It’s been another super busy week, so not a ton of progress on anything. If you’d like the life update, you can read that after the project info!
I did manage to finish the body of Asterie and I’m excited to have this to wear (hopefully!) for the fall. Sleeves are left, but this week I’ll switch over to focus on Dyad and see if I can get the body of that closer to being done.
I also put in a few more stitches on my Autumn Garden cross-stitch. I’ve got the bare bones of the central house stitched, and I had to add one of the pumpkins, just to see how that looked.
I did get the first Aster blouse (short sleeve version) cut out and started but that’s on hold due to Life Things. (see below).
So short and sweet this week for projects!
In Life Things: My husband and I decided we would like to put our house on the market and look at downsizing a bit. He travels a ton for work, and it’s a lot to keep up with maintaining the house plus the acreage, and work full-time. We were working with an agent this spring and then my husband went out on work travel for literally 5 out of 6 weeks, and we kind of hit the pause button. (We also had a leak in the main drainpipe of our laundry area, so needed to have the plumbing fixed and then drywall repaired.) However, we decided to move forward so reached out to say “Hey, we’d like to kind of start the process”. Our agent actually had some buyers who had been looking for something in our neighborhood with our set-up (outbuildings and acreage and etc), so he asked if we could get the house ready for them to look at it IMMEDIATELY. Like in 2 days. And of course my husband was on travel for work last week. So…. I spent almost every waking hour doing a deep clean of the house, packing things away, scrubbing floors and baseboards, and all the things so they could do a walk-through on Thursday. They liked it well enough they asked for a second showing Friday.
And then we waited. And waited. Did our paperwork for the seller side of things. And waited. Sunday night, we were told they were working on a contract. And this morning it’s all fallen through apparently.
So the good news is we have the house tidied up and ready to actually go on the market Friday. But all of that heavy-duty cleaning also kicked off an RA flare – I got overly tired – so this week, I’m going to try to take it easy and do some more resting/quiet time. It was a LOT. Hopefully all of that work will pay off and it’s at least done now for the future. Please send lots of good real estate mojo our way for this weekend!
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