Week 1 - A start!

I've decided that I should work on one business task and one domestic at a time so that I don't neglect either.
On the domestic front I decided to start with tidying the bedroom as this will help with the filing and accounts tasks too. I have made a good start but, as is quite usual with me, I have made the task bigger than it should have been. It will now involve decorating too!! It does need it. When I bought this house it had to be completely gutted but I moved in with a baby before it was redecorated. It has been a slow process getting that decorating done. I have papered 2 walls of the bedroom but a 3rd is behind a set of wardrobes that unfortunately have had to be bolted together and are going to be very hard to move and the 4th needs to be replastered as it all fell off when the paper was removed. If the room is going to look good I will have to do them. In the meantime whilst I have sorted a lot of stuff and thrown away enough rubbish to fill the bins for a couple of weeks (yes I have sorted for recycling) I have since pulled all the contents of the cupboards out to sort so it doesn't look any better. In the meantime the rest of the house has gone to pot - how does it happen so fast?
As we had lovely weather at the start of the week I was inspired to tackle the back gate task. I went to a large DIY store but was most unimpressed by the quality of gates on offer - I want it to withstand a shoulder not fall apart at the first strong wind. Tried another one today but they didn't have any at all. May have to build from scratch.
On the business front I decided to start with the magazine piece. I really want to do the DVD task first but am having trouble getting my head round it. It has been a tricky week for the piece that I am working on anyway. I am sewing up a piece that is provisionally called Crystal. I sew all of my work as it helps me refine the design and sort out any bugs. The first couple of days I managed to sew it wrongly and had to unpick a whole lot which is very frustrating. I finished the section a couple of days ago but on looking at it something didn't seem right. After some thinking I decided it was 1 thread too close to another section of the design on one edge (yes that does make a difference), so more unpicking ahead!! I had to redesign it on the computer but as it is a large design the programme has trouble coping with it and it was very very slow going. The design is a symetrical piece (as most of my work is) so I am sewing one of the repeats of the section to check that is now right before unpicking the first one.
All in all not a desperately productive first week but I have made a start and that's a good feeling.

Vicki