Accomplished

That was the theme of my weekend.
I spent it running errands, catching up on the past week with LML and doing a few things around the house.
LML makes fun of my lack of organisation in our closet. I tend to toss things in a "spot" without much thought. I am embarrassed and will not show you the top of my closet. Proudly, I did check my purse area this weekend. I found that a majority of my purses had not been completely emptied when I switched them out. I found markers, pens, receipts, the infamous loose bobby pins, travel brochures and plenty of change. Thankfully, my purses are now empty, missing lip gloss has been located, and the purses are now all rightfully organised.
Next step, work on top of closet.

Calender Girl

No I am not singing the song (well at least that song)!  But I do have to admit that I do love a good calender.  In fact, I obsess over a good calender.  I do have some pretty specific requirements in terms of the calender.

Today, I found a great deal on calender that makes my heart go a pitter patter.  The Erin Condren Life Planner makes me drool. It comes personalized and you know how I love me some personalization!
Erin over at Blueeyedbride has been talking about this calender a lot lately, but the cheapskate in me would not let me blow $50 on it at this time.
Well yesterday, Erin let us in on the deal at Plumdistrict.com where you can get the calender for $25 (plus shipping and such).  (I actually got it for $20 because I had $5 off since it was my first purchase with plumdistrict.com)
I jumped on the deal quickly with the approval of my coworkers/reality checkers.  (Everyone needs someone to judge if the impulsive idea of the day is a good one or not...Just sayin')
Needless to say, I have the calender below on order and should be here in the middle of August!

Anyways, have a great day and please check out the calender and deal!  The links provided link directly to the deal!

How do you fold your sheets?

I hate folding laundry, especially fitted sheets.  My fitted sheets always look like jumbled mess!

When I saw this video, I could not help but to laugh at how simple it looks!  I am not saying that I am excited about washing the sheets next, but I do dread them a little less.

Have a great day!

Sewing Sundays

Last week, I covered a few things I have done to organize my closet, but I should have taken a before picture so that you can understand the need to write two different posts on it!

When LML's grandmother passed away, I inherited a large collection of sewing items.  In fact, some of my favorite things I inherited were here wooden thread spools with the original thread.  One day I am going to figure out how to display these items, since I cannot bring myself to use.

I also inherited loads of embroidery floss from LML's grandmother.  I have finished sorting through all the DMC brand and placing it on the corresponding labeled bobbin.  I still have a box full of other brands of floss.  They are in good shape, but I am not sure that I would want to tackle a project with floss that I may not be able to match if I run out of it.

Source: DMC

I even have these items sorted in numerical order to ensure that I can always find the color that I need.  

Another thing, I inherited was all of her buttons in a few tins.  They were a jumbled mess in these tins, so I just simple went through them and gave away all of them that I would never use.

While my closet is no where near completely organized, I do think I have made some progress.  

One of the things that I have really gotten into recently is smocking.  I have finished smocking an insert for a friends's baby, but I still need to assemble a dress (that project will be coming up in future posts).  And a goal I have for the new year is to learn how to make a bishop dress and pleat it myself.  (I know I am lucky that my mother in law has two pleaters that I can use when needed!)

With my future sewing in mind and my love of smocking plates, I think a container like this one would make for a perfect place to organizer both patterns and plates!

Source: Art Bin

Do you have any suggestions on how you organizing your sewing area?

Sewing Sundays

This is a different type of Sewing Sunday, in that I am sharing a few things that I use to help organize my sewing closet!

When I was just sewing to mend items back in college, my mother purchased me a set of snapware containers like the one below with a divider trays in one of the levels.  I have used this regularly as my portable sewing box.

Source: Snapware

Source: Snapware

In the past year, I have out grown my one box and have been looking for something else to help organize the mess in my closet.  The day after Christmas at Tar-Get I discovered they had the holiday version of this container sans the dividers on sale.  I grabbed the last one eagerly. I mean red and green handle does not mean I cannot use it regularly!

Source: Snapware

I then purchased a set of dividers at Jo-Ann's Fabrics.  I also distributed the number of boxes between the two so that each set has three boxes (as opposed to one set of four and one set of two!).  

I also folded up all of my fabrics and placed them inside a bag, so that they are all contained and not drifting throughout the closet.  

Currently for my threads, both embroidery floss and machine ones, I have a few different boxes that I inherited to contain them.  For Christmas my Sister in Law, henceforth called Miss Marvelous, received an awesome container from her husband.

Source: Art Bin

I asked him about it and found out about it.  After organizing everything that I could, I decided to bite the bullet and purchase a container online.  Currently, it is in transit to my house and should arrive tomorrow!  Can we say, "Yippee!"

Tune in Next week for more on my organization and a picture of my closet now!  

Also, please be sure to check out the give away that I am hosting!

Organizing the Home

Organization has been a theme around my house lately.  I took time recently to start organizing my closets.
I started with the two biggest messes which were my sewing closet (another post coming soon) and my gift/Christmas/linen closet.

Source: Meijer

When I was doing my annual Day after Christmas shopping, I found a few wonderful things here in town.  Unfortunately for me, I was unable to find any extra strands of C9 Multi-color lights.  Come Monday, I turned to my trusty friend the internet and looked for some online.  I scored a great deal at Meijer.com.

If you know me, you know that I am one always looking for a deal, so I found a few other things on there to include in my order.  The gift wrapping center pictured above is one of those items.

When this baby arrived at my door this week, I could not wait to set it up!  It took me a few minutes, but I LOVE it already.  I have organized my rolls of wrapping paper in one location.  In addition, I now have my gift tags, gift bags, ribbon and tape all organized in the front of this perfect organizer.  (Granted I have my duplicates stored in another container until I need them!)

I am so excited that I now have my stuff all visible, which should lead to me using everything up before purchasing any new supplies.

How do you organize your gift wrapping supplies?

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