KonMari 2016 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

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igamo, slow and steady does it, like the goat going up a mountain, he eventually gets to the top without running out of puff

:j:D:j I made a dressing gown today, finished before my panny had finished the spicy fruit loaf. More details on the sewing thread but was awesomely satisfying and calming and a big chunk of fabric is now hanging up on my bedroom door. Really chuffed :T

Tidy up time now and so easy after kondo, lots of chuffness today :beer:

Slinky

Ahh, we have battles with aquiligia and wild violets too, from the previous owners. I also pulled out a load of verbena from the border beside the drive, it gets a bit thuggish and I know I'll get a load more self seed, so as the ground was wet I was able to pull up the ones that had seeded in the middle of my lavendar bushes.

GoingToDoIt

Hello and gentle hugs to all who like them.
I've been away for the weekend so nothing to report, beyond of course that everything is well at home, and I only need to do light housework and ironing before tomorrow

GreyQueen

Ahhh, the joy of coming back to a well-ordered home with very little to do to re-set life for the coming week. Can't beat it.

I'm setting myself for the coming week, have bathed the allotment grime away, am running a washload inc my gardening gloves and clothes and will do some housework.

Was just retrieveing some gift-wrap to wrap a present and realised that my xmas stuff and tags was mixed up with my birthday stuff and tags, so have separated them into different folders to make life easier next time.

I shop for Xmas gifts throughout the year, a habit I formed in my teens as just about all of them have Dec-Jan birthdays and it can get to be an expensive time of the year if you don't organise yourself.

:o Plus I like to avoid the shops from mid-November onwards, apart from food and other essentials, as I find doing so contributes greatly to my personal happiness.

Dug up another area of plot today, have found some more docks to dry out on the cold-frame and have harvested some parsnips, leeks and chard. Am managing to eat something from the plot 12 months a year, which is pleasing. As was the two IKEYA blue bags of rubbishy roots which took a one way trip to the green waste section of the tip.

Not so busy as yesterday, seems Sunday lunchtime is a good time to do a tip run, if you can be arrissed.

mrs-moneypenny

Hope everyone is well and coping with what life throws at them.

4 big bags taken to the CS yesterday which was immensely satisfying
Currently working through wool stash by making a blanket for baby a work colleague is expecting.

MMF007

I too have been prepping for the week ahead. HM soup, so i can take some to elderly friend and i can have a simple tea tomorrow (long work day), clothes washed, dried and kondo folded in drawers, clothing for tomorrow laid out ready, and lunches made.

Have checked my diary for the week ahead and although it is busy the schedule is set out and I should be ok!

I kondo'd the annoying half-finished artvwork. Life's too short to let it annoy m, or take up more of my time.. i have decided to start it again, different technique is calling (and different colours to those we used in class!). In order to 'get straight back on the bike' I have just spent an enjoyable 3 hours dabbling with paint, refining an earlier work and making a really colourful picture of a humming bird (not life like but very pretty!). So I feel like I am back in equilibrium

I love antique furniture but have none. Maybe one day.......

PollyWollyDoodle

I have aquilegia and wild violets in my garden and love them both, I pull out the ones that land in the veg patch but I like a fairly wild and cottage-garden look. I wish I'd never accepted the gift of some alpine strawberry plants however ...

silvasava

When my boys were babies the house we had had a bed of Alpine strawberries - they often had them for tea in the summer. I like to use them as an edging for borders but I dont have any now.
Greenbee - more than happy to supply you with Aquilegia and violets - don't suppose you'd like some bluebells would you :whistle:

Siebrie

We kondoed a very busy, but enjoyable, weekend. Dd2 (5) had a ballet performance, it was a real show with a storyline connecting the dances of all 216 pupils. Dd was a flower and was on stage for about five minutes, with a huge smile on her face - she loved it! She had to perform Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.
Dd1 (8) had horseriding lesson yesterday, outside, and then forgot to bring her normal boits back home, so I had to drive there to pick them up today, 40 minute round trip. Thank goodness dh has a company car with fuel card.
Today we put up the temporary greenhouse that I got for my birthday in December, and the first seeds are sown; it makes me so happy Old gladioli and verbena stalks have been removed from the garden and added to the greenwaste bin. Aquilegia is coming up nicely, I love that plant! Buddleia will have to be kondoed, because it selfseeded in front of my vine, and I prefer the vine
Our lawn is full of Jacobaea Vulgaris, which is poisonous and killed dd1's pet rabbit last year. Any idea how to get rid of it without resorting to poison? I'm hesitant to walk on the lawn barefooted, because I'm afraid the poison will go through the soles of the feet and accumulate in the liver

greenbee

silvasava wrote: »

When my boys were babies the house we had had a bed of Alpine strawberries - they often had them for tea in the summer. I like to use them as an edging for borders but I dont have any now.
Greenbee - more than happy to supply you with Aquilegia and violets - don't suppose you'd like some bluebells would you :whistle:

I'd love some native bluebells, but am busy trying to kill off all the spanish bluebells infesting my garden (I'm actually doing pretty well at this).

I'm about for the next couple of weeks as I'm off work following a minor op. ALthough I can't drive at the moment. In fact just having a bath has taken up the whole of today