Look at that, a tidy room!!

Well, will you look at that, a tidy room!!  After I got started I found that 90% of the mess was clothes, clean ones at that!!  I have had a big influx of clothes coming into the house the past couple of weeks from friends and so it was really great to sort out and get rid of even more stuff that Annabel had outgrown. Now everything fits in her draws and wardrobe shelf nicely!! And one more bag of crap has gone!  

All up This didn't even take that long, one hour tops.  It really is amazing what you can get done in such a short amount of time.

To see the before photo got HERE

Project for the future, the wall by her bed needs to be redone

 *runs off to Pinterest*

This has become less of a dolls house, but more of a shelf....lol But I may have a plan for a play area, so if it all works out Annabel may just get her dolls house back!

The disaster I call my daughters room

I don’t know what it is about this room whether it is me or her or both of us but it just will not stay clean and organized!!!  Well a lot of it is me. I have been in a bit of a funk the past few weeks and can’t seem to get much done, but come on it’s not even my room!! if you remember a post from a couple of weeks ago, I said this house isn’t going to change itself and after another woe is me day yesterday, I woke up and thought its time I got on that.

I have had to re-remind myself of that fact. I will keep having to remind myself of that. Crap isn’t going to change itself woman, get moving!! And as my poker buddies like to say NOBODY CARES. No one wants to her your woe is me stories so get over it and get shit done!! 

Anyway to make myself get stuff done its time for some before photos, all brutally honest and normal, there is no editing going on here this is exactly how her room looked. And let’s face it most of you know I have no shame, if me showing you me before photos makes you feel better or helps you out in some way then hell, I am more than happy to do it!!

Yes I know this looks like a episode of horders

I will be back tomorrow for a progress report!!

(Meaning, I have mostly finished already but forgot to take photos)

Time For A New Direction!!

Ok people it is time to be brutally honest. I am not a good blogger (I think we all know this already), I am not a good speller (I think we all know this too) I am not a great cook or house wife and I am really not a great poker player. But you know what I am doing it all anyway, and I really want to get better at it all. I have decided that a new direction is needed.

I first made this blog solely for my craft stuff but at some point I started adding new things to it then I went back to crafting, and I have just sort of flip flopped ever since. truth is that I don’t always craft so I don’t always have crafty things to blog about, but I am always living my life and have things to say, So why not  say them here!! So much has happened in the last 6 months I could have told you guys all about, and I have just sat silent and being very blah!

I am a mother, wife, friend, crafter, reader, DIY enthusiast. I am messy, unorganized and a lot of the times unmotivated. I am honest if not with myself with you guys, I am not scared to show you my before pics no matter how bad they are (ok  so that’s a big fat lie I am petrified) I am not perfect and I don’t come off as. I am a mess, I have a couch full of washing (mostly clean) none of the beds in the house are made, I haven’t unloaded the dishwasher this morning, and I haven’t brushed my hair. But I’m here in the hopes that as I stumble and fall I can help a few of you get your shit sorted too!!

First off

The house

I have decided I hate living in my house the way it is. It is messy cluttered and untidy All the time and I’m over it, and guess what??? It’s not going to change itself it’s up to me!! I can’t be doing the same stuff everyday expecting different results, then complaining about it. So I am making it my mission to do it up one room at a time. Starting with the master bedroom, so keep an eye out for that very soon, the wallpaper striping has already begun!

Next

Look good feel good

I don’t bother dressing up most of the time and I only every really wear makeup if I’m going out for the night or out to dinner, I’m thinking it might be time to change that, I’m not meaning going full on Kim Kardashian everyday but you know making an effort every now and then could be a good thing and might just make me feel a little bit better about myself

So this is me now and the new direction I am going to be taking with this blog. I will still be posting crafty stuff as I do it but now it will just be mixed in with a lot of other awesomeness!

It also may be a time for a bit of a makeover!! what do you recon??

Thanks for reading Jennie

Spring clean update

So I said I would be back with a update in two days and here I am, are you shocked…I know I am.

Let me start this off just buy saying yes I did get Annabel’s room done yay us.

And secondly this clean up thing has started to spill over into other places already…how long this will last is beyond me but the day after I posted  this post here the next morning I had 2 loads of washing out and some beds made by 9 am unheard of  in this house! I would have had more washing out but I ran out of pegs!!

Anyway back to Annabel’s room I have cleaned walls, windows, sorted all the draws, cleaned out the toy box, I have done it all and man it looks good!!! And best news of all doing all of this only took about an hour, I was in the zone!!

It is so nice to walk in there and not have clothes and toys everywhere!!

Also Miss Bel and I have had a nice little chat about her dragging out all her clothes and changing at night when she is meant to be in bed going to sleep!

Next I am moving on to the dining room, this is the first room you walk into at our house, we don’t have a nice entry for our house once you’re in it you’re right in the thick if it

*The list Clean up declutter the shelf’s by the door

* declutter the fireplace mantle

* Sort out the mess I call a table

* Clean windows, walls, and the door frames

*Find a new home for Vinnie’s medicine (having it sitting on the floor just isn’t a good look)

 Watch this space!! This Old school desk wont be blue for long!!

And FYI those boxes are Vinnie's medicine.

 The table top, better known as the dumping ground.

above the fire.

Shelf by the door.

This last pic is what it looks like from our door.

And that’s all for now, but I’m sure as I go ill find more stuff to do. I’ll be back in a few days with a progress report.

thanks for looking :)

What A Mess!!

Well since I have been doing up my daughters room my shed has become sort of a dumping ground and when ever I went looking for something I would have to pull out a 100 things to find it and none of them went back again. So after a month this is what I have!

What a mess right??

And with thoughts about making scrap friends and having them over for little crops, well they just might like a place to sit!! So time to clean up! Took me a while and I still have a couple of things to finish but its done and there is now a space for a friend to come and scrap with me :) And look there was a desk under all that crap!!

Now, all I need are scrapbooking friends near me :)