New Organizing Challenge

Come check out the new Organizing challenge on A Bowl Full of Lemons, starting on January 30th. You'll be glad you did.

Playing Catch Up

My view this morning as I sit in front of the computer perusing blogs that I love, and stitching a bit on my ripple blanket. I do love how this blanket is coming along. I think I might be about a fourth of the way done. I am using Vann's Choice yarn, which is 100% Acrylic, but it is the softest acrylic I have ever used. It is just so squishy. I just love having it on my lap.

On to the 21 day Organizing Challenge!!!
I am a bit behind, and I am not going to show you any before pics, just the afters.
Here are two challenges, Under the Bathroom Sink, and Medicine Cabinet/Medicines and First Aid...

This is exactly how my bathroom sink looked anyway. I guess I've always kept that pretty neat. I just took everything out and wiped it down.




I organized this section of my bathroom when it was Linen Closet day. It is where I keep my medicines, first aid, vitamins, make up bags, and other odds and ends. This is a deep cupboard in the bathroom that could probably house a few more things. But at least it is neat.

My Dirty Little Secret

Day 11 of the organizing challenge and today was a doozy. THE FREEZER. Well, now you all know my little secret. I do love me a Whiskey and Coke. Not much food in there. I'll definitely have to stock up. Maybe I should do a little more eating and less drinkin'. Just kidding, I'm not that much of a lush.
Here is the before.....


And the after.....



Well, I figured since it was FREEZER day, FRIDGE day would be coming up soon, so I tackled that as well. OOps, there it is again!!!! I do love me a glass of wine too!!! (see box on the right).
This always takes me about an hour to accomplish, but it always feels so good when it is done.
Before.....

And After....

Again, looks like I have to stock up.

Come and play along.

Thanks for stopping y,

Hillery

A Wonderful Day

It was such a fun day with the kids. They keep me so busy during the day. They are now starting to really play with each other, and that is a GOOD thing. For months Big Sister wanted nothing to do with her little sister but now that she is crawling around and into everything, Big Sis wants to play with her more. As long as she's not too rough.
We played cars on their town carpet.


Big Sis just loves to dress up in her Dorothy Slippers.

And of course it wouldn't be a week without pulling out the play dough a couple of times.

ON TO THE CHALLENGE!!!!!

As much as this challenge is really motivating me, I'm really sorry that I have to innundate you with all these crappy pics of my dirty little spaces.

Oh well, if you're doing this challenge then you will understand.

Saturday's challenge was the Pantry. I have a little pantry in the cellarway, but that is pretty well organized, maybe not that clean, but organized. I decided not to even touch that. There are many more problems in that cellarway than a messy pantry, and I was not about to show you that.

Here is my food cupboard in the kitchen. It really wasn't that bad, but I cleaned it and organized it by food type.

Before......

And After......

My spice drawer before...

And after.....

I have been hooking away and have 11 ripples on the blanket so far. It is so colorful and happy. I just love it. I've been spending about an hour or so in bed at night with the TV on, the kids in bed and my yarn in my lap. It's nice to have peaceful kid free time. Pics later.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hillery

Blocking and Still Organizing

My pillow cover is on the blocking board (Big Sisters Puzzle). Yeah!!! Almost finished. I just need to find a nice wool sweater to cut up for the backing. I am kind of missing the pink though. They didn't have any nice pinks in this yarn, just baby pink and mauve, no thanks. This has been so quick for me. Usually projects can take me months. I am not a finisher, more of a starter. I've started another crochet project too, I'll wait to post a pic when it starts to work up a bit.

On to the Challenge of today (oops, yesterday). I am behind on the organizing, I did yesterdays project today, and will have to wait for tomorrow to do today's project. I'll catch up, maybe.
The linen closet. Well, I put my sheets in the top of my bedroom closet and they are organized pretty nicely and the girls sheets are in the top of their closet in a nice basket, so I decided on the bathroom closet and shelves. OH, MY GOODNESS!!! I purged so much stuff.

I hate my bathroom closet. When we added on the the bathroom, the closet next to the tub only turned out to be about 12 inches wide and when adding the door, it has about a 10 inch opening and it goes back almost 4 feet. Talk about an abyss. It's not the driest place either. I plan on putting a container of damprid in there. Well, I've promised myself, I will not stuff things in there ever again. (Fingers Crossed)

We put a nice built in shelf behind the door which we needed desperately for extra space. I just need to keep it pretty neat because there is not hiding it. I keep all kind of things here, I just threw some things out, and reorganized. It feels so good. Tub, Sink, and Toilet clean too. I'm done for the day.

Here and the before and after pics.

Stay tuned for tomorrows challenge, might have to do two in one day.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hillery

Hooking and Organizing

Here is the pillow cover that I mentioned in the last post. I just adore the colors. I need this in my life....More Color!!!! The squares look a little squished and not shaped right, but hopefully when is all said and done they will look perfectly square. This is the design from Lucy at Attic24. She has been inspiring me for more color. I just love her projects. I'm sure I'll try my hand at a few more, then maybe designing some things of my own.


Now on to The Organizing Challenge Day 3. The tupperware cabinet. Boy, this was what I needed. I got rid of over 20 pieces of tupperware. A family of 2 adults and two little ones don't need this much tupperware. Oh, this cabinet goes back for miles.

Big Sister went to the library with her Grandma, and Little Sister had her morning nap, and I tackled this.


Here is the finished product. Now, not to fill it up again!!!!! Ha, yeah right.

Thanks for stopping by, be sure to come by tomorrow to check out the next organizing project, I just hope it's not Under The Kitchen Sink.

Hillery

21 Day Organizing Challenge

Okay, I'm not really sure if this is what I meant about sharing more of my life, but here I am jumping into this Challenge and about to show you all the mess. I guess most of us have these messes, but not everyone is willing to share. I am excited about this challenge, I need some sort of order and someone to tell me to DO IT!!! Oh, my husband would tell me to do it, but for some reason I won't do what he tells me.
Girl Power!!
The first days challenge was to clean out the JUNK DRAWER.
Well, here it is before........
Oh, I am so embarrassed.




And here it is after.... Oh, I am so happy.
Found these little cardboard boxes, they fit nicely.

Yeah, ME!!!!

The second challenge was to clean the computer desk, top only. Although it wasn't too cluttered, it sure was filthy. Here is the before.....

And here it is after. I definitely need a new mouse pad. Scribbles and spills and dirt. Yuck!

I can't wait for tomorrow's challenge. I never thought I'd be saying I can't wait to get cleaning. It does feel good though.

I might have a little hooky picture to show you tonight. I am making a very colorful pillow. I am so excited about it. I can't wait for you to see it.

Thanks for stopping by,

Hillery