Simple Ikea hack
July 28th, 2011
Take one of these. Which is designed to hang on the wall and hold these and these; put it on your laundry room wall and presto!
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You’re going to get tired of this before I do.
July 25th, 2011
Next SCA list: Feastbox
The feastbox is a wooden box about the size of a smallish cooler. My husband made it. It’s virtually indestructible and a pain in butt to carry.
Standard:
- 4 plates
- 4 maple bowls spare wooden bowls
- drinking vessels
- period utensils – spoons, knives (forks not period, optional)
- cutting knives
- matches, butane lighter
- salt & pepper
- paper towels
- napkins
- table cover
- carrier bags, trash bags
- foil & glad-tainers
For court events:
- Table runner
- Chargers
- Candles & holders
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The List Mania goes on….and on…and…….
July 22nd, 2011
I’ve decided on the Stuart Hall Executive Project Planner.
Okay, so, this shows how long I’ve had this notebook…a) there’s no web address on the back and b) apparently after having been purchased by Pen-Tab in 1998, Stuart Hall Co., Inc., was closed down in 2001.
O.O
And…I think Pen Tab Industries might have gone defunct, too. So, I guess this is a collector’s item now. ROFL. Best make good use of it.
This is the closest I can find on Amazon.
Anyway…harrumph. On to organizing the lists. I need sections.
- SCA
- House
- Non-SCA sewing
- Non-SCA projects
These might end up being transferred to a loose-leaf binder, but for now, I’ll keep them in the spiral…or maybe an individual notebook for each. It’s not like I don’t have any spare notebooks. *kitty giggles*
Gah! You see, this is why I never get my act together, so many decisions!
Okay, so first list, subject to change, of course:
- 1. Kitchen Box (Rubbermaid ® Roughneck™) – Permanent items:
- Make cover
- ETA: Frying pan
- 2 pans/pots-get kind without the long handles, like this set right here
- Basin
- Drainer
- Bowls
- Spatula, spoons, knives, cutting board (wood), fork
- Colander
- Measuring cup
- Stove
- Grill for fire
- Dishcloth & brush
- Can opener
- Hotpads
- Hand towels, dish towels
- Lantern and/or flashlight
- Fly control (bonus: everything you never wanted to know about flies )
- Scent traps
- Tents for food
- 2. Kitchen Box – consumables
- Make cover
- Dish soap
- Bleach
- Matches/butane lighter
- Foil
- Trash bags
- Wipes
- Scrubbies
- Zip bags
- Glad-tainers
- Propane
- Paper towels/rags
- Sharpie
- Cadles
- Carrier bags
- Small laundry soap, baggie of dryer sheets, roll of quarters
- Lysol
- Fly strips
- Bug repellant
- Vinegar
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Zen and the Art of List-Making
July 22nd, 2011
Pursuant to the post about getting back in the SCA, I want to start a project book. I have one, a cheapie spiral that I made all sorts of lists in good gods…9 years ago?? *sighs* Has is really been that long ago? Where in Hades’ Funhouse does it go? I don’t really think it’s been that long ago for some of it…I hope.
Okay, so, let’s see, here are the list titles, I’ll get to the individual lists later:
- Kitchen box (make cover) [the kitchen box is a Rubbermaid® Roughneck™, as are a lot of our camping boxes, so they need covers to hide the “mundanity”]
- Permanent Items
- Consumable Items
- Food box – staples
- Feastbox – regular event items
- Feastbox – court event items
- General Equipment
- Banners
- Coolers
- Tent
- Tool Kit
- Light Box
- Stake Box
- Pavilion
- Bedding
- X3 Minimum Costumes – summer
- X3 Minimum Costumes – not summer [it IS Texas, after all]
- X2? Armor
- X3 Costume Projects to Finish [well, they WERE to finish, but now to start]
- X3 Mundane Clothing/Equipment/Sundries
- Other Projects to Finish
- War List! [for Gulf War during Spring Break]
And that’s just what I have in the spiral.
Now..before I go any farther, I want to replace the spiral with a different kind of notebook. Still a spiral but different. I could supply a small office supply store with the stash of paper, pens, spirals, binders, clips, hi-liters, etc that I have. No. Really. So, here’s the list of new SCA project notebook candidates:
- Pen-tab Project Planner – 7.25 w x 9.5 h, Lined, numbered, with a blank notes section on the right hand side.
- Cambridge, top-bound, ¼” graph paper
- 2, count them! 2 Bienfang Note Sketch Book – standard size, a little less than half of the page is lined, on the left, and the right is all blank. I already have a couple projects in one of these.
- Cambridge Executive planner pages – standard size, top spiral, roughly the top two-thirds is ¼” graph paper, the bottom is yellow and lined “Quick Notes”
- Off-brand Notes/Sketch Book – 11×9” drawing weight paper, one-sided, top less than half blank for sketching, bottom lined.
- Stuart Hall Executive Project Planner – standard size, narrow blank notes section on the left, lined on the right. So far, this one is my front-runner.
I shall sleep on it. Night.
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Digging around, planning, thinking…
August 31st, 2010
First off, I’d like to say how disappointed I was to find that this lady is no longer keeping this blog smoke and ochre. Rats. There are so many nice, nice pictures and all on it. But, you know…a kabillion, bazillion, and 93 blogs on the intarwebs and so little time.
Now that the energy devil is not sucking my aura away every day, I’m finding I have enough get up and go to get a few things done. After we decommissioned the old building on Friday, I skated. R had the day off (LBJ’s birthday, doncha know), so he took me to work, went home, slept in, then came and picked me up. We didn’t do much..picked up Taco Bell and came home. I crashed at some point and foo…what did we do Friday evening. I don’t even remember….OH! Crap, of course! Sylvan‘s party! Oy, such a knucklehead I am. Her first novel is coming out, officially on Tuesday! I’ve read the first…second?…draft, but changes were made after it went to the publisher…anyhoo, her BFF, the self-same Laura of Pushing Furniture fame, threw a surprise party. R, W, and I went. It was fun, and we totally surprised Ms. Author. 
Then we came home and I was kind of sick at 4 AM. Nauseous…and for awhile didn’t know which, erm…end….would be a problem (hoping that it wouldn’t be one of those, ah…double-ended things. I HATE that). But as soon as I “went,” the nausea went away and I was able to go back to sleep. Got up about 9:40 yesterday and spent a good bit of the day washing dishes and general clean-up, then went to Lowe’s and Tar-Jay. Spent way more money than I should have. Dammit. But I had most of the $50 GC Laura’s BF gave me for my birthday left. I bought a composter thingy. Now to get it set up. I had made a really cool FREE composter out of hardware cloth and a hula-hoop, but the dog can knock it over too easily to eat the scraps and eggshells. I’ll use that for grass and weeds before adding to the bin.Dorky dog. I got some plastic potted plant pans, a nifty cobalt blue glass mister (on clearance for $1.62!), and some hose parts to repair hoses. At Target, I got some groceries, another pair of black leggings, and a few items of make-up. Yeah, make-up. Gotta problem with that? 
I also picked up a metric-ass-ton of paint chips at Lowe’s and then sat on my bed and played with kitchen design until two AM!
One of the reasons I never get anywhere is…well, it’s a many-layered thing…like an ogre. It is my decorating ogre. I can’t make up my mind…then I have no money…and I change my mind…things go out of style…I have no money….I get more craptastic hand-me-down furniture that needs “fixing” (refinishing, etc.) and just looks like early Salvation Army meanwhile….then I change my mind…and I can’t decide on a color scheme…ad nauseum.
I’ve gone from warm, earthy tones in the great room to working off the grey and charcoal palette in a print I have, back to the warmer tones. I want a mind of Mexican feel to the kitchen and since the two rooms are, um…rather linked, to suddenly go to greys and blues would be weird. Also? I have this olive fabric, like 22 yards of it, for a slipcover for the sofa, and it wasn’t fitting in with the greys in my mind. Well, it would, but there are tones of blue, charcoal and a deep, deep red-brown in the painting. I dunno, it might still work. Otherwise, I’m not sure what to do with that piece. Feh.
So anyway, here’s the latest grouping, sort of, of colors. It seems a bit washed out on my monitor. paint link
There’ll be more of this, but I started this post three days ago, so I’m posting now.
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