Off to Do as Little as Possible

This is a first, right? Ha. Now you can see that I have never exaggerated about my white hair.

I hope your Thanksgiving was fun. Ours was a huge hit, thanks to your suggestions. Both turkeys came out damn near perfect. Oliver fell asleep in my arms and slept through dinner, proving once again that he is the perfect grandchild. P.S. everyone went home with plenty of leftovers so no one has to cook this weekend.

Anyway, I'm taking off today and the weekend because I earned it. :) See you on Monday.

Comments

nightsmusic said…

Good gravy! A picture of you! And it's wonderful :) I love your hair. It knows exactly what it wants to be. Mine is still red and dishwater and gray...it's awful so the girl that does it manages to put enough gray in it that it doesn't look too bad.

That Oliver is absolutely adorable. And this photo is frameable and you should.

Glad to hear that the turkeys came out well. I did an 18 pounder in anticipation of more people but Thing Two and her hubs went to PA for his side so...we'll be having turkey sammies and turkey pot pie and creamy turkey and mushroom pasta. And fried mashed potato cakes with cheddar and bacon :) Lots of those.

Lots...

November 29, 2019 at 6:55 AM

Maria Zannini said…

I love the way Oliver looks up to you. He knows he's in good hands. :)

My hair is still brown but it's peppered with gray. I think hair that is all silver, white, or gray looks great. Peppered hair looks like it can't make up its mind.

Our guests brought their fair share of drama. Fortunately, they kept it civil while they were in our home.

I plan on being a slug for a couple more days. I cleaned, cooked, and baked for days leading to Thanksgiving. But now there's enough food in the fridge, the house is clean and it's raining, so I have no need to get out in the yard and work. This is my holiday! LOL.

November 29, 2019 at 1:47 PM

Other Stashes

Along with clearing out the spare bedroom and tidying my office and our guest bedroom, I decided to reorganize some of my stashes. This is all the yarn I have on hand, sorted by color. It looks like a lot, but lately I've been using up a minimum of half a bin every month, so this is approximately a year's supply. All of my solid color cotton perle thread. I go through a lot of this every year, too. I need a container in which I can fit all of it together, but I haven't found the right one yet. I won't show you all of my fabric -- I'm still reorganizing this stash -- but I went through everything and donated two bins of fabric I won't need to the local quilter's guild.

Downsizing

This was my fabric stash once I sorted everything -- 22 full bins. I spent a day taking out and boxing up what I could part with, with the goal of trying to reduce it by half, so I'd have 11 bins. I was very strict with myself, and removed everything that for one reason or another I was sure I wouldn't be able to use. This is what I ended up with -- 12 bins of fabric that I'm keeping. It's not quite half, but close enough. Half of what I took out went to a local quilter friend, a school and Goodwill. These four tightly-packed bins will be going to the local quilting guild once I make arrangements with them for a drop-off place. I am relieved and a little sad and now determined to control my impulses to thrift more fabric. I don't want to do this again, so until I use up six bins, I can't for any reason bring any new fabric into the house.

In Progress

I promised myself I would show you the good, bad and ugly of my cleaning this year. This is what it looks like when you dump thirty years' worth of stashed fabric on the floor -- and oy, what a pain in the butt to pick up again! This is what it looks like after it's been sorted, folded and placed in containers, which took me about a week. Now the hard part is to downsize my stash by at least half, I think (that's my goal, anyway.) I've already e-mailed the president of the local quilting guild, a local friend who is a quilter, and a public school art teacher I know to see if I can donate some of the excess to them. The rest will go to Goodwill. Already I've reduced my vintage textiles from two bins to one, and my scraps from three bins to one. It's probably the hardest clean-out I've done, which is why I saved it until last. I know I have too much fabric, more than I can use in my lifetime -- but at the same time, I love it. So I have to...

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