on the border...

in which our plucky heroine remembers all the dearloves who no longer walk in the bright world...gone from our hands but not our hearts...

Monday musings - progress report

...in which our plucky heroine notices how much has been accomplished...

In the last week/weekend, in addition to the usual and everyday chores:

added another storage shelf underneath the others on the west wall - intended as storage for upcoming sewing WIP's... but for the next two weeks it will be a Useful Shelf for houseguests, since my beloved parents will be arriving tomorrow for an extended visit!

I also added this small closet rod storage in the niche between the shelves on the east wall and the actual closet.
This is intended for either the use of my guests, or when the room in untenanted, as a spot to hang current sewing works-in-progress

There is room underneath/behind the new closet rod to also store the ironing board. (I will add a tethering rope to help keep it upright in case of earthquake, just like I did with my collection of lumber in the workroom) I'd really like to both paint the wooden legs of the ironing board, and also make it a spiffy new fabric cover...

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My friend Kate kindly and thoughtfully cut a piece of white oak into a transition threshold to fill the gap between the new flooring and the hallway carpet. I am just delighted at how the wood she chose is such an excellent match!

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Earlier this year Gersvinda gifted me with a big bag of pears... the ones I didn't just eat, turned into pear sauce. Surprisingly, as they cooked down, the pears turned a deep red, just like quince does!

I stashed the pear sauce in the freezer, waiting for a cooler day to do the actual processing; as the weather turned cooler this week, was time to fill one of the large kettles and get busy. I also processed the small amount of applesauce from my own apples, turned out to be about 11 ounces, or not quite three jars...

The beginnings of salsa verde.... Once these cook down, and soften, will add chopped onion, jalapeno pepper, cilantro, a bit of salt, and some lime juice. There will be savory spicy condiment to enliven the next year (with special thanks to Marya for donating the tomatillos!)

partway through processing salsa verde... it seems that I will end up with about eighteen 4 oz jars to put in the pantry. And after several hours in the kitchen, my estimate was correct... There is something so satisfying about putting up food for the pantry... I just had to make a little sculpture of my 18 jars of salsa verde before putting them away.

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October SMART goals

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	8 stenciled panels	kosode for R	carpet
2	carved yukiwa stamp	new flooring down	carpet padding
3	3 stamped panels	four new shelves	mustard nightstand
4	Japanese kosode	another shelf	Goodwill bag
5	a silk obi belt	external closet rod	shelf unit
6	15 kai awashe shells	doorway threshold	-
7	two cotton obi belts	-	-
8	new swimdress	-	-
9	18 jars salsa verde	-	-
10	8 jars fruit sauce	-	-
11	-	-	-
12	-	-	-

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wishful Wednesday - a bit more about the small bedroom

in which our plucky heroine wishes for a wee Ikea shopping spree...

floor plan and three wall elevations....
also list of things not in room or not existing at the house currently

What I want for the small bedroom is that it function well for me to sew in, and that it easily transition to a guest room as needed, which happens fairly often. For making this room guest friendly, I need small nightstands (in particular I would like one each of RASKOG and VETTRE to use as rolling nightstands on either side of the futon couch), a place for the guests to put their clothing, and a waste basket for next to the bed. A wall mirror would be a good addition as well.

For both uses, adding a small wall hung clothes rod would be a good thing, probably on the east wall between the current shelves and the closet, there is about an 18" wide space that would serve both guest clothing, a place to hang a current WIP when sewing, as well as a tidy spot to lean the ironing board. If I put curtains up across the closet front, it will make that wall more visually peaceful, and I can gradually clear away, sort, and declutter the interior of the closet.

The sewing function will be improved by more organisation and decluttering of my current fabric supplies/sewing supplies; I am feeling like there is actually Enough Storage in this room for my needs. Fabric in garment lengths on open shelves, notions, and smaller fabric bits in the drawers or in curated boxes; once the other bits and bobs are removed, there should be quite enough space. While it feels like I have not yet made as much progress towards that goal as could be wished for, incremental progress is still progress.

And now, a tour of the current interim state of the room, now that the lovely new laminate flooring is in place -

When you walk into the room this is what you see...  For some reason the original builders placed the window off-center in the north wall of the room. I do intend to run a high shelf above the window all across that wall, as a place to store my yarn stash.The lack of nightstands and task lighting is obvious, and I am thinking that removing the small white knickknack shelf from the wall (and all the assorted random clutter) would further open up the space. That northwest corner could eventually be a place for a dress form someday....

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On the right, the east wall is mostly shelving that store garment lengths of fabric, with a low, heavily reinforced shelf for my sewing machines. This wall recently had four new wall-hung shelves added (to replace a combination of old storage units and Boeing bookcase that stood in the corner, and leave the flooring open and easier to keep clean) The folding sewing tables normally live leaned up against the wall under the sewing machines, and the gap visible between the shelves and the closet wall is where I am thinking to store the ironing board...

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The closet wall, and a closer view of the current hot mess closet

The south wall is the closet wall, and the closet is currently chock-a-block full, partially of things that actually belong in there like sewing notions and smaller pieces of fabric, and partially with random clobber that got picked up from the room and stuffed in there to get it out of the way whilst laying the floor.

I don't think I want to keep the clipboards pinned to the wall next to the doorway; if I had a good file scenario, they wouldn't need to live there. Interesting how taking pictures, looking at said photos and some time thinking about the space has made a number of needed changes much more obvious. I need a way to store and retrieve paper information. Keeping it all online, like many folks do, is not helpful, I USE hardcopy, and setting up a hardcopy system is going to be far less expensive than buying new tech toys.

I am thinking that for temporary, moving my file cabinet from the studio to the small bedroom, will give me a nightstand, at least temporarily. There are beloved houseguests coming next week to stay for a fortnight. Most of what is in that file cabinet can probably be discarded. That would give me the space, at least, to set up Useful Hardcopy storage.

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The west wall, and a bit of the north wall. The thread rack is a good thing, fits neatly behind the door when the door is open The large wall shelf is a good thing, but is not being well utilised. Top shelf is full of crap, middle shelf is full of patterns that I mostly don't use. Bottom shelf is good, full of next-up-to-be-used good fabric. This area formerly had a pseudo-table set up underneath the shelves, that I don't want to put back, because it only functioned as a clutter catcher. So imagine the entire space from the bottom shelf down being full of boxes and bins of stuff (that is all in the big bedroom now); I don't want to simply fill this space back up again. Am considering adding one more shelf underneath the ones there, and also about the patterns and other things on the shelving here that could go live somewhere else, either in the house or at Goodwill. One step at a time...

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• 8/14 - the first glimmer of this project
• 9/14 - starting the declutter
• 2/15 - making progress
• 10/15 - laminate flooring

not an oncoming train

...in which our plucky heroine makes progress towards a long held goal, with help from her Blue Cedar House pals...

One longterm goal is to get rid of all the crap cheap carpeting in the house and replace it with hard flooring; another longterm goal is to eventually have my space set up so that when I get an idea to make something, that all the needed tools, supplies, and equipment are right at hand; and when the time comes to put things away, that there are readily accessible known "homes" for everything.

This morning we made great progress; Heather checks some details and the flooring is gradually filling in across the room...

My clever helpers figured out how to apply the flooring in a more random pattern, which makes the design look less "manufactured". The black pieces around the edges are spacers that hold the flooring away from the wall, which allows it to expand and contract as needed with seasonal variation.

There were several trips out to Mr Plywood, and the hardware store to acquire quarter round molding to finish off the floor edges, and to get a pint of trim paint, after it was determined that the paint I had acquired (and used) years ago and stored for future use is no longer quite the correct consistency, having turned in storage to something resembling curdled cheese... Bit by bit as the day progressed so did our assorted efforts gradually move towards the desired result.

It had gotten quite dark out by the time I finished shaping the corner blocks to fit in the corners of the room; these make installing the quarter round molding a lot easier, plus I prefer the visual effect to the more standard mitered corners

The corner blocks are clearly visible here, since I've not had time to paint them to match the quarter round, figuring it was more important to get everything installed with helpers, and that the detail painting can happen afterwards. (and yes, it really is a very small room, 9ft x 10 ft)

The trim really finishes off the excellent job my Blue Cedar House pals did installing the new floor. I decided against putting the large cluttery heavy furniture back into the room; not sure what will end up as furnishings for this room yet. The futon couch will certainly continue to live here, there needs to be some sort end table/nightstands, some task/reading lights, and of course the ironing board, sewing machines, and folding sewing tables will return...

Heather looking rightfully pleased at the outcome of a very busy and tiring day! (and a bit more of the new floor visible) I am going to leave the room more empty than is my usual wont, so I can get a sense of how best to actually use the space. Somehow now that the carpet is gone, the whole room feels a lot more expansive, much more than simply having some of the contents gone would warrant.

While I had the tool wielding people visiting, four new shelves were cut to fit in one of the open wall spaces along the east wall. I still need to paint the wooden wall cleats to match the wall. These shelves will soon be filled with fabric. I think I am getting close to an appropriate amount of fabric storage... it is starting to feel like if the wall shelves hold garment lengths, and the other storage holds smaller pieces of fabric and notions, that once I get it all organised and decluttered, this room will turn into the sort of workspace I have had in mind for a long time, whilst still remaining a comfortable guest room.

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October SMART goals

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	8 stenciled panels	kosode for R	carpet
2	carved yukiwa stamp	new flooring down	carpet padding
3	3 stamped panels	four new shelves	mustard nightstand
4	Japanese kosode	-	Goodwill bag
5	a silk obi belt	-	-
6	15 kai awashe shells	-	-
7	two cotton obi belts	-	-
8	-	-	-
9	-	-	-
10	-	-	-
11	-	-	-
12	-	-	-

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baby steps

in which our plucky heroine takes small steps forward, and a lot of steps sideways

We began the day with high hopes of finishing the flooring install in one day, alas that was not to be. There was an unexpected playground incident with one of the children, which although in the end it turned out that said child was okay (though bruised), meant that a big chunk of Saturday was spent at Urgent Care. Fortunately we were out in that area anyway on an unsuccessful search for door threshold molding* when it became apparent that medical evaluation was a good idea.

What we did end up getting done: this morning the carpet was removed from the room, and all the tack strips and bits of rubble from ripping the tack strips out of the concrete... what is left is the plain concrete floor, with a very thin layer of ancient mastic from whatever flooring was there prior to the former owners putting in carpet. Were there simple clean concrete under the carpet instead of mastic, I'd probably just leave the concrete as the floor, but mastic is nasty to walk on, so the laminate flooring seemed like a good option.

Once the floor was entirely cleared and cleaned, vapor barrier went down (barely visible in the far right edge of the room), and then floor padding, the blue stuff that Heather and Mr Robertson are carefully taping together. Elli is helping keep the center panel from moving while the adults use duct tape. The floating laminate floor will be installed over these protective layers tomorrow...

* since Ikea is no longer carrying any molding (and not even sure they are carrying the TUNDRA flooring any more) we looked at several other places, all that didn't have what we needed to make a transition between the laminate and the carpeting still in the hallway. In the end, it occurred to me that I know some very talented people and my new friend Kate has both the skills and the equipment to cut down a board that will fit and do what needs done, and she is willing to help.

step by step

in which our plucky heroine takes first steps first...

The project for this weekend is replacing the carpet in the small bedroom with a floating laminate flooring (Ikea Tundra). My long term goal is to remove all the carpet from the house, but for now, one bedroom is a start. In preparation for this project, space was cleared in the big bedroom, as everything in the other bedroom that was standing on the floor, as opposed to hanging on the wall or in the closet, needed to be out of the room so that the carpet could be removed and the flooring put in place.

All the furniture, the storage shelves and the futon couch. And everything in the storage shelves... Two thirds of the contents of the small bedroom are stacked along the window wall in the big bedroom -

Some of the contents of the small bedroom are stacked up next to the big bedroom closet. I so do not want to put all the clutter back into the small bedroom, and am cogitating on various options. There will be quite a bit of sorting and decluttering in the next few weeks -

The room looks a lot bigger with the floor empty. Tomorrow will be all about remove the carpet, padding and tack strips, and put in the new laminate floor.

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In the attempt to create as little garbage as possible in this endeavor, have found a place that will accept the carpet padding to recycle, and have found two different people that may want part or all of the carpet itself (which cannot be recycled), so the only actual trash will be the tack strips! The improvement of this room started back in August 2014 with some initial sketches and plans, then with the first pass of decluttering last September which continued for most of the late fall and early winter, the room eventually became a pleasant spot for sewing, and a hospitable guest room for the many houseguests that grace Acorn Cottage

the kosode project: results and recap

My finished kosode is both comfortable to wear and pleasing to my eye... I learned a lot while making this project, had a lot of fun, and received several compliments at the event on my Japansese garb...

The shibori, while requiring a time consuming amount of preparation, was probably the most satisfying new technique. I had been wanting to try stitched shibori for years now, and it did not disappoint, just looking at it makes my heart sing. I really want to do more with actual indigo dyeing, as there is nothing else that looks quite like it. Some shibori camp flags say... for summertime events... while not in context for my little Norse long tent, would look very splendid indeed!

The stenciling was not a new technique, but I really liked the subtle white on indigo effect. I did cut some of the stencil ties a bit too narrow, and had a few "stencil blowouts" where the ties snapped, and I had to be very careful indeed to get a clean paint job. I can probably repair the stencils carefully with some tape, because they are nice enough to reuse, so repair is worthwhile. My clever plan of aligning the designs to form a stripe worked really well, I will likely use that idea again.

Making the kosode was indeed, as Kateline said, fairly quick, once I had the panels attached together into yardage. Had I chosen to start with yardage, the whole project would have been the work of a weekend (even with hand finishing the edges) - the actual machine sewing took one long afternoon. I don't have much call for an entire wardrobe of Japanese robes, though perhaps a lightweight one for travel would be a good future project; the kosode folds up neatly and easily into a tidy rectangle that would be easy to pack. Hmmm, while I search my stash of fabric for some silk to line it with, keeping my eye open for some silk for a travel robe as well might be in order!

This is the whole kosode from the front...

... and a slightly truncated view from the back (really I do have hands!)

It was a great event and seeing all the folks who brought out or made Japanese clothing was really impressive. My pal Tullia wrote the winning entry in the haiku contest, which also had the requested theme to honor Tsukiko (who has enthusiastically shared her knowledge and skills with our group for many years):

Gracefully, she pours.
Tea, like knowledge, fills my cup
Under the full moon.
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Friday fragments

in which our plucky heroine is pretty happy, with several new projects completed

Kosode and obi - done!! I had some silk double ikat in my drawer of "small pieces of choice fabric" and decided that cutting two four inch strips off one side would be just right for the obi. Stitched up it made a tidy, just under 2" wide, sash.

The warm tones of golden brown, plum and soft red make an excellent contrast to the cool indigo blues of the kosode, and bring, to my mind at least, both a contrast and connection between autumn and wintertime, which feels appropriate to the transitional time of year. It was considered tasteful to have one's clothing motifs and colors reference the upcoming season, so my kosode has not only the colors of winter, but the auspicious snow ring design block printed on some of the panels.

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My first attempt at painting a kai awashe shell. Monkey is one of the Japanese zodiac animals. I've only fifteen clamshells, so am doing a partial set, more as a creative example of a possible variation than an actual historical re-creation... Since the only ones I've seen examples of are fairly modern and much more elaborate, and a complete set consisted of up to 300 matching shells. And instead of using lines of poetry, decided to use the zodiac animals, just because I like them...

I've been having fun! Our plucky heroine had to pick and choose which animals to paint, and chose the ones that were the simplest. If I can get twelve or more matched pairs of clamshells, I can do the whole zodiac, which was my original intention. I didn't manage to connect with anyone who actually eats clams; these shells were a surprise gift from my pal Svava, who found a windchime in a thrift store and remembered my project...

These are the other pairs: horses, tigers, rabbits, and dogs, and finally the entire partial set of kai awashe...

Am pretty happy with both how these came out and with the techniques I worked out to get this result. The edges of the shells are painted with the same awesome acrylic vinyl golden metallic paint that worked so well for decorating the bathroom wall border. The animals were painted with waterproof india ink on some very thin white unruyu paper (made from kozo fiber, so really strong), which was then applied to the surface of the shell using some matte acrylic medium. This gave the appearance of actually painting on the shells without the danger of possibly screwing up badly enough to waste one of the few shells... The white background blends smoothly into the white of the shell interior, and the gold border is mindful of the other gold leaf I have seen on some of the other kai awashe...

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One thing I am really grateful for is tame water. The city pool is "tame water",  slightly warm, the water is clear all the way down to the bottom, and the pool is roofed over with a dome, so weather is not an issue. I grew up swimming as a child in LA, so pool water is the norm, and wild outdoor pond water is always a little scary, because not being able to see what is under the water. I am continuing to love going to do water exercise, either in one of the classes, or simply alone during free swim time and doing my physical therapy. I manage to get there almost every day, and hope that the consistent gently increasing effort will help me become stronger, and that the pressure of the water will do nothing but good for my lymphedema

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October SMART goals

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	8 stenciled panels	kosode for R	-
2	carved yukiwa stamp	-	-
3	3 stamped panels	-	-
4	Japanese kosode	-	-
5	a silk obi belt	-	-
6	15 kai awashe shells	-	-
7	two cotton obi belts	-	-
8	-	-	-
9	-	-	-
10	-	-	-
11	-	-	-
12	-	-	-

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wishful Wednesday and kosode progress

in which our plucky heroine tries out a new tool, and dreams of map chests...

The sewing bird/third hand is a recent addition to the sewing kit here, as a gift from the estate of a friends late mother, and has proven to be a great help in the yards and yards of hand sewing on this project. I have long wanted to try out this tool, and it really IS a game changer...

The sewing of straight seams and hems is eversomuch easier with this to help, it holds one end of the fabric, so that you can use one hand to sew with and the other to hold the fabric taut... much less contortion and hand stress than holding the fabric before and after the needle whilst stitching. Apparently, I've been told, it is also a very useful tool for holding fabric while trimming seams, and while using a seam ripper...

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The declutter and sort and organising is moving forward slowly, but my ongoing conversation with my declutter coach has uncovered a Useful Insight... Part of the reason the cottage is filled with piles of stuff is that there are almost no good dedicated "staging areas" for the myriad projects our plucky heroine is so fond of. Some are for work, and some are for me, or the house, and lest the parts get lost they are all stacked and bundled randomly around on any available flat surface. This is counter productive, as pieces and supplies and information get lost.

There is actually a staging area for sewing projects now (inside the linen closet where there is an section, ostensibly for hanging coats but not tall enough, where my various sewing projects can be stored each hanging from a skirt or pants hanger) but since I just set it up, there are still projects around the house that need to be moved into this space. What there is not, is a staging area for smaller personal projects, of various crafty sorts, and the workday projects that involve enameling and metalwork. While my dream is for an antique solid wooden map chest or wooden card catalog cabinet, realistically those won't just appear on my doorstep, and the days of picking up said cabinets for a song as surplus are long gone. Further thought must be given as to possible useful and aesthetic solutions. Solving this conundrum would do much to resolve a significant chunk of the clutter problem...

stencils and stamps oh my

in which our plucky heroine continues working on the kosode project...

<< The first three panels have been stenciled using white Jaquard NeoOpaque textile paint on indigo fabric. Stenciling is faster than shibori. Block printing is faster than stenciling. All three require quite a bit of advance preparation. I used a commercial stencil for this set of panels. The stenciled pieces will sit overnight before being heat set for permanence... Pretty happy with the subtle variegation of the triangles

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Combining the two stencils I cut while at Arts Unframed last weekend yields this floral/equine stripe pattern. Both motifs are appropriately Japanese in style. Am pleased to have figured out how to line up the two stencils to keep the design registration. The stencils are translucent mylar, with the cut portion bracketed by the adjacent motifs simply outlined on the mylar, making lining them up properly fairly simple!

One of the two stencils used to create the horse and flower stripe pattern. Each cut stencil has the alternate pattern inked in on either side. By making the stencil both wider and longer than the cut portion, it allows me to both mark the distance between the patterned stripes evenly, and to locate the horse or the flowers in the correct orientation to each other.

This is the resulting pattern, as horizontal stripes on one of the kosode sleeve panels.... one down and four more panels to go. I timed how long it takes to stencil one panel - about fifteen minutes...

In period, this sort of design would have been done with katazome, a stenciled resist surface design technique, where a starchy resist was applied to the fabric before it was dyed with indigo, leaving the pattern the original fabric color. For reasons of time constraint, I am simply stenciling the design with white Jaquard NeoOpaque textile paint, on indigo color linen...

five panels of stenciled horse and flower stripe completed, yay!

On one of the sleeve panels, I mis-placed two of the three initial motifs. Fortunately, the design elements could be moved around for a variation that still looks pretty good...

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After much digging through random boxes, I found the cutter blades that go with the handles for cutting printing blocks... Eventually the declutter and organise will make my life better, and I will be able to find my supplies and tools in expected places, but now I can get on with the carving the final blocks for the surface design kosode project

The motif is a snow-circle/snow-crystal called "yukiwa" and is an auspicious motif that suggests a bountiful year to come... Since the Honour Feast is in mid-autumn, the decorative motifs we use may in some way ideally reference the upcoming seasons

three printed snow circle panels, and a glimpse in the corner of my one set of "cheater" commercial shibori motif panels...

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October SMART goals

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	8 stenciled panels	-	-
2	carved yukiwa stamp	-	-
3	3 stamped panels	-	-
4	-	-	-
5	-	-	-
6	-	-	-
7	-	-	-
8	-	-	-
9	-	-	-
10	-	-	-
11	-	-	-
12	-	-	-

Friday fragments

Our plucky heroine is still astounded and delighted with the results of this weeks experimental art project! Walking out the back door to the drying yard and seeing my shibori panels waving on the clothesline made me insanely happy!!

There is still quite a bit of preparation before I can start sewing on the kosode, I have two additional sets of fabric panels to cut out and stencil this weekend, as well as two new printing blocks to carve, one with a Japanese "snow circle" motif and one with my new/alternate SCA badge, (for decorating the hemline panels)  Fortunately I have both enough assorted fabric and textile paint that the only constraint is my time available...

And just a few more notes about the initial shibori experiment...

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The upper panel in the photos was opened immediately after the seven dips in the indigo vat, and the lower one the next morning... I realised, after comparing the panels that there was a noticeable difference in the clarity and contrast of the horse's tooth patterning. A significantly more crisp pattern was the result with more time spent before undoing the stitchery. As the undulating wave pattern is less complex, the difference in contrast is less vivid but still apparent. This is worth remembering for future shibori experiments. The other thing I want to remember is to find a better way to anchor the gathered threads, my attempt to stitch them down was too successful and made it very difficult indeed to remove the threads after the dyeing was complete!

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nightstand: before and after declutter

Am continuing to put effort into decluttering the cottage. Tackling smaller areas is being more successful than the overwhelming challenge spots like the south wall of the workroom. This week, one square foot - the nightstand -  was definitely improved! Things remaining on nightstand (towards the back) are the ones that are supposed to live there: alarming clock, coin bottle, emergency radio, powder box (and my box of marbles, because it is important not to lose ones marbles...)  The small pile of things in the front are the things that get put down when I go to bed: phone, wee notebook and pen, pocketknife, and glasses.

I still have a modest bundle of random things that came off the nightstand that I don't have homes for. I have decided that the Mindy strategy of spreading them out so I can see each thing one at a time will hopefully let me either categorise what each thing is and thereby give me a clue, or make it obvious that it is discardable. I did send some papers to recycle-land, some things to trash, put several books back on the bookcase, etc. I also had various small first aid things (tubes and potions), and have noticed that now the medicine shelf in the linen closet is getting sort of messy, I need to figure out something to keep that sort of stuff (that is still good and useful) neatly corralled - will think about that, particularly as I know I have several boxes with other toiletries and small first aid stuff yet to be unearthed and sorted

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September was a really productive month, several longterm projects were completed and several new things were both started and completed. At this point in the year my SMART goal chart for the year is looking far better than it did at this time in 2014, and in fact, things made and things fixed have gone on to an overflow chart, and I hope to make equally good progress with the decluttering and the things gone, by the end of the year. Quantifying progress in this way seems to be a helpful thing for keeping efforts balanced. My eventual goal is to no longer need a things gone category in my life, and to continue to celebrate the creation and repair that is, in fact, the ongoing task of being alive.

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September SMART goals

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	apron dress for L	linen closet doors	bag to Goodwill
2	DM coronet	shed roof patched	bag to Goodwill
3	DM coronet	front door latch	bag to Goodwill
4	red top for Joan	bike brake cable	bag to Goodwill
5	Coptic stitch book	bike kickstand	bag to Goodwill
6	duct tape clone	side yard work	bag to Goodwill
7	whitewash	back yard work	bag to Goodwill
8	4 heraldic enamels	whitewash henhouse	bag to Goodwill
9	10 shibori panels	chook roost	electronica x 2
10	-	-	yard waste bin
11	-	-	yard waste bin

October SMART goals

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	-	-	-
2	-	-	-
3	-	-	-
4	-	-	-
5	-	-	-
6	-	-	-
7	-	-	-
8	-	-	-
9	-	-	-
10	-	-	-
11	-	-	-
12	-	-	-