Spring cleaning - Page 2 - A Meeting of Minds

jube · Nov 21 2010, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by jube

Imagine this half looking tidier - one desk has been cleaned up and will be put in the next garage sale, bookshelf has been cleaned up and I managed to sew up 5 pairs of trousers/jeans for hubby and neighbour across the road

AND there's a walkway

AnnMarie · Nov 22 2010, 06:48 AM

Progress!!

***Hans*** · Nov 22 2010, 10:40 AM

SPRING cleaning?

AnnMarie · Nov 22 2010, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Hans

SPRING cleaning?

Well, it WAS spring when she started!

***Hans*** · Nov 22 2010, 01:47 PM

jube · Nov 22 2010, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Hans

SPRING cleaning?

Well I've still got another week of Spring cleaning *chuckles* then I think it'll be summer cleaning

You

Yay for flooding waters, we'll be at the river, swimming, bitten by mozzies and having fun before too long.

P'ter · Nov 23 2010, 05:17 AM

Which bit of the jeans did you sew up?

jube · Nov 23 2010, 07:32 AM

Thought I'd make 5 pairs of extra large stockings for xmas. I'm sure Junior would appreciate everything that would fill them all up

***Hans*** · Nov 23 2010, 09:39 AM

But... a jetski doesn't fit in a jeans, doesn't it?

jube · Nov 23 2010, 05:01 PM

Well hubby did ask about one of those when they came back from walking the dogs, a few days ago. *chuckles*

P'ter · Nov 24 2010, 07:19 AM

I recycled the leg of an old pair of jeans to take the vacuum-cleaner's tools.

Sandi · Nov 24 2010, 09:02 PM

Old jeans are wonderful things. Years ago I made a clothes-pin bag out of some old jeans. I sewed up the legs but didn't cut them off. The dangly legs made a handy handle to slide the thing along the line with. I also made my daughter a handbag out of an old pair of jeans when she was a teenager. (I got rid of the legs on that one!) And if you have enough pairs and enough patience, you can make a sturdy warm quilt. On another nostalgic trip, if you have a kid with an outgrown T-shirt they can't bear to part with you can sew them up, stuff them and they become throw (or cuddle) pillows.

jube · Dec 14 2010, 12:42 AM

Remind me why I'm spring cleaning or now summer cleaning...feeling rather frustrated that a can of coke was left on the floor for my foot to discover whilst doing a patch of stuff that had fallen off the bookcase. Thankfully only an old "bill" and the floor became wet and a short yell to the darling child who came to help with a towel. Yay for a great kid and the door can be closed now. Made quite an inroad into the room over the last few days and my "recycle bin" that the council picks up fortnightly was able to go out full yesterday. The compost heap got some too - the shredded stuff anyway. Might even be able to fit a single bed in there shortly

mawra · Dec 15 2010, 10:31 PM

being able to close doors are a good thing.

GinnyStar · Dec 16 2010, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by mawra

being able to close doors are a good thing.

Just make sure no pets are stuck inside, we had that happen with a few spots.

jube · Feb 9 2012, 07:21 PM

Well it's been quite awhile since I've posted here. We've started to make really good inroads into cleaning up said room over xmas, posted off the contents of several boxes courtesy of ebay and that the darling child wants to go to jamboree so he's saved up half of the deposit for that so far as a result. Planning to hold another garage sale soon and an op shop (similiar to thrift shops in America) trip or 2 after that. Handy that my mum's birthday is coming up soon so instead of taking it locally, it'll be a drop off at one of the op shops in Melbourne in lieu there of - for some reason because we do the markets and currently in the process of doing Relay for Life, we've been donated quite a few boxes of items - I don't need anymore items folks, got enough junk around here as it is. Aggravating, 'tis BUT I did find one or two items that I wanted out of the boxes so the donation tin got a fill up and ..... well, you probably get the picture. Okay, I will attempt to put pictorial viewpoints up but it'll have to wait until March so I've got a chance to clean up a little more.

Brenda · Feb 12 2012, 09:26 PM

I made a New Year's Resolution that I had to actually read all my books before I could check out any from the library! I have a whole shelf of books I've picked up here and there - often from the library's sale table - which caught my eye but I never actually read them.

Most have been pretty good so far, although I was really disappointed when one I really liked turned out to have a cliffhanger ending and "look for the sequel!"

mara · Feb 13 2012, 05:32 AM

that is dissapointing! And mostly you can not find the other book anywhere becouse it's out of printing

Nov 22 2010, 06:48 AM	#42
AnnMarie Momma Wolf Weyrwoman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: On the Edge Gender: F Fan of: Pern and Talent Now Reading: The Name of the Rose	Re: Spring cleaning Progress!!

Nov 22 2010, 10:40 AM	#43
*Hans* Master Archivist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Netherlands Gender: M Fan of: Pern!	Re: Spring cleaning SPRING cleaning? __________________ Hans, also known as Elrhan, Master Archivist Visit The Pern Museum & Archives for all your Pern and Anne McCaffrey News and Resources! The Pern Museum & Archives is the home of the Pern Encyclopedia and the Pern Bloodlines.

Nov 22 2010, 01:47 PM	#45
*Hans* Master Archivist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Netherlands Gender: M Fan of: Pern!	Re: Spring cleaning __________________ Hans, also known as Elrhan, Master Archivist Visit The Pern Museum & Archives for all your Pern and Anne McCaffrey News and Resources! The Pern Museum & Archives is the home of the Pern Encyclopedia and the Pern Bloodlines.

Nov 23 2010, 05:17 AM	#47
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Gender: M Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: Spring cleaning Which bit of the jeans did you sew up? __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

Nov 23 2010, 07:32 AM	#48
jube Dolphineer Journeywoman Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Gender: F Fan of: Dragons of Pern Now Reading: Puzzles and my thesaurus!	Re: Spring cleaning Thought I'd make 5 pairs of extra large stockings for xmas. I'm sure Junior would appreciate everything that would fill them all up __________________ Dolphineer Journeywoman and part-time researcher.... Find me on ebay..... Here'tis!

Nov 23 2010, 09:39 AM	#49
*Hans* Master Archivist Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Netherlands Gender: M Fan of: Pern!	Re: Spring cleaning But... a jetski doesn't fit in a jeans, doesn't it? __________________ Hans, also known as Elrhan, Master Archivist Visit The Pern Museum & Archives for all your Pern and Anne McCaffrey News and Resources! The Pern Museum & Archives is the home of the Pern Encyclopedia and the Pern Bloodlines.

Nov 23 2010, 05:01 PM	#50
jube Dolphineer Journeywoman Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Gender: F Fan of: Dragons of Pern Now Reading: Puzzles and my thesaurus!	Re: Spring cleaning Well hubby did ask about one of those when they came back from walking the dogs, a few days ago. chuckles __________________ Dolphineer Journeywoman and part-time researcher.... Find me on ebay..... Here'tis!

Nov 24 2010, 07:19 AM	#51
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Gender: M Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: Spring cleaning I recycled the leg of an old pair of jeans to take the vacuum-cleaner's tools. __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

Nov 24 2010, 09:02 PM	#52
Sandi Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Gender: F	Re: Spring cleaning Old jeans are wonderful things. Years ago I made a clothes-pin bag out of some old jeans. I sewed up the legs but didn't cut them off. The dangly legs made a handy handle to slide the thing along the line with. I also made my daughter a handbag out of an old pair of jeans when she was a teenager. (I got rid of the legs on that one!) And if you have enough pairs and enough patience, you can make a sturdy warm quilt. On another nostalgic trip, if you have a kid with an outgrown T-shirt they can't bear to part with you can sew them up, stuff them and they become throw (or cuddle) pillows.

Dec 14 2010, 12:42 AM	#53
jube Dolphineer Journeywoman Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Gender: F Fan of: Dragons of Pern Now Reading: Puzzles and my thesaurus!	Re: Spring cleaning Remind me why I'm spring cleaning or now summer cleaning...feeling rather frustrated that a can of coke was left on the floor for my foot to discover whilst doing a patch of stuff that had fallen off the bookcase. Thankfully only an old "bill" and the floor became wet and a short yell to the darling child who came to help with a towel. Yay for a great kid and the door can be closed now. Made quite an inroad into the room over the last few days and my "recycle bin" that the council picks up fortnightly was able to go out full yesterday. The compost heap got some too - the shredded stuff anyway. Might even be able to fit a single bed in there shortly __________________ Dolphineer Journeywoman and part-time researcher.... Find me on ebay..... Here'tis!

Dec 15 2010, 10:31 PM	#54
mawra Dolphin Friend Craftmaster Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: CONCORD VA Gender: F Fan of: PERN Now Reading: Dolphins of Pern and Queens ow	Re: Spring cleaning being able to close doors are a good thing. __________________ November is write a 50,000 (or more) word novel, so go write MEDDLE NOT IN THE AFFAIRS OF DRAGONS, FOR YOU ARE CRUNCHY AND GOOD WITH CHOCOLATE SO MANY BOOKS SO LITTLE TIME DRIVING SMART KEEPS YOU ALIVE

Feb 9 2012, 07:21 PM	#56
jube Dolphineer Journeywoman Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Gender: F Fan of: Dragons of Pern Now Reading: Puzzles and my thesaurus!	Re: Spring cleaning Well it's been quite awhile since I've posted here. We've started to make really good inroads into cleaning up said room over xmas, posted off the contents of several boxes courtesy of ebay and that the darling child wants to go to jamboree so he's saved up half of the deposit for that so far as a result. Planning to hold another garage sale soon and an op shop (similiar to thrift shops in America) trip or 2 after that. Handy that my mum's birthday is coming up soon so instead of taking it locally, it'll be a drop off at one of the op shops in Melbourne in lieu there of - for some reason because we do the markets and currently in the process of doing Relay for Life, we've been donated quite a few boxes of items - I don't need anymore items folks, got enough junk around here as it is. Aggravating, 'tis BUT I did find one or two items that I wanted out of the boxes so the donation tin got a fill up and ..... well, you probably get the picture. Okay, I will attempt to put pictorial viewpoints up but it'll have to wait until March so I've got a chance to clean up a little more. __________________ Dolphineer Journeywoman and part-time researcher.... Find me on ebay..... Here'tis!

Feb 12 2012, 09:26 PM	#57
Brenda Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: St. Louis Gender: F	Re: Spring cleaning I made a New Year's Resolution that I had to actually read all my books before I could check out any from the library! I have a whole shelf of books I've picked up here and there - often from the library's sale table - which caught my eye but I never actually read them. Most have been pretty good so far, although I was really disappointed when one I really liked turned out to have a cliffhanger ending and "look for the sequel!" __________________ . Check out my Pern fiction! Mirrim's Vigil News from the Weyr Missing Link Dragonsong: An Alternate Tune Ghost in the Tunnels Changes at Riverbend Hold Pern Songs

Feb 13 2012, 05:32 AM	#58
mara Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Noord Brabant in the Netherlands Gender: F Fan of: the pern serie's Now Reading: cursed	Re: Spring cleaning that is dissapointing! And mostly you can not find the other book anywhere becouse it's out of printing

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