FLY LADY WEEK 2 - Living Room & Dining Room

 Good afternoon, everyone!

I'm getting this scheduled on Sunday the 4th as I'm in deep prep for my trip on Wednesday. With that in mind, I will be paying some attention to the area before I leave.

My goal for this week is to move the Pink Ribbon journal kit boxes moved back to the warehouse as well as a couple of other things. Beyond that, there are not enough hours in the day. 

There won't be anything to doin the dining room because I'm pretty sure Bob's going to be tearing out part of the ceiling to see if he can find the link that has been a trouble spot for years. We think the leak is saturating the insulation then just continuing to drip after the rain has moved out. I don't want to be around for that excavation. LOL  

I'll be in Eureka Springs AR for the 60th Annual Ozark Creative Writers conference. This will be my 30th year in attendance and my roommate's 50th! I've met amazing people through this conference and many have passed on over the years, as is bound to happen. 

I won't be back until the 12th, so I'm going to schedule that post next.

Good news is, the leak in my office seems to be fixed. Bob is going to repair the ceiling so I can spend my first week back putting things back to normal in my filming corner. So once again, office and bedroom will be flip flopped. 

I hope you're enjoying nice weather where you are. 

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly

FLY LADY WEEK 1 - Kitchen & Laundry

 Good morning, everyone!

I am so in love with the fall weather that has finally arrived in the Ozarks. Our high today should only be about 79*. With full sun and me with TONS of work to be done in the house.

I'm back to cleaning the laundry room & kitchen. With all the office prep I have to do this week ahead of leaving for a writer's conference next week, I'm not digging in deep. Just making the rooms presentable. 

I've still not hauled out the fall decor. At this point, it's all about Halloween - hopefully by the weekend so I can enjoy it for a few days.

Laundry is cat counter and floors. Bob took recyclables in last week so I don't have to do those.

Kitchen is all about clearing that corner by the coffee pot I didn't get to last week so I can put up the Halloween display there, the coffee island, and the floors. I need to deep clean the refrigerator but that will have to wait until the the first week in November when I start prepping for Christmas baking. 

The only other thing for the kitchen is to prep meals/ leftovers for Bob to have at the ready while I'm gone for five days. That is the 1950's mentality. I always make sure there is food in the fridge/ freezer for Bob. While he is totally capable of cooking his meals, I like to provide him with a variety that is easy to grab. 

Aside from that I have to get blog posts and videos up ahead of leaving a week from Wednesday. I need everything scheduled/ posted through the 17th so I don't have to dive right into working as soon as I'm home. I want to spend a couple of chill days with Bob.

What room are you focusing on this week?

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly

FLYLADY Week 4 - Still In the Office

 Good morning, everyone!

Well, I turned last weekend upside down. I'm involved in four different craft challenges due by end of the month. Rather than make a bigger mess by pulling everything out of the planner corner, I decided to see how many of the challenge videos I could knock out. It's been a busy three days and I'm nowhere near done. But I do have until this afternoon.

I did get the rest of the flour and rice dry canned as well as four loads of laundry. I'm contemplating the white oad this morning. Haven't decided yet.

Weather is still hot but to cool down this week. I'm still waiting on a storm to test the roof leak. I don't know what I need more at this point, confirmation the roof is fixed so I can put stuff back or for the temperatures to get considerably below 100*F.

I'm supposed to do a 31 Days of Halloween on my creative channel but right now, I'm strongly considering 13 days. That would let me hold off until the 19th before I have to start uploading content. The Ozark Creative Writers Conference is the second full weekend in Oct. I'll be gone for six days, meaing I'll have to have all that content recorded a head of time and can upload the videos while I'm at the conference ot just relax so I'm not wore out before the conference. I'll let you know what I decide LOL

As we approach Autumn (supposedly) think about how you want to switch things out, or do you? At this point, with the house in complete chaos, I think fall decor will wait til next year. If I'm lucky, something more than the Christmas tree will go up. 

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~Kelly

FLY LADY WEEK 3 - Office

 Good morning, friends!

The mornings are cooler here in the Ozarks but doesn't take long for temperatures to climb. At least we're not in the low one hundreds. 

Even though I'm ready for fall, the house is not. It is getting there. We're still waiting on rain to test the seal on the leak. Keep sending positive vibes, please.

I pulled out an almost full pack of black cardstock over the weekend for a project and all of the pages were warped. Thankfully, I had two new packages in the warehouse.

While Week 3 should be the bedroom/ bathroom, I am focusing on the office this week. Bob leaves Thursday for a trip to OK to see his brother. I'll have 4 days to totally empty out and redo the planning corner in my office. Need to take advantage of the empty space while I can move freely and at  my own pace. I'll have leftovers in the fridge so I won't need to cook, though the first morning I might treat him to breakfast at a little market/ cafe up the road on his way out of town.

Speaking of Bob, I'm off to have coffee with him. 

In the mean time, this week's task is to take a serious look at one room in your house you want to bring in some Fall inspiration and what you need to do before that can happen.

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly

FLYLADY WEEK 2 - Living Room/ Dining Room

Good morning, everyone!

How are you? Have stocked your pantry ahead of price increases? Both of my freezers are bulging. I anxiously await when I can turn on the AC and start running the pressure canner. Between now and then, I need to figure out where all of the filled jars will go on the shelves.

For the next couple of weeks (at the very least) nothing but basic pick up is going to be done in any of the rooms. At this moment, we're still waiting for a good hard rain to see if we have the leak fixed. In the mean time, a lot of the photo boxes containing my polymer and rubber stamps as well as cardstock and 6x6 paper pads are in the living room and the bedroom. There isn't any point in putting stuff in new boxes and back on the shelves.

I also have a lot of boxes of jars stationed in the living room on a card table waiting to be filled. I can't see hauling them back to the basement to bring them back up again. I'm also gradually filling the quart jars with dry mixes/ jar meals. 

If you want to look back at last week and compare with your cleaning duties, you'll find that blog post HERE.

I'm working hard in the office the entire month trying to get ahead of work that needs done before I leave for a writer's conference in October. One thing I'm doing is the popular 31 Days of Halloween on my blog/ YouTube channel. A lot of videos will have to be done up ahead of time.

If you're a paper crafter in any vein, I invite you to visit my YouTube channel or my creative blog.

In the mean time,

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly

FLY LADY WEEK 1 - Laundry Room & Kitchen

 Good morning, everyone!

Were you able to experience some cooler temperatures last week? We did but I guess the temps are going back into the upper 90s this week. Ugh! Anyone else ready for fall?

Last week's post provided a cleaning list. I failed to mention that some things, like the walls & drapes only need to be done twice a year... NOT every month. I'll be revamping that list in January with an easier check list to follow. 

I'm not deep cleaning this week. The office is in total disaster after a leak over my cardstock storage. Boxes of stamps and dies are everywhere. We're just waiting for a good rain storm to see if the leak is fixed before putting stuff back. And I was SOOOO close to getting things in order. I'll update you on the office in Week 4... hopefully. In the mean time, here's where we are this week:

I'm not doing any deep cleaning in these two rooms this week, though I would love to get the shelf liners and fall curtains made. Here are the two areas of focus:

LAUNDRY

Behind the fooc containers, there is a 3-cubby unit that is suppose to hold the pet supplies. They were mostly HoneyB's. He's been gone since January and I've just put off going through this stuff. My goal is to have all of the items gone from in front of the unit. The water cube on the right needs emptied, winsed good then refilled. this is the first emergency water I work with for cooking should we have a power outage. There's another one in the basement. I also have 3 cat litter juts I keep water in for dishes and sanitary usage. My goal is to clear this then post an update next month.

Then there's the kitchen:

My old coffee small Keurig and Bob's Bunn used to sit in that corner. When the Bunn went kaput (I may or may not have melted butter down through the vent) We decided the dual unit was best against the wall (You can just see my side of the dual on the left) and the corner became a catch-all.  My goal is to clear that out and put in a fall display followed by a Halloween then a Christmas display throughout the season. 

Accomplishing those two spaces this week will be a major improvement.

If you want to refer back to the cleaning schedule for these two rooms, you'll find that BLOG POST HERE.

What's on your list for this week? Do you have an area you keep putting off, or just not sure what to do with? Let me know in the comments below.

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly

FLY LADY WEEK 4 - Office

 Good morning, everyone!

A gorgeous 65*F in the Ozarks as I type this morning. I need to check the garden. Produce is pretty puny since I've been a baby about going out in the heat. 

When I was younger, heat bothered me. I'd even get nose bleeds if I tried to work in the garden. That's when mom decided I was better suited to the household duties and I learned about keeping house. As a young adult, the heat didn't bother me but now, as I approach 65, the heat just zaps the life out of me. I've gone from keeping the AC set at 73 to 70. What a difference three degrees can make. 

No detailed cleaning list this week as I realize a lot of you don't have an office. Maybe it's your craft room and you just need to put stuff back where it belongs. Or maybe the children's playroom or one of their bedrooms. Pick a room that suits you this week and a previous cleaning list that fits that room.

I've been slowly (and I do mean a turtle's pace) putting things to rights. I spent all day yesterday moving digital files I've had in a tote bag into the scraprack. The tote bag is already in the donate pile. One more thing off the floor.

For this week, I want to focus on finishing the Patriotic Journal as well as two challenge pieces for the Spectrum Art Creations FB group. I just have to tweak the fairy piece then make a shaker card by week's end.  With those out of the way, by next weekend I can dive back in to going through more 'collective' boxes to pitch, donate, put away. 

I'm also still dry canning mixes. I meant to post last Thursday about the progress. I'll work on that for this week. 

What room will you work on this week? If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. I love to hear from my readers.

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly