Preparing for winter IV

pinkmami

I'm on half term leave this week and the house is being cleaned. Already done a few bits like buying shoe storage. 3 plastic boxes for £1.99 in Home Bargains so i bought 4 packs and a hanging shoe rack for DD2's wardrobe. Need to buy another one for DD1.

Kitchen cupboards done yesterday and the utility cupboard. I now have space to keep the washing liquid/fabric conditioner out if sight so gonna buy a nice plant to put in the corner.

Clothes need sorting, esp my running kit drawer. ATM everything gets chucked in! DS' s bedroom is being tackled tomorrow in prep for Santa! Getting rid of those jigsaws with the missing piece and the plastic tat from Mcdonalds!

Princess_kate

I think secretly a lot of us do an autumn/winter clean, maybe without realising it. Due to impending baby number 1 in April, we have cleared so much stuff that's been hanging around the house for years! Gumtree'd a few items & several bags of clothes & bric a brack have gone to charity. All part of feeling organised & settled come the dark winter nights. I treated myself to 2 Yankee candles, 25% off online, this is MSE after all, I do love candlelight in the evening & can recommend the spiced orange fragrance. Found a good offer on cat food in waitrose yesterday, 3 packs of 12 felix for £10 but with a my waitrose card you get 20% off but it takes it off the original price of £4.50 a box. Feel well stocked for Tigger now & picked up a few extra bags of cat litter, like to keep a supply in incase of bad weather or lack of deliveries to the shops. There was also the tear everyone thought it would be a good idea to use cat litter as grit, don't think they'll be making that mistake again in a hurry! We have new curtains in the lounge since last winter so will need to check the size of the fleece I have befor pinning them on but they make such a difference it will just have to be done! I'm in work today so have left a list for hubby of bits of decorating that need to be done. Sorted the garden last week, need to remember to drain the outside tap tho! Wonder when we'll getbour 1st frost? Any inside info Kitty? And I wish there was a way of really knowing how winter will be. I feel more itganused than most but it's still a worry after the winter of 2010!

pinkmami

I really do think we're in for a cold wintry one. Payback for the nice summer we had! But I'm looking forward as I love it. Walks, playing with the kids, log fire burning, home drinking coffee.....

Princess_kate

I know what you mean pinkmami! I love nice winter days like that but when there is snow & you have to get to work it's so stressful! Especially as I'll be in my last trimester then!

squiggles

Living_proof wrote: »

But we all had corned-beef legs from sitting in front of the fire too long. We would cross our legs until bursting and then rush through the freezing hall and up the stairs to the loo which was like a morgue. The bathroom ran with clammy condensation if you dared to have a bath and the windows froze up on the inside.

Oh yes, just can't wait to go back to that alright!

What do you mean? Go back to. I have not yet moved forward from it.:o

pollys

After 20 years or so I have taken up knitting again. I've started simple, I'm knitting a neck warmer. It's lovely sitting on a Sunday afternoon knitting. Just having a short break and a cup of tea before I start the next bit of the pattern.

I'd really like to make myself a fishermans jumper, I made one years ago. I'll see how I get on with the neck warmer.

Polly

luckycat99

I've found that since the weather has turned I've been knitting more than sewing. I keep fantasising about making lovely shawls and wooly hats. I just need to find opportunities to wear shawls...

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Princess_kate wrote: »

I think secretly a lot of us do an autumn/winter clean, maybe without realising it.

I have realised that this is me, I honestly never thought that I did an autumn clean but I have done yet another whole room and cupboards. I am not having to think about it, it just happened, I get dressed into cool comfortable clothes, the ones I wear to do jobs in the house and automatically head to a space that I want to clear. The feng shui is unbelievably good afterwards

By golly I am going to enjoy autumn/winter and that includes hobby time, not cleaning

Luckycat99 and pollys, do you go on ravelry? It is one superb site for patterns, ideas, chat and friendship, knitting, spinning, sewing and lots more. I have just re-started on my sewing after spending all summer spinning and knitting. I think it is because I will shortly be sorting my wardrobe and will have a few spaces. I am making a skirt just now and have a difficult older shape so have worked it from the waistband down.

luckycat99

I've spent most of the weekend on ravelry - picking shawl and wooly hat patterns - but didn't have the right yarn...so then had to go and get some yarn. Not very MSE - but in theory it might mean using less heating...maybe...?!

pollys

Kittie, I signed on at revelry earlier today. The pattern I used for the neck warmer was on there. The neck warmer is finished. It cost me less than £2. I just need a nice brooch to finish it off.

Polly