Ever have one of these days?

OW!!!!

Kidney stones hurt nearly as much as childbirth and last longer. FYI.

Just another day

The temperature on the thermometer outside my house said -18F when I got up this morning.

I have two flats tires on my car.

Before and after

The mess that was my craft space/ bedroom is no more. Mostly. Here are the before pictures.

The top of the desk covered in piles of photos, tools, and other supplies. ----->





<----The surrounding floor space covered with various crap. The bench I moved up from the basement (okay I supervised the moving, but it's practically the same thing right?) is in the bottom corner packed with more crap.

That white thing under the desk is supposed to have my printer on it, but due to network (ha, network) issues it had to go down stairs near the pcs for a day or two.



Ahh...the after. Pretty self explanatory.

Everything put away. Bench under the window with stuff used infrequently. New rods on the wall to hold themed stickers and other various embellishments. ---->






<---- Just another angle to show all the storage on the walls.

The curtains on the left lead to the baby's "room."
Which reminds me that I never posted the before and after photos of making my walk in/thru closet into a bedroom for her.

Guilt crafting and attempts at cleanliness

I won't pretend that I've been too busy to update this blog cause I haven't. Just too lazy.

We're finally past the holidays (phew!) and I am trying to remember what it was like to have a clean and organized house. Ok, like I ever really knew. I'll settle for cleanish. Anything less than extreme fire hazard will be good. I didn't do the annual pre-Xmas toy purge, so I have that to look forward to soon. It's gonna have to be very soon, cause my spoiled kids have no room for their Xmas loot. I suppose I need to purge their old clothes too. Anyone need any toddler girl or boy's clothes? Looks like a call to the VVA is in order to set up an appointment for pickup.

I didn't get my craft projects finished in time for Xmas. My cards are still in un-assembled pieces on my desk. The mini albums are still in un-assembled pieces (sensing a theme?) on my desk . I'm hoping to get the albums done for Mother's Day.

Speaking of my desk, it is completely trashed. As is the rest of the bedroom (where the craft desk lives) due to my craft supplies being strewn about everywhere. I'm trying to get it under control so I can actually use my desk to make things. And so my husband can quit looking at my mess and shaking his head as he climbs over it to do silly things like get dressed and go to bed. I bought some new drapery rods this morning to hang stuff on (the aforementioned head shaker needs to install these tonight) and moved a storage bench (which was full of additional craft supplies) from my pit of a basement upstairs to put stuff in. I took some before photos just so my after photos will seem so much more impressive.

Also speaking of my desk, it makes me feel guilty about not scrapbooking more. The husband built my desk for me a few years ago. I kept complaining about having to move all my supplies every time someone needed the table for stupid stuff. Like dinner. So he made me a fabulous desk so all my crap could have a permanent home. And then I stopped scrapbooking. I've done exactly 4 pages since he built the desk almost 3 years ago. I suck. So hopefully once I get the mess cleaned up I can actually make something. And in the process feel less guilty.