That is a good habit to have! I look over my holiday decor before putting it away to see if anything needs repaired!
My Halloween snake wreath needs a quick paint refresh, but it was too cold to go outside to do it. I’ll have to put it on the list for next year before I hang it again.
Sounds like you will have your treasured decorations for many more seasons!
I hope I do make it a habit! This year, I have gotten nearly all the mail-away gifts out already - one more going today and one box waiting for a few things to arrive, but everything else wrapped and waiting in a shipping box… SO I feel like I have the time to do repairs at the beginning of the season. At the end, I think I just want to be done, so put things away broken. But this year, I have also had the wherewithal to actually get rid of decorations I just don’t use (anymore). I plan to take a box to the women’s shelter thrift store this week, when they will still want holiday decorations.
We love linen sheets. We even bought a set for camping! But my restless feet wear a big thin area and ultimately a big hole. I patch it and then wear out the patch. Time for new sheets.
The rest of the set is still in good shape. I do get nice large top sheet size pieces of linen for my stash. But new linen sheets are expensive.
We try to rotate the sheet, but somehow we never get it rotated often enough.
So I made a protective pad for my feet. I used leftover linen from the last sheets, and pre-quilted offcuts from a fabric donation and quilted it up. I gave it a good snooze test last night. I think it will save the new set some wear around my busy feet. Until the new pad wears out!
And yes, that is Felix, annoyed that I almost buried him, all for a silly picture.
That’s brilliant. I hope it saves your sheets.
A couple years ago I had the forethought to place the items I wanted to get rid of on top in the holiday box with a note to try selling them. Two years later I unpacked them with perfect timing to put them on Marketplace for cheap… So, yay?
I enjoyed wearing my chicken/space invader top today and noticed another small hole. I think I’ll just darn that one, unless I’m in a silly mood when I get to it. 
I just mended my first heel! I wore a small hole in my favorite rainbow socks made by my DW on her circular knitting machine. I only wear her wool socks now…hence the hole. I am hard on heels.
It is not perfect and I learned a lot. I also did the second sock just in case it is next. Now I need to find the other two pairs of socks with holes. They aren’t rainbow, but I like them anyway.
Nice save!
