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Lazy Cats in the Wintergarden

This is the view in the wintergarden on this fine September afternoon. It’s nice and quiet here, and it turned into a beautiful day, which means that the wintergarden feels like a sauna, and the heat is migrating into the Studio. Shadow and Patches are in heaven on their sleeping shelf under the windows. I’m hanging out in the back room at the beading table, trying to stay cool(er)! Hmm, I don’t think I ever shared a picture (or the story) of my new beading area.

I really wanted to order one of these Perfect Sewing Caddy double towers with a table top from Hinterberg, and I was willing to pay for it. What I wasn’t willing to do was pay them $250 to ship it over here. Sheesh. I realize it’s wood and all but, well, never mind. I wasn’t ready to spend $1,100 total on the thing.

A quick trip to Ikea (well, as quick as trips to Ikea ever are, which is to say, pack a lunch, you’ll be there a while…) produced something even better, quite perfect actually, for less than half the price:

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Beading Table from Ikea

Three separate pieces: two bases on wheels with drawers (lots and LOTS of drawers!), and a tabletop, and I’m in business with plenty of space for all the little bits and bobs, beads and bangles, tools and fibers I’ve collected for a good part of my life. ITMan did have to do the “some assembly required” (more like “all assembly required” actually) but we’d have had to do that anyway with the pieces from Hinterberg. Get a load of these drawers:

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Drawers in the Beading Table from Ikea

Six drawers in each base, four shallow and two that are deeper. Awesome. And perfect. Did I mention this was perfect?!? And being less than half the price only adds to it’s perfection. It’s more than a “Beading Table,” it’s an Embellishment Station. So now I can go hide out in the relative coolness of the “Library,” or back room, or Little Studio, or whatever it is when it’s too hot in the Studio, and play with all the bits and bobs, beads and bangles, tools and fibers, and I can even close the door if the other residents of the house are gettin’ on my last nerve.

And the cats? Well, they’ve finally decided they’re well done and have had to remove to the floor in the studio for a break:

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I have quite a few quilts hanging on the walls in the stairwell of our house, and most of the time that works out fine, and looks pretty nice (way better than boring empty walls, in any case). Sometimes the cat decides to try to take them off the walls for me, but he hasn’t done that in a while so maybe he’s growing out of that particular quirk. (Just guess which cat does that!)

Then there are the times when the quilts get a little overly friendly and jump off the walls at people, which is what happened here, I’m sure.

This would be GuitarGirl stuck on the stairs with a quilt falling on her head, wooden hanging rods and all. Sometimes it’s just not her day. The quilt couldn’t possibly have fallen because GuitarGirl twitched it with the guitar case as she was going up, no sirree. *snicker* It was kind of her to “hang out” while I got the camera!

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The cats are having a hard time adjusting to my new location in the basement. Shadow does okay mostly, but Patches is completely unhappy and whiny, even after I moved his ironing board down there! Sheesh!

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