I am still very much on my cleaning kick. Thanks to some help from my family. I was able to get my kitchen completely scrubbed clean so that has set me off to wanting my entire first floor where I mostly live to be as clean and tidy as I can get it. Because of this, I have not done a lot of crafting however, I have started utilizing some tips and tricks to make my house a little bit more tidy.

The top photo shows my first trick which is using scraps of furniture cushion, purchased from the store to elevate the second layer of paperbacks. This can be used with any sort of shorter book to ensure that you have plenty of space that you can also see all of your books.

My second and final tip and trick for right now is to add L brackets to any wooden furniture that you assemble as some kind of bookcase. This is an IKEA shelf and relatively stable on its own however, with the addition of the brackets, it becomes a lot more stable.

OK, so I did get a little crafting done. While sorting and organizing, I found a linen shirt that I had cut out, but never sewn together. Here you can see the back with the center seam that I plan on hand French seaming I believe it’s called, to hide the same as well as the front with the collar turned under twice which I also plan to hand fell.

Until next time, I hope that everything that you do goes wonderfully and that you remember to live life a little more abstract