chinamommy: organizing

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Gettin' my organizer Nerd on!

i LOVE to organize!

no seriously, i do!! i've often thought (semi-seriously) about starting an organizing business. i'm not a huge fan of maintaining it, but i like to dig through and sort. so last night i had an attack of the organizers...

i'm one of those girls that when i get interested in something i feel the need to have it ALL. shocking, i know.

when i started crocheting a couple years ago, i started collecting patterns.

i had to have them all!!

i get

source: Crochet Today

i'm part of www.ravelry.com , i've bought patterns from etsy, i download them from red heart and, if you follow me on http://pinterest.com/chinamommy/, you know i pin patterns there too. yes, i am aware i have a problem.

needless to say i have too many patterns in too many places. last night, thunder struck and i gathered ALL my patterns and a 3 ring binder full of clear sleeves:

i started tearing magazines apart, knowing i would NEVER in a billion years make everything in there. honestly, i felt a little guilty "ruining" my magazines... oh-my-gosh...what is WRONG with me? tell me i'm not alone!!

so this is my project to finish today!! i'll also be making dividers so i can keep separate: hats, scarves, home items, cute items...etc.

are you a crazy organizer? or just a crazy hoarder? are you trying to get things in order for 2012?

Monday, January 24, 2011

Starting AND Finishing...

I am beginning to see some light at the end of my psychotic cleaning cession! I have gone through boxes and bags and totes and shelves and closets and cleared out stuff that hasn't been used in YEARS. Of course, I am no dummy, I realize what this means... I will NEED something I've donated or thrown out-it ALWAYS happens to us crafty gals! Seriously, how much can one person (or 3 in our case) keep?? Much to the surprise of everyone that knew me before the age of 20, I keep a clean house, a tidy house, a super-picked-up-neat-as-a-pin house and although I keep my clutter in my studio, I can only take so much! Today -MONDAY- I will FINISH and by "finish" I mean get the guest room/sewing room (no, I can't sew) picked up also! This weekend I did take a bit of a break. I fixed a bed skirt that had a tear for about 10 months and has been hanging over a chair in my guest/sewing room, I fixed the seat of Darlings America Girl Stroller (also a tear in the fabric)

and... I finished the Twinkie Chan Cupcake scarf I've been crocheting for Darling!

(don't bother clicking to look inside, you did, didn't ya?)

See Darlings pictures in the background...Isn't she CUTE??!! I took those picture of her a few months after coming home from China, she was probably about 14 months old... Oh do I miss those baby days!! She was a great baby: quiet, obedient and 100% potty trained by 18 months! I know...I got the golden ticket with this sweetie!

Here's a sneak peak of my studio