{"id":537,"date":"2021-04-23T20:06:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T04:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/?p=537"},"modified":"2021-04-23T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T04:06:44","slug":"a-d-d-pack-rat-tidying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/2021\/04\/23\/a-d-d-pack-rat-tidying\/","title":{"rendered":"A.D.D. Pack Rat Tidying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve not written because I&#8217;ve not really done much of anything worth writing about. I have been mostly cleaning and organizing.  I don&#8217;t have any plan. Some days I don&#8217;t do anything. On other days (more and more), I just do something in whatever room I&#8217;m in, or want to be in, and work for as long, or short, as I feel like that day. No goals I need to meet. Nothing that can say I failed to do it. This seems to be working for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>My den is done except for a few miscellaneous items that may or may not be resituated, and book inventory. <\/li><li>For book inventory, I have one bookcase, out of six in the den, done. The den is about one fourth to one third the total books in the house. This will take a while. While it needs to be done, it is not the highest priority. Plus I end up wanting to read instead of work<\/li><li>The laundry is about 80% done Lots of stuff put away, recycled or trashed. My brother and nephew will be here this weekend to hang new-to-me cupboards in the studio and hang the old studio cupboards in the laundry. Brother also said he&#8217;d remove the door between the studio and laundry. YAY!<\/li><li>Studio &#8211; art side: This was 90% done, then 50% and now about 75%. Once the cupboards are hung it may get to 95%.<\/li><li>Studio &#8211; textile side: Bwahahaha.  I <em>have<\/em> done some picking up. The view from the art side to the window is no longer blocked. My main problem here is that I need to get the studio storage room done so I can put things away.<\/li><li>Studio Storage  Well, I&#8217;ve made a visible dent. A lot of the art stuff just needed consolidation. I need to give away some supplies as I have more than I&#8217;ll ever use, but it&#8217;s hard to decide what I&#8217;ll use. For now, they&#8217;re shelved and tidy. The rest is harder. I have a lot of framed wall art in there. I periodically change what I have hanging in the living room, so I want to keep it (and change things more often). There is also a largish box of framed family photos that need to find a place to be hung. The problem with these is that there really is no room for them in this room. I need to find a better place to keep them! Mom also left me a LOT of wood items she&#8217;d intended to paint. I just found some detailed sketches for a few of them, so I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll keep those she actually started on. (I&#8217;m not a decorative painter, but I can copy and decoupage okay.) My granddaughters might want a couple, too. Getting rid of framed pictures, boxes, trays and plaques will give me enough room. I also need to put more shelves in my fabric cabinets so I don&#8217;t pull out ten times more than I need to when I&#8217;m looking for something. My goal for cutting back on how much fabric I have is to make bed quilts for the veteran&#8217;s home, the  mission and other such places. <\/li><li>The unnamed room. Nope. Not &#8217;til all the other rooms are cleared of unneeded items.<\/li><li>Painting  Ugh! I haven&#8217;t started. Bathroom is first. That shouldn&#8217;t take more than a couple of days. Then repaint the door and a cabinet in the studio. Another day or two. Then lots of woodwork. That will be a few weeks. I&#8217;ll need to divide it when I start, &#8217;cause right now, it&#8217;s a bit overwhelming. I also need to touch up a few spots on walls where pictures were hung and moved, or something bumped.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside I don&#8217;t have too many plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I want to get the potted roses up onto the defunct driveway where they&#8217;ll get sun. Add a few more perennials and lots of annuals to make it a garden. Roses also need to be pulled up to add dirt under them in the pots. My potted trees all need to have their roots trimmed, too. A couple need bigger pots.<\/li><li>I want to get the rotting deck torn down. I&#8217;d <em>like<\/em> a new Trex deck, but prices have tripled or more because of manufacturing slowdowns and shutdowns, so that&#8217;s out. We&#8217;re looking into the possibility of a patio. Frankly, I&#8217;d be happy with just good steps and level ground.<\/li><li>I&#8217;d like to plant a little in the vegetable garden. Not really sure what.<\/li><li>Everything needs mulch.<\/li><li>I love the neighbor&#8217;s cedar tree, but we need to trim branches&#8230;and cut the weed trees under them.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of all, I want to get this all done so I can spend more time embroidering and quilting. All I seem to do now is dabble, which is fine, but I want to do more. I want to finish started projects and follow through on ideas for art quilts. Not just quilts. I saw some new work today on one of my Facebook textile art sites that brought to mind an idea I had about 35 years ago. I&#8217;ve already modified it in my head. It would be wonderful to actually produce it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been dabbling at this week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1972b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1972b.jpg 998w, https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1972b-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1972b-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_1972b-342x270.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not written because I&#8217;ve not really done much of anything worth writing about. I have been mostly cleaning and organizing. I don&#8217;t have any plan. Some days I don&#8217;t do anything. On other days (more and more), I just do something in whatever room I&#8217;m in, or want to be in, and work for as long, or short, as I feel like that day. No goals I need to meet. Nothing that can say I failed to do it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/2021\/04\/23\/a-d-d-pack-rat-tidying\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[44,14],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-n-that","tag-cleaning","tag-organizing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}