I also did some decluttering and feel a little better about my space issues. I get really headwrecked when things of a kind aren't all together. So, for example, I want all my cameras, lenses and photography stuff on one shelf all together. When I have bits and pieces all over the place I start to lose it. I know this all sounds very obsessive compulsive, but it's the way I work. I hate wasting time looking for things and like everything to have its place.
Around the web this week, I enjoyed this article about Oprah and her book selections very much. I have lots to say on this topic, but I fear it would be a bad place to go on the internet. So, I won't. On a less controversial note, I think this ice-skating party is perfection. The little chap in his snowpants playing shinny just makes me come over all warm and fuzzy. Also, I thought this house tour might break my heart in the best possible way.
I have lots of little errands to run and a couple of projects to wrap this weekend. But my number one goal is to stay calm. It's all either doable or not, and panicking won't sway that either way. Actually, I think it will all work out to be just grand. I hope your weekend is too!
Image credits: 1. Snow!, 2. hedgerow, 3. Robin, 4. Winter Rose
Totally understand about having everything in the one place. I am like that, too. Nothing wrong with it - totally normal. (It's all about your perspective, right?!)
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i'm with you on the organization too, i feel so much better when all the stuff is in its proper place. thanks for the link to the oprah article too, very refreshing to read. love this little collection of wintery photos! hope you have a good weekend, jane!
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Mrs June-france-
definitely also with you on the organization bit. i stress out at work when i know i'm coming home to a messy room!
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I can't start a new project without cleaning and putting right the entire studio. I don't think it's ocd - just tidy. That house tour made my knees weak too!
ReplyDeleteI'm the same way - I simply can't work when things aren't all put together. If I'm super stressed and have way too much to do, I actually start with a thorough cleaning, vacuuming and all. Somehow the to do list seems more manageable when I'm tackling it in an organized space.
ReplyDeletei totally agree about having everything in one place, that is a goal i am working towards so i stop wasting so much time looking for things. have a great weekend!
ReplyDeletehope you have a lovely weekend, Jane!
ReplyDeleteeverything is better with a christmas robin :)
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Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeletelol, she really hasn't read dickens before and yet she chose those two as her next books?! and i also found myself confused as to why she was thinking about being all cozy with dickens yet how is a tale of two cities cozy??
ReplyDeleteregardless of starting controversy and pissing people off, i'd still love to hear what you have to say on the matter :)
and yay for getting stuff done! happy friday!
I had seen references to this article but had not read it yet.....I must admit that Tale of Two Cities is one of my favourite books ever though ("it is a far far better..." etc..) but Fall On Your Knees (which I read years before it became an O pick) is another; I found it staggeringly-albeit-lengthily beautiful, much like Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel.
ReplyDeleteI have my cameras all in one cupboard too!
That sounds like light at the end of the tunnel! Hope you're enjoying the weekend.
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking of Canada and what great coping skills it must have when it comes to winter. It has been very cold in England with biggest blizzards or snowfall for over 20 years in places. And everything is mayhem...Gatwick and Heathrow have been closed today...and all the online shops are bringing forward last orders or refusing to take any more. Not good for disorganised people like me.
A friend of mine got married this weekend in London, but the cake got stranded in Birmingham, her transport cancelled and a friend took the bridal party in his landrover, and her grandma couldn't come.
By the way I understand feeling tense about disordered rooms. I'm often in them, often tense, always relax so much when they're cleared.
Ha Lucy! Yes, it definitely helps when all the infrastructure is set up to cope with the weather. I've been following the weather at home in Dublin too and in some ways it makes me laugh. But then again, if we in Canada didn't have winter boots and salt and snow plows, we'd fall asunder too! Hopefully the city councils there start budgeting for it, because the winters definitely seem worse the last couple of years!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the article about Oprah. I find the author's viewpoint more than a little unfair. Oprah is not pretending to be a literature teacher. Rather, I think it's fairly brave of her to admit that she's never read Dickens. She's not pretending to be anyone other than who she is. I think that many people and businesses (hello, Amazon) owe a huge debt of gratitude to Oprah for "reviving" reading. I can't imagine a contemporary landscape in which people (especially ladies, in this case) would gather for book clubs. No, it doesn't make sense to put these two Dickens books together, but if I had a book club, I like to think that I'd be entitled (pardon the pun) to choose whichever books in whichever sequence I liked. If her audience were not people who would have read Dickens anyway, what's the harm in their (at least) attempting it? At least she's gotten people to read for over a decade. That is more than many licensed teachers can say. The article was pretty interesting, though.
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