The Elvish Tailor: The Elvish Atelier

As the Elvish Tailor goes from strength to strength something had to be done before tailors dummies and patterns tumbled out of the loft, machines exploded out from behind chairs and rivers of fabric overwhelmed us.
My friend Pauline at 'The Sewing sessions' converted her summer house for teaching and its fantastic. Our summer house was used as a dumping ground for rubbish; plant pots, compost, empty bottles and the detritus of life that just needs a temporary home till it gets sorted. It wasn't always like that , at one time when we erected it we used to sit in there in the summer and read or chat with friends, but you know how it is. So it looked like this:

It was a perfect place though for the Elf to have a work room and so the clearing began.
First we had to build a mini lean- to shed for the garden tools , this was erected on Sunday morning after moving our Buddha garden. Not a problem at all I LOVE flat packs and this was a bigger version, complete fun. Sad I know!
Then the tools had to be moved, and some binned including a fork with a bent time and two pairs of broken shears; why did we keep them? Was it in the hope that St. Jude would come and fix them in the night? It didn't work, so into the pile for the recycling centre along with four bin bags of used plant pots and broken buckets, two bags of used paint, various bits of metal and a lot of paper. It filled the car but was gone in a moment.
I then had to hoover the place out, you could have made a frock from the cobwebs we swept away!
Some lovely friends of ours offered me some pre-loved oak flooring which was perfect for our needs, I drove out to the country to get it at 10am and the floor was laid by 2pm, we love it.

I wasn't going to paint the inside but it really did need it so to add brightness and because we had a spare pot (reasons not necessarily in that order) it was done in a fetching shade of yellow.

By 4pm work tables and shelves were up and ready to go.

We spent the next hour moving half the Elvish stuff from round the house but by then were exhausted so time for dinner, wine and a hot bath. There is still a little bit of work to do but this is what it looks like so far.