Random Friday: Sewing organization

• I thought I'd share how I organize my sewing stuff. I labelled all those boxes on Flickr, if you click the picture it'll take you over.
• All my quilting cottons, interfacing, decor weight, canvas, twill, and solids are inside, as are most of the supplies like needles, elastic, thread, etc.
• This is my box of solid fabrics and blenders.
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• This is the best take I've seen on Pinterest, tho this one is a very close second.
• Next week is Bo Peep's last week with us, as she's going to full time pre-school.
• I made this slow cooker chicken tikka masala for dinner this week. I liked it, no one else did.

Books I Read This week:

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  Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller. Interesting, but could use an editor. Not finished yet.
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  Split by Swati Avasthi. Still good, still reading.
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  The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown. Just started this one for the BlogHer Book Club.
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  Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods by Jennifer Reese. Very interesting and funny. On Chapter 2.

Scenes from work at home Monday

Halloween Owl Change Purses in progress

The boys playing on the rocks, just before the bleeding head wound.

The Princess and Bo Peep on the porch

Laundry on one end, sewing on the other.

PS. Did you remember to enter the giveaway for your own owl pouch? You'll be able to choose a Halloween one if the others don't strike your fancy.

Random Friday: A detailed look at my weekly calendar and to do list

• This school year I bought a planner and have been using it for a month. It shows a week at a glance with a section for my to do list, and a side bar for additional notes. (It's technically for menu planning, I don't use it for that.) It's ridiculously full each week, because I write a daily to do list on it, but it's really working out for me.  I tried to make notes for how I use it, but you'll have to click on it to see it bigger. The key turns out to be writing out my to do list in excruciatingly tiny detail. Each morning I make a new to do list, carrying over whatever didn't get done yesterday. It does not include things like laundry and feeding children. The section under the pirate ship are future blog posts, if I ever write them.  How would you tweak this to do list to fit your life? What am I missing? What could make it easier to get organized?
• I dusted off the made by lisah blog yesterday, with a post of my Favorite Etsy finds of the past week. Pop on over and take a look!  (I also worked on sprucing up the sidebars and vacuuming the dust out of the corners.)
• We're going to have a little friend staying with us a couple days a week. We've had her here twice now and I think it's going to work out well. She's a little younger than the Bug, but he still enjoys her company. We'll be calling her Little Bo Peep, just cause I think "Bo Peep" will be fun to type.
• I've been lugging these 4 or 5 underbed boxes of paperbacks around with me for the last 12 years or so. As part of my storage unit clean out, I just purged 4/5 of them. I added them to my yard sale stacks, but honestly I can't imagine who is going to want to buy 15 -18 year old Harlequin romance novels, or other old, non-stellar, titles.  I did keep a handful of my favorites. (G, if you're worried, Jake's Mountain is safe!)  I also purged about 1/3 of our other books. I still have 2 or 3 boxes to go, but a lot of them are Mike's so I suspect they will stay put.

What I Read this week:

• Finished Divergent by Veronica Roth. I loved it so much. Probably more than The Hunger Games.I might even review it.
• Started The Help. In Large Print!! Kinda worried I'm not in the mood for something serious, which means the next one is really crazy...
• Started Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I've been telling Trish I would read it and the anniversary of 9/11 seemed like a good time.

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