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Post by michelle on Nov 30, 2017 17:43:44 GMT
We are a group working to declutter our spaces. Please feel free to share your goals, projects, ideas, revelations or challenges facing you as you work toward your own goals. Also feel free to copy and past this intro, use our "CLUTTERBUSTERS" Title for the day to start the thread if you don't see it started.
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Post by zenamidievel on Nov 30, 2017 19:24:28 GMT
Good Morning!
Yesterday I ran into a good friend at the high school, we were both dropping kids there for different activity, she works, she sounded a little sick, she lives like three minutes from us. So then I remembered I had all that excess soup (maybe I didn't mention what happened with the soup, but there was so much of it, it was nuts, it said "Yield 4" so I doubled it. But actually the yield was like 10. THen I had a little left over herb dough I hadn't baked off. SO I told her I was going to run home, bake those biscuits and bring her one of my two containers of leftover soup! SO I did, and they were so HAPPY! I also gave them the rest of the mapley shortbread cookies. No one likes that soup here, I would have had to toss it.
Crafting: Okay, I'm having so much fun making these bottle tag/door knob hangers. They are 4" x 10" so they really lend themselves to a tree shape. I have a base template of a three tiered tree w/trunk and it's pretty geometric, straigt lines/angles. Except that once I cut the overall tree out, I can trim it different ways, add curves to the oustside edges, or leave the way it is, cut it in different spots to allow for garland, so it's like different, larger pieced mosaic of a tree, but it's easy to make each one look slightly different depending on how I cut or decide to embellish. I have a goal to try to finish all the rest of these by 1:00 PM so I can then put the top coat on and start adding the ribbon and bells to the twine hanger. But I may do one more "JOY" as well.
More later...hope your day is going well.
Z.
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Post by michelle on Nov 30, 2017 23:32:55 GMT
Z, Glad you were able to brighten someone's day with your cooking! and that you are having fun crafting.
Accomplishments:
The inside of the house is decorated in a puppy proof manner. Hooray for that!
Several cupboards cleaned out
Two loads of laundry, mending, ironing, organizing clothes
Lots of little organizational stuff like refilling things, bringing items in from the garage on and on...
Cleaned FR, LR, K
A number of weekly kitchen chores
Dog walk etc
I have been busy all day long and want to spend an hour or two more since today has been a catch up day along with decorating.
Hope you are enjoying your day!!!
Onward>>>>
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Post by zenamidievel on Dec 1, 2017 6:17:57 GMT
Sounds like a productive day for you Michelle! Yay for the decorating. I just really enjoy the Christmas decorations!
I forgot to mention yesterday that I got most of the laundry that was all over the master bedroom put away, that was pretty major. Someone was going to have an accident tripping over stuff, was out of hand!
Crafting: Finished those hangers. Enjoyed doing them. Brought everything down from guestroom. Placed the Macy's Frango boxes which have cute holiday wrapping on them already, in the sleighs and rebagged them in original clear bags they were purchased in which I'd kept, and tied with red, white and green package ribbon. They look pretty and festive. My goal is to just sell them. Even If I sell them for $15.00 still, I make back the price of them and the candy, and $2.00 profit. But there are 6 of them and so instead of thinking only $2.00 profit I need to think, $90.00 back to me if they sell. At this point the goal is really to just sell the things and recoup costs plus a little profit and hopefully not be hauling so much product back home with me. Everything is in one area, pretty organized/packed for Saturday's show. I just need to think about signage for pricing and table layout. I have a good idea to simply bring my Husky 5 ft. ladder in with red plaid X-mas table cloth over it and I can use safety pins to hang the card signage/pricing from it. I Had attached examples of the 5 card variety packs to card stock already w/description and pricing and hole punched corner and have twine through there, so I can just pin those to the cloth to hang and the ladder is completely covered by the cloth, it will actually be cute and easy set up. Tomorrow I need to revisit the cash box, count it, remind myself what I took out of it, etc.
Z.
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