Me oh my.

I can't believe it! We finally found out what this baby is going to be! After our first ultrasound which was a horrible experience. I had to wait for over an hour with an over full bladder because there was some kind of emergency (now don't get me wrong I hope that everything turned out fine with whatever emergency they were having to deal with at the time but I had to pee so bad that I was starting to become in pain!) Once I got in there I laid on the table and they started taking measurements. She told me she would do the measurements and then show me the baby. Scottie was unable to come with for this appointment so I invited my mom to come along. Mimi was thrilled! Sadly for me all I could think of was "Good lord please don't let me go to the bathroom on this table!" Finally after about a half an hour of taking measurements she let me go to the bathroom and when I can back I asked if she would still be able to see everything ok, and what does she say? She says, "Oh yeah, your bladder is still pretty full!" Ugh well that's good to know next I'll just pee and not sit and wait in pain!

Here's some pictures of the first ultrasound. The first is a profile shot and the next one is head on, it looks a little creepy if you ask me!

And after all that trouble they couldn't even tell us what it was because of the position the baby was in. It was in a breech position so their legs were crossed the whole time and really didn't have any room to move around.

But lucky for me I got a call saying everything was fine with baby but I needed to come in for another ultrasound, because of the way the baby was positioned they were unable to get all the measurements they needed. So just yesterday I went in again (this time I held off on drinking so much water). My cousin Heather went with me this time. And again this baby was in an awkward position. This time it's head was down and although the feet were up but they were still crossed. The ultrasound tech was able to make a decision though and she was pretty sure it was A GIRL! That's right little Penelope Lynn will be making her way to the world come early November! Now the tech did say nothing's 100% until the baby is out in your arms and with my luck that would happen. So keep your receipts everyone! Just kidding!

Here's some more pictures from the second ultrasound, just a couple of profile shots:

  There's her head

The picture's kind of crappy but this is a picture of her head, and she has her hand up against it.

And of course with all this lovely news comes a little unexpected news. On the way home from my appointment my car went dead. Insert big sad face here! We are still waiting to hear what's wrong with the car but when I talked to the guy at the garage this morning it didn't sound very good. He talks a lot so it's hard to take it all in, what I got was there's a sound that's coming from the motor which isn't good and then he said there comes a time where you have to decide when it's time to stop putting money into it. Yikes! That doesn't sound good to me! Wish I had rich aunt or something somewhere that could just swoop in and give another car. But hey that's life and normally doesn't work like that. Wahh so the waiting game begins.

Of course I'm trying not to stress, I know its bad for the baby but I can't help but think about money. I'm barely working this summer and I might have something for the fall but it's not set in stone yet so it's all really up in the air. Scottie doesn't make enough to cover everything, we're probably about $200 short at the end of month with just his paycheck. And that's without a car payment. Fingers crossed that by some miracle this car can be fixed or at least last a little while longer. Trying to stay positive.

The woes of a pregnant lady

Yeah, that title, that's me. I feel kind of bad. I feel like this should be the time of my life. Like I should be glowing and happy every second of everyday because I have this little miracle growing inside of me. And while I do think that everyday my actions may not always show that I do actually think it.

I get a little more cranky a lot more quicker than I used it. Not as much patience. I'm a hot mess emotionally. I'm so bad right now I see posts on Facebook and they make me cry. Sometimes I'm literally saying to myself "Girl get it together!" I think I'll really start getting excited once I know what the sex is. Then this little baby growing in my tummy will have a name. Once I feel some movement down there that little peanut will start growing it's own personality. Will it be a calm baby or is it going to be a soccer player?!

I'm feeling really lazy in my job. I feel like I don't do anything with kids. Although these past couple weeks this so called summer weather hasn't been so summery lately. Lots of rain (and when I say lots I mean pouring!) So we've resorted to watching movies, playing downstairs, just lots of relaxed play. I really need to get my creative juices flowing, get some more craft ideas going, just let them paint for goodness sake. And as I say this I think to myself "Hello idiot! There's only one week left!" Well if I get my creative juices flowing I'll just plan crafts for next year! Boom! How do you like them apples.  But hey the kids are happy, they always tell mom I'm more fun. So that's a plus right?! I must be doing something right.

Let's see the title say "The woes of a pregnant lady" but I can't seem to think of any. I've been thinking about this blog post for weeks now and all the things I would write about but because I'm too lazy to go downstairs and go on the computer I forgot most of them. Now weeks later I'm actually sitting down to write it because my husband brought the computer upstairs (and I know what you're thinking, that I asked him too but actually I did not. So there!) to stream baseball games, our lovely red sox games that we don't get to see as much because we don't have cable.

The only other woes I can think of right now is being pregnant in the summer. I've come to realize that I can't be outside in the heat for too long or it makes me throw up. Found that out the hard way. Insert giant sad face here. Wahh! I hate throwing up. Although I am super excited to get the new maternity swim suit that I ordered! Hopefully it's as cute on me as it is on the model! I was going to rock a bikini but that was before I found out that I can't sit in the sun for more than ten minutes without burning to a crisp. And fun fact: I tried on the bikini that I had originally bought for this summer, and let me tell you- it was not cute. Boobs are too big, butt was too big, there was way too much crack for even my liking. Now I can handle a little crack but this was out of control and being pregnant, it was just not cute. (It's really never cute, but crack happens people.) So back to the maternity suit, I got a tankini because let's face it no one wants to see my lily white tummy, well at least I don't think it needs to be out. And maternity clothes are way more comfortable.

Bringing me to my next topic. Maternity clothes. I've been getting so annoyed looking for maternity clothes. First off any store that you go to that has a maternity section (and by any store I mean the ones that I've been too. Aka Target, Kohl's, stores like that) the section itself is so small. It has like five shirts, some pants, maybe five dresses and some tank tops. That's it! And I'm sorry but none of it's really that cute or stylish. I'd like to think of myself as a bit of a fashionista and this whole maternity thing is totally bringing my style down. And it's so hard because you can try on bigger "normal clothes" and that can either be a hit or a miss, but you put on maternity clothes and they are so freaking comfortable! And I'm sorry but I'm not going to spend a fortune on maternity clothes, it's just not how I operate, nor is it in our budget. Ok, sorry rant over. I'll be fine, I've found a couple of really good websites that have some cute stuff at reasonable prices so I think I'll be ok.

Well that about sums it up. The maternity clothes has been a big issue for me as you can tell from my rant. But hey can you blame me? I just want to look cute while being pregnant, and I don't think there's any harm in that! Moving on to more amazing things! I've started the nursery. I just painted it and I am in love with the color. It's called "Flagstone" aka grey. It's the perfect shade. I wanted a neutral color in case we have to squeeze two kids in there, and there's a big possibility they could be different sexes so yeah. I plan on doing pops of color with bright yellows and either bright blues or pinks (we will know soon enough!) All the furniture will be white, clean lines, all that good stuff. And will let all that color pop even more. Don't worry there will be pictures to come.

This blog is getting long, but I don't care. Like I said I've been thinking about it for weeks so the more I write the more I remember, so sorry for the vomit of all my unorganized ideas and what not. I just can't get over all the stuff we already have, and I can't even begin to imagine how much more stuff we are going to need/get. When they say that this one little person needs a whole lot of stuff, they are so right. I try to research everything before picking out my favorites. You know what's best for the best price. I'm definitely going neutral for the car seat and stroller because let's face it we're going to have more kids eventually and I am not to buy things over and over and again. If we end up having a boy and girl these things need to work for both! I've finally settled on a crib that I absolutely adore and yes it's white. We already have a bouncy seat with toys on it, a bouncy seat with nothing on it- but it vibrates. My sister gave me her swing (which I love, and it's neutral) and her breast pump. And no it's not gross- she's my sister! Super grateful for that because those suckers (no pun intended) cost some serious dough. We already have a dresser full or clothes, a baby tub, a hamper, a changing table, dresser and some toys! I've decided to not get you're traditional bed set. One I think it's a waste of money. Most people don't even use the comforter that it comes with (they say no blankets or pillows in their crib until they're like a year) and two those bumper things supposedly aren't safe anymore. You know with suffocation and what not. Although in the wise words of my mother "You guys survived." So I think I'll just pick a bunch of fitted sheets, one of those breathable bumpers, a bunch of nice soft blankets and a crib skirt (to hide everything we will eventually shove under the crib).

Ok I'm done for today. Sorry for the lack of pictures, I have a wedding to get to! Hopefully next post I'll be able to talk about if it's a boy or girl! This baby better cooperate!

Holy Crap Balls! (Yes I Said Balls)

Holy crap balls. I haven't written an entry in over two months. That's a long ass time and so much has happened. Oh so much.

First in big news I found out I was pregnant. Finally my dreams of becoming a momma are coming true. My belly is already growing and it's crazy to think that there is an actual human being inside of me. Like seriously?1 How crazy is that. Sometimes I can't believe it, it doesn't seem real.

Let's start from the beginning. It was almost Easter/Spring Break. I only had Good Friday off because spring break week I would be working back at good old Maple Leaf. I was a couple days late on my period so I picked up a pregnancy test knowing that it would probably be negative and that I'd get my period soon enough. So I went to my sisters and hung out for awhile, my husband was working so I decided to go to my parents house to catch up on my cable T.V. (because let's face it, that's what is really important on a day off!) I walked in and went straight to the bathroom. I figured well I have to pee anyways so I mind as well get the disappointment over with and I peed on the stick. I tried not to watch it rise up but I couldn't help myself. And then I saw it. I saw that glorious little plus sign that makes your heart skip a beat. That little plus sign that is going to change your whole life. I honestly couldn't believe it. Thank god my sister only lives two houses away. I literally ran over to her house to tell her, and of course like any good sister she hugged me and hopped onto the computer to figure out how far along I was. We figured probably around 7 weeks. Seven weeks already! I couldn't believe it. The computer said it was only as big as a blueberry, I just couldn't believe it!

All this time we had been trying and trying and trying and finally we got it. Now it seems so silly to have cried all those tears, when really all I had to do was let go. Let go of the control, let go of trying to plan out life. I mean who can do that anyways, no one really has any clue what their life is going to be like and I had to realize that and once I did things feel into place.

It's crazy! I told my mom when she got home, and waited for Scottie to get home and told him, we are very excited.

That's how I told him!

Right now I am 14 weeks along, it's about as big a lemon. I already feel like a whale but I love it. I love wearing tight shirts to show off my belly. It makes me happy to look in the mirror and see my growing belly, so very happy.

Baby Bump Love!

Ugh so here we go. Bear with me for a moment while I whine about the not so fun moments of pregnancy. When I think/thought of pregnancy I thought it was a walk in the park. I mean yeah you hear about morning sickness and all that jazz (and maybe I'm alone here) but I thought when I got pregnant it would fabulous. I would have this cute little belly and life would be grand. Well so far life is really not that grand. Thankfully there has been no throwing up but I am just nausea all the damn time and it's really starting to get annoying.

Update:  Finally finishing up this post two days later and this week has been good. Really don't feel sick anymore. So let's hope that's over with!

Let's see where was I......Oh yes pregnancy being a walk in the park. Oh wait- it's not! The only other thing that has been affecting me is the sun. I burn so quick now. I can be out in the sun for maybe ten minutes and get a tan. This summer might be a little difficult but we'll rock it out.  And the other thing of course is I'm super emotionally. I mean I've always been like that but not nearly as bad as I am now. I'll see something on Facebook and tear up. So yeah, I'm a hot mess. But other than that life is good.

I feel bad for the girls I nanny. I feel like I don't do as much with them anymore. I just haven't had the energy. Thank god it's nice out now and we can go outside, they love that! I am finally starting to get more energy so hopefully we'll be able to get in some more crafts. My girls do love their crafts.

For Mother's Day we made candles. So fun and so easy! Each girl colored a picture and they said what they like best about mom and I wrote it down. You have them draw on tissue paper, them you place that onto the candle put wax paper over and hold tight. Take a blow dryer and heat it, the drawing melts into the candle! So cool! I also had Kody and Adora make one for Mimi and their mom!

Candles!

I actually celebrated my first Mother's Day as well. I know it sounds silly cause the baby's not here yet but the Kachadurian's got me a card that was so sweet (yes it did make me cry) and a cute little bracelet. My younger sister got me a picture for the nursery that I absolutely adore and Ashley got me some flowers! It's so weird but so much fun! I can't wait for next year when I can hold and snuggle my baby!

My stuff from the Kachadurians

And from Courtney. Love.

Gahh! There's so much going on right now! Getting a little stressed about money. I won't be working in the summer, well I will be a little but I won't be getting as much money as I do now. We are trying to save for when the baby gets here. We just won't be able to make it with just Scottie's paycheck. Hopefully everything will work out, I try not to stress about it too much I know it's not good for the baby so we'll just keep saving. We'll make it, I know we will!

Ok that's all for now! Have a lovely day. More updates to come on baby! (So fun to say that!)

Can't stay away for too long....

Hello friends!

It's been a couple of weeks since I posted last so I figured I should probably sit down and do a little updating.

First off I finally got around to organizing the husband's closet. First it looked like this:

It's ok you can say it, it looked like a hot mess. Well now it looks like this:

 All nice and clean! Thank you Wal-Mart for your wonderful cube organizers! You can pretty much get them anywhere but Wal-Mart seems to be the cheapest around here. Next I moved onto the front closet. There is no before picture, but that's fine by me because that too was a hot mess. Here's what it looks like now:

All nice and pretty. I got another cube organizer for in there, it holds some shoes, gloves, hats, scarfs and all that fun stuff. I also re-organized my shoes. Before they were under my bed in these:

Yes I know not so cute, and to be honest I didn't even want to take them out because of all the dust. So I got rid of those and got some hanging storage for the front closet. Boom! Now it's pretty and I can actually see my shoes easily! Win!

Hard to get a picture but it hangs right from the closet rail, each one can hold up to ten pairs of shoes!

Now onto to some crafts. I've come to the realization that there aren't that many St. Patty's Day decorations out there. Wahh! I like to find at least a little something for each holiday to put around the house so the hunt began. I found these cute towels at Jo-Ann's, which I love & they were on sale so it made sense to get them. I got some four leaf clover garland and stuffed it into some vases that I normally use for the table centerpiece and wa-la, a little St. Patty's Day flair for the table. I found some other cute decorations at Micheal's to hang around the house. Found some cute fabric and made some easy throw pillows too!

Showing a little love for St. Patrick's Day!

I also made these adorable little leprechaun hats! Super easy too! I just painted these little flower pots that I got at Micheal's (for just 89 cents mind you!), let that dry and painted a black stripe around the pots. For the belt buckle I just glued a yellow piece of paper over top of the black stripe and done! Super cute, super easy and best of all super cheap! I spent maybe $4 total (all I had to buy was the flower pots and the green paint!)

I know it's a dark picture, but I'm sure you get the idea!

Another craft/home improvement idea I've been meaning to post was about this gem:

Dang it! I don't know why all these pictures are so dark. Maybe it's just me? Whatever, long story short: this chair had seen better days.

I got this chair from my Aunt Alison, and like I said it's seen better days. It's been in her garage for god knows how long but I could see the potential in it and just had to have it. She didn't mind getting rid of it either so it was a win win! For the wood part I sanded it down and stained it, same color as my dining room table (so I didn't have to buy any more) I put a protective sealer over top of that and let it dry. For the cushions I tried a couple of different things. First I just bought some bed sheets that I liked for 10 bucks at Wal-Mart (figured it'd be the cheapest route, considering I was probably going to need quite a bit of fabric) anyways I first tried this no sew knot slip cover thing I found on Pinterest.

That wasn't really working out for me. And if you sat on it, it was uncomfortable. And it never stayed as tight as I would have liked. It always looked like it was about to come undone. So I stopped being lazy and cut out pieces and just sewed them together and slipped them right over the old cushion. Easy enough, and it looks nice too, and yes much more comfortable to sit on!

I used the extra fabric to make some throw pillows for our couch too! Super cute!

You can't stare at this fabric for too long, it's hypnotizing!

Update on bulk buying:

Unfortunately we still make our weekly trip to Wal-Mart for odds and ends, mostly for snacks, Scottie's lunches and the guinea pigs food. So now instead of spending $100 every week we're down to $50; sometimes a little less & sometimes a little more (for the most part is averages to about $50 a week) and I haven't had to buy toilet paper or paper towels in like 2 months! So I'd say it's working out well for us. I definitely would like to get into couponing a little more to save even more but we'll see.

Found out some pretty exciting news a couple of weeks ago as well! My cousin Dale and his beautiful fiance Mauranda asked me to be a part of their wedding! Of course I said yes, love them! And I've gotten so many fun ideas for the shower, definitely going to have to have a post on that!

Lots of things going on over here! March will brings lots more crafts, considering we have TWO holidays to prepare for! Also I am slowly getting back into shape. It's definitely helping me keep certain things off my mind, which is just what I need. Although we are struggling to eat healthy at my house (it's tough when we are both picky eaters) but I am trying to be more open to new foods. So hopefully I'll be able to post some yummy/healthy recipes and some work outs soon!

Happy March everybody!

Valentine's Day

My husband and I don't really make a big to-do out of Valentine's Day. Our normal tradition is to buy a movie (my only request is that is contain some type of love story) this year we got Grease. Before we were married or living together we would make dinner together since we rarely got a chance to do that. We tried going out once and it was crazy busy so we try to stray from that. Valentine's Day should be about enjoying each other and that's what we do. This year he made dinner, then we got our movie and some ice cream and enjoyed. He's the best.

With my nanny girls we had some fun creations to give away as gifts this year. Our big project was home-made some salt dough beads/magnets. We also did some other fun crafts as well.

I got the idea for salt dough necklaces from this blog: http://amazingmae.blogspot.com/2012/02/salt-dough-necklaces.html. All you need is 1 cup of salt, 2 cups of flour, and 1 cup of water. Yup that's it! So easy right?! I pre-mixed it for the girls, then comes the fun part. You roll out your dough, and using cookie cutters cut out hearts. Cut out as many as you can. We had enough for each of the girls and me to make five necklaces each, and five magnets! We gave the necklaces to the girls and the magnets to the boys! After you cutout your shapes you have to bake them for about 2 hours (or until they're dried out) in the oven at 200 degrees! Once they're out of the oven and cooled off you can paint them. (In the blog above she coats her beads with a sealer, which you should do. We didn't and I can already see some of the paint is wearing.)

Addie rolling out her dough, and cutting her hearts.

Here's our beads right out of the oven, see we got  a ton of hearts just from one recipe! Make sure you poke wholes in your beads BEFORE you bake them, makes life a lot easier!

All set up and ready to paint!

 Time to paint!

 So proud of Gigi for using her paint brush and not her hands!

Hard at work!

I also found the cutest little heart frames and Wal-Mart for just a dollar! So I scooped those up and had the girls paint them, using just red, white and pink (perfect for Valentine's Day!) We put a picture of them inside and boom, done! So easy and the girls loved it!

Addie and Eva working together to complete their frame! Such good team work! They used just their fingers to create little dots all over the frame!

Gigi decided that using her whole hand would work best!

These are the pictures we decided to use for their frames! Seriously, are they not the cutest?!

On Valentine's Day we of course had to do something with hearts. So we made potato stamps and stamped away! All you have to do is make a heart shape out of your potatoes and you're done. You could make any kind of stamp but since it was Valentine's day we stuck with a heart. We grabbed some paint and set to work.

Our stamps

 Lexi showing off our cool stamps!

 Working hard!

Here's a few pictures from our Valentine's Day!

 This is not even half of the gifts we made! The girls worked so hard! And the kept it a secret, which is pretty amazing for them!

 Addie modeling her necklace I made for her!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day lunch! Addie said "This is the coolest lunch ever!" I love these girls!

This was the hub's and I Valentine's Day! :)

Hope you all had a lovely Valentine's Day full of love! Stay tuned for even more crafts coming up, a little more organization and an update on our bulk buying!

Operation Organization

Holy moly! Word of advice if you're going to be tackling a big organization project I would suggest NOT doing it before any event that may be taking place at your house. And by "before" any event and I mean like a week before, it gets a little crazy and can be very overwhelming. I would suggest to start a big project like this when you have some free time. Work at it a couple of hours each night after you eat dinner. Just fit it in when you can, or take a weekend and push through it. But in my case I decided to do it before a jewelry party that I'm hosting on Saturday. Hey at least it gave me motivation to get it done, otherwise people would come over and see my house looking like a hot mess.

I got this brilliant idea last weekend. I wanted to re-vamp my sewing area and make everything less cluttered. I wanted to get rid of my craft table and just take away the bulk. Once I started thinking about that I started thinking about every place in our apartment. I looked in my craft cabinet and was really grossed out. It was just too much, it just wasn't working. Now our apartment is quite big, at least for an apartment it is and we do have quite a bit of space to work with, but I wanted it to work better. I wanted everything to function, I wanted everything to look nice and clean.

So Monday while the girls were napping I started researching. I wanted to see what other people did, I was just looking for any tips just to help me get started. Some basic things I did that I thought really helped me along in the process were these:

1. Whatever you're organizing take everything out, and I mean everything. It helps to be able to visualize how much you actually have.

2. Really think about what you have and what you want to keep. Think if you're really going to use, think if you've even used it in the last 6 months.

That's a big problem for me, I keep things just because I think "Oh well, maybe I'll need this for this project, or I might be able to use this for something else." Chances are if you haven't used it, you probably aren't going to so just let it go.

3. Put your emotions to the side. I probably had close to ten jewelry boxes just because so and so bought it for me, when in reality I didn't really need it.

4. And lastly RE-USE! Organizing doesn't have to be expensive. Look around you're house to find things to store other things in. You can use jars, you can use baskets, you can even use an old paper towel holder, so look around before you go to the store. 

So I started in my dining room. I have a bookshelf, my craft cabinet, a desk and some storage cubes in there. I emptied everything. EVERYTHING! The bookshelf, the desk and my craft cabinet. And it looked like this:

I know right?! What a hot mess. But seeing this gave me motivation. I wanted people to open my craft cabinet and oo and ahh over it. I wanted to be able to open my craft cabinet and be able to get whatever I needed easily.  My goal was to put everything from my desk and my sewing area into my craft cabinet. In order to do that I really needed to purge. I need to get rid of all the crap that I didn't need or wasn't using. Even I might be able to use for my future kids future school project in ten years.

Here's my craft cabinet before:

Hate! Way to cluttered for my liking, so I had to get myself in gear. Because I'm such a spaz I finished this bad boy in one night!

Top shelf, everything crammed in there. Not cool! Look at my poor little gift bags all squished in there and what not.

Bottom shelf. Because this cabinet is a corner cabinet it is tough to use the space properly. I knew I had to get my scrapbooks out of there though. They were taking up way to much room and no one could even look at them. This had to change.

So I took everything out. I got rid of things first, all the garbage went. Then I had to decide what I didn't need anymore but didn't want to throw away. I got rid of quite a few books that I passed onto my cousins who will hopefully enjoy them as much as I did. Then I sorted though all my bins moved things around and after five hours I was done. I was able to move my scrapbooks out onto the bookshelves into the living room so people could actually look at them if they wanted to. I replaced the desk with a nice bookshelf, which makes that area seem more open. The bookshelf isn't as bulky.  I got it for $16 at Wal-Mart.

Here's the desk. I knew this had to go because I wasn't even using it. I think the last time I actually sat down at it was when it was at my parents house and I had it my room. Pretty much all that was in there was crap. I had my address book and some office things (stapler, labels, ect.) and the guinea pigs food. So I moved everything that I kept from there into my craft cabinet.

And put this there instead. It allows us a lot more storage, and I picked up some fabric bins from Wal-Mart ($5.97) and put all the guinea pigs things in there. A bin for their hay and a bin for their food. I absolutely love it.

Now moving onto the craft cabinet. I found this amazing idea on some website to use tension rods. I hung up my ribbon and wrapping paper on it.

Seriously, how cute is that?! And it takes advantage of that that empty space up there because I don't have a second shelf. Another score, I freed up a box that was desigtnated for ribbon so I could put something else in there! Win win!

I wanted some where to put my scrapbooking paper that I could easily take out and put away as needed. I found this cute storage bin at Target. Paid a little more ($13!) than I would like but it was worth it. I put my paper in the back (color coordinated of course) and my stickers in the hanging files that came with the storage bin.

Stickers before, Not cute and super annoying. I'd have to take them all out just to find the way I needed.

And the stickers now. I still have to make labels for them, but it will be much easier to navigate through them and get the ones I need without making a huge mess. And another bonus, could use the old bin the stickers used to be in for something else. 

I decided that if I could put my sewing machine in my craft cabinet then I could get rid of my craft table. I don't use it everyday so if I could crave out a space for it then I could store it there until I needed. When I do need it I can just set it up at the dining room table. Makes sense. So I went to work. I took out all my fabric my craft table, I seperated it between four fabric bins. I put big fabric pieces in two of the bins, scraps in another and projects that needed to be finished in another. 

Here's my craft table. Not that I didn't love it but it just wasn't working for our house anymore. I sold it a friend of mine who I know will put it too good use.

There you have it, fabric on the bottom of the craft cabinet all nice and pretty in their nice fabric bins.

Projects that need to be done are on the bottom of the bookshelf with my little sewing basket (holds all my string, scissors, and all that jazz) and my sewing books. It may not be all in one spot but at least it's all in one room and easy to get to.

Moving to the kitchen. I got another set of organization cubes, big enough to put Harriet's tank on top of, of course. I brought four more fabric bins for that as well. I put all of Harriet's things in one (her food and cleaning supplies), I moved my cook books in there as well. We have a ton more space and the kitchen seems way less cluttered, and a lot bigger.

Yay! I'm one happy girl. I love the way these look, and I love that we have empty ones!

When I was researching I was reading how you shouldn't have anything on your dresser. I hate when my dresser gets overloaded with stuff. It drives me nuts! So I cleared it away. And because everyone loves a before and after here you go:

Sorry the picture is so dark, but maybe that's a good thing. Then you can't see how bad the before was. Anyways I'm happy and I told my husband if he messes it up I'll kill him! Just kidding, love you!

I did a couple of things in my closet as well. I re-used this memo board. Which by the sucked because nothing ever stayed where I wanted it, and that really bothered me, so I changed it to hold all my long earrings and my watch.

See how everything's mashed at the bottom! Super annoying! So now it's looking pretty in my closet with all my earrings.

I also re-used a paper towel holder for all of my bangels. There was already one attached on our cabinets when we moved in so we didn't need the one I had bought but of course I saved it, and good thing I did too!

BOOM! How do you like them apples! Now instead of being crammed in a box I can actually see them! Win!

Confession: I am horrible for holding onto items just because someone gave them to me. I am that person that thinks "Oh my goodness what if so and so comes over and they asked where that thing that they got me is and I threw it away" How horrible would that be, but really when does that ever happen. It's never happened to me so this time I let go. I think because I had all of those jewelry boxes I was keeping jewelry that I never even wore. So I let it go. I also have an obession with cards. Yup all those birthday cards, Christmas cards, Valentines Day cards, I keep them all. I don't really know why but I do. I have two boxes, and a whole desk drawer full of them. Sick right?! But I got it down to one box and kept those. I can't let them all go. Baby steps people, baby steps!

Whoa! Well that's all for today. Next I'm going to tackle my husband's closet and the front closet. Listen I'm not super woman I can't do the whole house in a week! Hope I was able to give some good tips and some where to start. Happy organizing and keep an eye out for more crafty stuff coming soon!

And before you go, just because I'm so proud of it, here's a before and after of the craft cabinet. :)