Daily Photo:
Today I made a binder for my new organizational system. It is a small thing, but it is going to save my life. I have too many things in my brain and it is making me tired. This will make all ideas recordable and more importantly retrievable.
I just read Getting Things Done by David Allen and am applying his system. Not just for executives!
I tidied the living room today.
For Day 18, I’m going to christen my new sketch book with some sketches.
Today I unmade and remade the closet that my husband and I share. As I mentioned on Day 1, my husband got a job! This came with much shopping for clothes and other prepping. And of course, the nasty realization that my clothes were taking up um, almost all of the walk in closet we shared. My camera battery was dead, so no before pictures, but let me just say there was a dresser in the back that kill a quarter or more of the hanging space and clothes I never wore took up probably half of what was left. After a few hours of hard work I had this:
A HUGE bag of clothes to give away. Plus a pile probably half that size of clothes to be put up–mostly to be put into quilts or photographed before they were given away. Plus a smaller pile of things to be put away in drawers and not hung.
After some rearranging and sorting, my side of the closet looked like this:
Probably a quarter of what I started with, with plenty of space to sperate work from casual wear. And my happy hubby? He now has the same amount of space on the opposite side of the closet. Amazing. : )
Nope, I don’t have a photo to post, but I got out the drawing tablet for the first time in an embarrassingly long time, and worked on a cross-stitch design. It split into two, somehow, but I’m hoping to post pics tomorrow. I discovered that Patternmaker isn’t installed on this machine, so I’ve made graphics that have to be translated into graphed designs.
I feel that I’m really in the “getting organized” stage, which I should have done last week. But the tablet is attached now, and I know where my stitching bag is. I’ll find out in the morning just what my daughter did with my colored pencils and such, and locate the Patternmaker install CD. Yep.
It did feel great to have time on my schedule devoted to “being creative” and nothing else!
Well February is finally here. You would have thought my first “daily thing” would have been so much better, since I’ve been so excited to get started. I just had to get organized for it! So I cleaned and rearranged my office for my first Thing. I know cleaning is not necessarily creative, but I felt pretty creative and inspired when I tackled this, and my Thing-a-Day Accountabilibuddy says it counts, haha. It was no minor feat - I stayed for 3 hours after work to finish:
After:
So okay, I know some of you are thinking the arrangement of office/drawer stuff does not = Daily Thing. Behold, this was journaled after midnight last night, so technically on Feb. 1st:
And there are two full pages in addition but I didn’t realize when I took the pic that the words showed up so clearly! *blushes* Anyway, that’s just a little brainstorming for ya.
And you know what?:
(And right behind my “start” lies Amanda’s on screen! Yay us!)
Now I am refreshed, ORGANIZED, and ready for Day Two!
It’s like I made my New Year’s resolutions and *pa-ting*, I find a site that should help me get started. I’ve already been trying to do 100 words a day (yes, just one hundred), get organized, and to crochet a little each day.
Here’s to hoping the accountability factor in February will keep me on track.