August 25, 2025 • 23 mins
I confess, there are NO organization genes in my DNA. This is about how I found my quilting thimble in my headband drawer of my dressing table!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is Emma. Today is Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I did not work from home today, although it would
have been tempting. This is the last week of August,
believe it or not, and the summer is maybe coming.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
To a close.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
According to my vehicle, it is sixty nine degrees. I
noticed a slight coolness to the breeze this morning when
I came outside. That's pretty amazing. We don't get these
kind of temperatures this time of year. So we're gonna
consider this a great gift. So I'm gonna title this
(00:42):
ode to organization, uh, something that has to do with organizing,
and how wonderful it is and how very badly I
function at organization. There are people who are naturally organized,
and I am not one of them, and I do
not come from a organized lineage. I have never met
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anybody in my family that appears to be organized in
any form or fashion, any branch of the family. So
I don't know that we've got any kind of organizational
genes in our DNA. So up having said that, I
will say this prepping has caused me to be.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Somewhat more organized than I was.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It has caused me to get rid of some stuff
that I didn't need to be keeping that was of
no use or value and needed to move on somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That was taking up space in my house.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And as I started to put things in various places
for storage that would be helpful, hopefully at some point
then I realized there was stuff that needed to go.
So up that is that has helped, But organization is
still not my thing.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That does not mean I can't get better at it,
or maybe I should rephrase that as less worse.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But it's probably.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
One of the most important things that we can do
in being prepared is having some kind of organizational system
so that when the time comes that you need something,
that you have the ability to find that thing.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That's always helpful. Okay, case in point.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now this had nothing to do with preparedness, but has
everything to do with organization.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Jesus told of parable, and I.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Think it's in Litluke fifteen maybe about how important lost
people are to the Lord and how you know that
they would leave everything they had.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And go find the one that was lost.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, And so this, this particular parable was about a
woman who lost a coin and she turned her house
upside down looking for She swept her house out, she
did everything she could to find it, and then when
she found it, she called all her friends to celebrate
with her that she found it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And obviously there's.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
A spiritual context that was the whole purpose of the parable.
But if you just stick with a top layer with
the earthly parable, that that is a true statement. If
you lose something that's important and then you find it,
you're all excited and you tell everybody that you found it,
and so that is that is what happened to me.
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I was that woman this last two year. Two weeks okay,
finished the crosstitch project that I've talked about before and
said it, you know, took it off to be framed,
and I thought, well, let me get out a hand
quilting project that I have in a basket in the
living room and I will work on that. Well, only
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problem with that is I could not find my quilting thimble.
And my quilting thimble is kind of special. It's a
rocks hand thimble. For folks who don't quilt, that probably
doesn't mean anything. A rocksand thimble is you size it
like jewelry because it is sterling silver, and so you
have to get a special size, the size that fits
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your finger, so it's.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I've had mine for somewhere between twenty and twenty five
years probably. It costs nearly one hundred dollars when I
bought it, so that's a lot of money for a thimble.
It's open on the top so that you know, if
you've got fingernails, they don't get bent down inside the thimble.
They they stick out. But it's also got a lip
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that fits underneath your fingernails so that that's what the
needle can catch on when you are quilting, So it
protects your fingernail, but it also gives you room for
your fingernail, which is nice. You know, they're pretty, they're
very well made, they're thick, they're decorative. You can even
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I don't know the rock's hands still come this way.
But there's a company called Thimbles for You, and it's
a lady who hand makes sterling silver thimbles and she
puts jewels in hers as well, and they're very shretty.
And you know, for those of us who liked sew
a lot, it's kind of nice to have cool things
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to sew with.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I've always liked sewing jewelry. I don't wear a lot
of regular jewelry.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And so you know, my thimble was special to me
in addition to the fact that I like to quilt
with it because I like the way it's made. Okay, well,
first of all, it's sterling, so the price of silver
has greatly increased over the last twenty something years. So
that means my one hundred dollars thimbles and now about
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one hundred and seventy five dollars, So that there's that.
But in addition to that, you know, it's something I've
had a long time. In fact, the first project I
quilted with it, I think this is the first project
that I hat quilted with it. I quilted a baby
quilt for the baby of a friend of mine. And
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this baby is now in college and so and she
may be in her second year of college. Maybe I
have go awack and look, so that tells you how
long I've had it. But what happened is when I
was quilting with this thimble, when I was quilted her
baby quilt, and baby quilts not very big but still,
I actually poked a hole through one of the little
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dimples in the in the thimble. And so when I
contacted the company and Roxanne thimbless have been sold. They were,
you know, the the Roxand Company or whoever Roxand was
who started them. She sold it to Colonial Needles. So
they on it now and so, but back then it
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was still rock sand. So when I when I contacted
them and to explain that I had poked whole through
my thimble, they actually replaced it at no extra cost,
I mean no cost to me. I had to send
it in and then they sent me a new thimble
without a hole in it, which was really nice. So, uh,
you know, it's very well made, has goods customer service.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I hope it still does this.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
The Colonial Needle people now have it in silver plate.
They may have it in gold plate. They've got some
colors and different things, so they have but you know,
the sterling, there's not a lot of ones that are
sterling at this point, probably the few that they have
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with Colonial Needle. And then the ones that thimbles for
you what whatever her name is make And both of
these are going to be at the quilt show in
Houston in October, and I am going, so I thought, well,
I can get one then, but I wanted one before
then I'll be doing, you know, I wanted to work
on the project that I have ongoing, and I will
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need it when I get ready to do my little
hand quilting demonstration like I did last year in November.
So I was very distraught that I could not find
my thimble. I looked everywhere.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I assumed that it was in the basket.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I have a big, kind of like a rope basket
that sits on the floor by my chair in the
living room, and I was trying. I looked through it.
I looked through that basket multiple times, which was good
because there was a whole bunch of stuff in it
that needed to be organized. I had put you know,
it's kind of a catch off for needlework projects. So
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I had knitting in it, I had crochet in it,
I had stuff from the cross stitch project.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I had everything in it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So that in its elf needed to be organized because
it was just a big tangle of stuff. And it
has this quilt that I've been working on because I
like to when I quilt. When I hand quilt, I
like to use the frame. It's called a Q snap.
You can get them that's sit on the floor, but
I like to be able to turn mine around so
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that I can quilt in, you know, whatever direction I
need to go. I'm not a person that wants a
stationary frame when I quilt. I demonstrated that way because
that's the old timey way. My mother used to quilt
with a quilt frame hanging from the ceiling in the
living room. But when I'm personally am quilting, like to
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get something done, I actually like to quilt on this
little frame that I can move around. I have quilted
on a hoop, and those are fine. They work the same,
except that they they're round, so it's very hard to
get into the corners. And if you use this little
q snap thing, which is made out of basically almost
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looks like pieces of PBC pipe, it works what it
works actually better, I think, because it's square and you
can get into.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
The corners where you're gonna work on stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, so I have so I looked up through that.
I had a bag that I had taken on a
work trip in January when I first started the crosstitch project,
and I looked through that. I looked through my you know,
I have some little bags that are like little sewing
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kits that I can take, you know, I can pick
up and take somewhere, and it generally stayed in.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
One of those.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But I as I kept thinking about it and I
couldn't find it, I remembered vaguely that when I got
ready to go on the work trip in January, that
I had taken it out because I wasn't gonna need
it for the project, the cross Edge project.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
But and so I didn't want it to get lost.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I didn't want to lose it on the trip, you know,
So I thought, well, I'll leave my thimble here. And okay,
so the question is where pray tail did I leave it?
So I looked through every drawer. I looked through every
I thought it didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I looked. I went to my sewing room.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I looked through all of that, and it's on a
I have a like a brown kind of sheerish just
because it happened to be handy.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Ribbon that I have it on. And then I.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Got a probably at the Houston Quilt Show.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I got a.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Little thing that you could hang your thimble on because
the thimble is open at the top, so you can
put it on this thing. It's like decorative like beads
or stones or something that are are you know, like
a little pretty thing for it town. And so I
hang that on this ribbon, and a little pair of
foltop scissors are on there as well. And so if
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I'm quilting hand quilting, then I have those handy because
they're hanging around my neck, and then I can get
to them and do whatever I want to. Okay, So
it wasn't like it was just by itself. It was
on this ribbon, and I couldn't find the ribbon, so
that meant it was probably still on its ribbon.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
The question became where praytail wasn't So.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I looked and I looked, and I looked, and I
reorganized things, and I you know, looked in bags, and
I looked in in cabinets, and I looked everywhere I
could think to look, and I had just about exhausted
all the places. So I've been looking for about two
weeks and I could not find it. And then lo
and behold, I found it Saturday. And where did I
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find it? I have a dressing table that I you know,
where I've I've always had a dressing table in my
whole life to get ready every morning. And so my
dressing table is nantique has three four or five, No,
it has six drawers in it completely has three on
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each side. But then it because it's old and it
has the mirror and all that stuff. Uh, but the
top has these little drawers that are I think they're
supposed to be glove drawers.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Well, I have made jewelry organizing organizers out of them.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So I, you know, looked in those I looked in
all the drawers that and I didn't empty all the drawers,
but it did look at them, you know, the drawers
that had just miscellaneous stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Because this is a good example.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I need to go through all of those drawers and
I need to clean them out and you know, just
decide what am what I'm going to put in each
one of them. Back to that need to organize and
I'm not there always room for improvement, especially for me.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Okay. So as I'm looking through.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Those drawers, I reached into the drawer that I keep
all my headbands in, so I have like hair clips
and headbands and all kinds of stuff that I use
for hair and I reach into that and I feel
this ribbon and so I dig through that and you know,
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because it's headbands and everything, so there's a jumble. I
dig through that and lo and behold, there is my
thimble on its ribbon, just like it's always been in
the headband drawer. Now, what in the world in January.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I guess that's when I did it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What in the world caused me to put the thimble
in the headband drawer, I have no I cannot even
begin to defend that decision, but it was a reminder
that being organized, especially as you cut. I mean, and
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you know that's the thing with prepping. We are collecting
a lot of things. So I have an inventory for
my excuse me, food storage.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And I have a few things there in the inventory
that are not food storage.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
There are other kinds of equipment or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
But I really truly need a master inventory that tells
me where I have everything. Now in the storage building,
I have like totes that are just paper towels and
toilet paper and that kind of thing. Have a toad
for the dog food, have a toe for different things.
I have a toad that I'm using, and I think
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I have basically two smaller totes that I have collecting
things like my heavy duty extension courts, you know, power
outage things where I need to run my generators in
that kind of thing. But I need to you know,
the more things I get, the more things I need
to be able to look can put my finger on
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if I need. For example, a couple of years ago,
my brother came to visit and I needed a place
for him to sleep.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And this is even.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Though my house is fairly large, it has large rooms,
and it only has two bedrooms, so in one for sister,
one for me. So I needed him. I had it,
and I do have. I have a cot kind of
like a frame, and I have a blow up mattress,
and so you can put the blow up mattress.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
On top of the frame.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You know, I'm slipping on the blow up mattress on
the floor, which this makes it a little taller, so
it's easier. But I needed to find that stuff, and
I could find like part of it, but not all
of it.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, low and behold. It was on a shelf in
the storage building.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
But since then I have written on it what it
is so that I know what I'm looking for. So
I have a long way to go for organization, but
it's as it relates to prepping, probably one of the
most important things we can do. There's a guy that
I like to read his content. He doesn't do a
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YouTube channel or anything. He has done some presentations that
I have heard him speak before, but he does not
regularly do content that way. He tends to do more
written content. He has a website and a blog, and
so he does. His name is Paul T. Martin, and
he lives in the Austin area. And so he said
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he has the saying that if whatever it is you're
doing is boring, then you are.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Doing it right.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
And that makes sense because inventory, which is a constant thing,
is not exciting in any form or fashion, but it's
one of the things.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And that's This is kind of one of those accountability.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Talks with myself because I really need to do a
better job of organizing. Now I'm still trying to. I
talked about this, Oh, this was probably a pretty good
while ago, might even have been last fall. I talked
about Nicole Sauce, who has Living Free in Tennessee as
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a podcast, and she, you know, talks about preparedness and
all that kind of stuff. And I think she sells
coffee and she they have a festival. I don't know
if it's the Okay, so the Kentucky one. There's one
in Kentucky called the Kentucky Self Reliance, and then Living
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Free in Tennessee has.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Another one like that that's similar. I don't remember what
it's called.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Anyway, So it's a big festival and people come from
all over and they have guest speakers and all that stuff.
So she's a busy lady with a lot of stuff
going on in her life. So one of the things
that she talks about is doing things in threes. You
do three things and then you get to do something
that you want to do, and then you do three
more things and you get to do something than you
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want to do.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
And actually that's a pretty good system.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
So I was applying that Saturday, and that helped a
lot because it helped me get some stuff done that
needed to be done. I finally got around and shouldn't
have taken this long, but it did. Finally got around
to repotting my second advocato tree.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So it'll have a better.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Chance at this point to live if it's got a
little bit bigger pot to sit in. But just you know,
there's always stuff to do, especially if you have any
kind of property and you know you're trying to do
anything self sufficient, trying to keep up with tools, make
sure I know where my tools are. One of the
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things I'm bad about, and I think this is this
may be one of those Marie Condo things or one
of the one one of these folks that's really organized
and does content on that is that you need all
of the same kind of thing in one place. Now,
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I personally, I think there's a few exceptions to that.
That makes sense in a lot of ways, and I've
tried to apply that as my prepper supplies have grown,
Like I've got all the sugar in one place, and
I've got all the salt in one place, and I've
got you know, various and sundry things like that, and
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and that has changed over time as I have acquired
more supplies. But things like tools and things you're gonna use,
I think there's a lot to be said for having
the having multiple versions of those in multiple places in
the you.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Know, in your space.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
For example, my garden area is not close to the house,
so I.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Have a.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I have I have guarded tools up at the and
and there's a little storage building up there, the old
whale house.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I have.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Garden tools up there, but in addition to that, I
have a shovel and a at least a shovel and
a hoe in the storage building down at the house,
because that way I can get to them quickly as
I need to.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
For example, when I.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Go home Friday afternoon, the dogs were barking.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And Cissy dog was actually growling. I didn't even know
she could growl. She's not a growling kind of dog. Well,
they kept barking, they kept barking, and as I said,
she was growling, and I thought, hm, I better go
check on this. So I go out to the backyard
and they have cornered a baby snake up against the
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corner of the house and it's you know, bowing up
and spitting and spewing and you know, putting its tongue
out there, and you know, I guess it's trying to
defend itself with two dogs on either side of it.
I don't know what kind it is. I don't know
that it was a copper head. It did not have
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the yellow tip on its tail, so I don't know.
But it was a snake and it needed to go,
so I had to go, and I had to go
back in the house, get my boots on, get my
get their leashes, come back out and get them, take
them in the house, and then I had to go
out to the storage building and get the hoe and
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the rake so I could kill the snake. Well, and
you know, sometimes the snake's gone by the time you've
done all that, but the snake was not. It was
still there and I was able to kill it because,
as I said, it was a baby, so it wasn't
really big. But if I'd had to walk all the
way up to the hill to where the garden is
and get a hoe and a rake up there, or
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a hoe and a shovel up there, that would have
taken that much longer to do. So I do think
it's important to have tools where you need them, so
like I have cheap scissors in multiple places throughout the house,
including I have some in the storage building as well,
because you never know, I mean they're cheap, they quit working,
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I'll go back to Walmart and get the package of
ten that used to be ten dollars it's now twelve dollars.
But I have lots of I try to keep those
kinds of things where I will need them. Okay, I
am at the office and I have a lot to do.
It's going to be a wild and crazy week this week.
I'll talk to you soon
Good morning. This is Emma. Today is Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I did not work from home today, although it would
have been tempting. This is the last week of August,
believe it or not, and the summer is maybe coming.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
To a close.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
According to my vehicle, it is sixty nine degrees. I
noticed a slight coolness to the breeze this morning when
I came outside. That's pretty amazing. We don't get these
kind of temperatures this time of year. So we're gonna
consider this a great gift. So I'm gonna title this
(00:42):
ode to organization, uh, something that has to do with organizing,
and how wonderful it is and how very badly I
function at organization. There are people who are naturally organized,
and I am not one of them, and I do
not come from a organized lineage. I have never met
(01:05):
anybody in my family that appears to be organized in
any form or fashion, any branch of the family. So
I don't know that we've got any kind of organizational
genes in our DNA. So up having said that, I
will say this prepping has caused me to be.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Somewhat more organized than I was.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
It has caused me to get rid of some stuff
that I didn't need to be keeping that was of
no use or value and needed to move on somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That was taking up space in my house.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And as I started to put things in various places
for storage that would be helpful, hopefully at some point
then I realized there was stuff that needed to go.
So up that is that has helped, But organization is
still not my thing.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
That does not mean I can't get better at it,
or maybe I should rephrase that as less worse.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
But it's probably.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
One of the most important things that we can do
in being prepared is having some kind of organizational system
so that when the time comes that you need something,
that you have the ability to find that thing.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That's always helpful. Okay, case in point.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now this had nothing to do with preparedness, but has
everything to do with organization.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Jesus told of parable, and I.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Think it's in Litluke fifteen maybe about how important lost
people are to the Lord and how you know that
they would leave everything they had.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And go find the one that was lost.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Okay, And so this, this particular parable was about a
woman who lost a coin and she turned her house
upside down looking for She swept her house out, she
did everything she could to find it, and then when
she found it, she called all her friends to celebrate
with her that she found it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And obviously there's.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
A spiritual context that was the whole purpose of the parable.
But if you just stick with a top layer with
the earthly parable, that that is a true statement. If
you lose something that's important and then you find it,
you're all excited and you tell everybody that you found it,
and so that is that is what happened to me.
(03:39):
I was that woman this last two year. Two weeks okay,
finished the crosstitch project that I've talked about before and
said it, you know, took it off to be framed,
and I thought, well, let me get out a hand
quilting project that I have in a basket in the
living room and I will work on that. Well, only
(04:01):
problem with that is I could not find my quilting thimble.
And my quilting thimble is kind of special. It's a
rocks hand thimble. For folks who don't quilt, that probably
doesn't mean anything. A rocksand thimble is you size it
like jewelry because it is sterling silver, and so you
have to get a special size, the size that fits
(04:23):
your finger, so it's.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I've had mine for somewhere between twenty and twenty five
years probably. It costs nearly one hundred dollars when I
bought it, so that's a lot of money for a thimble.
It's open on the top so that you know, if
you've got fingernails, they don't get bent down inside the thimble.
They they stick out. But it's also got a lip
(04:46):
that fits underneath your fingernails so that that's what the
needle can catch on when you are quilting, So it
protects your fingernail, but it also gives you room for
your fingernail, which is nice. You know, they're pretty, they're
very well made, they're thick, they're decorative. You can even
(05:09):
I don't know the rock's hands still come this way.
But there's a company called Thimbles for You, and it's
a lady who hand makes sterling silver thimbles and she
puts jewels in hers as well, and they're very shretty.
And you know, for those of us who liked sew
a lot, it's kind of nice to have cool things
(05:30):
to sew with.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I've always liked sewing jewelry. I don't wear a lot
of regular jewelry.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And so you know, my thimble was special to me
in addition to the fact that I like to quilt
with it because I like the way it's made. Okay, well,
first of all, it's sterling, so the price of silver
has greatly increased over the last twenty something years. So
that means my one hundred dollars thimbles and now about
(05:57):
one hundred and seventy five dollars, So that there's that.
But in addition to that, you know, it's something I've
had a long time. In fact, the first project I
quilted with it, I think this is the first project
that I hat quilted with it. I quilted a baby
quilt for the baby of a friend of mine. And
(06:18):
this baby is now in college and so and she
may be in her second year of college. Maybe I
have go awack and look, so that tells you how
long I've had it. But what happened is when I
was quilting with this thimble, when I was quilted her
baby quilt, and baby quilts not very big but still,
I actually poked a hole through one of the little
(06:41):
dimples in the in the thimble. And so when I
contacted the company and Roxanne thimbless have been sold. They were,
you know, the the Roxand Company or whoever Roxand was
who started them. She sold it to Colonial Needles. So
they on it now and so, but back then it
(07:04):
was still rock sand. So when I when I contacted
them and to explain that I had poked whole through
my thimble, they actually replaced it at no extra cost,
I mean no cost to me. I had to send
it in and then they sent me a new thimble
without a hole in it, which was really nice. So, uh,
you know, it's very well made, has goods customer service.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I hope it still does this.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
The Colonial Needle people now have it in silver plate.
They may have it in gold plate. They've got some
colors and different things, so they have but you know,
the sterling, there's not a lot of ones that are
sterling at this point, probably the few that they have
(07:51):
with Colonial Needle. And then the ones that thimbles for
you what whatever her name is make And both of
these are going to be at the quilt show in
Houston in October, and I am going, so I thought, well,
I can get one then, but I wanted one before
then I'll be doing, you know, I wanted to work
on the project that I have ongoing, and I will
(08:13):
need it when I get ready to do my little
hand quilting demonstration like I did last year in November.
So I was very distraught that I could not find
my thimble. I looked everywhere.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I assumed that it was in the basket.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I have a big, kind of like a rope basket
that sits on the floor by my chair in the
living room, and I was trying. I looked through it.
I looked through that basket multiple times, which was good
because there was a whole bunch of stuff in it
that needed to be organized. I had put you know,
it's kind of a catch off for needlework projects. So
(08:52):
I had knitting in it, I had crochet in it,
I had stuff from the cross stitch project.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I had everything in it.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So that in its elf needed to be organized because
it was just a big tangle of stuff. And it
has this quilt that I've been working on because I
like to when I quilt. When I hand quilt, I
like to use the frame. It's called a Q snap.
You can get them that's sit on the floor, but
I like to be able to turn mine around so
(09:21):
that I can quilt in, you know, whatever direction I
need to go. I'm not a person that wants a
stationary frame when I quilt. I demonstrated that way because
that's the old timey way. My mother used to quilt
with a quilt frame hanging from the ceiling in the
living room. But when I'm personally am quilting, like to
(09:42):
get something done, I actually like to quilt on this
little frame that I can move around. I have quilted
on a hoop, and those are fine. They work the same,
except that they they're round, so it's very hard to
get into the corners. And if you use this little
q snap thing, which is made out of basically almost
(10:06):
looks like pieces of PBC pipe, it works what it
works actually better, I think, because it's square and you
can get into.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
The corners where you're gonna work on stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, so I have so I looked up through that.
I had a bag that I had taken on a
work trip in January when I first started the crosstitch project,
and I looked through that. I looked through my you know,
I have some little bags that are like little sewing
(10:40):
kits that I can take, you know, I can pick
up and take somewhere, and it generally stayed in.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
One of those.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But I as I kept thinking about it and I
couldn't find it, I remembered vaguely that when I got
ready to go on the work trip in January, that
I had taken it out because I wasn't gonna need
it for the project, the cross Edge project.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
But and so I didn't want it to get lost.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I didn't want to lose it on the trip, you know,
So I thought, well, I'll leave my thimble here. And okay,
so the question is where pray tail did I leave it?
So I looked through every drawer. I looked through every
I thought it didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I looked. I went to my sewing room.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I looked through all of that, and it's on a
I have a like a brown kind of sheerish just
because it happened to be handy.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Ribbon that I have it on. And then I.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Got a probably at the Houston Quilt Show.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I got a.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Little thing that you could hang your thimble on because
the thimble is open at the top, so you can
put it on this thing. It's like decorative like beads
or stones or something that are are you know, like
a little pretty thing for it town. And so I
hang that on this ribbon, and a little pair of
foltop scissors are on there as well. And so if
(12:07):
I'm quilting hand quilting, then I have those handy because
they're hanging around my neck, and then I can get
to them and do whatever I want to. Okay, So
it wasn't like it was just by itself. It was
on this ribbon, and I couldn't find the ribbon, so
that meant it was probably still on its ribbon.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
The question became where praytail wasn't So.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I looked and I looked, and I looked, and I
reorganized things, and I you know, looked in bags, and
I looked in in cabinets, and I looked everywhere I
could think to look, and I had just about exhausted
all the places. So I've been looking for about two
weeks and I could not find it. And then lo
and behold, I found it Saturday. And where did I
(12:51):
find it? I have a dressing table that I you know,
where I've I've always had a dressing table in my
whole life to get ready every morning. And so my
dressing table is nantique has three four or five, No,
it has six drawers in it completely has three on
(13:14):
each side. But then it because it's old and it
has the mirror and all that stuff. Uh, but the
top has these little drawers that are I think they're
supposed to be glove drawers.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Well, I have made jewelry organizing organizers out of them.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So I, you know, looked in those I looked in
all the drawers that and I didn't empty all the drawers,
but it did look at them, you know, the drawers
that had just miscellaneous stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Because this is a good example.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I need to go through all of those drawers and
I need to clean them out and you know, just
decide what am what I'm going to put in each
one of them. Back to that need to organize and
I'm not there always room for improvement, especially for me.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Okay. So as I'm looking through.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Those drawers, I reached into the drawer that I keep
all my headbands in, so I have like hair clips
and headbands and all kinds of stuff that I use
for hair and I reach into that and I feel
this ribbon and so I dig through that and you know,
(14:21):
because it's headbands and everything, so there's a jumble. I
dig through that and lo and behold, there is my
thimble on its ribbon, just like it's always been in
the headband drawer. Now, what in the world in January.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I guess that's when I did it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What in the world caused me to put the thimble
in the headband drawer, I have no I cannot even
begin to defend that decision, but it was a reminder
that being organized, especially as you cut. I mean, and
(15:00):
you know that's the thing with prepping. We are collecting
a lot of things. So I have an inventory for
my excuse me, food storage.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And I have a few things there in the inventory
that are not food storage.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
There are other kinds of equipment or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
But I really truly need a master inventory that tells
me where I have everything. Now in the storage building,
I have like totes that are just paper towels and
toilet paper and that kind of thing. Have a toad
for the dog food, have a toe for different things.
I have a toad that I'm using, and I think
(15:41):
I have basically two smaller totes that I have collecting
things like my heavy duty extension courts, you know, power
outage things where I need to run my generators in
that kind of thing. But I need to you know,
the more things I get, the more things I need
to be able to look can put my finger on
(16:01):
if I need. For example, a couple of years ago,
my brother came to visit and I needed a place
for him to sleep.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And this is even.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Though my house is fairly large, it has large rooms,
and it only has two bedrooms, so in one for sister,
one for me. So I needed him. I had it,
and I do have. I have a cot kind of
like a frame, and I have a blow up mattress,
and so you can put the blow up mattress.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
On top of the frame.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
You know, I'm slipping on the blow up mattress on
the floor, which this makes it a little taller, so
it's easier. But I needed to find that stuff, and
I could find like part of it, but not all
of it.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, low and behold. It was on a shelf in
the storage building.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
But since then I have written on it what it
is so that I know what I'm looking for. So
I have a long way to go for organization, but
it's as it relates to prepping, probably one of the
most important things we can do. There's a guy that
I like to read his content. He doesn't do a
(17:08):
YouTube channel or anything. He has done some presentations that
I have heard him speak before, but he does not
regularly do content that way. He tends to do more
written content. He has a website and a blog, and
so he does. His name is Paul T. Martin, and
he lives in the Austin area. And so he said
(17:30):
he has the saying that if whatever it is you're
doing is boring, then you are.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Doing it right.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
And that makes sense because inventory, which is a constant thing,
is not exciting in any form or fashion, but it's
one of the things.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
And that's This is kind of one of those accountability.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Talks with myself because I really need to do a
better job of organizing. Now I'm still trying to. I
talked about this, Oh, this was probably a pretty good
while ago, might even have been last fall. I talked
about Nicole Sauce, who has Living Free in Tennessee as
(18:11):
a podcast, and she, you know, talks about preparedness and
all that kind of stuff. And I think she sells
coffee and she they have a festival. I don't know
if it's the Okay, so the Kentucky one. There's one
in Kentucky called the Kentucky Self Reliance, and then Living
(18:35):
Free in Tennessee has.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Another one like that that's similar. I don't remember what
it's called.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Anyway, So it's a big festival and people come from
all over and they have guest speakers and all that stuff.
So she's a busy lady with a lot of stuff
going on in her life. So one of the things
that she talks about is doing things in threes. You
do three things and then you get to do something
that you want to do, and then you do three
more things and you get to do something than you
(19:00):
want to do.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
And actually that's a pretty good system.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
So I was applying that Saturday, and that helped a
lot because it helped me get some stuff done that
needed to be done. I finally got around and shouldn't
have taken this long, but it did. Finally got around
to repotting my second advocato tree.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So it'll have a better.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Chance at this point to live if it's got a
little bit bigger pot to sit in. But just you know,
there's always stuff to do, especially if you have any
kind of property and you know you're trying to do
anything self sufficient, trying to keep up with tools, make
sure I know where my tools are. One of the
(19:46):
things I'm bad about, and I think this is this
may be one of those Marie Condo things or one
of the one one of these folks that's really organized
and does content on that is that you need all
of the same kind of thing in one place. Now,
(20:07):
I personally, I think there's a few exceptions to that.
That makes sense in a lot of ways, and I've
tried to apply that as my prepper supplies have grown,
Like I've got all the sugar in one place, and
I've got all the salt in one place, and I've
got you know, various and sundry things like that, and
(20:28):
and that has changed over time as I have acquired
more supplies. But things like tools and things you're gonna use,
I think there's a lot to be said for having
the having multiple versions of those in multiple places in
the you.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Know, in your space.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
For example, my garden area is not close to the house,
so I.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Have a.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I have I have guarded tools up at the and
and there's a little storage building up there, the old
whale house.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I have.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Garden tools up there, but in addition to that, I
have a shovel and a at least a shovel and
a hoe in the storage building down at the house,
because that way I can get to them quickly as
I need to.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
For example, when I.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Go home Friday afternoon, the dogs were barking.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And Cissy dog was actually growling. I didn't even know
she could growl. She's not a growling kind of dog. Well,
they kept barking, they kept barking, and as I said,
she was growling, and I thought, hm, I better go
check on this. So I go out to the backyard
and they have cornered a baby snake up against the
(22:05):
corner of the house and it's you know, bowing up
and spitting and spewing and you know, putting its tongue
out there, and you know, I guess it's trying to
defend itself with two dogs on either side of it.
I don't know what kind it is. I don't know
that it was a copper head. It did not have
(22:25):
the yellow tip on its tail, so I don't know.
But it was a snake and it needed to go,
so I had to go, and I had to go
back in the house, get my boots on, get my
get their leashes, come back out and get them, take
them in the house, and then I had to go
out to the storage building and get the hoe and
(22:46):
the rake so I could kill the snake. Well, and
you know, sometimes the snake's gone by the time you've
done all that, but the snake was not. It was
still there and I was able to kill it because,
as I said, it was a baby, so it wasn't
really big. But if I'd had to walk all the
way up to the hill to where the garden is
and get a hoe and a rake up there, or
(23:07):
a hoe and a shovel up there, that would have
taken that much longer to do. So I do think
it's important to have tools where you need them, so
like I have cheap scissors in multiple places throughout the house,
including I have some in the storage building as well,
because you never know, I mean they're cheap, they quit working,
(23:27):
I'll go back to Walmart and get the package of
ten that used to be ten dollars it's now twelve dollars.
But I have lots of I try to keep those
kinds of things where I will need them. Okay, I
am at the office and I have a lot to do.
It's going to be a wild and crazy week this week.
I'll talk to you soon
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