KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

I just put 2 cans of water on essental plants in pots, all tree types, crab apple, acer, lilacs. :j so very much easier since kondo, when it would have been six cans all over. Some raised rectangular beds are now semperviviums, pinks and dwarf lilacs and can be neglected but still look lovely

Did a small kondo from fridge and freezer this morning, I have 7 empty bags, very happy

Parcelforce didn`t come :mad: and as usual, tracking said attempted delivery and card left, lies, rang up and they said it would come today, so another day of waiting in. I am so ready to get those small drawers done. Consoled myself with getting washed bedding out

UFOs, oh yes that is me, I have three carvings to finish but good in a way as it is easy to pack my trolley for carving group, no dithering about what to take. Also knitting and only the last sleeve and it is in plain sight but I am not feeling the urge, like I did in winter

Allotment is fully done and baby plants are getting big at the house. At that moment in time, of suspended animation, waiting

I'm good at having ideas and starting things off. Not so good at finishing. You need to work to your strengths. No point forcing yourself to finish stuff if you're no longer interested in it. What are you going to do with the finished projects?

So like that quote BumbleBeany so I have just copied it. I'm like a magpie for quotes and I made myself google how to copy a big chunk of text on the iPad so I've learnt something new.
I can relate to the UFO's. Sometimes I can be brave and let them go. I finished a 'rug' from the CS once. Mind it must have been a rug meant to be framed and go on the wall or to be used in a playhouse neither of which I could see the point! I enjoyed making it but didn't like the subject so I let it go. Oh and I took a photograph of it but I'm even less inclined to do that now as it adds to my digital clutter. I guess PWD you could just ask THE BIG KM question and then sing let it go if it doesn't.
I was supposed to have my return to work interview today but it's been postponed until Friday. Quite hard for a teacher, especially this one who has to Kondo working at weekends. I will tackle it tomorrow after I've given it some thought and myself a good talking to. I've actually only not planned for my class for about 7 days even though I've been away two full weeks and two part weeks. I can still do this.
Today I went up to the Lottie and Kondoed even more weeds. The onions, garlic and shallots can breathe and grow! I chucked in some poached egg seeds and a couple of clumps of calendula and a row of Tagetes. Some of the seeds are dated 2011 but I've lost nothing if they don't germinate have I? I took my potting she'd radio to small electricals (bit sad as that's the radio I bought when I left my husband and home in 2003 but it's had a good life and couldn't be mended)😢
I also recycled about 2 dozen plastic coat hangers from DD's wardrobe, a black plastic box that blew onto my allotment years ago and I've never used plus another sack of timber:T

Evening all.

Sitting here with my jacket on, having just come in from the allotment (sunny but perishing) and am waiting on a pal pulling up in her car outside any second - we're about to go on mercy mission for vast quantities of sausagemeat in a village several miles away. And her a vegetablarian, too.

Sometimes I find myself wondering what it'd be like to have a normal life - boring, probably.:rotfl:

Oh, and there was also a mention of clearing some shelves, dangling options like that in front of a kondo-ite is like putting truffles in front of a piggie.

Have taken a bagful of stuff to one of my fave chazzers and asked about a category of item I wasn't sure they'd take and it turns out that these things sell like hotcakes and they'd be only too delighted to have them.

Have also sorted a fair bit of Stuff at the pal's shop inc Georgian silver and utility bills. Comments during the morning varied from Don't tread on Charles II's sword! and How much?!

C2 is a statuette, btw, not the real deal.

ONWARDS!

grunnie wrote: »

Ready cut rugs were a kit of printed canvas and short bits of wool and a hook to loop the wool through the canvas.http://www.readicut.co.uk/rugs/latch-hook-rug-kits.html

Goodness, those are dreadful! Obviously they don't do "proper" rugs anymore. I made one in 1972, with a white background and flowers/foliage in several colours so I wouldn't get bored It was expensive (pure wool in those days), I remember I paid in instalments, but I had that rug by my bed for a very long time. I even put it through a very gentle machine wash a few times! On a sunny day, so it could dry over the washing line.

One of my friends still has one she made in plain dark green - I couldn't have done that, too boring.