An End of Year Plan of Attack

I realized that life got in the way, and I never published my Pile and a Plan post. I will soon, but here's my general ramblings that came up as I thought about my pile of fabric and patterns that I've yet to begin on. 

Due to minor health issues and an overwhelming influx of sewing orders for Christmas, I’ve yet to complete any of the items of clothing I planned to sew for myself. I made myself cut out the first pair of pants the other week before our last minute trip, but have yet to get anything sewn since we’ve been back. Hence, the implementation of a stricter schedule for myself. I’ve got to get things together if I want to accomplish anything in by the end of the year.

I like to try to start the year with a fairly clear schedule of projects. I like starting the year out with finishing a project, and starting a project, it's good luck, I guess. And having a clear schedule makes me feel excited about all the potential I have to get accomplished in the coming months.  So, I’ve got to finish as many of my WIPs as possible in the next six weeks. As someone who only gets weekends off, and Thanksgiving weekend and Christmas day, I don’t have a lot of extra time lying around in my schedule to get things sewn.

I’ve started diligently taking my knitting to work with me, and actually knitting on my lunch break. It lets me end each day knowing that I made some progress on something each day, even if no sewing gets done.

As difficult as it has been, I’m forcing myself to get up early again so I have time in the morning to get things done too. I’m very behind on an editing job, hopefully my last one for the year. And super behind on sewing orders due to our last minute trip. But the sewing ones are easy to catch up on once I find the time and motivation.

And, I really do want to regularly write. Here on the blog, as well as for myself. Stay tuned for updates!

And pictures. I’ll be better at getting pictures in my posts too. 

I'm Back (again)

I have to apologize for falling off the face of the earth (again), especially when I promised to post at least once a week! Life got a bit tough for a few weeks here, and I feel like I’m beginning to recover. All in all, I told myself I needed to set a schedule and stick to it for a few weeks to see if I can get my feet fully back under me.

I would love to give you all an update on how the Capsule Wardrobe is going so far! It’s been a couple of months since I began this project, and it’s definitely still a huge work in progress. I still feel like I have plenty of clothing items that I do not need.

But, I did do a huge tee shirt clean out, and pajamas, and pants. Some skirts and dresses too. And to be honest, I don’t miss them.

I thought I would, but I don’t. It’s a lot easier to get dressed on those days that I don’t wear my uniform at work.

Sundays are a breeze, and a lot less anxiety attacks are happening before church.

Even with a last minute trip out of town (meaning the first time I had more than three days in a row without a uniform) was fine without all those clothes to pick from and figure out what to bring.

I’m  really liking this whole minimal wardrobe thing.