Final Countdown – Task Three

Do today’s task, and you’ll be over the hump in the Final Countdown. If you haven’t started yet, or you’re just now checking in, don’t despair. Grit your teeth, read this post, and jump right in.

Today’s task is . . .

Straighten up your stacks of magazines and/or your quilting book shelf

I’ll confess right now, before you scroll down and see for yourself: I have lots of quilting magazines, and quite a few quilting books. If I don’t keep them in some sort of organization, then I can never find what I’m looking for if I decide to go back and try to locate something. When I moved into my new studio a year ago, I got them all organized, and boy, was I proud! Over the course of the last year, I’ve added more new ones, pulled out and used some of the stored ones, put others in the piles without paying any attention to my organization scheme, made new piles in other places (where they shouldn’t be), and otherwise gotten them all messed up again.

Now . . . maybe you don’t have as many books and magazines as I do. Maybe you NEVER take one out without putting it away properly. Maybe you always put new ones in the perfect spot as soon as they enter your domain. Maybe you even have yours indexed — GASP! (If so, maybe I need to talk to you, cuz I’ve always wanted to do that!) If you are blessed enough to be so organized, I’ll still allow you to comment here and be eligible for the prize, just so I can find out who you are! If you can relate to my dilemma, then your work for today is now cut out for you.

So get to it, leave your comments or links (because I’d love to see some pictures that will make me feel better about my own mess), and know that this is what I’ll be working on today, right along with you:

Here’s the bookshelf:Oh, it looks neat enough, but I need to get the extra stuff out from around them, and find any that have escaped and are laying around in places they shouldn’t be.

Here’s the magazine storage . . . one section . . . also deceptively neat-looking . . . sort of . . .. . . and the other section . . .

I know, I know, I have too many — but you DO realize that they come out with more every month, and I just can’t resist? What if I missed something important or quilt-world-shattering? I would never be able to forgive myself! And that’s why I also have this:

And why my head is now hung in shame, and I’m leaving to go do something about it . . . I’ll talk to you tomorrow.