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Well, it's that time again. Time to head back to school. To the sunny South - the land of beaches and textbooks and friends and piano practice and sunshine and studying.
I HOPE that I'll be a little better about flickring this semester... but no promises!!
Until summer break, then, chicas!!
Much love!
They all work together to tidy up the camp before the journey home.
© J-J.Bernard / Handicap International
Many people find it stressful to move to a new house due to many #household items which are heavy and fragile. Unpacking too is a tiresome job if things were not packed in an orderly manner. Luckily professionals and expert movers have come up with tips and ways of packing in order to make every move on that specific day #systematic and smooth.
Get rid of the things you don’t use or need
When you are planning to move into a new house, consider getting rid of things that you no longer use. These include clothes, shoes, electronics and kitchen items such as old #coffee #makers and other items. Consider packing these items and give them to people of good will around your community. By so doing, the bulk of unnecessary items will reduce hence making the items to be packed to be less. It will also minimize overcrowding in your new house.
Consider looking for the best moving company one month prior the moving day
Compare prices of the moving companies and any other terms of payment to prevent unexpected costs during the #moving day. Also, check the moving company that you have chosen if it is licensed to ascertain the security of your items. Plan with the company the best flexible day to move in. It is also crucial to map the best and easiest route to use before the moving day. Look for possible traffic; detour and other constructions that might be scheduled on a moving day. This will make the journey more manageable and less tiresome as there will be no obstructions on the way.
When you are moving to a new house, start packing as early.
Start with things that are not being used for the time being. This includes decorations, some clothes, books that you have already read and other things that might not be of use. This is done by buying boxes from a nearby shop together with different packing materials like packing tapes, cardboard boxes, putty, extra screws and wrapping papers from a nearby hardware store. Pack items like books, toiletries, clothes as well as kitchen utensils in separate boxes and label the boxes at the top and on sides. This will make unpacking an easy task as each box will be taken to where those items are kept. Also, number your boxes to make sure that all things reached and no box was stolen.
Stop shopping like two weeks earlier
To avoid wasting any #food, consume all the shopping at home. Don’t buy more supplies unless you need them. Also, you can call friends and neighbors to take extra shopping that you might have. Pack extra toiletries and cleaning items in a different bag. These are items that will be used immediately when you rich the new home. Consider also packing extra clothes, laptop, and any other thing that you might need before unpacking. Call friends and relatives to help you in packing when you are moving to your new house. During the moving day ensure all things are handled with care especially electronics and other fragile items .When you reach to your new home, put someone in charge of unpacking process. This will help the task move smoothly without wasting time. Consider taking a picture of the new house before bringing your items inside. This is to show any damage that would be there.
Finally, appreciate all the people who helped you by ordering food, drinks, and snacks for them.
Activity: It's time to go! Your family is traveling to the next campsite, ten miles away. Your job is to pack the travois.
1. Spread the red blanket or an animal hide over the lower end of the travois.
2. Arrange the parfleches (which contain dried pumpkin and dried meat) and bags of dried corn and beans on the travois and in the side pockets.
3. Spread the remaining blanket or hide over the travois to hold everything in place.
4. Shake the travois as if you were walking across the prairie. How well did you pack?
When it comes to your usual Christmas supplies, gift wrapping paper is always the quickest item to vanish into thin air. (Seriously, have they started putting less paper on those rolls?) Sometimes you didn’t buy enough, other times you didn’t want to spend the money, and then there are those times where you’re in a major pinch...a.k.a. the night before Christmas.
Whatever the case, you’re in luck — there are plenty of crafty ways to spruce up your presents that will not only save you a trip to the store but that will make your gifts stand out, too. All you have to do is look around the house. Who knew all this time your old sweaters, grocery bags, cereal boxes and even junk mail could double as one-of-a-kind gift wrap?
1. Recycled Cloth Gift Bag
Dress up your delicious food gifts in a festive bag made simply by stitching cotton fabric from napkins, curtains or scraps.
2. Music Sheet Gift Bag
No need to buy a fancy gift bag when you can make a spectacular one in minutes. Embellish a plain shopping bag with greenery, music sheets and string.
3. Sweater Gift Bag
Here’s a genius gift wrap idea that keeps gifts warm, cozy and festive — and you can find it right inside your closet.
4. Festive Grocery Bag Wrapping Paper
With some simple cutting, folding and colorful tape and twine trimmings, old paper grocery bags with seasonal illustrations (like these Trader Joes’ ones) transform into the decorative gift wrap you’ve always wanted.
5. Printable Wrapping Paper
Express yourself with this sophisticated printable chalkboard gift wrap that looks like it cost you an arm and a leg. (We won’t tell.)
6. Stamped Paper & Junk Mail Gift Wrap
Regular old printer office paper, junk mail and a stamp are all you need to make this chic wrapping paper that’ll get voted best dressed under the tree.
7. Vintage Scarf Wrap
Here’s an easy way to wrap your gift in style — furoshiki style. Just grab a vintage scarf you no longer wear and follow this easy how-to for a pretty presentation that saves you time and money.
8. Newspaper Gift Bag
Start spreading the news — you can even make your own paper gift bag without leaving the house. All you need? Two sheets of newspaper, cardstock, glue and cord.
9. Cereal Box Package
The colorful cardboard boxes that hold your family’s favorite cereal can easily turn into a whimsical gift box with the help of this printable template. You’ll never spend money on gift boxes again.
10. Decorative Plastic Container
Forget trays or plates to showcase your homemade cookies. Fabric or paper scraps turn plastic juice (or even cylindrical potato chip containers) into jolly snowmen and personalized tubes.
11. DIY Word Search Wrapping Paper
Want gift packaging that speaks volumes to your loved ones? The search for the perfect wrapping paper is over with this fun (and customized) idea you can craft in minutes.
I couldn't just write out a packing list. I had to sketch things out otherwise I knew I'd forget some key component of the outfit. I know. I over think things.
I'm taking off for 30 days of traveling and metafilter meetups this evening, which means I should really pack. Plan is like this:
Step one: make a list.
Step two: make sure I have everything on it.
Step two-and-a-half: go all Ummagumma on that shit
Step three: actually pack.
Still working on step three at the moment.
Use the right size boxes
Put heavy items, like books, in small boxes; light items, like linens and pillows, in bigger ones. (Large boxes packed with heavy items are a common complaint of professional movers. They not only make the job harder but also have a better chance of breaking.)
Put heavier items on the bottoms of boxes, lighter items on top
And if you’re loading the truck yourself, pack heavier boxes first, toward the front of the truck, for balance.
Don’t leave empty spaces in the boxes
Fill in gaps with proper shipping supplies. Movers often won’t move boxes that feel loosely packed or unbalanced.
Avoid mixing items from different rooms in the same box
It will make your packing quicker and your unpacking a lot easier, too.
Label each box with the room it’s destined for and a description of its contents
This will help you and your movers know where every box belongs in your new place. Numbering each box and keeping an inventory list in a small notebook is a good way to keep track of what you’ve packed―and to make sure you still have everything when you unpack.
Tape boxes well
Use a couple of pieces of tape to close the bottom and top seams, then use one of the movers’ techniques―making a couple of wraps all the way around the box’s top and bottom edges, where stress is concentrated.
If you’re moving expensive art, ask your mover about special crating
Never wrap oil paintings in regular paper; it will stick. For pictures framed behind glass, make an X with masking tape across the glass to strengthen it and to hold it together if it shatters. Then wrap the pictures in paper or bubble wrap and put them in a frame box, with a piece of cardboard between each framed piece for protection.
Bundle breakables
As you pack your dishes, put packing paper around each one, then wrap bundles of five or six together with more paper. Pack dishes on their sides, never flat. And use plenty of bunched-up paper as padding above and below. Cups and bowls can be placed inside one another, with paper in between, and wrapped three or four in a bundle. Pack them all in dish-barrel boxes.
Consider other items that will need special treatment
Vansant says his movers treat TVs like any other piece of furniture, wrapping them in quilted furniture pads. He points out, however, that plasma TVs require special wooden crates for shipping if you don’t have the original box and can be ruined if you lay them flat. If you’re packing yourself, double-box your TV, setting the box containing the TV into another box that you’ve padded with packing paper.
Up late packing, sorting, collecting AND sketching! Not long to go for me now...
PS. My true architects writing in caps (I wanted a dense block of text...)
Took this self-shot the hard way.
Some craziness went on with the image for some reason. Not sure what caused it. Could only fix it but so much. I won't tell what it was.
SFM_223ra
I like lists, I really do, but sometimes I think much better visually than by something as abstract as words.
Hidden in the shadow of the camera bag: socks.
I'm PACKING!
I leave tomorrow to spend the rest of the week with Nick! YAY!!!! I'm so excited! I feel like a kid before Christmas who's totally not going to be able to sleep!
This will be my last upload for about week since I'm not taking my comp! I'll still be taking my 365 though! And others! Look forward to alot of Nick!
Have a great week!
I was orignally planning to take the suitcase on the left as i am only going away for TWO NIGHT!! lol.
Packing tape featuring my patterns! Only available in my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/shop/scarletfig?section_id=6070922
Andy was out of town for a couple days before we left for our DC trip. My mom came down to help out and take us to the airport. I had created a nice comprehensive packing list but of course left the actual packing to the day/evening before. Eep. I ended up taking two suitcases--one carryon size, one the next size up. Mostly to carry the kidco peapod tents, but it was also nice to have room for whatever we needed to bring.
Efficiency...
Things not pictured, but I am taking with me:
D50 (I had to take this photo with something)
Clothes on my back... shirt, convertible pants, boxers, hat, shoes, socks and a light jacket.
Detailed image of splayed-end Anchor-brand asbestos packing material.
There are literally several thousand distinct asbestos products and respective applications collectively known as "asbestos products"; this image depicts but a single brand and one type of an often overlooked asbestos material: packing.
Essentially a rather durable rope-like material, asbestos packings can range considerably in thickness and construction (e.g.- braided, twisted, rubber/metal composite, round, square, etc.). Most packings are typically handled by dry cutting with saws or serrated knives and are usually crudely extracted from mechanical parts by picking the asbestos material apart piece-by-piece with simple corkscrew-type implements, which creates potential conditions for airborne asbestos exposure.
There are a few other applications for packing materials, however asbestos packing was most commonly used for creating internal seals around industrial pump shafts and pipe valve stems. As much as 1/2-pound (or more) of asbestos packing could be installed inside each pump or pipe valve housing and are oftentimes not even considered during asbestos surveys or exposure assessments primarily due to their inherent concealment.
The empty cage is returned to the truck following the panther’s release.
FWC Photo by Tim Donovan
FWC releases female panther rescued as kitten in 2011
Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) released a female Florida panther Thursday night at the Picayune Strand State Forest in Collier County.
The panther and its brother had been raised at the White Oak Conservation Center in Yulee since they were 5 months old. The FWC rescued the two panthers as kittens in September 2011 near the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed in northern Collier County after their mother was found dead.
“This panther is healthy and has grown to a size that should prepare her for life in the wild,” said Darrell Land, FWC panther team leader. “The goal in any panther rescue is to be able to release the animal back into the wild to aid in the recovery of this endangered species.”
The release was coordinated in consultation with partners from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Five other kittens of similar ages – three females and two males – have been raised at White Oak and released in south Florida.
“We are grateful for the work the staff at White Oak has done to prepare this panther and others for release,” said Land.
Biologists chose the Picayune Strand State Forest for the release of this panther after they evaluated the home ranges of other females in the region and found available space between them.
An estimated 100 to 160 adult and subadult panthers remain in south Florida.
Florida residents can support conservation efforts like the rescue and rehabilitation of this panther through the purchase of a panther license plate. Fees from license plate sales are the primary funding source for the FWC’s research and management of Florida panthers.
To report dead or injured panthers, call the FWC’s Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404-FWCC (3922) or #FWC or *FWC on a cell phone.
For more information on Florida panthers, go to www.floridapanthernet.org.
September 4, 2010 (Saturday) - For use in my blog today.
I comment about my life and opinions in my eJournal and images every single day. This photo was used there today. It was used there today.
Packing tape featuring my patterns! Only available in my Etsy shop here: www.etsy.com/shop/scarletfig?section_id=6070922
Detailed image of Chesterton-brand asbestos packing material with splayed-end.
There are literally several thousand distinct asbestos products and respective applications collectively known as "asbestos products"; this image depicts but a single brand and one type of an often overlooked asbestos material: packing.
Essentially a very durable rope-like material, asbestos packings can range considerably in thickness and construction (e.g.- braided, twisted, rubber/metal composite, round, square, etc.). Most packings are typically handled by dry cutting with hand-saws or serrated knives and are usually crudely extracted from mechanical parts by picking the asbestos material apart piece-by-piece with simple corkscrew-type implements, which can create potential conditions for airborne asbestos exposure during routine maintenance activities.
There are a few other applications for asbestos packing materials, however asbestos packing was most commonly used for creating internal seals around industrial pump shafts and pipe valve stems. As much as 1/2-pound (or more) of asbestos packing could be installed inside each large pump or pipe valve housing ("stuffing box") and are oftentimes not even considered during asbestos surveys or exposure assessments primarily due to their inherent concealment inside mechanical components.
Example of a vintage pipe valve labeled as Walworth, with revealed asbestos packing around the valve stem, after being partially disassembled.
Some basic maintenance of mechanical systems that contain these valves sometimes requires personnel to dig out the fibrous asbestos textile material from inside the valve for replacement, oftentimes on a routine basis where dozens or hundreds of pipe valves might be present at a facility or within certain waterborne vessels.