Welcome Back to Me!

     Where am I??? Oh, I am back!!!!

     I do not know why but every time I come home from a long trip, I have this almost maddening urge to clean, organize and declutter my house.  If you have any thoughts on this, please let me know about it. My theories are one, control. Being away and living off suitcases mean you are never really settled therefore you have no control over ANYTHING. Two, it helps me settle back in or three, since traveling opens my mind to new things, ideas and life lessons, I feel changed and renewed therefore a newer, fresher backdrop to go with it?

     I guess it is a combination of all three. Here are three links to get me started on my, I want to call it welcoming- myself- back- home and back- to- reality to do list

 

     Here are daily reminders to help us keep our homes organized and clean. Click here.

     And the 21-Day Organization Challenge. I already started with my medicine cabinet. Oh, forget about the holiday sparkle part.

     Maybe if I am still inspired I might even get around to making this which I have been wanting to make for a long time. The Home Management Binder!

     So good luck to me and I will let you know how it goes..... Wish me luck! 


PS

To my dear regular readers who want to know about my Apartment Therapy Home Cure.... Can you guess how it ended? You're right, it hasn't. Well, I keep trying. We all should.  

It is great to be back!

    

The Apartment Therapy January Cure: Six Days Late

    I should be on the 6th Day of my Apartment Therapy January Cure but somehow I got stuck on 

Day 2: Set Up An Outbox

     First of all my list of projects overwhelmed me. I was thinking it is almost impossible to 'cure' my house in a month, all 298 square meter of it. So I decided, okay will go on my own pace. What I needed desperately to get organized was my home office. I had to get some things done on the work front and I can't with my office stuck in Holiday mode. There were unsent presents,  (yikes!) wrapping paper, ribbons and ...(sigh) just one big mess. 

I cannot work here!

      My initial list echoed the same.
 

     It was a tumultuous task as it took me 5 days....See, that's why I am behind. My home office needs it baaaad! First, I wanted to say good-bye to open storage. Why? Nobody really cares to clean whatever is out there. Luckily there was a 50% markdown on storage in Shopwise.

Getting ready for WAR...against clutter!

  
     Here it is in progress...
     How did I do it? The usual, TOSS, TOSS, TOOS like crazy!!!

     After 5 days.....Ehem, still messy desk on the right is H's.

      I love the way my re-purposed wine crates turned out for the kids' library...What do you think?

     I just hope my office stays this way a little longer than the last time I fixed it.... Fingers crossed!

     Now I can work....


     You can still catch up with the January Cure. Click here. Come on!