Big stash

This is what is on my walls in the room in which I'm sleeping these days. I used to have about double this amount of fabric, but I went through and got rid of things that I no longer wanted, needed or if it was something I thought I would never use. This is actually not ALL of my fabric. I have a separate four shelf unit that holds all the flannels. These two walls were much more organized before my son stayed in this room. I used to have the stripes all together and the plaids all together and the checks all together within each type. Actually, all my ginghams are still together. You just can't see it in this picture. OCD works for some things pretty well! ha ha.
After I paint in there I am going to reorganize it and put the stripes, plaids and checks all back together again! (Maybe by color, ha ha).I can take another picture if any one is interested.


My knits, fleece, fur and robe material.


My home dec, velveteen, corduroy, denim, cottons and cotton blends.



Time management is important. I don't sew because I always have too many "other things" to do. I want to sew, but every time I go in the sewing room I see some other things I wanted to finish up first. This means I need to go back to scheduled sewing time. And, when I go into the sewing room, I need to put blinders on and know that the other things in there will get done in due time. Or maybe not, but part of killing procrastination is learning to do the task at hand. NOW! So I'm going to work on that. I'm going back to making an exclusive time for sewing. And in that time I am going to SEW ONLY. Wish me luck. I have lots of things I want done and out of my sewing basket(s).

Stop wasting time on the computer.

It's a disease.


Time is flying by
I need to stretch it out
I can't bottle it.



I can't believe how fast time zooms along. I have so much to do and so littl e time. I need to quit wasting time. I need to throw my computer out. I need to control my computer addiction. I have to admit it takes a lot of time to complete my tasks in both Farmville and Cafe World. I have a lot of neighbors. I have 52 Farmville neighbors and 40 Cafe World neighbors. I haven't even counted my Farm Town and Lil Farm Life neighbors. I play those sporadically, now. I think about discontinuing them, but there are still things I like about them and I just need to find a way to divide my time since I obviously can't divide myself.
If only I was retired.

Seriously, though, I'm going to start a new time management program tomorrow to try and squeeze a little more productivity out of my days. There are just some things I want to be finished. I'm tired of the loose ends all being untied and flopping around. I know I can get a lot accomplished in one hour, so I'm going to plan my time in hour increments. There will be three increments each day dedicated to various project completions. I figure that leaves three other hours in the day if I get up at 9am. I no longer have to get up early because:
a) Jeren got a vehicle so he can drive himself to work.
b) Logan is now going to daycare.

If I start forcing myself to GO TO BED by 1 or 2 o'clock (depending on when I get home from work) I will have plenty of sleep by 9am. I'm even going to set an alarm since the room I'm sleeping in right now has no window.

I am giving one of the three "extra" hours to exercise.
I am giving one of the three "extra" hours to taking care of myself and getting ready for work. In other words, I won't be realizing at 2:15 that I haven't eaten yet. I have a tendency to put things off and end up trying to eat, shower and dress all at the same time. It's silly.

That leaves one hour for the computer plus the hour I have when I get home from work. If I can't do it all in two hours a day, then too bad. I will have to plan my game time a little more effectively.

On my days off I want to remember to eat regularly. I have a really bad habit of going all day without eating because I get busy doing stuff and don't think of it. I will also plan two more hour segments toward a specific goal. I started this before but got interrupted by "having" to do things that ate up my scheduled time. I will be writing this new schedule though and any adjustments will have to be made on paper so I can see where my time goes and account for it.

Wish me luck. I'm determined.

Hobbies

In the old days, before there were home computers, I used to have loads of time. I was a stay at home mom and I had HOBBIES. By hobbies, I mean real hobbies like oil painting, sewing, making stained glass pieces and making little tiny things out of fimo clay. I have a whole gallery of tiny little fruits and veggies, bowls, vases, cups, plates, etc. I planned on someday making myself one of those really nice dollhouses and using my little fimo pieces as furnishings. I still have boxes and boxes of do-it-yourself doll house furniture in the garage to put together just for that elusive doll house that I never got.
Well, actually I got one and it was already put together. It just needed to be finished. (much like my real house, haha). However, the siding had been put on upside down by the first owner/builder. I thought everyone knew that siding overlaps from the top so as to keep the rain from getting in between, but apparently some people don't. I tried for years to pretend it was on correctly, but my perfectionism just wouldn't accept it and finally I gave it away. So now I have boxes of dollhouse furniture to be built for a dollhouse I don't have. It's ok. Maybe someday I will get one.
In the meantime, they invented and supplied the world with home computers. Home computers are wonderful, but they sure do suck the time away. I find myself with one hobby now, and that is falling asleep while playing, working and browsing on my computer. I'm going to work on that, though, and try to get back into accomplishing some other things with my time. Wish me luck. My first step in doing that is to clean out my garage from top to bottom so that I can put a studio in the attic. Yay! A studio is a good step toward making hobbies happen. So wish me luck on that, too!
Today was spent putting down gravel at the gate area of the dog's yard. That in itself felt like a great accomplishment. Tomorrow I will get back up in the attic and throw, throw, throw stuff out the window so we can take it to the dump. Fun times!
I will leave you with and idea of just how much free time I actually had before computers. Here are two of my Fimo creations from way back when.


This is a model I made of my son, David, when he was a baby. I love this little guy because he really reminds me of David.



This is a little gingerbread house. I made this and the model of David in 1983 so they have discolored just a little, but they are still in pretty good shape. There used to be a tiny little snowman in the yard. He was an eighth of an inch high and even had a tiny little carrot nose, but he broke off one time when I dropped it and I never found him. I used toothpicks to help create the detail. I used to love working with Fimo clay. You just create and then bake.