Aug. 2nd, 2023

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I finished rearranging the apartment (for now). The two BIG furniture items remaining have been relocated.

The media centre has been sentenced to the corner wall beside the pantry - it isn't used often and people have not been fans of the Shrine To TV in the living area. It's still accessible, but very pointedly shoved somewhere out of the way. The prime living area space is now occupied by a table serving as a desk and work bench. Much better.

Part of doing this meant clearing three drawers from the table (it's a folding table with storage) and everything from its surface - which is now mostly in a box and waiting to be sorted. That is a task for another night.

Kama did several iterations of 'Let's rid MORE stuff from the freezer!' over the past few days and it is a lot roomier now. (Also, he was the one who started overhauling the apartment a few days ago. It's been entirely reorganized down to the furniture in the rooms. He put a lot of clothes and fabrics into bags for donation/selling, tossed a big trash bag full of pantry items that had been waiting to become ingredients for years, and reached some kind of decluttering enlightenment.)

And he did a small but Good Thing in declining a favour request this morning. It would have gone terribly. Guilt over both declining and trying but having it Go Terribly was setting in. He said no.

- Reki (he/him)

Not too bad

Aug. 2nd, 2023 09:40 am
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 I did get *some* things accomplished this month! Not as many as I had wanted, but I accidentally got some other things done, so I'll call it a wash. :D

I got all my textured earrings done - 35 pair in all! While I didn't make any pendants or rings, I did start sketching ideas for the settings, so I now know what I want to do with them. I have to remind myself that percolating on ideas and sketching are part of the process too!



I managed to get the cat tower done, yay! The cats are happy to have it back in the living room by the window again.

Accidental thing #1: I sewed pillow covers for my bed and sofa, they came out nice. I learned a trick from a YouTube video that to have them look the best, cut the fabric the same size as the pillow form and sew a 1/2" seam. It seems weird to cut 20"x20" fabric for a 20" pillow, but IT WORKS. I had them on my sewing table for months, so it was nice to get them done!

Accidental thing #2: I had to buy a new top for my 10x10 craft show tent, and I discovered that it has velcro all around the edge for the side walls - so I decided to sew the opposite velcro on my wall panels and re-sew all the zippers. It'll be much easier and nicer to put up the walls using the velcro instead of the straps.

And the rock cabinet is all done and the rocks are all numbered and back in! It's nice to have all the fluorites on their own shelf, all the pyrites on their own shelf, etc. I like collecting minerals that have different colors/forms depending on their locality. My geologist friend approved and said now I need to get more rocks, LOL. Very happy with the LED strip light.



A round of applause to everyone that got at least something on their list done! I'm really glad we did this.

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