Unplugged = less distracted = more productivity

This year I have decided to spend one day a week off social media such as Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram etc. This is my second unplugged day and I must say I get through a lot without the social media distractions. It's not like sit there all day looking at it - but it's the interruption of "I'll just check... for a moment" and it must interfere with momentum or something.

As I look at what I achieved, it appears that I was jumping from activity to activity, but it didn't feel like that. I spent my day focused and working away at each thing until I felt I had completed enough for the day and moved on.

Today I managed to:

• Cut up some fabric for the enormous lot of bunting I am making for the Sunday School
• supervised the kids dusting/vacuuming/tidying their bedrooms
• washing sheets
• shopping for luggage
• Did a Project Life page
• Wrote a letter (I KNOW!!! WROTE!! I can't remember the last time I wrote a letter)
• Did a few stitches in my cross stitch.
• Packed the kids clothes for our camping trip
• Decided to do the Fat Quarter Shop Cross Roads Quilt Along for my bed (King Size! Gulp!) and have made a list of the fabric I need to add to the fabric I already have to make it.
• Went digging around in my WIP's and found a partially done quilty project which I want to finish for a purpose now. I pressed all the blocks I have already sewn and plan to sew up a stack more soon.

(Cross stitch)

(My WIP that I found)

It's been a productive day and I know that my crafty time will become less over the next few days as we start to prepare and pack for our camping trip. It will be quiet around here while I rest and relax with my family by the river. I know... it's tough. But someone has to do it.

Getting rid of stuff (Advent Blog Along Day 17)

Every year around this time I get freaked out by the thought of incoming Christmas presents and trying to find homes for everything quickly. I hate having stuff just laying around with no home. Pet hate! Christmas evening is traditionally a time to find homes for everything.

(The ditched cookbooks)

This year I have asked Santa for some Jamie Oliver cookbooks. Because I have been SUCH a good girl this year, I am expecting that there will be one or two under the tree. I looked at my recipe cupboard and saw it was chocka block full of books that I don't use anymore. There are lots I still use too but seem to get lost with all the ones I don't use. So I pulled them all out and discarded all the books I haven't touched in years and the ones I have touched or forgotten about and used to use a lot I have kept. Next year I will do the same and if I haven't used it in 2015 it's going!!

                                     

(What's left)

That's all I managed to do today because I was too busy helping my kids do loom band creations and playing at the park. Love summer holidays!