ta-da! part 2: electric boogaloo

the hutch



his name ain't Handyman for nuthin...

ta-da!

i present to you: the stairs


HM and BA worked on these stairs for weeks. they are finally done! don't they look great?!?!? HM also finished the hutch. that looks fabulous! i need to take a better picture of it now that it's cleared of all the tools. it looked so good with all the food spread on it the other day, too. we had some folks over for "island" thanksgiving.

this weekend we're working on the baby's room. look forward to pictures of that! it's gonna be so cool!

most awesomest birthday gifts ever!

my new shelves in the office/craft room closet!!! how awesome are they??? i need Woz to come over and "put" stuff where it goes now. i have no organization skills whatsoever. i need something besides crates, to put all the glitter and glue and stuff on.. easily accesible.

and my NEW PANTRY!!! and pantry door thingy S1 got me. i actually have room for stuff we don't even have yet!! she got me the door thingy and said i could get rid of my lazy susan's. hmmmm, i think i just might know where to put them now.

seriously tho, how amazing does that look?? she's like a machine!

mission: organization

so... my goal was to clean out Johnny's Room so that there would only be kitchen-type stuff in there. since it's closest to the kitchen, it made sense. until we get the hutch built, that is. everything that was non-kitchen went upstairs to the "Mother-In-Law" room. that's the room that was built behind the movie wall. it's all upstairs now, but not yet in the room.

Woz came over again, last nite, so we tackled more office. everything was cleared off the kitchen table and side stoop and put in the office\craft room. we built a desk to put the pc on and everything had a place. well, pretty much everything. i have to find boxes to put all my pictures in. tonite, we tackle the office closet! which is really more of HM's stuff. which is all going into yet another closet or the MIL room if he can't find a place for it.

i am super excited about getting it all done. no more clutter downstairs. no more boxes in the office. no more crap on the kitchen stoop. i feel like a big load has been lifted... aaahhhhhh. all thanks to Woz!

oh, and to drive the point home about decluttering and all, this is how OCD i got:

i took a picture of everything we put Johnny's room. this contact sheet is going in a recipe binder, in the kitchen, and also going on the inside of the door of Johnny's room. this is so we don't have to go digging for something that isn't there. i know... super gay, but i know it will come in handy some day!