Organisation Project Jan 2012

Do you ever have one of those moments where you see something and it triggers a GREAT idea? I was picking up some stuff at the store for my sisters baby shower (cancelled by the way due to the baby showing up 20 days early, lil' stinker) and I noticed a package of clothespins. It got me to thinking about the "old days" when my gramma W used to put her laundry out on the line and how she had ALL these clothes pins and I always picked out the newer ones because they held onto the clothes better than the old worn ones - TA-DA LIGHT BULB MOMENT!!! 

My big project for this month was to organise my closet and get it all sorted and easier for my brain to handle. My problem is that half my clothes end up on the floor due to the fact that they just fall off the hangers - CLOTHES PINS!!! I bought a package and now all my wide neck shirts or slippery type clothing are HANGING UP!!! 

I feel like a genius right now. I'm sure someone thought of this idea a billion years ago but I'm going with I'm super smart!! 

My dresser got re-organised also!! 4 bags of clothing went to the donation bins. Wow, I don't know where it was all hiding (yes I do, on the floor of my closet haha) 

Great start to my year!! 

Shoes are 1 heel out 1 toe out per pair
so you know what they look like

I can be crafty too!

Time off work while feeling ill = So BoReD!!!

I have been looking for things to do while I'm home. Yay for Pinterest. But I actually had a craft that a friend of mine did in high school and I always wanted to do too.... just never found the time (so, I've been busy since birth I think) 


Pens are a must in my life, I have to write EVERYTHING down. If its not written in my agenda then it doesn't exist. I used to put everything into my BlackBerry but then I have to actually LOOK at that application on my BlackBerry which is usually at the bottom of my massive bag and by the time I fish it out I have missed what I was supposed to do. For some reason the action of physically WRITING something down makes it stick in my brain better.


Anyways, I hate ugly pens. I have always hidden my pens in a drawer or behind stuff,  and then... I can't find them right when I need them.

Step 1 - Buy ugly pens and CUTE flowers (DollarStore has tons of bunches)

 

Step 2 - Cut a single flower off the bunch, tape the "stem" down the side of the Ugly Pen
I used green tape cause I had it left over but masking tape or anything works

Step 3: Cover from the top of the Ugly Pen over the taped part with Floral Tape
(Also found at the dollar store) also sometimes called Stem Wrap
Just wrap it around tight at a bit of an angle down the pen. 

Step 4: Continue until all your Ugly Pens are covered

Ta-Da!! Pretty pens! 

So busy lately!

My life is SO hectic lately! So many things are changing and work has picked up x 1000 due to school being back in session - would you believe I did a quote for a hockey team today? YIKES! 


Ok first change - we are moving! (not that far tho don't worry) Just a couple blocks away. Our place now is fantastic but we have seemed to outgrow the more settled I become (that means the more I make it a home rather than a place all our crap sits in boxes under the stairs)  We have tried a few ways of rearranging and have finally just decided its not going to work. 

APARTMENT HUNTING IS STRESSFUL

Those of you who have more than just 2 people and 1 fish in your family, I don't know how you do it. My hat off to people who trek with children and pets in town to whole new cities or countries. 

But we found a new place and get our keys very soon so we can start hauling our stuff over. (Of course we got word that the place was ours the night before P went to a job - talk about down to the wire) 

Guess it looks like boxes will be my life for the next few weeks - that's ok. I am REALLY excited for this move. Its our first big time step together (P lived in our current place for about a year before we even started dating) 

New Bedspread!

I finally chose a new bedspread! Its been a struggle cause I'm kind of picky (stop snickering)

I'm so excited about it! This picture is kind of not great - its a bit darker in real life - I just had the windows open so it seems a lot brighter. 

Slowly my house is getting "grown up" ! yay!! 

Purple pillows

Have been trying to get our place a little cute the past few days. Its actually kind of fun. I haven't had full range of a house for a few .... years? Is that right?  WOW. That is kind of shocking to think about. No wonder this is kind of exciting for me eh!? So yes, I have been having a lot of fun looking at stuff - that really is the MOST fun I think. I haven't really even BOUGHT anything, except... 

PURPLE PILLOWS!!!!!! 

Oh - the vase and purple potpourri are also new - smells amazing! 

So this is the "new" living room. There are also new pictures (in frames!!!) on the walls! My family photo from Easter, one with me and my nephew and 2 really big ones of me and P. I LOVE PHOTO'S!! 

Eventually the whole house will look great I think. (well I hope)  I think I'm getting it there. Like I said, I have SO much fun going to places and looking at all the wonderful stuff I could buy (and then finding even cheaper stuff at a different place! sneaky girl eh?) 

So now, I am going to tidy up my adorable living room and get ready for bed - hoping that tomorrow is less rainy than today - always seems to bring my mood down just a touch. 

Love D