Organization Wonderfulness

Here are the pics I promised of some of the organization magic in my kitchen!

Here's the pantry, pre-chalkboard paint, with everything in containers and labeled! Makes me happy just looking at it:)

Spice racks from Ikea because I no longer had space for them in the pantry...

Chalkboard paint on the insides of the cabinets!

And hooks to hang utensils that were cluttering up drawers.

And they're all nice and labeled too...

...because I'm crazy

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And we made a compost bin so we bought a small one that sits on the countertop and so I wrote the composting dos and don'ts on the cabinets above it.

Pantry with pain and a slim corkboard

Got this at Ikea. It replaced my calendar space and has cubbies for mail and hooks for keys!

And I got this from Ikea too so we could better organize the DVDs

So that's it! I did a few more things in the kitchen drawers and other random bits around the house, but these were the biggest things! I finished all of it around the second week of January and I'm happy to say that the new system is still holding up.

Are you wondering if Chris is as excited about this as I am? Of course not! He didn't think we had organizational problems before, of course, but he does appreciate the work I did and he thinks I did an awesome job, so that works for me:)

Valentine's Day Decorations!

So, being unemployed has definitely increased the amount of time I have to beautify my house! Here's some photos of some hand-made and not so handmade decorations I finished yesterday.

The piano got a bit spruced up

The silver tea set on the dining room table also got fancy

Fun Cupid arrows idea I got from here

I love these hearts hanging from the chandelier, got that idea here

I couldn't resist making this cute card garland

Got the inspiration from this Etsy product

I couldn't get a good photo of my construction paper heart garland, so here's a close-up shot!

 

And last but not least, my cork heart wreath!

I love Valentine's Day, I think it's the absolute cheesiness that makes me so happy. I'm not sure what we're going to do this year for Valentine's Day, but it'd be fun to do something different than the old dinner standby, I'll think of something creative! There's a vampire Valentine's Day bar crawl on the 9th, that could be interesting...

Hello!

So, I had originally created this blog in April right before the demise of my facebook page (huzzah!) just in case people wanted to see what we were up to and I could pretend we were doing interesting stuff. Obviously I am now writing my first post in January, but it's all good, because interesting and exciting things ARE happening!

I quit my job (woot woot!) as of December 31st and will start my new job January 21st! Honestly, the lack of work stress and baggage is amazing, and I'm so happy I was finally able to leave. I'm going to miss some amazing co-workers, but that's it!

So what am I doing til my new job starts, do you ask? Well, every January 1st I get the reorganization/cleaning bug, and this year it bit hard! I completely re-did our pantry and got rid of tons of stuff around the house. I still have more to go,  but I'm so happy to have a more organized living space! I'll post some pics when it's all done.

Also, school starts back up on the 14th, so that will take up the rest of my time, but it's my last semester and I only have one more class, woo hoo! Yay for almost graduating with my Museum Studies Masters!

Well, that's it for my intro, we'll so how well I do in keeping this bad boy up to date;)