It is my habit after the school run/morning walk to sit with a coffee & organise the rest of my day. I have often been critisized for scheduling too much into the time available, thereby either a; not achieving my objectives & feeling the associated angst, &/or b; utelising my middle management* delegation skills & becoming a very hard taskmaster/bitch.
Whatevs, I think you have to show up for your life. If you don't plan things they won't happen. You can't 'find' time, you can only manage it. Yadda yadda, sure.......but all true.
Associated angst? Being a stay at home mum has forced me to (thankfully) embrace a relaxed attitude to running a tight schedule, so forget that. Not feeling guilty, just enjoying my coffee (& also better health, thanks), while I redistribute the uncompleted points from the to-do list to other days in my diary. And those delegation skills? No one to delegate to, sadly, so no chance there.
I tell you this because I have a bit on at the moment. This weeks list is spilling over into next week, which is already full. Highlights are;
Monkey Boy is having a small birthday party on Monday;
- grocery shop for party food & provisions
- make lolly bags (fabric pirate swags out of stash, tutorial coming)
- make felt eyepatchs
- make paper swords, spraypaint cardboard hilts gold
- paint treasure map for pin the tail game variation
- wrap pass the parcel
- make party food, including layered pirate cake
- source & fill an appropriate piniata
- take photos & blog about it all
Play with my router
Back in March, I was given a router for my birthday, which was Yay! Awesome! I have finally gotten around to using it & am loving it - I am turning all available scrap timber into coatracks & shelving with beautiful routed edges. I love creating these so much I may have to have a market stall to get rid of them. Also, need to take photos & blog about it.
Make a Where's Wally costume for The Gentleman to wear at next Thursday's book week parade. At his request.
I've bought 2 long sleeve shirts in white & red that I plan on cutting up & sewing back into a striped formation, using the scraps to make a beanie. My major concern is that the only day I have to do this is also the day I am scheduled onto tuck shop duty. Also, I haven't actually sewn anything on the sewing amchine for um....not quite a decade, surely? Fuck. This has the potential to be an epic fail & I have no back up plan. But I will take photos & blog about it.
Projects on the go
- I am turning an ugly sofa bed into a single bed sized ottoman, which is a long held dream & going really well. I am up to the upholstery stage. Tutorial to come.
- Refinshing/reupholstering a mid century arm chair, which is coming along, you know....
- Clean up, relayer & replant the vege garden.
- Overhaul half of the front yard, plant fruit trees, find ground cover for underneath trampoline.
- For heavens sake start a yoga class & stop re-fucking-scheduleing it.
- Take photos & blog about these, & the other 15 projects not listed.
Projects on the 'backburner'
These are projects that have no hope of fitting into anyone's schedule for a while.
- Renovate the kitchen. I live in hope that this will happen this year, you can guage just how much hope by the fact that it is just a point in a sub header. Sad face.
- Freshen up the laundry. I have more faith in this, but it's not a major job.
- Update the loungeroom - refinish a section of floor/replace all horrible blinds with nice timber slats/install some lovely curtains on one wall/replace boob light with a small chandelier.
- Build a deck along one side of the house, replace windows on this wall with second hand french doors.
- Refurbish fishtank: turtles!!
- Who are we kidding here there is a notebook crammed with these projects.
- Take photos & blog about it all.
Are you sensing a theme?
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