Opening wedding presents is fun!

Our wedding is two months away, and no I'm not freaking out yet. The wedding presents have started streaming in and opening all these Crate and Barrel boxes is oh so much fun! 
New dishes! Hello CB Aspen goodbye chipped Ikea plates! 

Last night was our three year anniversary so we busted out all the new plates and silverware to celebrate. 

Pantry Door


I bought this awesome over the door Rubbermaid shelf thing for our pantry. Slight problem, the door wouldn't close! So after a lot of yelling at the door and putting in these fancy "hollow core door" brackets we got it up. 
Yes, all of those ramen's are facing the same way, Mike's a little OCD
Even Mavi like's the new pantry shelf! Probably because his treats are in it.
Now we just need to tackle the rest of the pantry! I'll post on that later.

It is time to organize

Some days I find it increasingly difficult to work because I just want to go home and organize and clean my house. More specifically, I want to go home and label everything. So tonight, as I sit late in my office, waiting to go to a meeting, I emailed Mike, my annoyingly-neat soon-to-be-husband, that I was going to organize our whole house:


"Honey, you know how I love to bust out my label maker and label everything and organize stuff, like the hall closet. I'm thinking I'm going to deep clean and organize our whole house. Throw out a ton of stuff, organize and label everything. I'm telling you this, so that you aren't surprised when I start throwing shit out, because I want your support, AND because I'd love to someday join the society of professional organizers.  http://www.napo.net/default.aspx

I'm REALLY good at organizing things, staying organized is another issue. But I figured this will be a good start. 

I'm going to need a lot of baskets and more tape for my label maker. This will require trips to ikea. 

Plan of attack: room by room!
Purge: get rid of stuff
Pile: group like items
Place: put into place
Label (why can't that start with a P)

I think I'll start by cleaning my craft room again
then the guest room
then the bedroom
then the bedroom closet
then the downstairs entry closet
then the pantry
then the kitchen
then the basement closets
then the mother of them all: the garage. 

I think we'll feel so much cleaner and simpler. I'll need your help going through stuff to see what you want to get rid of. 

Also, I really want to take down the bed in the guest room and just have the frame. That bed takes up a lot of space.

Also, let's put a closet system in the basement closet (the one as you come down the stairs) like the one I have in the craft room. 

this summer I'd like to put in shelves in the garage too btw. 

One more thing. If you want to go get your new desk we can move the black desk that you have downstairs upstairs. Where the bench is we should put that desk and one of our dining chairs and use it to finally have a place to organize our finances, house documents and mail all in one place. 

Ok I think that's it. What do you think?"

So that's my plan... what do you think? Tips? Tricks? Keep up to date with my organizing finds via my pin board http://pinterest.com/fryxie/time-to-organize/

Barrett

This is Barrett! He is now an awesome service dog.

The mavi man

This is the best pooch in the world! Hard to believe our little Mavi is now six!

When you can't find a pattern, make it up


I've been itching to make these bootcuffs I found for my new boots. 
But, I tried the pattern this weekend and frankly, I don't like the cables and they are far too big for me. The cables are huge and squirrely, not tight and knotted looking like I like. So I'm determined to create my very own pattern. I found the perfect boot cuffs, but they are for sale, not the pattern AND even if they were, I don't crochet. 

So I'm experimenting with several different ribbings and body patterns. I even created a pin board just for this! You can see my ideas here. Check back as I make this work! 

Here are my ideas so far:

K3, P1 rib for three inches and then 1 on the top
and for the body here's my thoughts: I'm still searching!


Basket Cable
Checkerboard lace


Weaved Cable

Moss Stitch
Oh and here's a great video I found for cabling without a cable needle. This will be great for that weaved cable.