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Showing posts with label organizing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organizing. Show all posts

Saturday, January 3, 2015

A New Year

Just for something different, my daughter and I have decided to do 365 days of pictures. The ideas for each days’ picture comes from The Idea Room

The first day was “New” and I posted a sketch of a quilt block that I had drawn up that day. 


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Day two was “Change” and I posted a picture of my Bible open to I John where I am currently reading. How can one not be changed when reading that? 

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The reason I decided to blog about this experience is because the photo prompts have been challenging. They have got me thinking. Introspection. A new year always seems to get us thinking about our lives. To be honest, I just usually skip over the introspection and go on with my regular life. Thinking just takes too much brain power. Ugh!

But I truly want to change and in order to do that, I have to think.


I retired from 26 years of teaching this past spring, having spent the majority of my last teaching year in Houston. My husband was diagnosed with lymphoma early in the year and with his treatments at MD Anderson, we decided to stay in Houston at a suite/hotel. 


When we were finally able to move back home, we did a lot of culling. Realized that all the “stuff” we accumulated over the past decade or so was just that: stuff. It was taking up space and getting in the way. 


One of the things I started not long after returning home was organizing my craft room. I have a lot of different mediums I like to work with and currently my favorite is fabric. I finally have time to quilt! Some quilts I’ve done for fun and some for people who asked me for something specific. I did a couple of t-shirt quilts for friends and, although I enjoyed making them for specific people, I decided that was not really the way I wanted to go. I am still rearranging things though and organizing my fabric to make things easier to work with. 


Today’s photo challenge is “organize” and I could put up a picture of those things in my craft room that have a new place. But I find myself wondering how to re-organize my life, thus the challenge. 


What does organization look like when you want to lose weight, revisit some old hobbies, become a better person? I think I’ll have to start making check lists to include everything. We’ll see what gets done and that will show me what is most important. 


Still don’t know what picture I’ll post. I don’t usually post until almost midnight anyway, so I have a few more hours to contemplate.  


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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Don’t You Just Love Recycling/Repurposing Old Things?

My husband and I have been looking around for some time for an old door to hang on the wall in the laundry/mud room for me to hang my jackets and bags on. I had forgotten about it for a while. He hadn’t. One day he came home from work and told me to come outside. There in the bed of his truck was a pair of doors. They were perfect! After he carefully mulled it over and came up with a plan, we went to Home Depot and looked for the right hooks and purchased some wood and the hooks P7107009that perfectly matched the knobs P7107008that were already on the door. He measured, cut and stained the wood to a color close to what the door looked like. Seeing as how they are old doors, it wasn’t easy to match exactly. Instead of attaching the doors directly to the wall, we installed a rim of sorts for the top and bottom of the doors to sit in. P7107005Then we put the hooks on and voila’!

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

what's up?

I have been busy organizing. It all started out about a month ago when I got some extra time at school. I went through the filing cabinet and cleaned out files that haven't been used by me for a couple of years. I actually ended up with an entire file drawer that was empty! Then I headed for the cabinets, upper and lower, and cleaned out and reorganized--hopefully getting ready for the maintenance crew to install a sink. (We'll see.)
After school was out for the summer, I helped my daughter clean out her bedroom starting with the closet and ending with her "study". Ended up with about 10 bags of garbage and several piles of stuff for a garage sale. She left for camp and I started on the computer room, my closet and the kitchen drawers. I'm still not through. It goes a little bit at a time, mostly in bags or boxes for the garage sale.
Now, understand that I have never in my entire life done a garage sale and have no clue about pricing things. But! I have a friend who has and will hopefully have some time to help me out. Waiting till my daughter gets back to do that though.
I have also cleaned up my computer. Deleted programs I don't use. Consolidated some files.
Who knows what will come next!