This is why I haven't been posting about A&S stuff...

So, I started this blog figuring it would help me be more consistent at working on my A&S projects and writing about them.  Then life got in the way.  My husband and I tend to take on a sizable renovation project each spring/summer, and this year is no different.  We decided to vastly modify the huge deck on the back of our house, and replace it with a smaller deck and a nice patio.  While we plan to hire someone to do the patio portion, I've been doing the rest myself, with a small amount of help from the kids and occasionally Mark on weekends.  

Here's the before picture:


Here's the progress I made just on the first day:


And here's the current progress:


And then, yesterday morning we awoke to water in our basement. The entire wall-to-wall carpet was floating on a layer of water, and in many places it was sitting an inch deep on top as well. The sump pumps just couldn't keep up with the volume of water that came down in a short period of time. We pulled out everything in the basement (including furniture, cabinets that we had installed, sewing room, and workshop) and filled our garage and piled up many other areas of our house. We had a flood restoration company come out and pull up the carpet, remove the pad, cut out the damaged drywall and insulation, and they're attempting to dry out the carpet in an attempt to save it. It'll be weeks if not months before we get everything back the way it was. And we now have no workshop, while we're in the middle of a big construction project (the deck), and I have no sewing room, when we're a month away from Pennsic. So, it'll be a while before I have the time to do anything useful on my A&S projects. Maybe I'll find time to write about what I'm planning, but it will be pretty sparse for a while.

This is the current state of my sewing room. :-(