SHEs Organized

My desk remains uncluttered, I'm very happy with it, and I will work as hard as I can, to keep it this way.

If I get out a coaster, to drink my coffee, for instance, when I'm done with the coffee, the coaster goes back in the drawer.

Whenever I get anything out of a desk drawer, for any reason, when I'm done with it, it goes back into the drawers. I love the clean, sleek, uncluttered and clean, orderly look. It makes me feel less cluttered in my mind and I have more energy with more creativity thoughts coming to mind about routine things, be it writing, crochet, letters to write or housework to do.

I dumped the trash from all the waste baskets, too.

I added an angel holding a dove to my desk top in my small office today, from The Dollar Tree. My desk surface remains orderly. I have 2 books, red ones, in 1 stack with a red-patterned Kleenex box on top of the books with a red plastic desk cat calendar in front of the books/Kleenex in 1 corner of the back left-hand desk.

On the right-hand corner of my desk is an antique vase with a pretty summery silk flowers bouquet dfriends/neighbors made us for a house-warming gift. (We moved into our new home on 8/21/04!) We've been here 10 years, exactly! Also, in front of the bouquet is my digital clock/calendar/thermometer with a mug of pens/pencils, a decorative black and white handled pen inside a silver pen holder with a snowman figurine, to remind me that I'm "supposed" to be doing my Christmas crochet! LOL! My timer and 1 ink pen is to the left of my laptop and my Nook Color is behind my laptop.

I just decluttered a desk drawer of 1 AARP Bulletin, 4 receipts printed off the Internet for orders, which I've already received. So why was I hanging onto the out-dated receipts? Anyway, I vow to continue to keep my desk tidy, because it's my "shiny sink" in the office and order begets order. If we make a "shiny sink" in every room, order follows. Such as, a king-sized bed or dresser in a master bedroom could be the "shiny sink." It's nice to get order to every room. My dining room table remains beautiful with nice place mats, a large hand-blown vase of silk sunflowers, a sea shell, etc... I make sure that my dining room table remains beautiful, so it's a welcome to us as we come into the great room area, which entails the kitchen, dining room, and great room, all together, without dividing walls. It's open and spacious, so as it remains decluttered, it's contagious and follows suit into other rooms as well.

I just look at the pics in the birds and blooms mags I got fordc free at the lib. Not much time to read so I gave em to the gal I walk with. I dropped off a small box to the thrift shop Fri.?

Now to deal with the bucket of plums.

Mom used to make plum butter. But I am not going to be able to do it as dgd is alergic to cinnamon so cannot cook with it.

I have mixed them I with peaches and necterines and made a yummy crisp! One year I sold plums. Another yr. Donated them to the thrift shop. Last yr. I froze them and the hens loved them in the winter.

Some will go in a couple of gift baskets with a dish cloth on the bottom.

I love the all recipes web site did not know they were from Seattle!

Cinnamon makes me ill, too. Your ideas for your plums sound like super ones!

I dumped trash from 2 bathrooms. I'll be decluttering mail and groceries off the kitchen's eating bar counter when DH returns from town later this afternoon.