Monday This and That ~ 4th November 2024

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Just a bit of this and that!

I can’t believe it is already November!!! And only…… drum roll…. 51 days…. well, having written that down it is not as bad as I expected…

But of course, my sweet sister had already got her Christmas tree up!!!!!!

I think it will be a few more weeks till I get mine up!

Last week’s This and That

Last week I kept sorting the studio. I was going to call it quits, and took a bunch of photos of it “finished” like this one:

Look at that table!

All nice and clear – Nina is set up, and my Accuquilt Studio cutter is out ready to be used!

I then decided that I deserved to do some sewing…..

Before I broke my wrist I had started on a quilt for DH and had the backing and batting loaded on Emmie G already… so I ironed the top and loaded it…

Because I wanted to finish it in a hurry I just did a large meander – quick and easy..

And in no time it was done…. DH walked in half way through and I told him it was his quilt and he was like – oh great! I need a new one!! So happy that he likes the quilts I make him!

After that I thought… now what can I sew……

But then I had a stern talk to myself…. and said, “Joy, while you are at it, and before you post ‘”finished photos”, sort out the rest of the shelves and the drawers that no one can see………”

I do like to be transparent here on my blog. I am not the type of blogger who moves things around just to make a pretty photo. What you see is my real life… and I still had messy disorganized drawers and shelves…

So after that stern chat, I opened drawers and started pulling everything out and sorting… and soon my poor tidy table looked like this:

Part way through I found my collection of thimbles in about three different places in the studio – I put them all together in one container:

Some brought back sweet memories, like the one I bought in New York when I visited Alice, and the one I bought in Holland:

I also found a quilt that I had somehow in the past been on my Gammil, but for some reason I had taken it off and put it in a tub… so while I was at it I loaded it onto Emmie G:

I’m using a pantograph for this one, and only have a few more passes to go…

I had issues with both of the quilts which I shall tell you all about in another post!

So while I was hoping to give you some photos of the finished and organized studio today, that hasn’t quite happened… haha! But I did get some quilting done!!!

As usual not everything was finished on my to do list, ahem… I got distracted by quilts!! That hasn’t happened for a while!!

Here is what I did/did not get done last week:

This Week’s This and That

A few of you mentioned that you like the way I organized my weekly list so I thought I’d make a few printables for you to download and use if you like.

I’ve made a few different versions, one exactly the same headings as mine, and a few where you can put your own headings in.

Download the Minimalist Weekly Checklist Here

And then I couldn’t help myself but pretty it up a bit with an Autumn flair…

Download Autumn Weekly Checklist Here

My list is on my iPad in my digital planner.

I tend to alternate between paper planners and digital planners.. at the moment I am in a digital mood, so I am just giving you a screenshot of my weekly page in my digital planner..

Here are my plans for this week:

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