Yes, I'm still wrapped up in watching the Olympics, but looking around, I see so many things I've set to one side, each that would take a few minutes, 15 minutes, certainly no more than 30 minutes to tend to, or could easily be broken up into small chunks of time. Take shredding. I'm determined to get my taxes done much sooner than I did last year so have started the collecting of papers for 2025 and shredding of unneeded documentation for the oldest tax file I keep. In the process, I came across more shreddable, or at least tossable, papers from as long ago as 2022 as I filed away the most current insurance policies information. Yes, I am quite bad at putting things in piles for later or keeping things longer than necessary. But I am making great progress, by working on these in short stints before landing in front of the computer.
The studio always needs tidying too, another task sometimes best done in short shifts. I spent several stints sorting and putting away everything from the Collage Breakthrough class, including storing the various square size templates in the back of the sketchbook I used. I do intend to work more collages in that book. Once that part of the table was clear, it revealed a corner of the table where fabric from that major dyeing project of last fall still sat (why I hadn't moved it the few feet from table to stash cubes is a mystery) and that I hadn't put all away from working on the Joy banner (which btw still needs threads buried). Pattern pieces, fabric left out to make a label and small fabric scraps to glue to a documentation file were scattered here and there. So out came the most recent documentation binder. Oh dear. In another pile of "must file one day", I found the pattern I developed and made notes on for the last baby quilt I made. Hmmm, when was that? Ahh, two years ago. But I only found a few small pieces of the pink fabrics that were used in it on the table (so far - piles exist). I may have a little trouble fully documenting this one but at least I can print off pictures and note who I made it for. I still have some catching up of adding some things to my gratitude book and putting back in its place a big stack of Christmas fabrics, but I am getting closer to being able to get out one of several quilting projects that are niggling at me to get going on.
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| Looking out back |
In the meantime, we got some snow! This has been such a warm winter for us, only a couple of other snowfalls amounting to no more than nine or so inches total. This one was a good 4 or 5 inches followed the next night by an additional inch. While the east coast is getting slammed, our Pacific Northwest mountain snowpacks that recharge the aquifers and lakes that supplies our water desperately need this and more.
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| From my front door |
It probably won't stick around long on the ground down at my lower elevation; the weather report is for another warming trend with rain in the upcoming week, but I am enjoying its beauty while it lasts.
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