Neverending Story

Laundry.

My Neverending Story is laundry. 

Piles and piles. 
There are currently clean piles on the bedroom floor. 

Dirty piles overflowing from 3 different hampers. Not to mention the towel hamper (which would make hamper #4). 

A pile in the dryer. 

A pile in the wash. 

A pile in Penny's room. 

It really is neverending. 

Maybe if my laundry room looked like any of these I wouldn't care. In fact, I would tell the neighbors to bring their laundry over too. Maybe I'd even start a laundry business. Okay, a stretch. But my point?
I firmly believe that an organized, functional, and CUTE laundry room are essential to transforming  laundry from a mundane neverending story into an enjoyable and lighthearted activity... no?

 

 

 Images from here, here, and here. 

Organizing My Life!

Will I ever catch up? I feel like I am still 9 months behind on organizing... paperwork... closets...bedrooms... my office... ARRGHHH it never ends! I feel like I just can't catch up to where I want to be! Am I the only one that feels this way or is this just typical life?

HOWEVER... My office is about 75% cleaner than it was (pics to come soon!) and I wanted to share 2 of my newest organizational tools...

1) This gorgeous damask filer.

I use a filing cabinet for all of my bulk filing, but I use this handy little filer for my receipt filing (since it looks like a purse and all)... All the receipts that I deem important get filed away in this beaut. I have the files labeled as "dept. stores/clothing", "hardware stores", "Home Modification/Contractors", "Craft and Hobby", "Sporting Goods", etc etc... you get the idea. It's been so easy to find receipts that I need for returns or whatever the reason may be...
Oh and best of all? Got it at Marshalls!

2) I LOVE my Card Cubby!


I am a semi-avid QVC watcher and happened to stumble across this little creation and couldn't pass this up...
I had SO many cards; membership cards, gift cards, stamp cards (I like my buy 10 get 1 free yogurt cards, okay?!), etc etc that were taking up so much room in my wallet! And I know you all know how STRESSful it can be when you are walking towards the Costco entrance and have to strum through all your cards in your wallet to find your membership card! Well, stress no more!! All you have to do is simply take your little index finger and strum to the "C" file to uncover your wonderful Costco membership card!
How many times have you been at a store that you know you deserve that free yogurt/bagel/sub sandwich or whatever but you can never find your blasted stamp card. Well, this stressor is now stressLESS with the card cubby! Simply turn to "S" and pull out your Subway stamp card!
Isn't it great?
Want one?
Get it here!

Next on the list to organize? My MAGAZINES!! Anyone else a magazine hoarder? Oh man... do I hoard. Well, hoard no more.

Send magazines to an archival service, like Denver Bookbinding (denverbook.com), which will bind the stash into one or more hardcovers for $50 and up. If you want to keep articles only (which is my thing) try Scanalog ($50, scanalog.com), a software program that catalogs and stores clippings. I'm excited to try these out!!

Happy organizing to me!!

One at a Time...

Why is it that I always tend to start several projects at once? Currently, my projects include:

Cleaning/Organizing the Garage

Trying to organize my disheveled office... for some reason, this has been the hardest task. Why? Because ever since this pregnancy started, anything office makes me nauseous. Will this go away? I always used to make fun of my sister when she was pregnant with her second and would complain of anything scrapbook- oriented making her nauseous. She LOVED scrapbooking before and couldn't stand it during her pregnancy. (Update: Her love of scrapbooking came back a few months after she had the baby...)

The laundry room- It's quite the wreck right now. Isn't this laundry room so cheery? I think a laundry room like this would actually make me want to do laundry. And the best part about it is that there's not much to it! Just a little organization, pretty wallpaper, and voila!

This is cute too. Easy look to achieve.

And the most tedious project? Tackling the kitchen... Going to repaint/refinish the cabinets, flooring, and island... Not sure exactly what I want yet! Why is it so stressful? It's just a kitchen! Would I ever have the guts to redo my kitchen like this one? I love it... but just not for my house... I mean, I think....

I better stop blogging and get to work!

Calendars, Memos, Message Boards, and Pianos!

After months of searching, I finally found and purchased my dream white baby grand piano! I am so excited! It plays beautifully and fits right in with my living room decor ; ) It was a long and tedious search (it's hard to find a new white piano; they are pretty rare) but it well was worth all the driving, patience, and time that it required!
The pictures aren't the best quality because the sun was gleaming through the window which ruined my camera lighting!

I also found these darling calendar/memo board ideas I wanted to share:


Isn't this kind of cool? It's a life size calendar constructed with ribbon!
I fell in love with these sea foam shutters framing the memo board!

Simple, fresh, colorful.

Perfect symmetry. Life sized. Love it!