Funny enough it's not really a problem anymore! Ever since the kitchen table got cleared properly, I've kept it in such a state and actually desire to do so every day. The thought of keeping my sewing gear tucked away isn't giving me breathing problems anymore, but I realize they are within six meters from it and that will have to do. I'm not looking to sew every day anyway, so it's rather nice this way. In the future a designated area would probably be the best but for now this is a good practice in putting stuff away once I'm done using them. Thanks for asking!
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Posted 4 months ago #
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wonderful nina, some problems just vanish into thin air!
Posted 4 months ago # -
Has anybody succeeded with this yet, ie finished any outstanding craft projects, read those library books, worn those clothes, used those previously unused gadgets etc. It would be interesting to hear how people have got on!
Posted 2 months ago # -
I got rid of the piles of unread library books. They were everywhere, mostly strewn all over my sideboard and gathering dust. The sideboard was cleared and polished and has stayed that way every single day for the past 5+ weeks. The few books and magazines I now have are corralled in a bedside basket, the size of which imposes a strict limit on my library binges.
Posted 2 months ago # -
that dress i intended to wear to sil's wedding... sil asked me to be a bridesmaid so now i have a dress for the occasion. but another sil is getting married next summer (2013), so i might keep the dress around until then. or i might not. i've tried giving it away twice, but it didn't fit the person who needed it either time so it's still here. i'm open to getting rid of it if the right person comes along, but i'm not ready to just donate it yet.
i did donate at least a dozen other items from my closet from this challenge. i would pull them out, try them on, intend to wear them, but for one reason or another they finally got the boot - too short, too tight, uncomfortable, not my color... life is too short to force myself to wear clothes that i don't like just because i own them. the money is already sunk, the clothes can have a better life in someone else's closet.
Posted 2 months ago # -
farce |färs|
noun
a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situationsMy bread machine is beginning to have the lead in the worst farce of the year. Yesterday, on a whim during in-depth inventory of the pantry, I dug out a bread recipe with mostly rye flour as opposed to wheat. Since the ingredients smelled poetic and homey, I decided to *drum roll* keep the bread machine for now. I watched it work for the first half hour and left it to its own accord when going over to the parents for dinner. Upon coming back after a lovely meal, I found the flat smelling of what it was supposed to; poetic and homey. Only the bread had not risen but a few measly centimetres. So out went my dream of homemade bread for the rest of the evening. Today, however, I seem to have changed my mind once again, this time in the favour of the darn machine. Like I said, a farce.
Posted 2 months ago # -
LOL on your farce Nina! You do know that rye flour has less gluten than wheat, so you need to mix them, and perhaps use more yeast. I have had many short dense breads in my bread machine. Now I usually make just wheat breads, plus I use the machine for dough and the first rising, then take it out, shape it into a bread pan, let it rise again and bake in the oven.
Posted 2 months ago #
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