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Yesterday and today, I’m helping my son tackle his room (organize, sort and pitch). I think he’s finally out growing his Rescue Heros things. He of his own free will put them in the give away bin.

Done:

• 3 of 4 drawers under bed (for toys)
• toy cubbies
• sorted through all the little collectable/buildable card pieces

Yet to do

• Art supply drawer
• Book shelf
• closet cubbies
• Outside toy bin (I’m kicking this stuff out to the garage.)

I’m also slowly dealing with the kitchen (trying to work the schedule at “I’m an Organizing Junkie“. For the most part it wasn’t too bad. But there were a few problem areas.

Done:

• Swap dishes and pantry cupboard contents. So dishes next to dishwasher and food by stove.
• Clean off the top of the rolling cart. Give that space to griddle. Take griddle out of pans cupboard - it takes up way too much space. Organize pans cupboard.

Before

After

Before

After (perhaps I need to re-contact paper this cupboard?)

• (craft area) Cleaned out the mess under the far wall counter top. (Will keep this more open to reduce mold.)
• (craft area) Organized sewing supplies (formerly all on counter top) and embroidery. Packed up tablet weaving and dye supplies, I don’t use them as often but am unwilling to get rid of them.

Yet to do:

• (kitchen) Flour/sugar/etc. cupboard
• (kitchen) Tupperware cupboard (/groan) - I think I can help my sanity in this one by putting in large bins to “toss” the tupperware in. Easier in theory to put away and keep “organized”.
• (craft area) Spinning cupboard
• (craft area) misc crafts cupboard

Have been labeling most everything with the labeler I invested in last week. Fun little tool. One purpose, but many uses in my home.

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Have one more photo to edit for the last photoshoot I did for a friend. Then I just need to resize them tomorrow and I’ll be done! (Happy dance!) I learned from this experience to have a spray/spritz bottle in my “studio” so that winter wild hair can be tamed before I have to edit it. I can edit staticy hair - but want to minimize it. Will be a taking a break from photo shoots for a while now, so I don’t burn out. One of the edited shots:

Finally got to order a bit of fabric from Sew Mama Sew. Think I will make a bag from it. Thought of sharing the fabric with my daughter. I’m too greedy. MY FABRIC!

Been a go go go day.

Started out at church taking photos of the kids in the basketball program for the fridge magnets we give out. Had to be there by 7:45 AM. Such fabulous under pressure practice is hard to find. I loved taking pictures of the kids as well and yet at the same time as fast as I could. Found I need to tinker with my new flash more and read about it more. I couldn’t get it to recycle fast enough and had to abandon using it by the second session.

Ran home afterward and crashed for a few minutes, then processed all the images and headed to a friend’s for game day. Played Mystery at the Abbey for the first time. Clue-like, but much more fun. I actually won, ta-boot.

When we got home and tucked kiddos into bed, I got the CD of images ready for church. Then I took some “me” time and tried a few quilt blocks of the Crazy Nine Patch for this week’s block at Sew Mama Sew. I probably should have started with something thin and workable like cotton. But I like wool, so as usual I’m starting the hard way.

Last night I did what I said I wasn’t going to do and tried hard to resist. We brought home another kitty. (After the last kitty we had, who bit my kiddos in the face. I really didn’t think we’d have one again.) Now before y’all start razzing me, you must know he NEEDED a home. He was basically kicked outside until they could find a home for him. Their other kitty behaved badly around him and they’d felt they needed to have him live outside. (They did let him in when it was really bitter cold.) This broke my heart and I was in tears several times over this poor, sweet kitty who couldn’t help that his owner couldn’t take him with her. Why they didn’t kick the other cat out, I have no clue. Our new kitty actually likes people, is happy to get any attention, and puts up with my kiddos pretty well. He’s a little on the roughed up side (has a scratch in one eye, and a spot under his chin). But I think he’ll do well with us.

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Finished editing the best of the pictures from a photo shoot for a friend over a week ago. Thought I’d share my favorite of the set.

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Now I’m off to crash. Too bleary eyed to read my typing.