M. Silver's Journal: Down to the wire

A week from Wednesday is the day I have to take all my items to the fair. I *think* I'm pretty much on-schedule... the teddy wolf is the most time-consuming critter to make and he's getting close to done. The horse is mostly done, provided I can find all the bits from when I set it down months ago. The dolls will be moderately time-consuming, but I have some flexibility in how much time I spend, so that's no biggie. And the charity toys are (deliberately) not anything difficult, and using Other People's Patterns, so that's a doddle.

In the meantime, I'm having difficulty getting motivated to do more than break even on housework. September 13 is the big day, when my son starts five-days-a-week school (as I've mentioned before), and I'm really down to where everything I want to do upstairs requires space downstairs, so I'm really looking forward to spending some serious time in the basement cleaning it up and getting it organized.

Still, there *is* the bedroom closet, and clothes to get rid of...