Hah~  I’m so good at trying to come up with ways to get myself to blog and then totally blowing them off.  It’s pathetic.

I have to admit that I’ve been pretty overloaded with all the health related stuff I’ve been trying to do.  Between writing on my other blog, riding my bike further and further each day, and trying to stay on top of the rest of my health, I’ve kind of been lazy when it comes to trying to post here regularly.

But, I actually have been following through with the cleaning and organizing.  Just not in the method I originally intended and not on the time line that I had planned.

Thus far I have been taking on one major project a week.  I started out with the pantry.

BEFORE                                                  AFTER

As part of the process I bought myself a brand new label maker and promptly fell head over heals in love with the damn thing. Honestly, I’ve considered labeling W and The Boy with it.  Each and every basket in the pantry has a label.  Each shelf has a label.  It’s perfection.

My next major project was the bathroom.  We adore our duplex.  We really truly do.  It’s vintage and cozy and cute.  But the bathroom downright sucks.  There is not a single cupboard or cabinet in the place.  So, back to Target I went for more baskets and storage drawers.  It is now also perfection, though I haven’t had the chance to photograph it yet.

I think my next project will be the sun porch, but honestly that’s going to drain me of all available cleaning resources for a week or two.

W and I have also taken a  5 A Day Clutter Away Challenge, along with Jenni and Matt and Jumi.  It will culminate in what will look like a big ol’ Awesome Garage Sale, but will really be the group of us drinking lots of cocktails and convincing people to buy our George Foreman grills for $.50.

My contributions to the clutter box thus far have been –

Day 1:

1. Pedometer that I replaced with a much more reliable one
2. Black canvas Mary Janes that gave me big ol’ blisters
3. A lovely kitchen prayer sign that I received for Awesome Christmas but didn’t match our kitchen.
4. A box of short pillar candles minus one candle.  I bought them because I wanted ONE unscented white candle and could only find them in an eight back.
5. A blue plastic Easter basket.

Day 2:

1. A ceramic monkey head bank that The Boy has no interest in.  He can’t seem to save fifty cents, let alone enough to bother putting in a bank.
2. A bunch of perfume and scented lotions my sister gave me, including four purse sized tubes of Sunflowers Hand Cream and a bottle of Tommy. . Um…So not my style.
3. A pretty, heavy-cardboard box that my sister gave me to store girly stuff in, but I never got around to using.
4. Floral silky shirt that I got on clearance at Target and only wore once
5. Blue tunic style shirt that I got on clearance at Target, wore a few times, and then stopped because someone asked me if I was pregnant every time I wore it.

So that’s 10 things and it’s only day two.  Keep an eye out here if you want to a preview of all the other amusing and amazing things that you’ll be able to find at the garage sale, or if you want to see all the strange and useless stuff I’ve managed to gather up over time.