Wow, I sure haven’t been around in Blog Land very much
lately! There’s been a whole lot of
decluttering going on… and I’m tired in the evening. I haven’t been blog writing or working on
creative project or even doing much interesting cooking.
Himself and I have gotten the downstairs pretty much
empty. The carpet in the work area has
been ripped up and the glued down padding scraped up. The now scrubbed clean concrete floor will be
painted with a coat of oil based Kilz.
We’ll have that done before Christmas.
I’m going to keep it with just the paint until I’m pretty much done with
the room, then I’ll put the flooring down.
That way I don’t have to mess with being careful not to damage it while
I’m painting and building in there.
I have a side project going on
during this. At “A Bowl Full of Lemons”
(http://www.abowlfulloflemons.net/2012/12/emergency-preparedness-week-1-storage.html
), Toni is doing an 8 week series (with an e-book you can purchase) on
emergency preparedness. Since I’ve wanted
to turn the area under the steps into a storm shelter I’m going to work along
with this as best I can. I really wish
she hadn’t picked December (!) to start something like this but it is as it is…
After Christmas we will paint all the walls with the
left-over paint from upstairs. I WAY
over estimated how much I needed. Lemons
into lemonade, now I have plenty of paint for my studio!
Speaking of Christmas, I’ve been busy going thru all our
decorations. This is our 5th
Christmas here but we’ve only decorated 3 times. So this year we are putting EVERYTHING out…
and what isn’t used is going to be donated.
When we put it all back in storage in Jan, it will be meticulously organized
and labeled.
In the evening when I’m just too tired to do much I have
been going thru my boxes of photo prints.
I’m doing a method that is a hybrid between photo albums and scrapbooking. The name I’ve heard applied to the technique
is “speed scrapbooking”. For now I’m working
solely with the photographs, but in the New Year I will work on the journaling
and memorabilia portion. I’ll blog about
it then.
So… while my blog is pretty quiet right now, come January I’ll
have a ton of things to show and talk about.
You Christmas decorating idea is smart. Last year I tried to donate some things I didn't want any more AFTER the holiday; the thrift store had a sign in their window stating they had too many decorations and they weren't accepting any more.
ReplyDeleteTeri you must have the most organized household by now! You are always coming up with great ideas for storage and decluttering. Our place is slowly getting cleared out and put into my shop...ha! It's nice to have a place to craft in!
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