Mini-Martha Stewart lives here...

I am not talking about me...but my daughter!!

It all started while my daughter was visiting her grandparents without mom and dad (for the first time). I decided while she was gone to do some serious cleaning out in her room. Her room use to be the guest room and I still had 1/2 of her closet as storage, I had not rotated clothes out of her room, and just stuff EVERYWHERE!

This is a BEFORE picture of her closet...see our clothes take up half of the space...


I do not have any AFTER pictures...because I am not a good organizer and it did not look like Martha Stewart had dropped by...why bother.

We arrived home on Sunday from picking up my daughter and by Monday after "Quiet Time" Her room was even MORE organized and beautiful...

This shelf use to have books on it but on Monday it is for displaying...


The books from the shelf moved to her closet on a shoe shelf (that was sitting in a Garage Sale basket)

FINALLY...

She rolled all of her clothes in her draws...

Even her underwear was rolled...

I have a Mini-Martha Stewart living in my home and I had no idea. She kept her room so organized for about a week....

Then 2 nights ago my Mini-Martha Stewart went Manic...

At 12AM this is what I found... I was in such shock, I did not care if I woke her up (as any good mother would) I took pictures...what in the world happened????

The shelf was back to the way is was before...

And her drawers were empty...

I asked her the next morning what happened...her response?????

"It wasn't quite right, but then I got tired...I will work on it again today"

Are you kidding me??? I have created a monster...

Organizing Challenge with a little Mod Podge too!!

I am a busy lady, like so many other women out there. Since I am so busy (some of it self-inflicted) I tend to over look some details in my life that other would CRINGE over. That something is

ORGANIZING!!

It seems to me that every time I organize I can't find anything. So to eliminate this problem I just don't organize. Simple, right??? It just so happens that one of my husband's pet peeves is not being organized (so glad he loves me!!)

On the way to beach this weekend we were talking about home stuff we would like to get done. We were having an open and honest conversation on the way to see his family (could of gone good or bad, luckily it went good). He told me that he would be more inclined to do more home projects for me/us if our home was more organized. I didn't get mad (sometimes I have a tendency too when he questions my homemaking skills) I took this as a challenge. I decided to start organizing our home. The question is will he hold up his side of the bargain!?!?!

Monday: I organized our linen closet in our bathroom. I would show you a picture but it isn't that pretty so trust me it is organized!! I am finally able to get sheets in this closet rather then taking up a dresser drawer!!

Tuesday: Nothing (busy day)

Wednesday: 3 kitchen drawers and a medicine cabinet. Proof Below...

Before:

After: Divided utensils into metal and plastic (bet it doesn't stay like this for a week)

Medicine Cabinet

Before: So embarrassing- I have never claimed to be Martha Stewart

After:

Notice the cool canister on the bottom right?

This now holds all of our band-aids and creams for boo-boos. Nothing can be easy for me so I decided to do a little project while organizing. I made a band-aid canister with the following items...

After: If I had some cool scrap booking stuff I would write band-aids, but this will have to do!!

This project made me laugh out loud because I remember reading some one's blog about how they mod podged a metal canister and when they tried to open it up the next day it wouldn't open (that so stinks). I made doubly sure I didn't put paper under the lid!!

Back to organizing...

I still have lots of drawers, closets, under beds, cabinets, pantry (YUCK!) to deal with, but I am getting there S L O W L Y. Maybe this will make my life simpler OR maybe it will make me even more crazy because I can't find CRAP!! Who knows....