Crafty Simplicity

Hello All!

Hope you are having a fabulous end-of-year holiday season. As inspiration for the New Year, I have decided that before buying anything new for 2011, I will ask -can I borrow it? rent it? or make it? - Instead. I stumbled across a few simplicity blogs - the 100 Thing Challenge. Can you live with only 100 things? It would simplify things, no?

Inspired by Martha's new furniture craft line - above - (who my friend Sue insists that she lives to make you feel inadequate), I have created my own craft station:

As in making everything utilitarian (another thing decided this year - to not buy something unless it has more than one use), this is also the downstairs baby changing station/ slash/ cocktail server for parties. As with much of our furniture, it was given to us by friends who moved to Denver.

So, we are slowly organizing and finding much we had lost, and much that was donated to us this year from friends and family members who moved/cleaned/organized.

This week's objective - to completely clean and organize each room for the new year! Sunday was laundry & the cellar; Monday was the kitchen, walls, cabinets & appliances; Tuesday was the living room, dining room and bathroom (spilled over to today); Today/Wednesday is closets upstairs - keep/mend/donate; Thursday is floors and back porch; and Friday is stairs and decorations. I just hate taking down our Christmas tree!

Downstairs will now host our miscellaneous "in case of moving" boxes and a whole stack of a someday garage sale - free box - toy exchange.