The clean up continues

I'm taking full advantage of my mood on this decluttering/clean up thing. I was off to the recycling depot with a car filled with flattened cardboard. As I was leaving the depot, I heard my name. What???  I glanced over and saw Darlene heading in with her van. I wonder what was in her van? Did she read my blog?

It was pretty funny and in all the years of going to the recycling depot, I've never met anyone before!

In addition to the two carloads of cardboard, our recycling cart is full. And I have a few more boxes that I found this morning that can go.

When I got back home, I loaded the car with white styrofoam. I hope to get all the hazard stuff in the car as well - I wasn't leaving that in the car overnight in case it stinks. And we have four old recycling bins. My goal is to get all that in the car for today's trip.

It's not only the garage and the shed that have household junk, but we also have three small rooms in the basement. One for the electrical panel, one is a cold room under the outdoor stairs and one is stuck in the middle of those two. None are huge, but they all have stuff in them.

I started on all three this morning bringing up three kitchen cabinet doors that we no longer need, pieces of drywall used to sample painting, old baseboards, and a few other things. I found a sander that I don't want. I don't think the darn thing was ever used. I'll show you a picture tomorrow in case anyone wants it.

I came across the jigsaw puzzles. I have 30 or thereabouts. Gosh - even if I do two a year, that's going to take a lot of years to get them done!

My goal is to get all the wood products together so they can be part of the trip to the recycling depot tomorrow. How many screws and nails and picture hangers does one household need? I'm trying to get them all in one spot so they can be organized.

I've found bags of stuff in the garage that well - I had no idea they were there. Appears to be junk that was removed from M's room at some point. It was amongst the crap on the workbench. I rescued two things and the rest went into the garbage. Although our garbage pickup was yesterday, our garbage cart is full again!

I'm getting out the broom later today and sweeping the electrical room and getting it all spic and span. Then one room will be done!!

I'm not sure why I wasn't motivated to do this before and I'm not sure how long my motivation is going to last. But I'm motivated and I'm not stopping! So did any of you tackle a job yesterday?

Here's a peek into the electrical room.

Electrical room

I'm trying to get all the junk into the garage so when I call the junk people next week, it's easy for them to get everything and we don't forget anything. I've got to move those chairs from the shed today.

And I found another rake in the garage. So now we have two rakes, two hoes, and three garden shovels. I don't need duplicates of that stuff. I'm keeping one of each and the rest is going to be donated. I know it's the wrong season, but I'm OK with that.

Despite all that excitement, I got a lot of quilt-related stuff done yesterday as well. I got two blog posts done! I'm way ahead of the game on those and it feels nice to not be pressured. I might just get myself totally on schedule!! I can't wait to share them with you! Exciting stuff.

I started to put the borders on my Tonga Rhapsody. The first one is a wee bit of a challenge because ALL the edges of that quilt are cut on the bias and they have stretched.

Border number one on Tonga Rhapsody

Three of the four corners came out just fine. The fourth one is funky. Too funky for my liking so I'm going to rip back to about halfway and then repin (well) and sew it again.

A funky corner

And in keeping with the scheduling thing, I dug out my UFO homework which isn't due until September 29th. I managed to get THREE blocks quilted last night. My goal for this month was to quilt the backgrounds of all the remaining blocks. There are 12 blocks! I'm a quarter of the way through. I might even forge forward and do more than what I'm supposed to do. I'd love to get this quilt (Stitcher's Garden) done by the end of the year. It's on my UFO list.

Three blocks are quilted

Speaking of UFOs, someone posted this on Facebook yesterday which I thought was very appropriate.

Why or why do we let this happen to us???  I'm very happy to announce that NO new craft projects are being brought into the house, nor are they being started. Yes - a few quilt projects are being started, but the goal of those is to finish them before they become a UFO. So far so good.

All this decluttering is great! What will I do on those days that I actually scheduled a cleanup day? Oh - the office. I forgot about that.

I'm out of here! Got more computer work today and I hope to hit the cleaning areas and some sewing. Going to be a busy day - but on MY schedule.

Have a great day!!!!

Ciao!