Week Three, July 2009

I'm half way through the third weekend. I'm not as far along as I'd like to be; but much farther then I'd be if I didn't have a schedule to go by. I switched areas: this weekend I'm tackling the bedroom and hall, and next will be "my" room. I had several reasons, but the only "important" one is that I can easily let the hall and bedroom slide over into next weekend to finish if I need to. Actually, there's not as much to do as I was afraid of. Jimmy has tackled some of the clutter. I won't be touching any of his shelves, so there's only one major "hot spot" to do. And I can't do that one without him, as it's all his junk to be sorted.
I've gotten all but one of the hall shelves sorted. I just need to dust and replace pictures, and then finish dusting the whole unit. After that, it's just the dusting (ceilings and baseboards too) and vacuum.
Probably someday I'll pull all the books off the shelves and really organize then. Well, maybe. LOL! That's a major job ... we have SO many books. They should be better organized so that we remember what we've got and can reference them more often. It would, for example, be a lot more fun to look up and try recipes than to dust bookshelves.
I'm not nearly as far along with the quilting projects as I need to be. I've really got to start pushing myself in evenings to do that. I do have all the blocks completed for the one that's about 3 years overdue ... and have started cutting backing and batting blocks. There's another that's 2 years overdue that I need to finish cutting blocks. And I have several totes and Christmas fabric table toppers that only need to be finished.
Most of my Christmas this year will be homemade goodies (cookies, breads & jams, candy) in some nice glass dishes (that I've stocked up on when I got some SUPER bargains). I should have already started getting cookie dough in the freezer, so I'm behind on that too.
I got started on one cute Advent project ... but reached a stopping point because I'm out of gold spray paint.
I will really work hard today at actually FINISHING something!!!