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In a bid to declutter, came across this little note from a dear friend on a party bag. The bag may now be gone, but the memories will live on!
Quick project to build a second hanging bookshelf for my office, which will allow me to declutter considerably.
Fitting the carcass dovetails. This side was a particularly nice piece of poplar heartwood I found at Home Depot. Sad it was the only piece they had left in the size I needed, else I'd have saved it for a project that could feature it.
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Day 10. FlyLady says: "Today we are going to learn the power of just 15 minutes. This is all about getting started and giving ourselves permission to stop when the timer goes off. You can't restart the timer. The timer helps to keep us focused on what we are doing."
I continued from where I left off yesterday. So, I'm still in my carft room, working my way around the room clockwise.
Photo1:
There's my hubby's camera bag again. I put it on his desk yesterday. We obviously need proper places for our camera bags.
In a white box there are toys from my childhood. I want to buy a good box for them and go through them before I store them.
Photo 2:
In a transparent plastic box there are some toys, which are in current use, but "on hold". We don't keep all the toys available for the kid all the time, but change the available toys every now and then, so he won't get bored with them. I dusted and reorganized the box.
Photo 3:
It looks a bit better now that I decluttered the area and put all the blue boxes in one pile instead of two.
Those boxes contain all kind of stuff from the craft room. I started to reorganize the room ages ago and got some sorting done at the time. I have to go through those boxes again, so it will be easier to continue the project. They're not going to stay in the room after I have finished.
FlyLady continues: "Then set your timer for another 15 minutes and sit down and put your feet up and read a favorite magazine till the timer goes off."
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This buffet is original to our 1925 house. Unfortunately, the upper cabinets come down to low making the counter space unusable for cooking. I need to declutter this area and possibley hang up a picture by the window. We've tried to hang plants in front of the window, but they keep dying.
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About 25 years ago, the photographs were left to my parents in a Will by their next door neighbour of 30 years. At the time I said I'd look after them. Decluttering the attic I found the box with them all in. Many of them were taken in Norwich photography studios. I'm trying to date them as there's not much information on them. I guess they must be late 19C. They are not being added to the declutter pile. I'll carry on looking after them.
This is a cool place in San Francisco with a beautiful backyard garden that the agent wanted showcased as much as possible. I know this is a bit crazy wide, all the way out at 17mm, and it leaves quite a lot of open space in the middle. So what was I thinking? I wanted to show the garden from this angle, and wanted to showcase that wall of windows and those French doors. I pushed the dining room table off to the right (it's on that carpet there) to declutter a bit.
Lighting:
An umbrella over at my far right illuminating the sectional and the area with the fireplace. One OC flash straight up giving me some good foreground light. I was also holding one light way up over my head which I think I had zoomed in on that fireplace, but can't remember for sure now. I've been doing that more and more to throw some needed light into dark corners, and it's working well for me in general.
So I don't really know much of anything about sergers. But now I have one, thanks to the desire to declutter that a fellow non-sewing crafty friend had as she came across this serger sitting in the back of her closet for several years had. She'd talked to me a couple of years about sergers and I'd talked about how I thought it would be easier to do linings on a serger but I wasn't sure that I wanted to invest in one. She said "I've got one I'm not using. I'll look for it and give you a call." And she did when she finally came across it yesterday. So it's used, but it's only been used a few times and it hasn't been used in years. So a nice cleaning and maybe an oiling and a test run on scrap fabric. But I'm excited. I think this will make working with ripstop easier so I may actually be able to turn some of the ripstop I purchased into reusable shopping totes like I planned. And after looking at a quilt recently on MovingHands Flickr stream with seams exposed, I've got an idea for the flap of a messenger bag that I think will be easier to make with a serger. Now if only I had time to sit down and play with it for a week to really get to know it.
My house is a state. Too much stuff, too much junk, too many hoarders and not enough space. Today the decluttering books I'd ordered from Amazon arrived. Unfortunately, despite having had the books in the house all day it's no less full of stuff. Hmm.
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The core idea behind the Marie Kondo method is that clutter takes up very much of our physical and psychological space. The KonMari method urges people to only surround themselves with stuff that sparks joy for them and get rid of needless household items. This act of decluttering will create more space for energy and thoughts to flow and bring joy and harmony. In our effort to recognise how the KonMari method can be applied to the context of household cleaning, tidying and decluttering, we brought an informative video by professional cleaners who offer detailed house cleaning in Melbourne. To know more, visit: www.bondcleaninginmelbourne.com.au/marie-kondo-method-dec...
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Quick project to build a second hanging bookshelf for my office, which will allow me to declutter considerably.
Time to hang it.
Without seeing sunlight
the winter camellia
blooms.
Kobayashi Issa
I brought a few 'blooms' back from my late mothers garden, (she died last April)....she'd always have a vase of Camellias in the house as soon as they started flowering...
we are in the process of clearing and selling her house....and within the next month or two....what was a family home for over 60 years and a hub for all the family will be gone...so...emotional times ahead...but nice to know a young family will be making it their home soon.
This process has taught us all a lesson...declutter your homes and your lives now!! It's amazing how much 'stuff' a person accumulates over the years!!
I've already started!!
textures thanks to Tóta and PaintedWorks.
I had forgotten I bought this a few years back at a dollar store until now, when I was trying to declutter a bit at home.
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I choose to photograph this one because of the lady's unusual hairstyle and the name of the photography studio - Chic Photo Co.
About 25 years ago, the photographs were left to my parents in a Will by their next door neighbour of 30 years. At the time I said I'd look after them. Decluttering the attic I found the box with them all in. Many of them were taken in Norwich photography studios. I'm trying to date them as there's not much information on them. I guess they must be late 19C. They are not being added to the declutter pile. I'll carry on looking after them.
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Clearing the ballast. 372 CD's cleared from the shelves; we sold them within two hours of listing them on Craigslist! Yay! Less is more!
i have heaps of icons on my desktop so sometimes when i write, i need a super blank page inc. the background.
so i just create a new empty folder, and let it fill the screen, like a backdrop or curtain. whew! no more clutter to distract me.
2000 words to go, ouch.
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101 Steps to a Simpler Life
That seems like too many steps.
But I got the "sort your items into piles" part down.
A photo documenting one of my attempts to declutter The Room of Doom™ is included in this Goedecker's article on simplifying and going minimalist.
Remember when "minimalism" was a trendy thing? Yeah, my decluttering photos were insanely popular around that time.
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I just love these boxes and I want more of them. Most of the boxes I have are transparent, which is very handy. But I would love to get some of those green and purple ones, too. And those semi-transparent orange and pink ones!
I have not forgotten about FlyLady. Previous Beginner BabySteps have been a bit tricky. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do and I haven't had time to figure that out.
Day 22 - Where's your Control Journal?
I've been waiting for further instructions to go on with it, but maybe I should've followed these instructions by myself?
Day 23 - Set your Afternoon Routine
Not sure what I'm expected to do in the afternoons. The truth is I get to do many of the morning routines in the afternoon, when my hubby gets home. I may have to adapt all these routines to fit our family better when I'm done with the BabySteps and have a bigger picture of this whole FlyLady thing.
PS. This photo was taken in a shop a couple of days ago.