Tell about your big projects, obstacles, outcomes (and treasure!)

[Monika]

@MonkeyBarb

Are you an auditory or a visual learner?

If you are an auditory learner and want REALLY fast results you can try the crisis cleaning podcast or the weekly home blessing podcast from http://www.flylady.net

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flylady-tools/2008/04/04/crisis-cleaning

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flylady-tools/2008/04/08/weekly-home-blessing-hour

If I have posted these before, please forgive me. They are the best way I know to put cleaning (house blessing) on “automatic”.

Her holiday control journal is also invaluable to me during the insanity of this time of year:

http://www.flylady.net/images/HCJ2003.pdf

Best wishes and we’ll be watching for updates,

Monika

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[Anonymous]

MonkeyBarb – we now have all of our art stuff in one room (the room my business vacated). Except for the easel and small table that I had to set up in the kitchen because my husband didn’t leave space for ME in the art room. But it’s a start.

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[Anonymous]

I didn’t do my fifteen minutes of straightening today. I’d left a project till the last minute and so had to use every spare minute today to get it ready for this evening’s program. Now that the program is over, I can get back to what I promised to do.

I am a visual learner. I’m so thankful for GPS because before that, we’d get lost and my husband would want to stop and ask for directions, but I hated to do that. People talk too fast and I have to have something written down or it doesn’t do me any good. GPS is wonderful!!!

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[Anonymous]

I have still not cleared the living room of my stuff, but I am still working on it. I can do ten minutes at a time, if I try HARD. The time CRAWLS when I am working on sorting stuff and putting away what I’m keeping. It’s unbelievable how long ten minutes can be!! But I am keeping on with the project. I’d like the downstairs to be free of my artistic materials. One reason I have so much material is that I am frugal and buy used materials when I can. Yesterday, at a rummage sale, I bought six yards of cotton fabric for two dollars. I just can’t pass up a deal like that, even though I have a lot of fabric already. I read an article about a lady that had a large “stash” of fabric and their house burned to the ground due to all the fabric she had stored. I did NOT share that story with my husband!!! But it sort of scared me, anyway. I really DO like orderly surroundings, and I WANT to have my house be like that. I hope I can achieve it if I just keep on keeping on.

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[billd]

LOL- – 4 oak cabinets, 2 closets, and something like 30 tubs and a large chest of drawers worth of fabric for my wife. (we useed to own a quilt shop…… plus she’s a Christmas and Halloween fabric NUT, and you can’t get Christmas prints to her liking any more, so she hoards them any time she can find “good ones” – 4 shelves worth so far!) We’ll just say “a few thousand dollars worth”.

The quilt room project so far:

http://dickerson-design.com/images/quilt-room/quilt-shelves_001.jpg

http://dickerson-design.com/images/quilt-room/quilt-shelves_002.jpg

http://dickerson-design.com/images/quilt-room/quilt-shelves_003.jpg

http://dickerson-design.com/images/quilt-room/quilt-shelves_004.jpg

I’ve got a corner unit to make, then a smaller set of shelves that will go around to the right.

Oh, and that’s a small fraction of her thread. The board on the left of the one photo is double that width loaded with thread for the long-arm machine, then there are 4 plastic cases of Sulky thread, and a set of 6 sewing machine drawers FULL of thread. The one on the right in the photos is Robison-Anton embroidery thread for her embroidery machine.

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[Anonymous]

LOL Bill, I HATE Christmas prints!! They are once-a-year use sort of fabrics, in my book. I have only bought them on one occasion, to make my kids hanging advent calendars with pockets……Well done on a great job so far though. It’s looking fantastic. I am envious of the storage (I have plenty too (see my sewing blog for photos) but it’s not the same quality).

Phew! My project is sort of a mixed one, with short and long term aspects.

GOAL – To make inroads into my stash of fabric and unfinished projects, so I can clear some clutter out of my sewing room.

METHOD – To write a sewing blog, so I can get motivation from others and force myself to finish projects so I can blog about them. Sort of like the threads here where we “boast” about our accomplishments and motivate each other.

DIFFICULTIES – How to set up a blog. I hadn’t really done one before and had no real idea how to begin. Thankfully the blog thread here gave me some hints, and I set up a free blog through WordPress. My first one was focused on my search for an ADHD diagnosis, as that has been on my mind and I needed to get things off my chest without clogging up the forum here 😉 Once I had that one underway, then I was ready to begin my sewing one.

I also found that it was hard going to sew and take photos along the way, especially when I have a time limit for my sewing project!! But photography is a hobby of mine, as well as sewing, so it’s not all bad. I don’t plan to make all my blog posts ones that have step by step instructions, which will help immensely.

I also needed to edit my photos. I used to do it with a program on my laptop, but I have no idea where it has vanished to, or what it was. I had to experiment in order to find the programs I needed.

Explaining things is also hard work. But I am encouraged by comments I used to get when I wrote out instructions for dance costumes – mine were supposedly clear and easy to follow compared to others. So I persist. For now 🙄

THINGS THAT HELPED – Having set up another blog first. It meant I wasn’t playing around loading up photos and doing the difficult things for my very first blog. Much less offputting than going for the big guns straight up.

I like to write. I have found that writing can be a great tool, and I enjoy it more than I ever used to. So I am looking forward to blogging.

Feedback. Having a positive coment early on has kept my interest up, and following the “site stats” is fun.

RESULT – I have a sewing blog.

http://scatterkat.wordpress.com

I don’t know if it will help me budge much of my fabric stash yet, but I have made a start and it feels good!!

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[Anonymous]

We are having a city election. Foolishly, I thought I could vote since we have lived here for a year, paying property taxes and bills and such. Wrong. I get into a complete fog when I have to understand and follow the rules and procedures that I am supposed to “know” beforehand. Not quite a meltdown, I just felt frustrated and confused … I was supposed to know that I had to register first and that I had to bring bills to prove where I lived .. laughs, it was assumed that I would just go online and search for how to vote in BC.

Going to a government web site, to get information to do something or register for something is difficult for me, I get confused .

So, something that should be easy, will be difficult, and I can hopefully get the id and bills and stuff they want …. need to get a grip

on being angry about following more rules and frustrated at not knowing what it is that I am expected to do.

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[Anonymous]

I got about half of the living room cleared, so we could hook up the bigger tv our son gave us. One end of the room looks nice, but I really haven’t moved any of the “stuff,” as the couch is still covered and my recliner is still surrounded by boxes and tubs. But, now that one end is looking nice, and easy to navigate, I’d like the other end to look that way too. Stay tuned……………………

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