Friday, June 12, 2009

Houston, We Finally Had Some Progress

June 12

I finally had some major de-cluttering progress in our office! Yeah! Now, I'm not done in the office but I wanted to share some pictures of the progress.


Desk Area! It is so lovely to have a clean and clear work space!

The Desk Shelves! Dusted, downsized and de-cluttered!

The CD cabinet! All CD's have been categorized, dusted and organized! We can now find something when we look for it! What a novel concept! :-)

The corner book cases have been gone through and any unwanted Books, DVD's and VHS tapes have been donated to our library! All shelves and books dusted!
Just so you didn't think I was cheating and shoving stuff into the bottom of the cabinets, I hit those as well!


The smaller book shelf has been dusted all books gone through and binders labeled!
The computer cabinet! Dusted, de-cluttered and cleared!
Now, there is still quite a bit left to do! Here is the list:
1. The right hand side drawers of the desk.
2. Clean up all the wiring for the computer. Bundle them up and tie wrap so they are organized.
3. Clearing the Xylophone. Lots of stuff to deal with that is cluttering its top!
4. The closet filing cabinet. All of those files need to be gone through.
5. Painting projects. Touch up the walls, the window sills.
6. The valence has been washed and I just need to get it ironed and hung back up.
7. Take down the old blinds! They will be replaced with a spring rod and some sheers so they can be easily taken down and washed in the future.
8. The Rug.......we'll that is a future project. It is a huge job that unfortunately needs to be postponed for a bit. We need some extra hands to help with the furniture move so for now I'm going to use our steam cleaner and just clean the rug as best as we can. Then when we actually get to pull the rug we will paint the floor and baseboards.
So, as you can see there is still quite a bit to be done, but for now I'm really happy with the progress and I hope to have the above done by the end of the weekend! We'll keep you posted!

Monday, June 1, 2009

De-Railed by Robots!!!!!

This past weekend I had planned on making great strides in the office de-clutter project, but I got de-railed by a project for Doodlebugs school.  As you may or may not know Doodlebugs school is a perochial school that goes from pre-school through 8th grade.  In the summer for those kids 5 and up they have a vacation bible school.  We'll some how on the grape vine the VBS organizers heard that I was a great decorator due to the pre-school's scholastic book fair.  They called me and asked if I would make them two robots for their Gadget Garage VBS theme this year.  Since I haven't learned how to say no hubby and I went to work on building the Robots.  

Here they are in all their glory!  We has some specifics that we needed to have.  They needed detachable parts.  The head, heart, eyes/goggles, ears, and antenna needed to be able to be removed and later added.  One word assisted in that endeavor......Velcro!!!

I'm really happy with how they turned out and they are really sturdy as well so that is a good thing.

We dropped them off to the church on Monday and the VBS organizers loved them so mission accomplished.  Now back to the office!