Oh, the possibilities!

I am sitting here with a sleeping Red on me. I can't do a lot right now, and aside from thinking about dinner (which may just end up being fish and chips for the kids, and a lovely curry from India Garden in Port Chalmers for me, right now) I'm sitting here thinking about my next project.


For those of you who might be reading who don't know me personally, last year I took the plunge and opened a wee shop in Port Chalmers. It was full of locally produced products and clothing for babies and children - I called it 'Little Chalmers'. I did most of the work in there single handedly, with a then 10 month old Red on my back. I did have a few merry helpers too, who helped me over a weekend painting the shop and in the week leading up to opening. I made shelving units and other bits and pieces for in there too. It was all done on a shoestring, so being able to do all these things myself was a godsend!


Unfortunately, just as I felt like I was getting somewhere, out of the blue I had a letter from my landlord saying he wanted my shop back for his own purposes. Just over a month later, I was out of the shop, and my freshly painted bedroom had to be used to house all the stock that had unceremoniously been dumped in my house. Technically I was then running an online shop, but when there was ONE sale in just over a month, and I had to start PAYING for the website, I decided to just cut my losses and close down completely.

Ok, I'm about to get to the point of this post!

So, tonight is the night, I am having one last hurrah - a closing down SALE - on Facebook. It starts at 8pm. I am desperate to purge the rest of the stock that I own (a lot of it was on consignment, therefore, it went back to it's owner last week, aside from a couple of lots of stock). When the stock is gone, it means that the only thing standing in the way of me building the window seat in the bay window in my bedroom is my own stuff! 


I am terribly excited! It means that it is nearly within the realm of possibility that I may, one day (soon?) have more storage in my house - villas don't seem to be big on built-in storage, y'know. It also means that I will get to use tools! I plan on recycling some of the framing wood that I used in the shop, to frame up the window seat, although I don't think I have quite enough - so that means I also get to buy more wood!

This is currently the view from my bed, where my window seat will be. 

Just think of the possibilities!!

Watch this space.