Stash (and Other) Organization and Audible

Teresa in Alabama wrote several posts about how she organizes her sewing room.


Stash (and Other) Organization

https://fabrictherapy.blogspot.com/p/stash-organization.html

She credits this book with helping her come up with a system that works for her:

"Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie Morganstern is the definitive book on the topic of getting...and staying...organized."  

She has an incredible amount and variety of fabrics! And she can find what she is looking for!

I have purchased some clear boxes from Costco and will be transferring my fabric from the bankers boxes I had been using.

And I'm going to be looking for "these drawer units" she found on sale. She shares photos of the filled unit in part 4 of her 5 part set of blog posts. I like that the system she has has the little drawer so they pull out and can be easily rearranged.

She stopped posting May 2021.  I hope she is having many quilt adventures. She certainly is organized and has enough supplies to keep her busy!

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I am going to listen to Organizing from the Inside Out while taking a driving trip later in the week.  We'll see what I gain from the book!  

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AUDIBLE

I have learned to not listen to Audible samples without my glasses on.  I'm now listening to a cowboy detective book.  Any Other Name by Craig Johnson.  I suspected I had clicked on the wrong buttons at the time, but then there was the book in my library ready to be listened too! It's pretty funny, the same kind of story one would see in a cozy mystery on Britbox, but this author is throwing in Indians, guns, drinking and buffalos!  Makes me remember when I was hired by the county office to do teacher training.  My speciality was evaluating software.  One day they needed a workshop leader for a group of Special Ed teachers.  My supervisor told me it's just the same class as what I had been doing, but be sure to mention special education during the class, and think about examples to tell them.  I had been a Chapter One Reading teacher so I suppose that was easier for me to do than it might have been for other workshop leaders.

My favorite novel on Audible so far is A Gentleman from Moscow.  A wonderful, interesting story narrated by a man with a voice that is so expressive - he adds to the story.  Lots to think about and picture in your mind.  (The TV series didn't do it justice.)

And the book I have listened to more than once is The Psychology of Money.  Such insight. 

The book I stopped listening to as I think I need to take notes, or perhaps read a paper copy is Atomic Habits.  It could be a life changer. If there were a class to take to go along with the class I think I would sign up!

Some of the other books I have listened to I think starting with:

• Drift
• Fast Food Nation - my son had read in high school so I was interested to read it myself.  I didn't realize so many of the successful entrepreneurs that created things we use all the time now knew each other.  Or that at least some of them had connections to Nazis! 
• Blowout
• The Handmaid's Tale (I read paperback too)
• White Fragility - I only liked this one as it was set in Winchester MA so I recognized some of the places she discusses. She was too distant to be believable.
• Becoming - Incredible lifes
• Interview with the Robot - Can't remember the story, but think I liked it
• War and Peace
• The Plot against America
• The Indigo Girl
• Anna Karenina
• The Queen's Gambit
• The Elm Creek Quilt Series - Such fun!  I see the Civil War and early life in California in a different way now.  And I want to go to quilt camp in Hawaii!
• King of Sting: The Story of Australian Conman Peter Foster
• The Lincoln Obsession
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane
• Klara and the Sun
• The Jane Austin Books

There are more.  Guess I didn't remember I'd listened to so many!

• Unto a Good Land and the Emigrants There is another book in the series that Audible does not carry.  I read at least one of the books when I was a student in Sweden.
• The Bee Sting - my second modern Irish novel.  Shocking sometimes, but again I recognized some of the places mentioned.  It is set up so each chapter is told by a different character and different time period. The Irish names made it more difficult for me to figure the connections.  At the conclusion the author did a masterful job of bringing the story together, and leaving me wanting more!  My first is Mouthing - I read it in paper. Same kind of shifting in time and focus, lots of new Irish phrases to look up before the story made sense to me.
• Lessons in Chemistry
• Nobody Wants Your Shi*t - funny
• An Irish Mystery Bundle (not recommended - stories were too simple)
• Breakfast in Burgundy - a really interesting story by an Irish wine critic who buys a place in France.  Renovation stories.  And I learned how there are ferries to take to Europe from Ireland.  So we took a ferry Dublin to Isle of Man and then on to Liverpool.  So much more fun than taking a plane.
• Fates and Traitors (by the author of the Elm Street Quilt series)  
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
• Snow Crash
• Remarkably Bright Creatures (Fun)
• The Dutch House
• The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
• Beginner's Mind
• The Book of Lost Names
• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
• Tiny Habits
• The Good Life
• The Nordic Theory of Everything
• Remembrance of Things Past - I haven't finished this yet
• You Can't Be Serious
• Books that Matter: The Decameron
• Saturn's Monsters
• The Lincoln Highway
• Best in Snow
• Learning How to Learn
• Untouched by Human Hands
• 52 Ways to Walk
• The Idiot

I'm not typing out all my Audible list as some were just throw away stories or writing.  

I try to pick a variety of topics and authors.