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| sonflowergurl |
Posted - Apr 10 2006 : 3:19:47 PM
We've been in our current home for 5 months, prior to that we had several semi-temporary type abodes for the year-and-a-half leading up to our current location. We had everything in storage twice, and at least half of our stuff in storage for the whole time. Anyway, we have a "den" area that has been our storage area because I work full-time and have had no time to get to all of this stuff sorted through. We were unpacking our normal stuff (and organizing) during Christmas break, so now I'm concentrating on getting through the rest of it now. It doesn't help that my hubby doesn't have an office for all of his books and youth ministry stuff right now, and I've got "school stuff" stored here too...since I no longer teach at a private school and am an instructional assistant at my current school---no classroom to put stuff in. Those two categories actually make up about 70% of the stuff in there, the rest is stuff I keep procrastinating in getting to.
So today, I have unpacked 15 boxes, and repacked my school stuff back into 7 boxes (and crammed them in a closet). I've come across candles that have been in storage for two years, along with a ton of GREAT finds...my antique stuff!!! (And some sentimental stuff too)
There is much more to do in that room to get it like I want it (a combo music/sewing/office area), but it makes it much easier to do when you come across such neat things! My favorite things I found today is some of my milk glass collection and my grandma's old wooden butter molds!!!
Katee
The end will justify the pain it took to get us here.
"Looking Toward the Son"---- http://sonflowergirl731.blogspot.com
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| sonflowergurl |
Posted - Apr 11 2006 : 10:34:29 AM
Thanks Emily! It's such a dreadful job, but the reward of finding some cool stuff was well worth it! It will probably take me the rest of the week to have it like I want it, if I can even get to it all this week...but it will be nice to have that area for something besides storing junk!
Katee
The end will justify the pain it took to get us here.
"Looking Toward the Son"---- http://sonflowergirl731.blogspot.com
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| coconutcakes |
Posted - Apr 10 2006 : 6:56:36 PM
Katee, do not feel too badly about taking that much time to unpack. . . I've been in a new house for over a year now and still have an entire room full of stored items. Unfortunately, none of the stored items are as cool as your milk glass or Grandmother's butter molds. I find I clean out storage and such better and more efficiently when I am in a bad mood, believe it or not. . . that way, I'm sure to get rid of things I really don't want or need so I don't ever have to deal with it again. If I find something in storage while cleaning that I love, it totally changes my mood to "happy"!
Happy arranging and unstoring!
Emily
"After a long period abroad nothing could make me more homesick or emotional than an American magazine ad of a luscious layer cake, except one, and that was a pictured lemon pie." Irma Rombauer, Joy of Cooking (1943) |
| sonflowergurl |
Posted - Apr 10 2006 : 5:28:11 PM
LOL, thanks! Yeah, but this room is horrendous and it's driving me insane! One reason we're trying to finally organize it is because I'm now bringing home the electric piano from our church to practice for the worship team and need a place to set it up! Plus, it's the "other half" of her room, so it really needs to be done anyway. (We're renting a "2 bedroom" place, but the added-on room is HUGE, so we've divided it into 2 extra rooms--one for her and one for "stuff". LOL) I just found out that rehearsal was changed to tomorrow evening instead of later in the week, so at least that will be out of the way so I can do other stuff later in the week. (We may just "need" to take a drive to the Gulf on Saturday...to relax in the sun.)
Katee
The end will justify the pain it took to get us here.
"Looking Toward the Son"---- http://sonflowergirl731.blogspot.com
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Apr 10 2006 : 4:14:35 PM
Kattee
I went back and read some of your blogs, etc. your daughters room is perfect, I think you need to slow down for your easter break and see how much you have done, not how much you have left to do. Looks to me like you are doing a great job.
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| sonflowergurl |
Posted - Apr 10 2006 : 3:46:49 PM
Yeah, we're thinking shelves, eventually. (When there's time and money. lol) Just getting everything reorganized is the key. I can handle a few boxes in the corner as long as the "junk" is sorted through. We packed in a bit of a hurry originally, so I just dumped things in boxes and taped them up....thus the adventure of the discovery. LOL (Now if I could just come across my Holly Hobbie patterns, I'd be a happy camper!!!)
Katee
The end will justify the pain it took to get us here.
"Looking Toward the Son"---- http://sonflowergirl731.blogspot.com
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| Nancy Gartenman |
Posted - Apr 10 2006 : 3:40:58 PM
Kattie
What fun along with the work finding all kinds of good stuff, wish I had been there, always fun to empty boxes and find things you had forgotten about, and then get all excited about what you will do with them, how about some major shelves in that combo room?
NANCY JO |
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