Post the Fifth

So the vest I started yesterday got finished today - except for closures, I don't have any and will have to find some really cool ones. I already know one thing I would change if I made another like it for myself, and that is that I would shorten in by half an inch or so. right now it's an awkward length. Here's the latest pics of it:

not quite finished here

done, with safety pins where closures will be when it's REALLY finished

I also finished cleaning up my mudroom and a large portion of my kitchen today, making much room for myself in my little space:

So as you can see my workspace is nothing but a round table in a space generated when my landlord converted the once-garage of my house into a bedroom: my mudroom. The open door in the first of the two above pics is my bedroom door. The double doors lead to my currently cluttered backyard, and another not pictured door leads to the front yard. The kitchen is open to the mudroom and is a level higher. The hard part about this space is that he back doors open inward, meaning that my attention is divided if the kids are outside, because I become the default kid watcher, what with how close to the door I am. My kid's are the age where they can't be either inside or out - they must have both, frequently. My sewing gets fragmented when they are playing outside.

I often lament that I need a 6 bedroom home; one bedroom for us parentals, a room for my oldest daughter, a room for my  younger daughter, a room for my son, the youngest, a bedroom for my dad to use, since his job has him here at least a week out of every month, and a studio/workshop for me. I'd need three bathrooms; a master, a guest , and a kid's bathroom. I'd need a kithcen open to a greatroom-style livingroom, and big kitchen doors that lead to a covered outdoor kitchen. And a quiet library/den, for homework or studying or just reading in, away fromthe rest fo the house and its noise. 

Of course, pigs will fly before something like that becomes reality for me! But a gal can dream, right?

Well, one last pic before I go: 

I'm trying out a sequin-alternative: its a ribbon with a sort of fuzzy glitter vibe happening. Even when the light isn't hitting it properly, it still gives off a dull golden glow, and it really sets off the colors in this hipscarf. Not that you can see it in this crappy photo...Anyways, off to finish sewing the ribbon on before I go to bed.