Posts Tagged ‘ANTS!!!’

My craft room is coming together nicely (pictures soon) with the exception of a few missing items the room is on its way to being my favorite room in the house. A trip to Ikea got me two craft tables, a lazy susan that I’m altering with dowels to store my wrapping paper on, and a nifty craft paper roll dispenser that will help protect my tables when doing messy projects. Next month we’ll pick up James table/storage desk system and some wall shelves for the cats to climb all over. The 19″ tv I bought last month now has a wall mount that will be installed soon and I’m looking into a speaker system to play music from radio and ipods and maybe hook into the tv.

“Trouble” started last night when I wasn’t able to find my sewing machine power cord. To be fair I haven’t used my “new” machine since James bought it for me about 3 years ago but I’ve been very careful about keeping everything together. Well obviously it wasn’t enough effort because the cord and the english manual are missing (found the spanish manual but can’t read spanish).

Ok, just started might be stretching it. Budget is tight right now so it’s taking longer than expected to put the room together, which is fine, but now that autumn is here and we have wood floors in the office ANTS are invading my office for NO REASON!!! (not really true, there were some cookie crumbs in the trash can) and now they don’t stick to the single trail around the baseboards. They are crawling over everything, including my photo tent WHILE I’m taking pictures!!!!!! I hate ants with an obsessive need to keep them OUT OF MY HOUSE. A little back story (not that you need it, nasty ants). When I moved from Paradise, CA to the Sacramento area with my parents about 13 years ago ants were taking over everything! The area really is an ant hill so it wasn’t uncommon to have then crawling out of sockets, cracks between the wood and lenolium floors, cracks in the ceiling, everywhere. We had a bug man come out frequently with little change so one day when ants were taking over my clothes closet I freaked. Raide was used liberally (whole can) and everything had to be washed afterward. Ever since then I go a little crazy when I see ants (all over my bathroom counter last Tuesday at 6am, ug). Of course, when I got married and moved out, tmy parents got a new bug man that actually USED THE GOOD STUFF (aka termite spray 4ft up the outside of the house and 20 ft out on the ground).

Over all not a disaster but an annoying week of ants and stuff I can’t find.

On the up side I’ve got a lot of wire-wrap rings for IndenturedMason just waiting for me to work on the pictures. Who knew the hard part of selling online would be the photos and not keeping up with inventory? Also, several of my shell scarves are almost finished and will be ready for the Christmas season. MasonCJ is also close to having more inventory for the holidays. I’m working on hand embroidered Thanksgiving aprons and dish towels, knit dish towels, and pink sea salt.