Let's Talk Trash

March 25, 2010 By 12 Comments

Ask anyone who lives with me. I’m a sheer-compulsive-pet-peeved- maniac about certain aspects of our home.  The sudden sight of clutter is one. It sends me over the edge.  Like a sunny 30 mph Sunday drive, to a buck-60 in clap of thunder.

I’ve analyzed my seemingly over-reactions enough, to figure some of myself out.  The sight of clutter, instantly clutters my mind.  An organized mind of thoughts and agendas is something I work very hard at. So I don’t need some tall and scatterish pile of paper to come along, and mess with me.  See what I’m sayin’?

Another personal demon I’ve been determined to beat, is the trash.  I know where this issue started for me too.  I was living at someone else’s house at the time.… Read More

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A Kitchen Improvement

February 10, 2010 By 15 Comments

 

Here is the kitchen project I have been SO excited to share with you all!  Again, this was one of my brainstorms, and I’ll be darned if I should’ve thought of it sooner!

So….take a good look at the photo below. This is a stairwell down into the middle level where our laundry room is, to my (finished) photography studio, and to the (unfinished) basement on the other side.  You see that ledge along the stairs and half-wall?  We are always putting stuff there that needs to go down and put away, that we don’t have room for to keep in the kitchen.  Extra platters, our slow cooker, our frialator, etc.  Plus, we have plenty around the kitchen that could use a better residing place.… Read More

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