Post Christmas post

I'm sitting here thinking about doing my Callanetics (or however this is spelled). These exercises really are not that difficult and you do see an improvement in a short time. I'm too busy eating part of what was once a huge Special Dark chocolate bar and feeling very tired. One of my permanent goals is to quit wasting so much time. There goes 5 minutes. I want to sew a pair of jeans before the end of this year, I have approximately 6 days to accomplish this. I wish the weather were warmer so I could do some of my outside projects although I do have some very hardy weeds that are growing even when the temperature has gotten below freezing several times. Since this is supposed to be mostly a sewing blog, my goal this week is to finish a few sewing projects. See 'ya when I actually complete one.

Mini-blinds into Roman Shades

I just finished making an old mini-blind into a roman shade. I read about it in this blog. I'm going to make other ones for my other windows. The only thing I did differently was to sew 2 pieces of fabric together instead of gluing hems all around and I painted the slats to match the fabric, so they wouldn't be standing out so much, even though anything was better than what the blinds looked like from the outside before. Most of the slats disintegrated as I was trying to remove them, but there were some that actually had not seen the sun for 10 years, so I was able to salvage them for the project. Next I'm going to make one from black out fabric.

Finished painting my house (sort of)

I finished painting the outside of my house, mostly. I just need to fill in the spots that the roller would not paint, I will need to use a sponge to get into the nooks and crannies (textured stucco). Oh yeah, I also need to paint the trim and finish painting my faux wood garage door. I also was able to build 2 shelves for my garage and put up a curtain rod. Since I decided to clean and organize (a month into my vacation) there was a domino effect of obstacles in my way. When I started to paint the outside of my house, I found out I had 2 outside water leaks, one in a faucet and one on the roof, thank the good Lord my friend's husband was able to fix them. One of the times I tried to go outside through my back door and found out the deadbolt would not budge (this sometimes happens when it rains, and we had quite a bit of that). I had to take it apart and grease it, this was done while I watched a video on the net to see how it was done. I am so grateful for the internet. When I was cleaning out my sewing closet, the curtain rod in my other closet fell, so I decided to clean out all three of my closets. I was able to go buy a curtain rod and put it up at the same time getting rid of a pile of clothes. There is actually some good that comes out of obstacles. I also realized the amount of books I had piled up in the closets, even though I have a perfectly spacious built in book case in my living area, so I cleaned out the bookcase and placed the books in it. Now I have to go back and find places for all the stuff I have all over. Right now it looks like pure "foolishness" (I've been watching back to back episodes of "Clean House"). It's hard for me to stick to one thing and finish it, I usually have many things going on at one time, but it'll get done. I'd better go back to the "foolishness". I also took out about 15 wheelbarrows full of rocks from the area near the gas meter.

More organizing

It's hard for me to get into the motion of actually organizing and cleaning, although I am gung ho about doing it, it's that first step that is hard. I did get around to building one of those wire shelves and putting most of my fabric stash, rolled up so it would all fit, on it. I was going to do some more things (I have more shelves to build) but it is 96 degrees right now at 9:30p.m., so I just want to sit next to the fan.

First Day of My Blog

Even though I set this blog up at least a year ago or maybe more, this is my first post. I just came in from painting part of the outside of my house. It's supposedly "Rustic Adobe" but looks more like Oompa Loompa orange. Last time I painted it "Adobe Walls" and it looked more like what I remember Thistle being from my 64 crayon box when I was a child. Both paint jobs look better in the evening. I have so many summer projects planned, but already a month of my vacation has passed and I haven't finished or even started some of them. This is really supposed to be a sewing blog so I'll try to post something about sewing soon.

Gotta go, time's a wasting...