge bag of those for a couple of dollars.

Hope this little quick tip is helpful and gives you some added space in your Craft area.

Time for me to travel...On the road again!!

Have a wonerful day!

Blessings
Tonya

Sunday, October 2, 2011

5 Days of Back Breaking Organizing = Happy Lady!

Good Morning Ladies & letme say it is a very Good Morning. The sun is actually shinning here in good old Ohio for the first time in weeks. Not to mention my last 5 days of organizing the Shop & barn storage has gone very well considering the weather I had to contend with..
Are you ready to visit my Barn Storage area??
First let me explain my set up. As I told you my neighbor Tina gave me an area in her barn to use for storage of all my Creating Supplies. Its in a barn so of course I would have to contend with Birds, Raccoons, Mice, Cats, and Kids who love to hang out in the barn & get into everything.
So I started by building/enclosing an area just for my set up. I bought 10 different sized tarps, some cheap wood trim, several rolls of string and I created an enclosed area. I covered the ceiling area with tarps then build walls out of tarps all stapled to either the ceiling or the floor. On the floor I added strips of wood trim to hold down the tarps as tight as I could pull them... Guess we'll call this the Red Neck Barn Storage...Hehe!!
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do to get by...So with that said:
Welcome come in and see what I accomplished.

Everything on the back wall is in Wire Cubes. All neatly organized. Shelves~Bread Boxes~Window frames~Sconces~Desk ~Bowls and so on.
Along the Back are all the tall wood Shelves, On the wire shelves I have Open Faced Cupboards~ Larger Shelves~Medicine Cabinets~Chairs~and any other larger items that wouldn't fit the other side.
The dresser is Tina's and she is letting me use it to store my seasonal Clothes..
I'm not totally done moving things to the Barn but 90% of it has made the trip in thr rain to the barn from the shop. What took so darned long is boxing up all the wood supplies, loading them in the van and then toting them in the barn and up the steps to unpack.Then Ihad to break down all my cubes in the shop, pack them  up, tote them to the barn up the steps and put them all back together before I could ever put any of my things on them.
It wouldn't have been so hard but since it was raining the whole time I couldn't just move thengs out of my way and sit them outside ...NO..I had to go in a circle moving things to the door inside my little shop...

Just to give you an idea of the small space I was working in these are inside my shop...Then I set it all up in the Red Neck Barn Storage.... Well most of it I'm not totally done yet.... But I prevailed and got it all tore down, moved, set up, finally unloaded and orgainzed.
As I took things down in the shop and packed them up to be moved I was also reorganizing inside the shop and setting things up the way I want them inside. I will share the new look in the shop once I get back from the Island and can get started on finishing that part of the project... So Far I am delighted with what I have done.. I have so much more room to work and see what is left in the shop..

I feel like a mack truck ran over me but the happy side of me is dealing with the achin side of me...
I won't be able to finish the project for a couple of weeks but I'm so excited about what I do have done my brain is rolling with all kinds of Prim Gathering Ideas.. Seeing all the wood products I have I know I will be a busy lady soon rolling out gatherings all over the place...  \
You lady's will be drewling all over the place with all the new Creations to come...
In the mean time I must go North once again...

Today is starvation day....nothing to eat or drink for 24 hours accept clear liquids. Gotta love Jello and Gator Aid .....My solids for the day are my Tyroid Pill and my Allery Pill....LOL... They didn't do much to fill me up at all....
I have to go into the hospital tomorrow morning at 6:30 for a surgery procedure .....imagine that me getting up at 6:00 in the morning..Not an easy task... Easy for me to go to sleep that early but never get up ...That's going to be worse then the surgery...LOL
As soon as I'm able to I'll be driving south again for 2 days... I have a house to clean here in Delaware on Tuesday.... and On Wednesday I hope we have sunshine so I can take care of things that need done around the Trailer... Then it is back to the Island for 10 days straight to do all the fall cleaning for everyone...

Counting the days until I can create in my clean organized Shop again...

Time to pack and head North... so I shall bid you all a Sunny wonderful relaxing day...

Hugs
Tonya

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Ohhh the feeling of accomplishment ...Lovin It!!

Hi everyone thatnks for all the Welcome homes and organizing encouragement.... No Pictures yet you will have to be patient and wait it out but what a day... I'm having Happy exhaustion along with a Happy Back ache if there is such a thing....giggle...
Considering that our good old Ohio weather played havic on my transferring all my wood supplies from the shop to the barn today it turned out to be one really productive day!
I transferred 23 tote sixed boxes filled with shelves, spoon racks, Keeping racks, Sconces, Lamps, open Faced cupboards, bowls, Cabinets and god knows what all from the shop to the barn storage. I got them all unpacked and put on the shelves and in the cubes oall in order..
MY goodness I can see already how much easier it is going to be on me deciding exactly what I want, grabbing it off the shelf or out of the cubes & going back tot he shop to creae something... I'm more then excited over this orgaizational move..Its awesome!!
I'd say I have that many more totes full of supplies to move tomorrow well at least I hope to get the rest of the supplies moved and organized.
Tina helped me get the heavy boxes up the steps.. 
I helped her build a work station for her hubby down stairs in the barn, organize everything and cleaned the bottom of the barn.. Pictures will come to show off our barn cleaning...
I got all but two boxes unloaded and organized.....
Then I cleaned the loft where my storage area is
By the time I got all that done my back was hurting to beat all so I had to call it a day and go take a HOT SHOWER,,,other then the nagging back ache and totally exhausted .... I FEEL LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS....   :>)

I should have everything moved tomorrow...Thank god... I've got a list a mile long to take care of while I am home...
I sold a large Trencher Tray on Ebay so I will get to play and create a little this week after all, as I need to paint the trencher & distress it...

I'm so happy to get these things taken care of... and thank God it has run smootly...

I'm off to dream land .. I hope that you had a great day too!!

Hugs
Tonya