"Organizing"!!!

YELLLLLLLLLL!!!! I've been organizing this room for weeks - no probably months!!!! I just can't seem to get it right. Every time I do something and go back in a few days later I see where I should make changes. I'm sure this is a complaint unique to ME!! No one ever has this problem, right???!!! Hah.

So Love Bunny and I went to Home Depot and WM yesterday and today and I found a couple of magazines on organizing!!!!!!! Can you believe that?!?! My prayer was answered. I haven't set down to read it yet as I've been painting a shelf and a frame for a picture. Read below the pix of each one............

Magazine I found and intend to read as soon as I get off of this computer.....

This is a little picture I intend to frame also, just have to FIND one to fit it.

Pause for digression here....... I received these little blue tags, blue seam binding and fringe in the mail from Nan at Linens and Laurel and I believe in helping sweet chicks who are trying to make their websites profitable. So go and visit her and I'm sure she'll sell you whatever you want!! :-) I'd never seen colored tags before (I don't get out much because I'm always on this computer!!! Oooops, sorry, Max, didn't mean it. Max is the name of my computer. I do love ya, Max!!!) Anyway when the package arrived and I opened it up the fringe looked kinda funny but when I pulled it out of the package I was fabulously delighted!! It is the cutest fringe I think I've ever had. Fuchsia and soft and just "different."

This is picture I framed with an old ugly dark wood frame and decided it needed a little pizzazzing up so I painted it white. Much much better. Ooooh, did I mention what these actually are???? Well, they are calendar pictures. YESSSSSSSSS!!!! Pay for a calendar for the year and you get 12 free pictures to frame! Can't beat that. I've been doing it for about 20 years. You can scan them and adjust the sizes you need if the pix are too big for a frame you might have around the house. The only problem and it's no BIG problem is you have to get the calendars at the end of the year just as they come out because the pretty ones go so fast. I'll buy ones with romantic cottages, doors, roses - just anything I want to frame. Might as well have gorgeous calendars to use and look at through the year than those ugly old things companies give out!

Now, here is what the shelves looked like when I walked out of that room about an hour ago!!! I'm sure the mischievous "organizing fairies" will be about their business tonight and don't expect it to look like this tomorrow. Those are the nastiest little fairies. Know what I mean???!!! Just re-arrange everything during the night or when you aren't really looking! Then you go back in and have to "re-do" EVERYTHING!!!! But, of course, as you can see, I'm really not done. Still more folding and packing into boxes for Love Bunny to put up in the garage attic. I'll bet he'll be just thrilled, don't you??!???!!! Hah Yeah, wanna bet?!!?! *Sigh*..............

I'm Trying to Be the Storage Queen or Please Don't Notice My Dust!!!

I really do have to give credit to a lady that I bought this darling basket from on ebay. Her name is Ellen and I'd suggest you take a look at her items!

Edit: Okay the Flickr photos are ready for y'all to view, all you lovely chicks! Just go to my storage solutions by clicking HERE. I heard a quote many, many years ago and it stuck with me. I'm paraphrasing but it goes something like this: Don't have anything in your home that isn't useful or that you don't consider beautiful. That's been my mottos for 47 years of marriage. Your home is your celestial place on earth. Enjoy!
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I know, I know, but I'm working as fast as I can, chickadees!! Yes, I'm participating in the Show and Tell Sunday but I just heard about it.....yeah, I know, I've seen it advertised but it didn't HIT me until the last second. I've getting some photos ready and will post back on here in an hour or so. There are so many that I'm uploading them to Flickr with comments for ya.

I am not usually like this but things have gotten away from me the last week with the surgery on my hand. "Stop whining", you say. Okay, let me get to work on this. Just a sample of what is to come. Trust me, there will be a lot of photos! Oooooh, and don't look at the dust on the lids of the boxes either. Promise????

Hubby was in the Marine Corps and this is a "field desk." I use it for stereo equipment. Paint it white, throw a pretty cloth over it and voilà, it's an end table and FREE!

See all that "stuff" in there - completely hidden, yep! Who woulda guessed?!?!

End table, right??!!! Nope. The kids bought us a television because we stopped watching television about 20 years ago. They wanted one when they came to visit so they could bring their DVDs so they bought it when they flew up here a couple of years ago. It won't go up into the attic over the garage so what was I going to do with it??? Put some surplus plywood left over from hubby's new "train room" he made in the 3rd car garage, throw a cover over it and voilà, it's an end table! Dilemma solved with a creative solution. It only comes out about once or twice a year when they visit!

See. Thought I was kidding, huh?!?! Hah.

This little jewel was hubby's foot locker in boot camp! Now??? Full of old blankets. Paint it white and throw the pillows from the bed on it every night and voilà, it's NOT an end table, but a catchall!!

Workin' in the Craft Sewing Room!

Isn't this sweet plate adorable? I just received it today from an ebay seller and it is so delicate looking I just love it.

I've been straightening my craft/sewing room for what seems like years! I've bought shelves and storage "thingies" but nothing seems to help me keep it in "organized" shape. Every time I go in there and make something it seems to revert to its former status. I think the "Disorganize Fairies" are going in there at night and just having a field day and trying to make me craaaaaaazzzzzzzyyyyy!! Anybody know what I mean??? *Sigh*

This is my progress today - pix are not in order but you know what I mean when you see the shelves. I've arranged several shelves of fabric and folded it into smaller bundles. There is no much fabric in there I may have to sell some to make room for more craft things. Ooooooh, bite my tongue!!!!!! Sell my fabric?? That would certainly make dear hubs happy but we have a deal: he doesn't sell his trains; I don't sell my fabric! Works for meeeee!!!!!

But what I want to point out is the close ups of the fabrics below. Would you ever guess that all of that fabric on the table in the close ups is flannel?!?! Yes, it is. I got it at a store in California several years ago and it is wonderfully fine flannel - high end I believe. I've never seen any like it anywhere else. Just gorgeous truly!

Where Did the Time/Thyme Go?!?!?!

Daughter and her hubby flew in from California to visit for 4 days. Always glad to have my kids visit with us. She said she had a new recipe she wanted to try for us - a chicken, feta cheese, sun dried tomatoes, pasta one. I said fine, let's do it! So on the way from the airport we had to stop at Wal Mart for ingredients. As we were looking for the chicken, I remembered I have my year's supply of food like any good Mormon and told her we didn't need chicken. So we got the sun dried tomatoes, I'm sure I was just fresh out (!), and the feta cheese (not something I stock on a regular basis (!), the pasta I definitely had. So the four of us are walking around the store thinking of what else we might want and I was in a hurry to just get home and eat lunch. Spices??? Yes, I had spices I told her.

That was saturday. On sunday night when she started to prepare this delectable dish I was in here on my lovable Max (my computer) and I hear all this commotion in the kitchen. Her dad (my hubby) and she were tearing through my cupboards and screaming: where's the thyme? I never get in the middle of daughter in the kitchen. NOT a good idea. Did I mention she's very high strung in the best of circumstances?!?! Hmmmm, important fact here. Well, she's throwing a fit because they can't find the spice. I said, very sweetly, of course, if it isn't in with the other spices then I don't have it. Three sets of eyes flashed at me! So what's the big deal I ask. They said when we were at the grocery store she asked me if I had thyme and I must have said something along the lines of "yes", but I swear to you I don't remember talking about a SPICE. If she asked me I must have been thinking of TIME not THYME. Besides, I probably would have said something flippant like "I have every spice you could ever want." I'm that way. :-) So hubby and daughter looked at me like I'd said a vulgar word and daughter exploded saying the recipe was ruined. I opened up the cabinet and took out the Italian Seasoning bottle and said here, try this. Had thyme in it.

I then went merrily back to Max, my computer remember, and put a smile of my face and surfed till dinner was ready. All through dinner and the next 2 days all I heard was "it would have been better if it had THYME in it. Aaarrgh. Next TIME she wants to visit I may just not have TIME/THYME either!!! We'll go to her house where THYME is in a bottle! LOL

It's finally spring time in this desert of ours in the west! I think I'd better give that old red bench another coat of red paint but it'll have to be hubby's job since he's much better at painting that old bench than me. Another "honey-d0"; won't he be excited?!?! Hah.

I also have little color spots around that have finally taken hold and my rhododendron that I love and will nourish like a baby. They grew well in California but struggle in this desert heat but I'm hopeful. The hydrangeas are another plant that grew prolifically in Calif. but we've struggled to get them to produce here. Maybe this year!

A Rose Room Party!!

Rachel over at The Rose Room is having a "nice to meet you" party in honor of her 100th post! Well, count me in, my little chickadees!! Plus fabulous prizes???? Count me in again! All she is asking is that we share where we do our blogging. Hah....... More like where I spend my LIFE. So here goes.........

This is my office computer room taken from several angles. I have to have beautiful "eye candy" wherever I am - bedroom, kitchen, living room, family room, office and even bathroom.........in other words, everywhere in my house. :-)

I have a window seat. (Oh, btw, that dark wood chair is just in there temporarily from hubby's office so we could make room for our daughter and her hubby who are coming for the weekend. It's not usually in there.) My desk is a white cottage shabby chic style one. There is lace on the window, lots of white wood in there and of course roses all over the walls. I do my ebay-ing there, my finances, my blogging, photo shoots for ebay and just about everything.

NOW for the other things Rachel wants us to do - answer a few questions about ourselves.

1. Relationship: Married to Jack for 47 years in June of this year.

2. Children: a daughter and a son and 3 gorgeous grandsons and 1 gorgeous granddaughter.

3. Pets: none. We had a dog who died and I won't get anymore until Jack can have it put down when it needs to be done. He could never do it and I won't do it again so that settles that. He's soooo soft hearted when it comes to his pets.

4. Age: Do I have tooooooo?!?! Okay, 39 and stubbornly holding to that!

5. Star sign: Virgo

6. Favorite food: Pasta or Fish - cooked in a restaurant since I have the lingering smell.

7. Favorite drink: Pepsi or Coke

8. House decor style: Romantic, bit shabby, comfy, frou-frou and a lot "Me" thrown in.

9. Collections: Oooooh, there isn't enough room to list them all, but mostly anything with roses on it and of course, pitchers.

10. How did I get into blogging: Jumped right in and have been loving it ever since! Just decided one day to share my life online. Since I'm addicted to computers - we have 5 - and do not travel anywhere without our 2 laptops, it's easy to keep in touch. All of our kids and grandkids have computers - at least 2 in each family so we're a techie family for sure.

So now just to to Rachels and join in, my sweet little chickadees!!