UnfortunatelyI <\/strong>had to give the shop up<\/strong> as it just wasn’t busy enough at the Old Petrie Town<\/strong> to make it worth paying shop rent. It was a sad decision to make as I loved the peaceful space and it was a great place to hang out. <\/strong><\/p>\n My darling hubby has been building a bigger shed for himself, it’s taken him 7 years BUT now that it’s finally finished we are renovating the smaller shed for my craft room!!! That’s the GOOD NEWS – <\/strong>the BAD NEWS<\/strong> is that it’s full of<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n So first hubby had to<\/strong> clean up his act!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n Then we insulated the walls<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Funny, this felt a bit like a beginner’s sewing lesson!!!!<\/p>\n Then we lined the walls<\/strong> with gyprock and plastered and sanded the gaps<\/strong>. (YES I KNOW I should have worn my goggles but it was so hot they kept misting up!)<\/p>\n \n Then we added the cornices.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n Poor Tess! Just watching all this activity makes her sleepy! <\/strong>Well, I can’t wait to show you the finished craft room<\/strong> once the renovation’s done. I wonder if you have renovated<\/strong> or <\/strong>built your own sewing\/craft room?<\/p>\n Do you have any design tips or sewing room layout tips you’d recommend?<\/strong><\/p>\n Till next time,<\/strong><\/p>\n Happy Sewing, The Funky Friends Factory SHOP is no longer! UnfortunatelyI had to give the shop up as it just wasn’t busy enough at the Old Petrie Town to make it worth paying shop rent. It was a sad decision to make as I loved the peaceful space and it was a great place to hang out. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-my-life","category-blog","category-fff-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"renovation](\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/renovation-masks.jpg\" "\\"renovation-masks\\"")
<\/strong><\/p>\nAnd NOW look what a mess I’m in!<\/h2>\n
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\nALL of my sewing patterns<\/strong>, fabric<\/strong>, materials<\/strong>, and soft toys<\/strong> are piled high, right up to the ceiling in MOST<\/strong> of the rooms in my house!<\/p>\n![\"sewing](\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sewing-room-over-flowing.jpg\" "\\"sewing-room-over-flowing\\"")
<\/p>\n‘BOY’S STUFF’!<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Look! I can do<\/p>\npatchwork!<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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<\/p>\nThen we collapsed with<\/h2>\n
EXHAUSTION!!!!<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nI’d love to know!<\/h1>\n
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\n.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPauline<\/strong>
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