Organization

Do you have spots in your home that just drive you nuts? They're little so you put them off and put them off, until one day you just can't take it anymore!? Well I do. They're mostly closets and drawers.

But this one is our kitchen counter. I hung a basket up for mail, but papers just seemed to abound on the counter anyway. My measly attempt to contain phones, cameras, charger, keys and sunglasses, was a basket that ended up looking more like a rats nest and causing reeking more havoc than doing good. Here's what it looked like...and this is kind of neat compared to what it usually looks like. Oh man, that tangled basket of wires would keep me up at night!

Yesterday I just couldn't take it anmore. So I did something about it...for free. I used fabric that I had and left over dowels from my puppet theater project. I just need a fabric pen to lab the slots with, but THIS was my inspiration and this is what it ended up looking like. THIS is also a cool idea, which I may end up using for office or junk drawer things, but it would cost me money and again, it would be on the counter. I'm IN LOVE with wide open, clear, clean counter. It's like heaven to me!

Also, THIS is one of my new fave organizing websites. Yes, I think the woman has unlimited funds, but such great inspiration!

It Really is an Illness...

Do closets haunt you? How about drawers? Well, they haunt me. Seriously. If everything else in house is all neat and tidy, but the closets and drawers are a wreck, they haunt me. I know, you can't see them...but they keep me up at night. They call my name! It really is sick.

I've been redoing the upstairs. It involved rearranged lots of rooms in the upstairs of my house. I moved, painted, sorted and organized. OOOOh, that last word...organizing....how I love it! The amount of love with which I love organizing really must be a diagnosable illness of some kind.

I did it to Ella's room & closet and the office & closet. Then I moved on the piece de resistance! THE STORAGE ROOM. You know, the room where crap just congregates! It is now sorted, purged, organized and categorized! Oh WOW. I really CANNOT even put into words the swell of happiness this brings me when I look at it. I kid you not...multiple times during the day I'll just open the door and gaze longingly at it. Glorious! Simply Glorious!It's like my crack. I know...like I said...Ill.