So Sew Organized

Hello, blogging friends! I know I've been MIA for the last few weeks, but I am back now! In preparation for my sisters graduation ceremony and my mothers baby shower, I was busy working on stuff every waking moment for a while. Then I enjoyed over a week of vacation in Maine and North Carolina. It was fantastic! But now the baby shower and the graduation are over, and its back to the real world. I'm not sure what all the real world is, but it does include blogging! I have mucho posts for you in the next few days (provided Irene doesn't ruin my plans) and to start, I want to talk about flying again. I rambled about how much I loved flying Jet Blue over here. Unfortunately, this time I didn't get to fly with them again, but I still had a great trip! Here are my favorite parts of this flying trip: I was able to travel with just a carry-on. More about that in a minute Delta Flight attendant had a new line on one flight: "Please shut off all electronic devices. This ...

1. Fill sink with hot, soapy water to wash the handful of dishes from supper. 2. Wash half of the dishes. 3. Grab pot on the stove not realizing that the burner is still on. This will burn your hand from the tip of your pointer finger to the tip of your thumb. 4. Drop pot. 5. Get out potholder, carry pot to sink. 6. Forget that the spoon inside the pot is probably hot as well; grab spoon with the same hand you grabbed the pot with. (So I'm not the brightest crayon in the box....) 7. Drop spoon. 8. Open freezer and grab closest chunk of ice you can get your hand on. 9. While holding ice, google "what to do for a burn." 10. Find website that says, "Do not put ice directly on burn as this can damage the skin even more." 11. Drop ice. 12. Shove your hand into the closest cold water you can...which happens to be your glass of ice water. (You must take the ice out first, though. See #10) 13. While holding your hand in your glass, go raid your roommates bathroom lookin...

Ok peeps, I've really been trying hard to get this post out there. Promise. Blogger hasn't exactly been cooperating with me, ok? For some reason my pictures have been taking FOREVER to download, and this post has a TON of pictures. But here we finally are. As I mentioned before, ever since Christmas I have been planning on going through all my junk/stuff in the attic and purging and sorting it all. And yeah, so I didn't get started on it until about 4 days before I left. Brilliant, right? Thankfully I still managed to get a lot done. It started with the purchase of these: And this: Containers! Happy dance! Something about them just brings a smile to my face! I started with this file box. I had a bunch of random papers that needed a home. This one was pretty inexpensive and came with all these hanging files. I went with this cardboard one as opposed to a plastic one because they are so much more expensive. I was very impressed with this one, it is very sturdy for being cardb...

I know I told you that I would post about my cleaning/organizing/last minute stuff I did before I left Canada. And I will. Promise. I just told you it would be in the next decade, so I have plenty of time to work on it. (Insert laugh here) But in the meantime, and since I just got done a day of flying, I wanted to tell you all about the day. And why you should fly Jet Blue Airlines. Let it first be said that I’m not doing this because Jet Blue promised me lots of money or asked me to do this. I’m just telling you this because next time you fly you’ll appreciate my advice. I really, thoroughly enjoyed my experience with Jet Blue, and if they read this and decide to give me a free flight, ya know, like halfway around the world or something, I won’t complain. So back to my flights. Because I am going to be here for 6 months, I had, um, slightly more luggage than a normal person. But really I did pretty good! I just had one really large suitcase and one smaller one and my backpack ...

I'd like to show you a small part of my organizing efforts from this week. You know that I am leaving soon, and I really wanted to get all of my stuff in order so that it is not in the way while I am gone. I also needed to clean some stuff out of my room, as my parents have an intern coming this summer who will be using my room. Okay, so the truth is that my stuff was a mess and really needed to be purged and sorted badly. And I've been meaning to do it all winter and decided to save it for my last 3 days here instead. Boom. Now you know. I had a pile of pictures that needed a home. Some were doubles of pictures already in an album, and some were just random pictures from who knows where that probably should just be pitched, but I can't throw away pictures. I did go through them and made myself part with the ones that were too dark to even see what the picture was supposed to be of...and the ones where my finger got in front of the lens....but even those were somewhat har...

Here are those pictures that I promised you and that I keep forgetting to post! This is the curtain I made for my parents washroom, using the same steps as in the curtain tutorial I gave you . I just made this one a little longer all the way around. Sorry the pictures aren't that great, the lighting is horrible when you are taking a picture of a window! Isn't the fabric just be-youtiful??? I absolutely love it. Here is a close up just because I love it that much: Anyone else been doing any sewing lately?

After talking about my planning binder , and showing you some of the lists and things I made to match the ones that Jen from I Heart Organizing made, many of you asked about those being available for you to download. Hows that for a run-on sentence?? I am happy to report that I am able to make those available to you. *Crosses fingers* If the links don't work, please let me know, but they should. Should , mind you. Book Wish List: To Do list: Sewing Projects: Let me know if these are a help to you! I am continuing to expand my binder, so chances are I will be adding to these soon. Stay tuned!