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I have been flat out all week. Between the normal life of washing, cooking, cleaning, food shopping and looking after the little boys I have been doing my best to chip away at what seems like the enormous task of unpacking (I have WAY too much stuff). BUT as rooms get just a little bit more finished off and it starts to look a little more like home I am starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel.
In a few short weeks I will be undertaking the largest renovation I have ever done- a kitchen and a few weeks later a laundry. Daunting for me without a doubt- but necessary in this house as storage is sadly lacking. Ikea to the rescue and as measurements are made and quotes given I am getting closer- looking forward to sharing more on that soon.
Hello again dear friends it has been a little while : ) You should all know that your comments, emails, thoughts, prayers, offers for help, uplifting words and every other avenue of support each and every one of you has offerred means the world to me. I might not have time to respond to all of my emails but please know I read every single one of them.
Lately I have no “felt” like writing. A strange concept to me as for 2 years I wanted to write every single day. And even when I did take a break I missed it, this, you the blog terribly. Maybe in a crisis you revaluate what is the MOST important thing to be doing with your time.
Right I shot this a little while ago and I am finally getting around loading it up onto the blog. I hope this gives you some ideas for your own albums or your Project Life.
The one where I answer all your questions and add a photo I forgot ; )
Firstly I forgot to add this photo in yesterdays post how I am not sure by when someone asked how I store my paper I realised I forgot to show you the cupboards on the right side of my room- my brain is still a little fuzzy forgive me : )
Ok so the end cupboard on the right wall is also for my scrapboking stuff-
What is inside all of those cupboards. Well a lot less after that massive purge I had- and it feels SO good to know where everything is. Now I will show you these photos but a pre warning I am not finished with this organising job unfortunately I never had time to get the boxes labelled before I took these photos which is still on the to do list-such is life right. But really this is a most important job and you need to know where everything is.
This is the right hand cupboard-
I am back… finally. I am finally feeling somewhat normal again and can I tell you that flu simply knocked me out. But I am back : ) Feeling much better and I so appreciate all of your sweet comments both here on the blog and on Facebook.
So now onto the craft post you have all been waiting for today I am going to cover all of the large storage cupboards/ desk and the configuration of the room. This is the view of my craft room from the hallway. Now first a little on this room. On our house plan this room is listed as an activity room, but after a few weeks of living in our home we realized that this space just would not work for the amount of “stuff” children have and so the playroom was relocated into a much bigger space and I moved in here.
Well first of all I am going to show you all the before photos. This here is my craft/ scrapbooking room. And I confess it gets super messy, it is my drop all for everything crafty in our home and after the chaos that is the holidays season it was looking a little sad to say the least.
I was struggling to be productive in this room and get anything done and so I knew I had to do a drastic clear out. I had all the correct storage and cupboards etc but nothing had a place and the things I needed to access all of the time were not accessible etc.
Yes ok well pick yourself back up off the floor there really is a way : ) I decided this year that I would collect together all of the things that I wanted my husband to journal on – some of them dating back to when Flynn was born and when he asked me what he could do to make my birthday special he was handed a little pile of layouts and journaling tabs !!
And disbelievingly he actually wrote on them (who can say no on your special day). And so last week on my birthday afternoon my husband scrapbooked….
So this is a massively random post of lots of little bits and pieces. Simon is away this week in Sydney for work and so I have my first week alone juggling both boys and everything that comes with that including Flynns first day of Kindy.
Every year I say I am going to do less for the next birthday party…
Ahem
And yet every year I end up planning and cutting and making stuff for weeks and weeks before the big day. This year is no exception and we are well into the party planning here for Flynn’s 3rd birthday this Sunday.
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