12.05.2011

Bring it ON MOnday! : Laundry Room/Pantry Organization

Hello and hope the start of your week is great! Today I bring you a giant, scary and crazy long project. Mostly to let all of you know, your not alone in that "one room". You know what I am talking about...

That room that hardly sees the light of day. Where all the things without a home, find one. Where the creepy crawlies live and you know that one shoe is in there somewhere! For most of you it is in your basement, others it is the room down the hall. But fear NOT! You can change this evil with a little hard work, sweat and nagging your husband to help.

We have a room in our basement that we use as storage for food and well, everything. It is also the laundry room. We are renters and I would love to make it cute if it is possible, but it's not ours. I have before and after photos for you. And feel free to judge me, I judged myself for this heap honestly. 

But an organization idea for you which can totally be used in your pantry is to sort your food by typical meals you eat. Like Italian or Mexican and so on. A lot of people just put stuff in where it can fit. Bad idea. This is just one simple, and free idea, to make dinner time a little easier. (I will have photos of that another day!) 

Enjoy a good laugh and oh my goodness and feel free to ask if I am a hoader. I am not. These are the before:



And it probably did not help that the owner of the house had stuff down there to from re-doing the house to try and sell. So we had to organized that first. The room is really large actually and the goal is to get a table down there to fold clothes on.

Middle:


And the end! Sort of... I had two sick kids this weekend so we will get to work on the finishing touches this week.


Happy Monday!

Bet

12.03.2011

My Son Almost Mangled the Manger

Last night at our ward Christmas party we were having a good time, having some nice dinner. Everyone was dressed up as if it was old Jerusalem itself. That is, everyone but us. Sorry, don't own a bath robe, and no thanks anyway. But I was still in Christmas spirit. We sang carols and it was fun. 

As Steve and I are helping clean up and get Lilly in her car seat I look over and there is a giant stuffed sheep Isaiah is trying to RIDE under the manger with the Baby Jesus all swaddled. As I walk over he gets off and pets it like a dog and runs away. I go back to doing something and look over again and Isaiah is trying to PULL DOWN the Baby Jesus by the eye ball! (No other child tried this for the record) And started tilting the manger over. I got there in just the knick of time, but we almost had a one eyed Baby Jesus. 

Joy to the Holidays!

Bet

12.01.2011

Plastic Ornaments CAN Break

Steve has a rule, NO Christmas anything until December 1st. He can't handle anymore than that. So with a chipper song in my heart and an off key "Oh Christmas Tree!" I put up the tree! With some help from Isaiah...

Here is the tree! I did purple (for Lilly), blue (for Isaiah) and silver. The tree skirt, where I got it you ask?? Why it came from the Linen Closet. Mine. It is a white flat sheet. I have not found one I love yet to match.




And here is my make shift tree topper, also have not found one of those I love yet!

And Isaiah was the biggest help of them all! He did not disturb me trying to put things up. He instead took an extra bulb and proceeded to throw it up and down the hallway and chase it. But the time I went to take it for the tree this is what I found:
I guess the package did NOT say unbreakable. I must have just been really hoping. Oh well.

Merry Christmas!

Bet