A Good "De-Crapping"

Grumpy Mommy showed her head a couple of days ago. I went to find the children's Tylenol 'cuz The Boy had a headache/ear ache. And I COULDN'T FIND IT!

The hall closet was our go-to place for all kinds of things, including cleaning supplies and medicines. 

IT WAS A DISASTER!

(and no, I didn't take pictures!)

It was time for....

a "De-crapping!"
(Thanks to a hs FB friend for the word!)

I needed some garbage bags for the crap to go into so I went under the kitchen sink and ...

de-crapped that first! I tossed out old pitchers, empty chemical bottles and other miscellaneous stuff that I didn't need. Once that cupboard was nice and neat I took the many WallieWorld bags to the hall closet and started on it.

Anything that isn't used weekly (or even monthly) has to go to the basement storage area.

All the rest of the stuff can stay put, but will have to be in some sort of container.

Which I so have....

They also have to be labeled.  I love a good labeling!

We are still a work in progress but here is my results from yesterday!  The Girl helped by putting her new Barbie helment in the closet. Thanks, chicka!

Today, I am planning on tackling the medicine cabinet in the kitchen. Some of that stuff has got to GO! (or at least move to here!)

Our Valentine's Weekend

We love Valentine's Day around here.

My hubby always send me flowers from ProFlowers, which I aDoRe!

We made cute candy tags for the kiddos!

The Boy helped me make him a Valentine's Monster for his class party.

a really awful picture of such loveliness.... sorry

The best part was that I so splurged on my hubby. I usually only get him a card, but this year he got a way cooler present. Now, let me explain, YEARS and YEARS ago we decided that we were spending too much time watching network and cable TV so we canceled everything. (Crazy, huh?) Since then, replacing/updating these bad boys has never been a priority.

Until... Netflix.

We love our movies and old TV shows.

42 inches of loveliness and a Blu-Ray (internet capable) = LoVe

It replaces this monster, which is trying to die.

All in all, a fabulous, fun and festive weekend!

The Boys Room - Paint is UP

WaHoOo!

I started as soon as he headed to school and finished up the second "alcove" just before he got home.

He opened the door and said,

"Whoa! That is so cool! It looks real!"

That comment made it all worthwhile!

Some may ask what I did with the Girl while I was painting...

'Nuf said.

The Boy's Room - Getting Ready

Ok - I am a chicken. I have the paint and have tried out the technique on the sample board. I have even drawn on the wall but I can't make seem to get the courage up to put paint on the walls!

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Happiness is...

PaInT sAmPlEs!

Lots of color in adorable little bottles!

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Family Home Evening Obsession

I love spending time with the hubby and the kiddos! I wanted to get that out there because we have a hard time getting our Family Home Evenings in. Don't get me wrong - we love the idea but sTiNk at the execution!

Years and years ago I bought help books and copied, colored, laminated them to my hearts desire. Then I placed them in file folders in my file cabinet.

Isn't that attractive? Yeah it is a mess and hasn't really been touched since we moved here. I am not sure if I can weed these out! It is an obsession and constituted a HuGe part of my life!

AaRrGgHh!

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The Boy's Room - The Paint

My handsome son, aged 9, has been in a blue funk since we moved into our new place. His old room was BLUE with very vivid accent colors. We used the Behr Disney Buzz Light Year colors and he loved it. When we moved he was pretty upset about leaving his space. Finally, we are at a point that we can work on making his room “COOL.” When asked what he wanted he thought about 2 seconds and responded that he wanted a Harry Potter room.

Now, on the web there are several examples of playrooms and bedrooms done in HP theme, but none really for an older boy. So, I put my designing hat on and thought. Then I surfed and then thought some more. We bought the vinyl wall art of the Hogwarts crest – which is huge. In the package was a huge version of the Gryffindor crest and the other crests were very small. 

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So I thought, “Wouldn’t it be cool to paint the wall to look like a castle and then have at least one, if not both, crests in a window like alcove?” But that would mean faux painting the whole wall – which I am not wild about. I called my Mommy who had the answer –paint only part of the wall and the alcove. So that is the plan. The alcoves will fade out to the wall color as if by magic. (I had to throw that in here somewhere!)

Currently on his wall is Behr Toasted Cashew, which isn’t too bad. My thoughts were to use the current paint as the grout and then faux with a darker Behr Classic Taupe and lighter color Behr Sand dollar.  Like they did here http://stores.renstore.com/-strse-template/0607a/Page.bok.

Won’t that be cool? I am still calculating the amount of paint needed but there is the plan. Wish me luck.