Spring Purge

I'm going through a major spring purge. Last weekend we were expecting an overnight guest and I realized our guest-room closet had overflowed into a dumping grounds for god-knows-what...

First things first. I cleared away everything that didn't belong. Then I pulled some things out of the attic to add to the mix. This is what we are storing here:

fancy dresses and suits, evening shoes and bags, 

pictures to hang, photos, photo cds, photo albums,

extra throw pillows and comforters...

After everything was in place, I installed a curtain rod with a couple of curtain panels from TJMaxx...

This room definitely needs a little more work, but it is so much neater! My goal is to tackle each room/closet in the house over the next few weeks and then set up a donation pickup. I'm hoping to finish our room and closet this weekend!

Out of the closet

Sorry I'm such a bad bad blogger. In my head I'm creating informative and insightful posts on a daily basis. What happens in actuality depends on if I am sent to, let's say, Dallas, for less than 24 hours, forced to get up at 4 am 2 mornings in a row to make my flights.

So I am back. And I was able to hit up a Zara in the process. And buy fall clothes. Because this 95 degree weather is just putting me in a fall clothes mood.

And this called for a closet clean out. That's right. Tonight. Out with the old and in with the new. Got rid of 4 pairs of shoes and a BUNCH of raggedy old shirts. The ones I pass on everyday. You know the ones. You have them too. Or the shirt you bought 2 years ago and the price tag is still on it. Yes, that one, away you go!

I do this closet clean out at least twice a year. Sometimes I'll go as far as to remove every single item from the closet and only put back the things I absolutely love and wear.

Anybody else out there thinking about and making room for some new fall clothes?

Closet Crisis

Until recently, our bedroom closet had been a sorry sight:It's one of those things that creep up on you. Suddenly, we had too many clothes, too many shoes... Or did we?
And an unfair shelving system that left hardly any room to store anything but sloppily-tossed t-shirts...
When I couldn't take it anymore, I decided to get busy:

Voila!

We separate the shelving - instead of one deep shelf along the back wall (everything would get lost back there!), we split the shelves into a "his" and "hers" side. Now he has a place for his tees and I have place to store handbags. Everybody wins!
And thanks to these shoes organizers from Lowe's:
A nice clean floor. Now we only have to try to keep it this way.

So far, so good.

Ornament storage

After being left with two empty clementine boxes that were just too bulky to add to the kitchen trash bag, I peeked around the house to see if I could use them for anything. I noticed we had a bunch of ornaments to put away until next Christmas - Epiphany!

And since they're stackable they fit nice and snug in my bigger Christmas storage bins.  

A bonus is that both Clementines and Christmas ornaments only come around in December :)

Box Room

Our "guest room"... I'm posting this photo and hoping it will embarrass me into moving our storage junk into the attic, and painting away the leaf motif. (Also removing the red ribbon pull from the fan will help!).