Today was the day to start organizing and cleaning up my house. The worst room is my office/laundry room/sewing nook/workout area/dog kennel. Needless to say this room gets junked up bad. I have my little sewing nook that I just love, but it has been so cluttered and messy that I have not sewn a stitch there since Christmas. Well look at it now all straightened out and organized.
I am not much of of housekeeper. Effieciency and focus elude me. Kathy, my coworker, listens to audio books all the time. She even downloads them to her Ipod. This afternoon, I checked out an audio book. Listening to it while cleaning and organizing makes the work seem to go so much faster and it makes me stay in one room. If I leave the room, I cannot hear the story. Excellent. I think I am going to buy and Ipod to listen to books on while I garden. Maybe I will finally get that show place of a garden I have always dreamed of.
The book is "The Widow of the South" by Robert Hicks. So far, I highly recommend it.
Great idea. It works well with anything to listen to when you are cleaning, gardening or exercising!
ReplyDeleteI remember my mom using a sewing machine like that one. SINGER on the treadle. She borrowed it from someone to sew the labels on our camp clothes.
ReplyDeleteI remember the heavy lid. It looked like it belonged in a church.
That there is the CLEANEST, NEATEST sewing nook I have ever laid eyes on.
ReplyDeleteYou can't possibly be productive in such surrounds, can you? Can I come mess it up for you a little? ; )
That's a great idea- listening while doing housework. Maybe it would help me want to clean for once! Sometimes I play audio books while knitting and that can be nice. It's like reading and knitting at the same time!
ReplyDeleteCindee, It worked for me. Now I am going to listen to the book and file, bow to my awesomeness.
ReplyDeleteHugh, The treadle is actually a table now. The machine is hand cranked.
Foolery, don't tell me. This is the only sewing nook you've ever laid eyes on, right;)
Cynthia, I refuse to learn to knit. If I take on one more hobby, my brain will explode.