Rescuing the Wardrobe

 As predicted, today I moved on to the Wardrobe.  Here are the before pictures.  Note the two somewhat bulky crib quilts, on the left, and the bags for transporting quilts, crammed into the bottom of the area.

Here is the smaller top section.  This has been used to store adhesives and two glass pint jars crammed with "junk".  The red thing in front left is a frame weight and indispensable, when I'm doing handwork or beading, and beside it another lead weight so very useful when gluing paper of cardboard.

My process is to separate items into keep, donate, and trash.  So far I've just almost filled three 5 gallon pails with trash.  I had no idea how very many crochet hooks I own.  And how did I get two medical dissection kits?  Any glue bottles or glue sticks that weren't absolutely fresh or still in the packaging, are gone.  I trashed three traditional velvet beading boards that haven't been used in years, even with the amount of beading and teaching beading that I've been doing.     Here is the after picture of the of the wardrobe.  Note, that the top of the chest on the right is also now cleaned off.  In the larger section of the wardrobe the white on the left is two quilt transport bags hung up.  The others are trashed.  The white and colour area in the middle is 4 items that are scheduled to be put into a craft sale I'm participating in at the end of April.  The dark on the right is a UFO (unfinished object) that only need quilting.

All of the drawers have been gone through, and quite a few smaller objects put in the donate box.  Tomorrow I'm taking a look at the area between the wardrobe and the Bead cupboard beside it.  As far I only know that it contains a variety of larger sketchbooks, and some large pieces of glass I use in my jury-rigged light box, or as an aid to mono-printing.  I hope there are no surprises.