mobile phone | organised castle

As promised, this post is about making do and mending what you already have.

4 years ago GMan and I capitulated and both bought an iPhone. I refused to pay $75 for an Apple branded case but felt that a case would definitely be a wise idea to protect our expensive investments. We managed to pick up ones for about $20 each which are both a bit the worse for wear now.

A few weeks ago GMan ended up buying a new phone (not an iPhone) as his had clearly reached the end of its useful life. I decided to purloin the old case so that I could use the good bits of both cases to re-create a decent case for my phone which seems to be going along without any problems.

This is what I started with.

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The pink case is mine and the plastic phone cover had broken and become detached from the case. The black case belonged to GMan’s phone and although the clip had broken off the case, the plastic cover was still in good condition.

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So I removed the phone cover and re-glued into my case.

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The edging had also lifted from my case so I redid it with some duct tape.

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The end result is not particularly pretty and I have my doubts of the wisdom of the duct tape. However, I have gained an insight into how simple it would be to make a new case from scratch and re-use the black phone cover.

Meanwhile, my next assignment is to make a pouch for GMan’s new phone. I hope to get that done next weekend.

Early in January, I wrote a post about my Christmas plans for 2012. It is here.

As I suspected I did not get everything done on 25th January as planned but I am making progress. Here is what I had on the list.

January

Sort and file Christmas cards and letters – DONE
Make sure any contact details are updated in address book – DONE
Update Christmas card list – DONE
Set up complete contact list for 2012 e-cards – NEEDS A BIT MORE WORK

In conjunction with updating the contact details in my address book I embarked on another project which took me a couple of weeks. I have made sure that I have current contact details for all of my friends and relatives in my physical address book as well as my email contacts address book and my mobile phone address book. The Duke checked that he had the relevant ones in his mobile phone and we also have some that we need at our fingertips in the home phone speed dial. Now all I have to do is make sure that I update all locations when I am given new contact details for anyone. I really hope that I keep on top of this issue as I do not want to have to do the sorting and cross-referencing of the past couple of weeks. The memory of that should be enough to keep me on track.

I have also been doing some sewing today and have finished making the first 2 of my Christmas gift bags. They are not for anything or anyone in particular but my aim is to have a collection in a variety of sizes so that I will have one suitable for whatever the gift happens to be.