Here's where I feel inferior participating in something hosted by The Nester.  I mean, her recent posts about using drawer-less chests and chest-less drawers made my junk-loving crafty-delusional juices flow. Today, I sat at my computer, knowing I needed to get up and find a detail.  Or just look around and find one. My eyes landed on the … [Read more...]

It's the fourth day of my series - 31 Days of Details. I have a beautiful window. It lets in light, and I can see who's walking through the neighborhood while I do the dishes. But it is unbelievably inconvenient to clean.  It has a nice little display area that requires me to do a full-body-climb-feet-on-the-sink contortion to get to … [Read more...]

Monday is Laundry Day.  One of the best things about doing laundry this way is that I am much more thorough than I ever was with the one-load-a-day method. Doing "all" of my laundry actually means something.  With one-load-a-day (which was a delusion anyway), I pulled the most desperately needed items off the top of the pile mountain, and … [Read more...]

It's the second day of 31 Days of Details. I'm already glad that I chose this topic, and that I took the challenge to write about "details" every day in October. Why? Because sometimes it's only after I take care of a problem that I realize how much it has been bugging me. Which, I know, doesn't really make sense. I have a … [Read more...]

I stumbled (through one of you) upon the 31 Days Challenge over at The Nester. The Beautiful, Lovely, Awe-Inspiring Nester. The basic idea is this:  Write about one thing, any one thing . . . for every day in October. Every . . . single . . . day. My reaction was a bunch of "buts." But . . . I don't post on weekends!  (And it started … [Read more...]