A good Sort Out

This might sound odd - but I do think that there is something a bit cathartic about a good sort out - wardrobe, cupboard, garden, desk - whatever's floating your clear out boat at any one time. But, best of all is a stash sort out; the chosen stash for sorting this week were my ribbon boxes (yes boxes - 3 of them - I love ribbon, so what.....).

Since I saw Jay's fab way to keep all her ribbons I have been itching to have a go at mine - so having got the storage box (Jay, thanks - will sort it out with you soon) I have spent the last few evenings cutting little bits of card into 4cm x 4cm squares. Then I have sorted my ribbons in to colours and stored them on the card in the perfect little slots left for them in the box. They look so lovely and neat all ready to use - so I will have to get cracking on a layout that is going to need lots of ribbon - yippee. I think my husband thinks I am totally mad....

On the very positive side though - a clear out mean that I could RAK a number if ribbon items on UK Scrappers - which also makes me feels quite warm inside!

On a different note though - I have been looking for a picture of my husband to scrap - and having found just the one have started to plan the layout (yes, I do plan a lot of them - they just don't always pan out the way I want them to..) I have decided to use a fabulous poem which, for me, says it all about my husband - its called "I rely on You" and its by the wonderful Bolton poet, Hovis Presley, Check out the website www.hovispresley.co.uk to see some of his work. Its dry and northern and very bittersweet (like the best chocolate) and very sad too - because Hovis shuffled of his mortal coil way too early indeed in 2005.

Need to do some real work now - got some veg box things to sort out now - then there's a house to be cleaned, dinners to be prepped and dogs to walk (again) before its out to meet some friends for a woodland walk later this afternoon.