Saturday, January 24
Jan. 25th, 2026 01:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Good sleep.
Okay timing to go to the city.
Cold outside, but not horrible. The goats can stay in again tonight, as it will be colder again by then.
After chores, we were on our way.
We did not have pressing errands, so it was nice to just do things at a leisurely pace for enjoyment.
We did stop in at one place for something for my husband.
Then we went to the big conservatory. It's year round, four big glass pyramids with different climate zones full of plants.
It's a very nice place to visit in January.
We took our time, which is nice. I recall on other visits feeling rushed. Today I wanted to just find a place to sit in them, and enjoy being there.
I absolutely love being among the vivid and interesting plants, the indoor water features.
I would LOVE to be better with house plants, and have a room dedicated to greenery. I have never had a green thumb, and I wonder if it's ever possible to improve.
After, we went to eat at a very nice vegan place that is on our rotation. We found out that it is closing later this year, as there is something going on with the building they've leased, and I guess they won't be just trying to move to a new location.
It's sad, because every one of these vegetarian/vegan places has their own special and unique menus. They try SO HARD to be different and interesting. When we lose one, we lose the "favorite dish" we had from that place.
This place has a wonderful appetizer that is battered and fried mushrooms done so beautifully.
From there we went to our book store, traded in a few things and came away with a few things.
Then we headed home.
We got home in decent time, and watched a movie called "Tell No One" that was pretty good, but had a VERY twisty plot and was pretty hard to follow.
Tomorrow Dan the carpenter is coming not to work yet, but to go over things with my husband and figure out where to start, scope of work, schedule and so on.
My Sweetie says they will need to get to our unfinished room upstairs, so I have to tidy up my craft stuff. Now. On zero notice. Sigh.
Well, at least Dan is coming.
Good sleep.
Okay timing to go to the city.
Cold outside, but not horrible. The goats can stay in again tonight, as it will be colder again by then.
After chores, we were on our way.
We did not have pressing errands, so it was nice to just do things at a leisurely pace for enjoyment.
We did stop in at one place for something for my husband.
Then we went to the big conservatory. It's year round, four big glass pyramids with different climate zones full of plants.
It's a very nice place to visit in January.
We took our time, which is nice. I recall on other visits feeling rushed. Today I wanted to just find a place to sit in them, and enjoy being there.
I absolutely love being among the vivid and interesting plants, the indoor water features.
I would LOVE to be better with house plants, and have a room dedicated to greenery. I have never had a green thumb, and I wonder if it's ever possible to improve.
After, we went to eat at a very nice vegan place that is on our rotation. We found out that it is closing later this year, as there is something going on with the building they've leased, and I guess they won't be just trying to move to a new location.
It's sad, because every one of these vegetarian/vegan places has their own special and unique menus. They try SO HARD to be different and interesting. When we lose one, we lose the "favorite dish" we had from that place.
This place has a wonderful appetizer that is battered and fried mushrooms done so beautifully.
From there we went to our book store, traded in a few things and came away with a few things.
Then we headed home.
We got home in decent time, and watched a movie called "Tell No One" that was pretty good, but had a VERY twisty plot and was pretty hard to follow.
Tomorrow Dan the carpenter is coming not to work yet, but to go over things with my husband and figure out where to start, scope of work, schedule and so on.
My Sweetie says they will need to get to our unfinished room upstairs, so I have to tidy up my craft stuff. Now. On zero notice. Sigh.
Well, at least Dan is coming.
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Date: 2026-01-25 09:05 am (UTC)One thing about craft stuff is its invisibility - one just doesn't notice it lying around everywhere after a while. I had to have people coming over before I noticed mine.
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Date: 2026-01-26 08:45 am (UTC)The upstairs is two small bedrooms, the kind with angled ceilings. One is for my clothes, the other is craft storage.
The hallway between the rooms is spacious, and I sit on the floor to work on my beaded necklaces, so there's little shoebox sized plastic containers all over the floor, and bits and pieces of ideas for things laid out.
None of it is very organized or put away, I keep pulling things out of boxes for a project and then can't really put it away properly again. The whole thing needs an overhaul, and I probably need to accept that a lot of it should go...but I love it and oddly enough do come around to using it eventually.
I did get rid of some craft things last year, and a reasonably significant amount of various things less craft related.
I have a lot of lovely framed pictures that aren't up on walls, because a lot of our walls need work still. I will put some up in our finished bedroom in the addition if it gets done this year, but maybe some of the lesser works should be moved along.
Those framed works are taking up a lot of room in the craft room. Also a ton of empty frames intended for my paintings, and framed paintings of mine.
Framed art takes up a lot of room in storage.
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Date: 2026-01-26 09:11 pm (UTC)Once you organise your art studio (and maybe even add an art book library to it), you'll really enjoy it. It's a hard task, but very much worth it to make an inviting space.