Chapter 14 in Organize Now by Jennifer Ford Berry is “Organize Your Crafts”. This one has me in a quandary… I think the work I’ve been doing on my office is addressing the craft organization, but I am intentionally ignoring the closet full of sewing supplies. To be really faithful to this process, I should set that closet up before I can say I’m truly done with this chapter.
But, guess what? We’re in the process of buying a house! We’ll be moving at the end of August! I am not going to set up the sewing closet just to pack it up and have to do it over again. AND – all the craft stuff that we put in the attic this summer will be coming out. So I am going to put Chapter 14 on hold and do it at the new house where I will either have a whole room devoted to my crafts, or the whole two-car garage! Woo-hoo!
Chapter 15 is “Organize Your Photographs”. I am considering this part of my crafting process and will do once I set up the new craft room – so, it’s also being postponed.
Chapter 16: “Organize Your Purse”. I feel like I’m cheating a little bit. When I started college, I got my first purse. I had been using a man’s wallet in my pants until then, but I started wanting to carry other things around with me and I needed a really big bag for it all. I had everything I could possibly need at a minutes notice! Chapstick, membership cards, screwdrivers, tape measures, books, colored pencils – whatever! One day, with a great deal of asperity, my Mom said that I couldn’t carry a can of WD40 in my purse and I realized that she was right. What I needed was a toolbox in my car and then I could quit carrying that heavy bag around! PHEW!
I do have a purse now, but it’s very small and fits in Robin’s diaper bag. I emptied it out and straightened it up so I can say I am done with Chapter 16! WooHoo!
Congrats on the house and a healthy baby! Yay! I’m so happy that life is treating you well. 🙂
Thanks! Sorry for not responding to your last email, but glad you got caught up here. 😀
Keeping up with your weeding?! 😀 I am working on the ugly patch in the front of our house a tiny bit at a time. I don’t want to leave it all gross when we leave.
At first I thought you wrote “keeping up with your WEDDING” and I was confused. Haha. There’s a patch where the sun hits every day so I can’t get to it (good excuse, eh?). But I have to say I am pleased by my weeding skills because where I have weeded very few have come back. Garden fail this year though — what I planted didn’t grow or thrive, what I transplanted die. Oh well! Other stuff did well and there’s always next year!
It’s a fun new experiment. I’m already trying to plan what to do with the landscaping at our new home. We don’t have a lot of space, but there isn’t much established stuff that I want to keep (a couple of invasive non-natives that I want to take out right away), so it’s sort of a blank slate. It’ll be a challenge.
Pingback: A Return to Methodical Organizing | No Chaos No Order