Project 4 Reveal

Alrighty, for all of my friends out there who don't know what project #4 is, sorry to leave you hanging like that while the rest of us giggled away. Once upon a time my sis-in-law Jeigh left us hanging like that for months while she wrote a novel (which I've read btw. It's fantastic.). I thought I was going to die with anticipation! So all of you who are just dying (did I spell that right?) to know what my project is, I know how you feel. (enter sarcastic cough here...I'm sure there are few people who read my blog who didn't already know). Let's pretend for a minute here that you have no idea what I am puting all my energy into making. Here are some clues....
1. It is really small, like the size of a pea. But, as I slowly add layers and make the details more intricate it will be like the size of a oh, I don't know, a pumpkin.
2. I've only ever made one of these before, and it turned out better than I could have ever imagined, if I do say so myself.
3. It's going to take like 8 more months to finish.
Any ideas? Okay I'm just going to come right out there and tell you. It's an AFGHAN! All crocheted by me. It takes me a long time to get anything done....okay I lied. It's really a baby!!! Yay! We are so stinking happy and excited and feeling enormously blessed that we have the opportunity to be parents again. WAHOOOO! Wes did cartwheels in the living room and knocked on the neighbors door because he just had to tell someone! We figure I'm due mid-May, just before it gets hot. Thank heavens!
Alrighty, that is all for now. It's nap time again. And I need to get a shower sqeezed in that time slot. So off I go. I will be accepting congratulations in the form of diapers. Just kidding! :)

Project # 4

Wow. I seriously just sneezed for 5 minutes straight. If this madness wakes up the baby I am not going to be a happy camper!!! That has nothing to do with project # 4, I just had to vent. ANYWHO, project #4 is seriously going to be the best of all. I am so excited!! I have been working on it day and night, but I don't have any pictures yet because I'm not really showing much progress. But like I said, I have been working on it constantly. It is so stinking phyically tiring that I have had to take a nap. Everyday. Speaking of, my naptime is dwindling as I type. I'll post more later, and maybe someday I'll have a picture! Have a happy day!

Project #s 2 & 3

I have been wanting to do project #2 for a long time. I was constantly worrying about the fact that the cleaners were somewhere Suzi could get into...pretty easily if I left the bathroom door open and wasn't paying close attention. So we bought a new container and put the cleaning supplies way up high. Then I reorganized all of this mess. The before...

And after! I put the cleaning supplies in the closet where that basket of hair supplies (curling iron, straightener...) used to be. DUH. I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier. Remeber that organizing blog I talked about in my last post? It talks a lot about functionality. Inspiration! I know it doesn't seem like anything big but, for reals, functionality and organization make me SO HAPPY! (speaking of functionality, them there tampons and toilet paper are in I'm-sitting-on-the-toilet-in-dire-need reach. YAY).

I put all make-up in this one...Contact stuff in this one...
And, tooth stuff in this one. Ahhh, isn't that beautiful.
Project number three was cleaning my messy room. I'll post pictures after I do some decorating magic. Happy house of ordering!!!

Inspiration #1

I've been inspired. It's true. The other day I read my sister-in-law Jenny's blog where she was discussing some of her favorite things. One of them was this fancy iheartorganizing blog. Oh my goodness...SERIOUSLY! I heart this blog!!! Careful, you can easily spend lots of time here. But there is a reason this beautiful blog hit home. I have been feeling a bit stressed and very annoyed that there are multiple places of yucky unorganized chaos in our appartment. THEN, another of my cute sister-in-lawsies posted all about her goals to make her home a "house of order." Immediately Amber and Jenny's blogs connected in my mind and BAM I was inspired. So I've started the very large project of organizing our little happy home so it can tooo be a house of order (someday). It is going to consist of tons of small projects and a couple large. Since our pantry was pretty bare already, I used our gigantic shopping trip as an opportunity to start there. Here's the before...

UGH. Nasty and messy, right? It's been driving me absolutely crazy. I haven't even been able to sweep the floor for months. So I cleared everything out...

Notice the grocery bags on the floor... yeah there were a ton of new things to put in there.

This little cutie patoootie loved the new clean floor! Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd TADAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

The pictures don't really do it justice. It is positively splendid! There was a stinky issue with the garbage too. So we decided to try out the old laundry sheet technique. We put one in the bottom of the garbage and sat the box right next to it. I take a large happy breath each time I enter that beautifully organized pantry. I have more little projects in mind, including an inventory grocery list for frequently used foods and a pretty little meal planner. But for now, project house of order #1 was so refreshing and wonderful!! So thanks Jenny and Amber for the inspiration!