Happy New Year!!

New Year's is a time when many people commit to starting fresh and making positive changes in their lives. My personal "resolution" for a positive change is to get more organized. I am a pretty organized person, or like to think I know how to be. Realistically speaking though, I could be a lot better at this. I always have the best intentions but lack of time usually detours me. Sound familiar?

I love to decorate and "organize" themes, wall groupings, and absolutely love spending time picking out the right color schemes and accessories. But I don't enjoy as much organizing papers and closets. That's more tedious than creative. This is the year, however, that I am finally going to be successful at tackling this to-do list at home. Not exactly my idea of fun but . . .

I am giving myself a reward! When I have completed at least one of these tasks I don't love so much, I am going to allow myself to have some fun by creating new fabric window treatments for my family room! I can't wait! Now that's motivation for me, so I've started immediately with the organizing!

My husband and I share a work space at home along with our daughter's numerous craft supplies. Honestly, her stuff takes up a lot of room in our cabinets! I finally had the bright idea to move her stuff out of our office so I can better organize my things. Now where to go with her stuff?

I decided we should transform our back coat closet. It was just a catch all really housing out of season coats, winter gear like hats and scarfs, extra shopping bags for who knows what, extra boxes of cereal and the dog food. Being not so tall (notice I didn't say short) I have a hard time reaching stuff on the top shelf. To make it work better for me, I had my husband move the coat rack up way higher and hang a step stool right outside in the garage for me when I need to put away or grab those out of season coats. Then he measured and installed two shelves lower so I can access everything easier. It gave us so much more room, and now we are utilizing that closet space so much better.

Now our daughter can grab her coloring books just as easily and her stuff is out of our office. It's a win-win! I'm so excited!




That was step #1. Now to move onto step #2, my office space!