:: All part of moving ::
Even though we’re not moving till the end of July, we’ve been going through our stuff the past week. I’ve had a few magazines subscriptions over the years, including several scrapbooking magazines, Cooking Light, Martha Stewart’s Living and Every Day Food. Now I can’t quite bring myself to cut my Martha Stewart magazines just yet. However, I have hacked up my scrapbooking magazines and my Cooking Light magazines pretty well. My plan is to make an idea binder for the scrapbooking pages and a recipe binder as well. My husband will be working from home when we move to Denver and since I’ll be in class most of the day, he’s going to be doing a little bit more of the cooking. I’ll have to type up some recipes that aren’t really recipes, just how I do things (like my risotto recipe). Yum! Now that I’ve chopped up my magazines and have recycled them, I realize that while a subscription saves a substantial amount of money, I think I’d be better off actually going to a bookstore and checking out a magazine to see if I want it. The magazines are full of advertisements (which I’m fine with), but most of the layouts start repeating themselves and new products/techniques are highlighted on a lot of the blogs I read. So in effort to save space and money, I may forgo some of my subscriptions.
I found a filing cabinet filled with papers from our tenure in San Antonio. Years of statements and bills. Why on Earth did this travel with us from San Antonio to California? My husband kindly reminded me that we left Texas in a bit of a hurry. hehe So my shredder has been going full force. I’ve been saving the shredded paper and using it as packing material. It was great when I packed up some vases and glass hurricanes earlier this week.
Sadly, sewing has been put on the back burner. It really bums me out. We’re heading to Yosemite on Friday and I was hoping to make a strap cover for my SLR strap. I can’t stand neoprene against my neck. I have some small pieces of Heather Ross’ fish fabric and some smaller squares of her other prints that I was hoping to use together. Tomorrow will be my last day to do it, but our apartment looks like a bomb exploded and my sewing machine is buried somewhere. We’ll see what happens.
Now I’m off to enjoy the rain and thunder. 
