of hard work, our playroom is about together!
Well MY part anyway!
Jay has to add the trim work, buy the Futon, and bring the TV and computer down there (hook it all up), put in the special lighting (we have a standing lamp for now that will do till next year when he finally decides to get to it! LOL!) Oh and we have a bathroom down there that has to be re-done, but that can wait.
(yes I will post photos once it DONE!)
Amber helped me move all her toys in! She is so excited. She asked if she could move her bed in there! LOL! Um, NO!
What is HILARIOUS, is when my brother and Valerie were moving out, they weren’t even out the door and Amber was saying “Once you leave I get to take you room and its going to be mine playroom> How much longer till you are moved out?”
OMW! Amber! That isn’t nice. Funny, but not nice. Poor kid everyday since then its been “How many sleeps till you do my playroom? I am waiting patiently you know” She cracks me up.
Im more excited that they now have an EASILY accessible (for them) crafting cabinet that will allow them to be creative more often-without me needing to gather everything. They are old enough to know how to properly use and clean up their crafts. (AKA know mommy’s expectations, and what happens if they don’t clean up-goodbye crafts for the next day!) So it should be great.
Can you say 15 trash bags of stuff is cleared out of my basement 😀 How good does THAT feel.
Plus I cleaned (the day before) my ENTIRE house floor to ceiling. So everything is SPARKLING clean! AHHH!!!!
I totally cleared out all our CRAP from the basement. You know organizing it all, and our Christmas stuff and other storage stuff since it is visible from the playroom. I would INSANE if I had to look at it all messy. It was packed in one little storage corner-floor to ceiling-CRAMMED. Now all our Christmas stuff, luggage and a few other boxes fits UNDER the counter there, with LOTS of extra room-all clean and neat.
I swear I burned 8,000 calories EASY moving boxes, luggin stuff up and down the stairs, moving the OLD playroom stuff, and cleaning everything.
I have to organize when Jay isn’t home because he is a HOARDER! I think every relation ship has that ONE person who can let go of crap! LOL! Jay gets it from his mom, who may not want what YOu are getting rid of, but if she hears you are dumping it, will take it, just to save it. “I” have the attitude “Oh I haven’t missed this in the time it was gone-so GOODBYE!!!” Unless obviously it has sentimental value.
He looked at the bags and wanted to go through them! NO WAY BUDDY!! You don’t want to help clean it, then you get NO SAY as to what stays or goes. Trust me you won’t miss it!!! Did he even know ANY of what was down there?!
We now have room to grow-can easily access everything in a pinch, and will use LESS boxes to lug Christmas stuff.
I have every single doll I owned in ORIGINAL clothes, looking about as good as the day I got them as a little girl. So I know how to take care of stuff. I also decided to organize the “special” artwork my kids do that I decide is important enough to keep in one of those LONG under the bed storage bins. BOY you can hole YEARS of stuff (for all 3) in so little space with one of those.
I just feel SOOOO good right now about all of it. I should tackle the kids closets! They are HUGE walk in closets that have gotten out of control (mine included). Im a neat freak, but for some reason my closets are a mess! I guess Im a closet mess! LOL! Oh and my drawers! I know this is too much info! No one is perfect right! My drawers(despite carefully folding everything, everyday when I do laundry) always get messy. Maybe I just need ONE area that I don’t control like crazy?!
I also re-organized (AGAIN) my stamp room. I went through all my ribbon and made it nice and neat. When I was watching one of my video intro’s I about DIED when I saw how messy my ribbon racks were! That caused me to spiral into a cleaning/organizing my stamp room FRENZY-that took like 4 hours, and it was all already pretty organized. YIKES!
Can you tell I LOVE organizing?! I love the feeling of accomplishment.
Maybe I should get a job going into people homes and cleaning out their spaces for them! LOL!
Anyway-I have no idea why I shared all that! Maybe you can get inspired to finally re-organize something! TRUST ME-you will feel like a million bucks!!!!
OK I do have card to share.
I made this for Jay for Valentines Day.
Hedgie Love
I think these Hedgies are beyond cute! They were fun to color too.
The image is called Prickly Love, which makes me think OOPS! Are they porcupines?
Oh well I see hedgies 😀 so I’m going with it
I sponged a layer of pink, and colored the hearts red. To me it was like “love is in the air” kind of feel to it
This layout was a version of my sketch 18
I had to add all the hearts to it. I think its a nice addition to the card, and REALLY says I love you. Jay likes detailed cards! LOL! He loved this one, and thought the images were adorable too.
Some years I do a serious card, other times I go cute and fun. He is less serious than I am, so I think he liked cute and fun.
Sentiment is from Love Songs set
OK signing off now. I have to get moving on some upcoming release work, and design my project for Stamp New England!! WOOT!!! WOOT!!! Sorry Im running late Julie :C
You KNOW its going to be using a NEW! My Timeless Template right!!
OK Gotta go.
Later
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This card is adorable and the coloring is awesome (as usual)!
It sounds as though you had quite a productive day with all your sorting/purging. Amber cracks me up! haha
How would you like to come visit me in Ohio and while you’re here, you can knock your socks off by getting me organized in my new house. It all looks a bit overwhelming to me. Ughhhhh.
I love organizing too! I’m actually CRAZY (seriously ask my husband) about keeping my closet monochromatically organized. For years I didn’t do this and then I would randomly find a shirt (usually at the end of a season) I had been missing forever. Congrats on catching the organizing bug, I always love when I’m in that mode.
You just need to make a trip to Ohio, you are more than welcome to come here and organize to your hearts desire.
I absolutely love that stamp!!! Super Cute!
Thanks for sharing!
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I’m tired after reading about all your hard work! I so need to re-organize my room but haven’t got the motivation yet. Adorable card!
OK Lauren I “NEED” you at my house – my basement “aka the Pit” is Full. Any time you want to take a trip to Canada let me know!!! I have a husband like yours (takes after his mom too!!). We have furniture that we don’t need but…… Boxes of crap that he hasn’t been into since we got married 9 years ago!! It drives me nuts and it seems when I’m in the purging mood I don’t have the time or energy! I would love to have it cleaned out so the kids toys could be down there instead of on the main floor of our house. One day – a girl can dream right!!
Congratulations on your productive day!
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Way to go on the clean up! Can’t wait to see the pics.
BTW, I’ll FLY you over if you come and tidy up my house. Seriously!! LOL
Very sweet card!
Lauren – Way to go! Sounds like you are on top of the world now. I love that feeling.
I have had our basement (unfinished) and our attic(my ceramic Studio) on my to do list for many many many months. I have just not found the time to get it done. I am working full time and juggling my stamping business, regular house chores, cooking, cleaning, bill paying and two teenagers and their activities – I think I need to take a week off and just spend the time doing that!!
I just love the feeling when you know it is all done and you know exactly where everything is and there is NO CLUTTER! Yeah! I will have to seriously pick a week to take off. Thank you for the inspiration to just do it!
Annette
Oh – almost forgot – Sweet card!
I so used to be like that Lauren, but as I’ve gotten older a little messy and un-organized doesn’t bother me as much. I even wish that I had been less so when my kids were younger.
I love your card, and I think they look like hedgehogs more than porcupines too.
doesn’t it feel good to accomplish such huge tasks!? I need you to come help me organize! I LOVE BEING organized – I just have troubles knowing what to do to GET organized! I’m in Lincoln, Ne. how far away are you??!! Ha ha!
WOO-HOO! Doesn’t it feel good?? Now – I’m off Monday to do the same thing (purge crap out of the basement) and try to organize my stamping stuff…I think you need a brief road trip to NY ;), C’mon, you know you want to, heh heh heh.
Congrats on your accomplishments – and super cute valentine 🙂 Have a great day sweetie!
That card is adorable, I love it!
Congrats on your clean-up/organizations!
I’m so jealous of your energy and stamina to get all of that organizing done! Way to go. My husband likes things neat and organized, but doesn’t really want to help to get it there. Maybe some time I’ll get in the mood. You could come help me? A nice warm trip to Texas sounds good right? LOL Cute card.
Can I borrow you for a few days to help me clean and organize everything! British Colombia is a lovely part of the world to visit 🙂 I think I’m more like Jay for the most part, but every once in a while I get on a “search and destroy” mission and go for it. They just don’t come often enough lol 🙂
Glad you got everything done and ready to go. Sure the kids will love their new space. Enjoy your clean space too 🙂
WOW I don’t know how you manage to still grace us with all your creations AND do all that cleaning! very impressive indeed
Wow!! That is such a great card!! I love it.
Wow! I know what it feels like to organize. My husband tends to keep things at least he is not like his mom who saves everything for the Boy Scouts. Never mind that none of the stuff ever goes to them. I do the same thing. I have to throw things out when my husband isn’t looking.Thanks for sharing your story. Cute card!
wow – i completely understand that feeling of relief when you purge stuff – it is awesome
absolutely love your v-day card – super cute
Sign me up as one of your first customers when you go into organizing business!!! You have me inspired to get busy! You Go Girl!
Hugs,
Marge
I wish I had your energy!! My whole house needs to be cleaned and my crafts need to be organized – don’t know where to start. I wish I could pay you to come to my house for a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sweet Card!!
I can understand the hoarding…
My husband does it too!…stuff
he’ll never use 🙁 I do some..
but it is crafting stuff that I will
recycle in a good way! 🙂
It is nice to have it organized
though.
TFS…HAGD
Dee
I am a Hoarder, I wouldn’t be able to let someone come in and take over, I watch those shows and think oh how do those people let some of the things go that they do, we have a small house so I really need to get rid of stuff, maybe I will be able to break down and get rid of a few things!
very cute card!
OK, I’m exhausted now just reading your post. Now that your done with your house can you come and do mine? Love the card! Ann
Ahhh- hahaha. That’s awesome. you and I are an awful lot alike girl- I *heart* organization too! Tho when it comes to MY drawers and closets… let’s just say I don’t let anyone in those! You would be amazed at how organized one has to be in a two bedroom apratment lest the mess take over. I have ‘cleaned sweep’-ed this place quite a few times. As for opposites- my hubby is the horder- gets it from his mom. She almost died when she saw me cutting up my bridesmaid dress (it was homemade) to make covered picture frames as a gift to the recent bride. She was like “What are you doing” and I told her that I am never going to wear it again- what else would I do with it?” She’s like “KEEP IT!” and I’m thinking whyyyyyyy? lol there’s one in every bunch 😛 BUT that’s my story- thought I’d share- awesome job with the cleaning girl- feel good about what you did- and Amber??? TOO CUTE!!
Good for you for getting it all done. I do have to take exception to Jay being the hoarder though. Have you looked in your craft room lately? Hmmm??? How many times do you say Oh I forgot I had that? We ♥ that you hoard because you always find something fabulous, eventually, to do with the stuff. 😉
Congratulations on your organization-bonanza! I will TOTALLY let you come in and re-organize everything in my house. Shall I leave the hosue key under the mat? LOL…
Your card is SO CUTE!
I guess my husband and I are a little backwards. He is the neat organizing freak and I am the one that can always find a reason to keep something. But, I am working on it and trying to get rid of things we don’t really need.
Love the card too. So cute and whimsical.
You can come clean out my house! Although we would have to wait until our family hoarder {my dh} leaves for a trip!
W*H*E*R*E do you get the time to do all this…I feel tired reading it all…..I am about to start de-cluttering…and I wish I could get away with telling my hubby what you told yours…no way…he would HAVE to see the bags…since we are both retired it is impossible for me to secretly get rid of things….drat. Good card…well done. You are an amazing woman.
Your post made me laugh. I love to organize certain parts of my house and others I “hide”. My clothes drawers are organized – I think it was at a Bed Bath and Beyond that I found some plastic dividers that look like “diamond” shapes in the drawers and they are great for keeping your “lingerie” neat and tidy and they have some others that are gridded like squares and I fold my socks into those.
LOL! I love to organize everything! LOL! I believe there is a place for everything and everyting should be in its place. It just makes life SO much easier. Thanks for all you inspirations, it helps us keep going.
Congrats on all of your organizing! I know how good it feels when everything is organized. It’s the same feeling when I am caught up on my grading at work. I love your card! I just bought 10 more Stampavie stamps after getting about 5 for Christmas. I’m hooked and can spend hours coloring their images! Cute, cute card!
Lauren,
I admire your work, your energy and your ability to keep it all together. It is wonderful to have a supporting husband, it makes life much easier. I, like you, have a great partner.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
What a cute card!
You must feel so good right now! I love how it feels to take on a big undertaking like you’ve done. (Although it’s been awhile..)
You’re card is just the cutest! What an adorable stamp!
Okay, I’m off and running…
You have a great day! ♥
Great job, Lauren! I need to get working on my craft hole as you did your basement. I have very little difficulty decluttering my children’s stuff, but my craft items are an entirely different story. I need to bite the bullet so I’ll stop cringing when I open the door. Thanks for the inspiration!
I SO need that motivation to get going and work on my basement– my holiday closets (yes there is more than 1) is overflowing with stuff I haven’t used in years! (I have the same hoarder husband as you— I’m going to go with the same theory– if you don’t clean it, you can’t keep it!) 🙂 I love that euphoric feeling of a clean storage area— maybe your kick is what I need to actually go do it! 🙂
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Oh, your organizing and packing skills are impeccable! Thanks for sharing your ‘cleaning adventures’! They always are such an inspiration for untidy and lazy people like myself whom, after crafting, can never get around to packing up because I’d be too exhausted!
Anyway, the hedgehog card is simply too adorable 🙂
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