I know it seems like I'm obsessed by 'small steps' as well as eating - all those bites of elephants from last year's project! I'm blaming my sister for this one...
She's been soooo busy - mainly with helping others that she hasn't been able to get to a whole list of tasks for herself. Recently I was over at hers when she managed to whisk through half a dozen quick tasks in a small time window and we've taken, now and again, to grabbing the odd bit of time to get a job off her list.
Not too long ago she decided it was time to examine her shoe situation and we very quickly emptied her shoe store, cleaned it and put back her definite 'keeps'. She tried on some she thought she liked and discarded many that were either worn out or uncomfortable and went through the others for passing on, sale items or dumping.
It didn't take us long and so I've decided that 'Getting It Sorted' needs to be a series of quick gains to keep my momentum going! Thanks Sis...
Here's my first...
I've emptied my drawer of nail polishes, thrown away the dried up ones and selected these (above) to go back. There are one or two that I'm not sure about, so I'm about to try one of them out and then leave the others somewhere obvious so repeat the process so that I can make decisions about each one and either add it to my stock, throw it away or even perhaps add it to the craft pile as I remember an article about marbling using nail polish......
The second task has been longer, but I have decided against prevaricating any longer over Substack. So... (fanfare and drumroll) I've launched my Substack. It's going to be in the form of a weekly (fingers crossed) newsletter where I can empty my brain and try and organise my thoughts. Alongside that will be a series of second weekly posts on a particular subject which will change over time. This second string will start next week with phonics and helping those learning to read. Eventually there'll be a paid subscription too with extras - the weekly posts will stay free for all subscribers.
If you'd like to come along for the ride (the newsletters will be different to this blog so not all repeated stuff although there will obviously be bits of overlap with introducing myself there and the general run of life) then you can go to substack.com/@sueburton the newsletter is called 'And this is me .....'
Finally I wanted to decrease my making to-do list. I've a number of things stopping me getting to my wish list of projects so I'm concentrating on the small step of finishing one each week.
This week it was the turn of some cushions that one of our tennis ladies asked me to make from a suite covering that had worn out. I've finally got to grips with the task so hopefully she'll be pleased with the result.
For once I remembered to take before and after photos...
as well as some 'along the way' shots, so I'll be able to do a step by step set of instructions on Substack later on!
That's me done with nibbling around the edges for today - last task - get the next Substack post done.....
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