Organize Me Monday: Studio Tour

Organizing.  It's my thing!  Well, it's one of my things.  One of my favorite things!  It may sound weird, but taking an unorganized space and making it organized energizes me like few other things do!  Taking an organized space and making it more organized is pretty great too!

Recently we had our kitchen remodeled.  Prior to that happening, I had kitchen appliances stored all over the place.  One cupboard in particular, near the front door, was full of appliances.  Well, now that all of the appliances fit in the kitchen (!!),  I had an empty cupboard which I have been working to make into storage for my art and craft goodies! Today I finished that little endeavor and I thought I'd show you!

I have made two videos to share with you today.  You'll have to excuse the segments where everything goes blurry ... that's my lack-of-videography-know-how making itself known! Clearly, I need some practice! 

The first video is a tour of my "studio".  We don't have room in this house for me to set up a whole room as a studio unless I want that room to be the garage ... and I don't.  Initially, I  set up a section of the family room where I could work and that has sort of oozed around the corner ... which works perfectly now that the bread-maker and mix master are in the kitchen where they belong! 

The second video is showing you the inside of my art and craft cupboard ... how it is organized and looking inside a couple of the boxes. 

I mentioned in the first video that I was doing The Documented Life Project in 2016.  I did the second half of 2014, and a self-modified version in 2015 ... I'm hoping to complete an entire year of actual DLP this year!  Do any of you participate in this fun project?  I'd love to follow along with you!  Let me know where I can! I'll probably post some photos on my TrèsBonn Instagram and Facebook pages but mostly I think I'll share my weekly pages here on the blog ...

Garden Tour

A little video garden tour for those of you who said you were interested ...

The front garden ...

The back garden ...

Coolest Person On The Planet Video

You people are in for a treat !!!
In response to my first video, Shay has sent me a video response !!!
I can't even begin to explain how phenomenal this is.
Perhaps in another video, I will get her to
explain how to get music out of
her stereo/tv/universe
controlling system
that her man
set up !
ha

Watch this ...

My First Video Log !!!

Three things you need to know ...

1. I was unsuccessful in not saying "um"
2. I say "seriously" more than I say "um" but I do actually say seriously A LOT in real life.
Can't say I do the same with 'um' !
3. I can't remember the third thing you needed to know.

oh yeah ... I remember now.

3. I was thinking about doing an 'out takes' compilation of all the videos logs that I made before this one that I was finally happy with but I've run out of time !
You'll have to wait for later ... or maybe for never.
ha ha

Get a cup of tea ...
This one is longer than they will usually be !

Sharing Reality

I think that often times, in blog land, we get a skewed idea of people and their lives. You may look at all of my organizing posts and think that my house is always spotless. Today, I'm going to dispel that myth !

I don't think it is realistic for a home, especially a home with children, to be spotless 24/7. Life, for me is about much more than a spotless home. I don't have the time, nor the inclination to clean any more than necessary. Maybe that is one of my motivations for being so organized.

Even so ...this is what my house often looks like at the end of the week. I did not pick up anything. I did not move anything. I did not put anything away before making this. I just got the camera on Saturday morning and went around and made this video. You may notice too that I didn't get out of my pajamas ... didn't even brush my hair !

This is as authentic as it gets, people !

Please excuse the irritating way I am speaking. How many times can one person say "right ..." ? I don't do that in real life. Not that I know of. I didn't even notice that I was doing it. Rory pointed it out when I showed him the video !

And for some reason, on this video, I have a lisp. Wild !!