We have been very busy around here since the start of the new year. Bill has been working at the apartment mostly without my help but I did go in one day and helped by cleaning the stove, refrigerator and kitchen cabinets.
On the home front I have been super busy. After a month of baking and cooking the kitchen is now cleaned and organized, the craft room has been moved into the laundry/kitchenette area and it is organized except for the craft table which still has a few unfinished projects on it. The old craft room is now the guest room/family room and it is cleaned and organized. The knitting and crochet supplies are still neatly stored there since they are crafts that I do in front of the TV. The big freezer has been cleaned and inventoried.
All the Christmas decorations and snowmen are packed away and neatly stored in the basement. I was going to leave them out until February but decided I was tired of the clutter and wanted my open space. The tree is decorated with the new green, gold, and purple lights and the Mardi Gras beads and bulbs. I changed out the dinning room table to reflect the Mardi Gras theme and that room is cleaned and organized. I took down the Christmas wreaths and added the Mardi Gras one to the front door. Mardi Gras is March 9 this year so I will not need to change out the decorations for a while.
Yesterday was too nice to work inside so I worked on the back porch and cut out a bunch of can flowers and cleared that mess off the picnic table. By the time I had them all cut out it was too windy to spray paint them so I placed the box inside the garage until the next warm day. It was windy but still sunny and warm enough to work outside so I started cutting down weeds and shrub trees around the edge of the woods. I did that for a few hours until it begin to rain.
Sunday I planned out the spring garden so yesterday I checked out the greenhouse and my “left over” seeds to see what I needed to order. I worked on that order for a while and then headed to the craft room to organize and clean the craft table. That will take a while since I have so many projects waiting to be finished! I have curtains to hem, objects to paint, cushions to sew, a crochet project to finish, a knitted scarf to finish, an oven mitt to sew, a few kits to put together and a few things to repair. I really need to learn to limit myself to one or two projects at a time – that will not happen!
DIY with Kathy! 