I am doing SOMETHING. Not a lot, but something!!!
But I'm slowing down, losing steam.
I need you my cheerleaders!?!?! These posts are getting increasingly harder to do NOT because of the work involved, but the embarrassment factor!!! My bedroom is almost always a wreck. I CRINGE to even show you these. My stomach is knotting up and screaming at me to back out. "Clean something else - something easy to show - like a drawer, or the patio, maybe some kids toys. NOT THE EVIL FABRIC MONSTER! ..... NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Deep breath.........
My next project has been the sewing/crafting corner in my master bedroom. It's a classic situation: too many supplies, too many projects partially underway, and not enough space to hold it all. I have a LOT of fabric. Not all of it is fabulously cute and amazing, but I do have a lot.
Here is the pile o' crap that takes up space all over the floor. Each shopping bag has a different project in it......or, uhhh........ leftovers from a project that I have finished. You can see my sewing machine at the left of the pile o' crap, plus a bunch of other random junk. (eeeek! I'm still cringing, just so ya know.)
Now to the RIGHT of the pile o' crap, you will see the little dressers that are SUPPOSED TO hold all of my sewing and crafting supplies.
(These will also be known as "The cupboards that have so much on TOP of them, that you can no longer SEE the tops of them." Ugh.)
K, I'm feeling pretty nauseas right now. * Keep going!!! * You can't really tell by the picture, but those drawers are BUSTING with fabric. Most of the time I can't even close them all the way. (I must have really rammed everything in there to take the picture.... how deceptive of me!) So you see my problem. The fabric monster is slowly taking over my bedroom, or this corner at least. So I started sorting through it.... which made more of a mess than I started out with! This next picture shows the middle of my sorting/folding process.
I threw away a bunch, packed away some more that I want to keep, but won't need very often, and folded the rest neatly and nicely so it's more accessible.
AND.... while the tops of the dressers are not yet visible, I will show you the beautiful drawers!
I'm happy to report that they roll IN and OUT unhindered!!! Everything is stacked on end so that I can see it without digging. And I did get rid of a whole garbage bag filled with useless scraps. Yay me! The pile o' crap on the floor nearby is greatly improved, but it's not yet ready for full photographic glory. There's still a ways to go; this was a big one people.So I have to know, what is the "monster" in your bedroom?
13 comments:
You are so brave! For almost five years our master bedroom became the catch-all for every project. I, too, had a corner full of scrapbook and sewing stuff. I have since improved the situation slightly (just a few months ago). But I didn't completely finish--mostly I just moved it to the master closet so its not as visible. So my monster is also my sewing and craft stuff AND all my photos. They are mixed together and stuffed in drawers in my closet in no organized way. Its the one big mess in my house. Someday. . . you're inspiring me. . . keep up the posts.
I told myself that when I get to my new house, all of my office stuff (ie - the storage area for my crafts, photo albums, photos, etc)will not be unpacked until I can organize, or put projects those projects together. I'm hoping this will get those things organized and done.
We'll just have to see though. When am I going to have time to put together that Christmas card album or Ian's mission album, etc. when I'm so busy doing everything else. It'll all probably just sit in their boxes for the next five years(:
You are AMAZING!! That fabric monster has been defeated at your house for sure!!
My monster is just laundry in general: I don't put it away like I should, then I have piles of both clean AND dirty laundry. And then I end up with lots of mess and doing more laundry than I should have done. (And now I'm embarrassed, too!)
I have several monsters in my bedroom...
Laundry. Nowhere else to put it. So if I don't do wash consistently, it piles up... AND gives the room a little stink. Yuck.
There's the foot of the bed that houses the empty laundry baskets that I use to take clothes down (three flights of) stairs to the laundry room. They somehow get all kinds of crap piled up in them. Or they just stay full of clean laundry and I never get to them.
And finally, I am a monster too. I have a horrible habit of piling worn but not-yet-dirty clothes on ANY horizontal surface instead of hanging them up. In my defense, I don't own a chest of drawers to fold them into either.
Bleh!
But you're doing great!
Right now our third bedroom is just one big junk room. I have walked in there several times just today with the intention of organizing it, but there is a Greek Mythology Documentary marathon on the history channel...so on commercial breaks I walk in there, look around, walk back out and retreat to the couch and the history channel again. Sigh.
Other than that, our garage remains a disaster zone and my crafting area of our office is just pile of stuff. Also the back porch is just a pile of half broken-down pallets and cardboard boxes.
I'm so so so impressed with the taming of the fabric monster! Please keep it up because you are my organizing muse right now! I think you should come over and help me tackle my extra bedroom. Yes?
I don't often comment, but I love your blog and especially since you have been tackling your house! You have inspired me, and you are very brave to show pictures of your projects. Our master bdrm is mostly just blah...Clean, but blah. I'm not a decorator. My real monster is the office. I have been trying to get it organized. Perhaps soon I will post a picture of that project.
KEEP GOING! u have inspired me and it is soooo nice to see the end results. My patio looks great if i do say so myself. Don't quit. It will be worth it. Messing it up again is just living.
THAT is your most embarassing mess??? Remind me never to let you see my office. ;)
You're doing GREAT Amy!! I love how you organized that fabric. Makes me itchy to quilt again, but I just don't have the time right now. Sigh. ;)
Don't stop! You are inspiring me so keep it up.
Go Amy! Go Amy! Go Amy!!
My monster = my entire house. The past TWO years I've been working on our garage. I've probably taken 30 trips to Goodwill and it's still a wreck. Plus, there are critters out there!
My bedroom is most embarrassing. Piles of clean clothes just dumped on the treadmill (what a wonderful purchase that treadmill was - where else would I dump my clothes?), paperwork and kids' school papers piled on my side table and floor. The carpet is a wreck. It's old, yucky and doesn't repel any stains whatsoever. I have a craft cabinet that Jonathan goes through on a daily basis and just dumps all sorts of things out of - I'm tired of cleaning it up so the stuff strewn throughout my room stays that way for a while.
Keep on keepin' on! You're inspiring us all. And even if I don't clean up, at least I can look at your pictures of neat tidy spaces.
Too bad I don't live closer. I would have loved that bag of scraps for our school's picasso project. We are doing collages. great job on the drawers!
You are amazing. I am impressed and it makes me want to start on my closets, and then my drawers, then the garage, then the yard. Oh, it makes me tired just thinking about it. But I am going to get started one of these days. You do inspire me as well. You have inspired a lot of people!
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