{"id":1591,"date":"2011-03-09T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T13:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2011-03-09T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T13:31:05","slug":"mrs-super-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Mrs Super Efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I decided to copy everyone else out there in blogland and I bought these…<\/p>\n

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to organise my projects with. Nice eh? As I may have told you before, my office and sewing space is the size of a pocket handkerchief. A small pocket handkerchief at that.<\/p>\n

No, honestly, I really truly do spend my life in something that approximates to a cupboard!!! It’s cosy, but it would be an understatement to say that space is at a premium. So anything I can do to keep it tidy and efficient is really worth doing.<\/p>\n

These boxes are improvement on what there was before (a big pile of stuff that kept falling off the chair onto the floor and a couple of elderly plastic bags. It wasn’t very nice, but don’t tell anyone). Now everything is in its right place, not dancing with the dust bunnies and the boxes fit nicely under my desk at the back on top of the scraps basket. Brilliant.<\/p>\n

It is clearly the start of spring. I only do things like this in the spring.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been cleaning windows.<\/p>\n

I really hate cleaning windows. I am just so bad at it. What I would give for a good English windowcleaner…I did enquire here, but I’d have to take a mortgage out to pay for someone else to clean the windows, so it’s back to me….<\/p>\n

I’m a sucker for every magic product on the market – I have them all: sprays, special cloths, squeegee things. I’ve even tried vinegar and old newspapers. And whatever I do, the windows always look smeary. Today the sun was shining in and they looked really bad – read smeary with a layer of dirt from the winter storms. Yuck. And as we finally have some nice weather, \u00a0I really wanted the sun to actually be able to shine in. I wanted that very badly indeed.<\/p>\n

So I consulted my dear friend Ursi, who is good at these things, as every Swiss should be. Ursi told me the secret and I have now cleaned 4 large windows with one drop of a special magic cleaning liquid in a big bucket of water, giving everything a good scrub with a normal kitchen cloth and then finishing off with a window T bar. I’m still slightly in shock – despite the fact that my son immediately pounced on the one or two spots that aren’t perfect, it’s really very good. Certainly better than anything I’ve ever done before.<\/p>\n

Now I think I need to sit down and have a cup of tea to get over all the excitement.<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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