lol, well this morning Pete went up to the garage to get his fishing stuff (he and Val bought a new boat last night, they got back at 3.45am!!!!!) and i had a delivery from cooksons yesterday and so he bought it home. I am so excited whenever i get a delivery, in it i had some polishing mop things for my dremel( gotta dig that out and check it still works today, used to use it to clean the bikes ), a little bit of sheet silver (10cm sq cant afford more in one go), and an asbestos substitute sheet, which has arrived broken but as i dont send stuff back cos i am a wuss, i have decided i will keep it and break it a bit more for props to hold things when i am soldering on my little block. I also got some reamers and glue for my beads (at last) and my little vice ready for when i finally get a bench, and some other little bits and pieces. I sat sorting them all out with a silly grin on my face and putting everything away into the two fishing boxes i have for jewellry and my mum was in here (as usual) and she said "I think you need more boxes" lol. So i said, "if i had a workroom most of this stuff would be on the bench and i would only need one to put stuff in to take to college with me".
Must admit, they are not huge boxes but even with the small amount of stuff i have gathered so far, it is getting hard to close them lol. One box has the bulky stuff like my hand drill, blowtorch, gas, saw and files etc and that pretty much fills it up lol with my soldering tools and little bits in the tray, but all that would be on the bench
So i really need my son to move his stuff out if he has left home like he says, then i can get into his room and use his wardrobes to store all my other craft stuff like for the cards and bouquets, and then he has a built in wardrobe which lends itself to strong shelving to home all my blank candles that at the moment are falling all over the spare bed (i have about 300 of them lol) and then the room could be set up with seperate working areas for each craft (its a 12.6 x 12.6 room) and i could have a nice jewellry area (this is always assuming i can get pete to gve up fishing long enough to do some shelving and to somehow make some work areas.) I can see it all in my head but whether it happens is another matter. I dont care if the bench is made from an old door or something long as its strong enough to take the vice and the benchpin! At times like this i wish my dad was still alive, and not blind like he was at the end, as he loved dabbling in carpentry and would have taken great joy in making a room up for me with a made to measure workbench. But sadly i lost him two years after my son.
I know things would be much easier to pick up and carry on with in there, instead of having to put everything back into the boxes each time i stop.
I have a little secondhand lap table with a light now which made things easier yesterday while working in the lounge, but as mum says, i am really too big for my boxes!!!
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