Ties o’ the Day assisted me in hanging the first Christmas decorations of the season. As I have previously mentioned, some people have a fireplace as the focal point of their living rooms. We do not. The focal point of our living room is Suzanne’s Ultimate SewingBox, so we’re pretending it is a fireplace– for the purpose of holiday decorations. As one of these photos shows, it truly does take up one entire wall in the living room. It’s one of the shorter walls in the room, but that wall is exactly where we’d put a fireplace if we chose to have one. A fireplace would have fit nicely here. We even thought of putting built-in bookshelves from floor to ceiling on this wall.
And then I discovered the existence of The Ultimate SewingBox, which changed the course of our living room history. Yup, it was I who found the product. I briefly debated not showing it to Suzanne. I knew that after she saw it she would never again be happy if she couldn’t have one, and I wasn’t sure I was ready for us to adopt the giant. After she saw the video of what The Ultimate SewingBox can do/hold, she fell in madly in love with it, as I knew she would. How could I not get her one?
How was it decided we place it in the living room? That was my idea too. Suzanne has a crafting/sewing room upstairs, and The Ultimate SewingBox was originally intended to live up there. And then I realized I would never see Suzanne again if that monstrous piece of furniture was ensconced in her crafting/sewing room. There is no power that would be able to pull her away from its many crafty, sew-y uses. Also, The Ultimate SewingBox would take up her whole sewing room. She wouldn’t even have room for the ironing board, so I said, “Hey, Suzanne, forget the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Forget any thought of a fireplace. The Ultimate SewingBox needs to be in the living room, right by my too-big tv.” This ensures we are both in the same room occasionally.
Suzanne expressed the tiniest bit of concern for me, wondering if the sewing machine noise would be a problem for me when I’m trying to watch tv. I asked her if she had ever heard of volume control. Needless to say, our tv volume is always unbelievably high. Sit somewhere in our yard if you want to listen to whatever tv program we’re watching.
I have been accused of being nice to Suzanne for getting her The Ultimate SewingBox, and then suggesting it should be in the living room. I am here to assure you I am not a nice person. I am incredibly selfish. I figure this whole Ultimate SewingBox escapade will keep Suzanne from ever again nagging me about anything– especially my ever-growing tie population. So you see, Suzanne’s Ultimate SewingBox is all about me.
HOLIDAY TIE TALLY: 26 Bow ties. 67 Neckties.
I have some evil plans for taking over the entire living room…😈