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Vee
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02-23-2004

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 6:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You certainly sound busy and mighty productive with all that tossing. I think your new stricter stand... Do I love it enough to drag it across the western U.S.?...is an excellent one that would probably help me with my decisions, too.

Just had a thought about that recliner...could you get a doctor's prescription for one? I have a friend with fibro and she could not function without her recliner. I believe that her doctor made the request and her disability took care of it. It's one of those lift recliners, which makes it easier for her to sit down and stand up. She has been known to spend the night in it, but that doesn't sound too comfortable.

Hope all you other Flybabies are doing well. Lk is putting me to shame.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Even with the prescription, if the couch is here, there's no room for a recliner. I'm hoping to figure out a way to rearrange the room to allow for ME a recliner.

My mom had a new recliner when I was in Michigan visiting. I fell asleep in it while it was in heated massage mode, and woke up feeling great. Hence, my desire to get one.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 12:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lk, I have used this handy little web site to try furniture arranging without actually moving stuff all around. It's sort of like playing with a dollhouse. You will need to download Shockwave, if you don't already have it. At least you do get a sense of what things would look like.

furniture arranger

Hope you get it figured out so you can have something comfortable for yourself.

I made a bill paying kit today for which I must go get stamps here soon. I also made a first-aid basket that contains all the necessary items. I always had the stuff, but it was in three separate places...pretty inefficient. Now someone can just grab the basket and everything one could possibly need is in it.

Has anyone heard from Purple lately?

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Vee. I'll play with it later. I usually use graph paper, but I'll give this a shot.

I order my stamps from the USPS site. It's worth the $1.00 to me to not have to go to the post office. And I love paying for the priority and express mail on the site--you get free delivery confirmation.

Congrats on your first aid basket. I need to restock mine yet.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 8:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And I'll have to check that out, too!

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 5:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee: I honestly can say that having the ability to buy and print out priority and express mail labels to mail my Altered Books was the only way I'd be able to participate in the round robins that I enjoy so much.

I love being able to put my address information in the online address book--no longer do I have to keep track of who I am sending books too; I can bring up our editors snail mail address instantly, and I can track which agents I've sent DH's manuscripts to by just adding them to the database.

AND, if you need priority or express mailers, you can order them and have them sent to you at no cost.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 5:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As I was cleaning out boxes, I found a bunch of pages I had printed out from Sort It: Residential Organization.

The site offers help/advice on dealing with the following areas: Attic, Automobile, Bathroom, Bedroom, Emergency Preparedness, Garage Sales, House Cleaning, Household Management, Kids' Rooms, Kitchen, Laundry Room, Recycling, and Storage.

I like that they offer additional help on things to gather (the emergency section) and offers a free program to help create a personal inventory.

I did discard the pages, but added the URL to my favorite places.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 6:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That is one cool web site...I just sent it to my mother...do you think she'll be offended?

This is my number one pet peeve about mom...she never and I mean NEVER shuts a cupboard door. If she would do that one thing, her whole house would look a lot better.

Ah, enough pointing fingers at my mom, I have a board in my own eye because I have not been doing zones, just hotspots. That's no way to get ahead!

Thanks for all the info, Lk, my you were up late or up early or something. Have a great day, everybody. I imagine our Canadian friends are going to be busy today with their holiday festivities.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 6:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
PURPLE!!!!!!!!!!!WHERE ARE YOU??????????

You don't suppose Purple tackled her garage and got stuck in there, do you? Should we organise a rescue mission? ;)

We didn't get much of anything done so far this week around here, but at least we didn't get stuck in the garage.LOL

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 6:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, that's been my question...where in the world is Purple? Landi has been floating around elsewhere, as has Spinner, but I haven't seen Purple at all! Yup, it's time to send out the troops!! Well, maybe not those troops!

By the way, Lum, I hope that your son is feeling a whole lot better. Have yourselves a fun day!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 6:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Vee. He really had me worried there for several hours Tuesday night, but then perked up late afternoon and was able to even have some supper last night. Ah, the resilience of youth.LOL

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Thursday, July 01, 2004 - 6:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, young people amaze me all the time. Glad to hear that he is up and at'em. I better not wish you all too much fun (wouldn't want a relapse), but in lieu of that, I'll wish you all a relaxing Happy Canada Day.

On a side note, Lk is not feeling so great I see. Take care of yourself, Laurie.

Spinner
Member

10-27-2003

Friday, July 02, 2004 - 6:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Floating around describes me this week, Vee! As the webservant for a religious denomination website whose national assembly event is this week, my job this week is to sit in front of my computer screen, with the streaming audio/video coming from the assembly floor and provide constantly-updated summaries for folks who can't watch right then but wanted to or who don't have modems that can handle the stream. Their lunch/dinner breaks are only an hour and a half and I need to do my own little quickie routines then and get food on the table here! I'm reading online and posting right now while some tasks are taking place on the floor of the assembly that don't require updates. I'll be back to a more usual schedule after Saturday at 9 am when the assembly adjourns. (They're on the east coast this year; I'm on the west coast so for us, they start awfully early and on Saturday, adjourn at noon.)

Last week, though, I threw out a bunch of stuff from my hall closets! (Or did I say that already? <G>)

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Friday, July 02, 2004 - 8:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You sound like one busy gal! What a challenge for you to be on the opposite coast...They're lucky...er, I mean blessed to have you!

I don't know if you said that already, but it counts...every little thing counts.



Spinner
Member

10-27-2003

Friday, July 02, 2004 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Vee, for the support! I feel blessed to have the equipment and the skills needed to do this ministry--actually, it's all about equipment, and a knowledge of the group's meeting, since I've been a commissioner there so I can picture it all quite easily and I know pretty much what documents I'll need next. (The Assembly is taking a "stretch break" and my "break" is to pull from the intensity of this and visit with you-all.

Right now they're talking about issues from the Peacemaking area, so it's intense!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Friday, July 02, 2004 - 5:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"Right now they're talking about issues from the Peacemaking area, so it's intense!"

Sounds like an oxymoron to me!
Hope it all works out well, Spinner.

Spinner
Member

10-27-2003

Friday, July 02, 2004 - 5:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
About right, Vee! Everyone's just anxious to do the best and whatever's really the most help for areas of the world in war, turmoil, etc.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 5:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mornin' everybody, how's it going in the Flying business?

I am cleaning the deck today for all the obvious reasons with the holiday tomorrow. I discovered that Home Depot is offering a rebate with my solid deck stain (Behr...offer good until July 5) so a gallon that usually costs $19 something was only going to be $9 something. Only bought one gallon, but I should go get more, if I dared brave the crowds on this holiday weekend.

That meant painting the deck rails and a few touch-ups. Now I have to get going and paint the steps before tomorrow so they'll look all neat and pretty.

I'm baking today...not so good for the Dr. Phil diet plan, but I'll use portion control...right!!!
Also cleaning the bath, but other than that, everything is in pretty good shape. Thank goodness, we were already in the entryway zone for part of this week.

One other exciting, but scary storage dilemma popped up this week. As you may have seen me mention, my sis and I have taken up stamping. Everything we had for this fit into one medium-sized box...no problem. Well this week she came home from work lugging suitcases full of stamping things. Seemed a co-nurse's mother had decided to give up stamping and was now selling all her stuff. So sis got the whole kit and kaboodle for around $100. It was easily worth five times that...maybe more. Problem was what in the world to do with it all. We wound up buying those cheap clear plastic Sterlite shoe boxes with lids because they stack. We sorted stamps by subject, ink, papers, tools, etc., then stacked them on the workbench in the garage. Great solution for the summer, but I don't know what we'll do come winter.

That's it for my tales of domesticity. Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Spinner
Member

10-27-2003

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 8:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, Vee, I can relate to the stamping stuff! One of my hobbies is paper engineering (making paper move in interesting ways, like pop-up books you've probably seen) and since I have no artistic talent at all, I use stamps. And I love to do cards and books. What a wonderful find for you, to get so much stuff, as it tends to be pricey, doesn't it?

What I've worked out that works for me, anyway, is that next to my craft desk I have a cheap hardware-store MDF-type desk-table that has, on top of it, one of the paper-sorters that you get at an office supply store. It has 21 shelves in it (3 columns of 7 rows each) that are each about high enough to pack in a ream of paper. I have paper and stuff in some of them, but in most of the compartments I have half of a paperboard box--the kind that a copy center gives back your print order in and in each box are stamps that are grouped by category. Then I can just pull out the box and take it to my desk. Paper is in the other sections, and I do have one basket of special-occasion stamps sitting on top of this unit (they're used so seldomly, I just dig when I need one) and a matching basket that has stamp pads, scissors, that sort of stuff. I have vowed to not have more than this; when I buy something, I'm going to give away something because the truth is I can't use all of this anyway. Something like that might work for winter if you have room. The desk that holds the paper sorter then has a foot of space in the front and I use that space to set items that have been stamped and are drying.

I'd bet that LK can chime in on stamp storage--she's a crafty person!

Congratulations on the deck painting!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 9:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Omigosh, Spinner! I actually have those paper stack things packed away somewhere in my old teaching stuff. I hadn't even considered how easy that would be for storing all the papers. Thanks for the suggestions. Hmmm, wonder if I can figure out exactly where those things are...

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Spinner: I use a similar set up for my altered book stuff.

For my papers, I use those 12 pocket dividers. I have them broken up into pastels, bolds, darks, neutrals, patterns, etc. All I have to do is grab the one binder I need.

I set up my stamps/inks/markers in one of the literature dividers like you did, only I hung mine up on the wall (it's the smaller one: 11 11/16"H x 13 ½"D x 31"W). To give the bottom support, it rests on top of...

2 parts cabinets that hold my 3-D items. In altering, you use a lot of 3D items.

For my magazine picture file, I have one of the larger monthly divider briefcases.

Most of my other art supplies are in the hard plastic pencil cases/school boxes and stacked on the shelves of my chifferobe. They stack well and once they're labeled, easy to grab. myicon

Purplecow
Member

12-08-2003

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 1:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL! Here I am! I was in North Carolina for a week attending a serger workshop. It was the first time in a long time that I came home to a clean house (except for my sewing room). We got back Tuesday. Today DH asked if I plan to unpack any time in the near future. I have a seminar in NW Florida at the end of the month, so I guess I'll have to. I had a wonderful time being a participant instead of a teacher and DH was along so she could learn to use her new (my old) serger. I haven't caught up with reading the boards yet. I hope everyone is OK and LK's mouth is feeling better.

Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 2:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Purple, where in NC? I live in Asheville........

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 5:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Purple, it's great to see your post. So glad that you found a clean home waiting for you. I'm confused, though...did your hubby go with you? That would explain the clean house...or did your daughter go with you? If your DD went with you, your husband did a great job of holding down the fort! I hope Lumbele pops in soon to see you're back...she was ready to call out the troops.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Saturday, July 03, 2004 - 5:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Altered book stuff...now I'm intrigued...