Housekeeping Goals for this week (11/8/09) UPDATED

#1 Continue on the tub and shower. I now have this scubby-sponge thing that works GREAT. It still takes a little scrubbing (but it's not like I expect the stuff to come off just because I looked at it!) but it is so much easier and faster. I have a shiny shower! In spots ~ but it's getting there. I may even finish by the end of the month, then it will just be maintenance.

#2 Clean a section of my bathroom wall. I actually did this last week, although I forgot to post my housekeeping goals.

I made wonderful progress on both of these! I did several sections of the bathroom wall.

Organization Goals for This Week (11/1/09) UPDATED

As many things as I would like to do, I think I had better stick with one simple goal: pack the pitchers away. I have so many other projects going that have real deadlines!

Done! :-)

Sewing Goals for This Week (11/1/09) UPDATED

#1 Lavender Baby Dress
> Attach the yoke to the skirt (which I did yesterday).
> Sew the side seams and finish them (which I also did yesterday).
> Finish the sleeves, including putting them in.
> Mark the button holes, practice button holes, and make the button holes.

#2 Jumper
> Prepare the skirt pieces.
>  Sew the yoke together.

#3 Green Baby Dress
>  Prepare the skirt pieces
>  Cut the sleeve bindings (if I haven't done so already).
>  Prepare the skirt placket and the back skirt piece.
> Sew gathering sitches on sleeves and skirt pieces.

Okay . . . I didn't do exactly what I intended to but it worked and I'm pleased!

#1 Everything is done except the button holes and buttons. It's even hemmed.

#2 All done except the buttons and button holes. Wow! It's cute, too.

#3 I didn't get anything done on this last week.

Sewing Goals for This Week (10/25/09) UPDATED

#1 The Bohemian Skirt. Because, really, this is ridiculous.

#2 The Baby Dress, etc. (I have to have it finished by Nov. 15th)

Half the week is gone (almost) so I don't expect to get a lot more done except what of last week's goals I finished up yesterday. Still, I'd like to: 

Finish preparing the lavender skirt pieces. 

Do the skirt placket

Decide how to do the sleeves. Make binding if I need to. 

Finish preparing the green skirt pieces. 

That should keep me busy!

Okay . . . believe it or not, I finished the Bohemian Skirt!!!!! Yay!

The Baby Dress . . . . I prepared the skirt pieces. . . I think that's all I did last week (!). No, maybe I did the skirt placket last week too.

Organization Goals for this week (10/25/09) UPDATED

#1 This goal from last week, or at least part of it:

#1 I have to old glass syrup pitchers and another bottle in my bedroom floor. They are from my grandmother. Now, really, that's not a good place for them. I'd like to put them in my hope chest. The problem is, I think only two of them are mine and one is DearMother's. I just don't know which two are mine (I think the vinegar bottle is mine). My goal is to find out which syrup pitcher belongs to me, remove all three to the kitchen, wash all three, and then return my two to my bedroom and pack them away in my hope chest.

#2 Figure out some way to remember my goals (before Thursday).

Goal #2 I completed early last week (before I posted my goals, in fact!). As for #1, the pitchers are still drying in the kitchen, so I guess I got it half done.

Housekeeping Goals for This Week (10/25/09) UPDATED

Just the shower and the sink.

I think I will sink if I attempt any other goals this week. I have lots of things to do. For one thing I'm putting new patterns in my store and my scanner program has not yet decided to work (as usual). Bless it's little heart (although it really doesn't seem to have one). The scanner was free and I'm so thankful for it but ARRRRRGGHHH!!!!

Oh! I just love making progress! I finished the sink last week, except for some deposits around the faucet which will have to be a separate project because they did not want to come off using this method. The tub and shower are coming along nicely, although slowly.

Needle Work Show!

The first ever Needle Work Show Retail is coming! It's an online needle work show for consumers where you can visit "booths" of many retailers around the world who sell needlework related products. Some will be selling right from their booths!

The dates are November 5th through 8th. I'll be there as an exhibitor. Stop by!

Sewing Goals for This Week (10/18/09) UPDATED

Get everything done!

Wait ~ that isn't a realistic goal!

#1 Get sewing machine working again. It may be a tension problem. I was making buttonholes the other day with the upper tension set on zero and it was still too tight. I'm going to trying putting it down on zero again for regular sewing and see if I can sew without breaking the thread.

The machine is working adequately (although I still think it has issues).

#2 Assuming I or my DearRepairmen get it figured out, I simply must sew the second baby hat. Done!

#3 I also must finish The Bohemian Skirt. I've been wearing it  (all I have left is stitching the elastic and closing up the hole) and I want to wash it. Hmmmmm.

#4 Lavender baby dress. This is the most urgent since I don't know when the baby shower will be. I'd also like to get the other dress ("green baby dress") and jumper finished but that isn't strictly necessary.

I'm aiming for this week:
> Prepare skirt fabric for cutting or tearing; tear or cut skirt pieces. I still have to cut one piece of fabric in half to prepare the two skirt pieces but otherwise they are ready. Also got to this point with the green baby dress.


> Sew gathering stitches on skirt pieces and set aside for gathering during computer "wait time". Nope.
> Stitch bodice ~ a much as I possibly can. I'm ready to attatch the skirt (when it's ready)!

I really need to get more of it done but that doesn't seem possible. I also have the sleeves started.

Housekeeping Goals for This Week (10/18/09) UPDATED

#1 Continue to work on the sink.

#2 Also work on my tub and shower. I've had difficulty cleaning it too. I found, however, that if I scrub (and I do mean SCRUB) it with a wet wash cloth and my liquid soap it comes clean. I do this at the end of my shower. It requires being in the shower and having lots of water. How, otherwise, would I do that without getting my clothes wet? *smile* It works great. I don't know if that will work on the blue residue it gets but baking soda (and lots of scrubbing) work does. And for the rough-textured floor, a scrubbing tooth brush.

But I think for this week I will mainly work on scrubbing a small section of the walls each day.

I forgot allllll about that third goal. Actually, I thought of it but didn't remember that I had made it my goal for this week. I was still thinking of it as a future possibility. Alas!

I did not do anything with #1 (at least it's not gross anymore!) but did well on #2. It's coming right along! Slowly, though.

Organization Goals for This Week (10/18/09) UPDATED

#1 I have to old glass syrup pitchers and another bottle in my bedroom floor. They are from my grandmother. Now, really, that's not a good place for them. I'd like to put them in my hope chest. The problem is, I think only two of them are mine and one is DearMother's. I just don't know which two are mine (I think the vinegar bottle is mine). My goal is to find out which syrup pitcher belongs to me, remove all three to the kitchen, wash all three, and then return my two to my bedroom and pack them away in my hope chest.

#2 Continue to work on my pattern organization, if possible. Now that I have the worst ones out of the way it's not quite so important but it would be helpful to make some progress. Perhaps look for more hanging file folders and tabs, identify the unlabeled pattern pieces (always label your pattern pieces!), file some more if they are handy.

#3 Discuss with DearBrother the urgency of finishing my closet, especially the drawers.

Through a combination of not feeling well last week and forgetting what my goals were until I checked them on Thursday, I didn't get them done. Friday was just to busy to bother with these non-essentials!