I realise I’ve become rather slack with my blogging these days. I don’t really have an excuse either. I just have the feeling of being busy but without anything to show for it.
The last few days I have been cleaning, well occassionally cleaning lol I can’t stand doing it for too long and get distracted. I’ve decided it’s time to clean out and organise all my beading related stuff, as well as my room in general. I am sad to admit that I had piles of beading magazines and books, as well as other general junk in piles on my floor. Eek! What a mess! And with a cat, there was fur and dust everywhere. No wonder I’ve been feeling stuffy lately, and I thought I was just fighting off a cold! So I purchased a couple of plastic crates with lids, and have organised and stacked all my magazines and beading books in there. They will get taken down to the garage where I torch and should be safe in the crates.
Before I got addicted to beading and lampworking, I used to read alot of trashy romance novels, yes, I’m a romantic at heart! LOL I also have a fondness for some sci-fi/fantasy authors. I seemed to end up collecting a rather large collection of books, and had three bookcases full, as well as piled up beside the bookcases and on top of them! Mind you they weren’t lined up nicely side by side so you could see the titles on the spines of the books, they wouldn’t of all fitted like that! They were stacked one on top of the other and crammed into the bookcase shelves. Well they have all now been sorted through and are boxed up to go to St Vinnie’s. Mum has done the same with her books and St Vinnies will end up with 6 huge boxes of books. I had to keep certain favourite authors though. So my three bookcases are still full but you can read each title now and there is still some room on them, I promise!! LOL
With all this cleaning up and organising I shall be able to rearrange my room, it will be nice to have a change. As they say, a change is as good as a holiday! It will probably confuse the hell out of Bootz though lol She won’t be able to come racing through the house and jump from object to object, well at least until she remembers where everything is newly placed lol
The last thing that I’ve promised myself to get done is organise all my paperwork for my beading and torching, at the moment it’s all in boxes and difficult to get to specific things. I will need to get a filing cabinet for it all I think, then I can get whatever I want instantly rather than spending an hour searching through each peice of paper lol I already purchased one of those little plastic drawer do-hickeys, I’ve popped my business cards, bookmarks, bead cards, coupons, etc in them, so when I send an order off it’s all in the drawers rather in little individual boxes. Hmmm I must of been a cat in a previous life, I seem to a liking of cardboard boxes lol Hopefully, too, by getting rid of alot of the cardboard boxes it will bring down the dust levels.
So it seems I’m doing my Spring cleaning in Autumn LOL
Ahhh, just realised I need to do my newsletter too! Will work on that this weekend, after I purchase my fishies. 
I bought a little 5.7L fishtank it’s so cute, has the filter and light all built in. I remember being a child and watching the tropical fish in the large tank we had then. I’ve missed having fish. We haven’t gotten any earlier because of Bootz, I was worried she’d try jumping on the tank and break the glass, etc. With this one being small and all built-in I’m hoping she’ll just sit and watch. I set the tank up on Wednesday to allow the water to age, and so far she’s been completely uninterested in it. She had a sniff or two then wandered off. I think she was more interested in the container of fish food than anything else LOL
Well, I’ve babbled on enough I think LOL Thanks for reading!
April 28th, 2008 by 
anne071974
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