I am certain of a couple of things about heaven, and one of them is that there will be a place for everything and everything will be in it’s place. I love the sound of that saying and the images that come to mind. Perfection. Order. Purpose. I would know where the scissors were located and they would be there. And that if I put a do-dad in the “perfect place” where I would remember where it was when John would ask for it – in heaven, I would remember where it was and it would be there.
My project closet has been a disaster that I have been procrastinating for some months now. This is the closet where we store all the crafty, project stuff we use, plus some office stuff because we don’t have an office. Our level of creativity has suffered because of the mess and I feared for the small children that opened the door. It was that bad.
Fast forward to now. Last week I spent a half an hour in the afternoon cleaning out a shelf at a time and by Friday I was done. Although I didn’t throw away as much stuff as I wanted too – it’s way better. It also totally set me up for this HOT week inside with the kids.
Here are the pictures:
Before:
AFTER:
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Jill.
You officially overwhelm me. The Project Closet organization mission, maybe as a result of my severe craft phobia, terrifies me. The saving grace is that you do have stuff that might actually be in my house if I ever became a mom…like battery chargers. In the future… please try not to be so super human. Who even thinks to take a “before” shot anyway?
Said in loving self-effacement,
Linz
June 24th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Linz-
I am SOOO trying not to be super human!!!
The before picture was purely the motivation I needed to actually do it. I figured I needed a post and I needed the closet cleaned – two birds…
I’m totally planting my carousel of craft scissors in your house somewhere just to freak you out sometime.
Love you –
Jill
June 27th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Fair enough. I think you rock. I would love to hang out sometime. Unfortunately I’m getting ready to travel some for work this summer, but I am planning on having a 30th birthday part to end all 30th birthday parties when I get back. I may send out save the date cards!