Back to "normal"

Can hardly believe it's been over a month since I took the time to sit down and write. As lazy as I am, you'd think I'd use every excuse to stop cleaning and sit down!
Now that we've passed the Fire Department's inspection, we're still waiting to hear what the Building Department will have to say. Since I can't do anything about that, I've decided not to get all stressed out and just wait and see what comes.
Quite a bit of the mess has been cleared away, thrown away, or organized ... so classes have started up again. Any of you who do mosaics should stop in, I'm filling up my boxes of scrap glass. I've even been sorting out colors and putting them into smaller plastic bins to make selection/shopping easier. There were a lot of boxes of scrap from antique windows in storage upstairs. After sorting and cleaning, most of that is going into the scrap boxes for sale too. My next job is to sort all of the pieces of painted glass - one could make some wonderful panels with these antique "scraps"!
Even though it's a dirty/dusty job, it's been fun making discoveries. Not only have I found a lot of small sheets of glass from Tiffany Studios, but all kinds of lamp parts - both metal and crystal, and a couple of lamps/fixtures that (with some repair) that could be real winners. I'm going to sound like my mother when I say "If only there were more hours in the day so that I'd have time to do all this!"