Today is New Years Day, my traditional day for taking down the Christmas tree and decorations. I like keeping the seasonal items up for my New Year's Eve party, but once that is over, I yearn to return to normalcy (whatever that is).
Last night I hosted a party and my house was pretty and festive and
clean. There was candlelight and laughter, along with all manner of savory and sweet snacks and the traditional bubbly at midnight. I snuggled into bed at 2 am. Y-a-w-n!
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| Happy New Year 2011! |
At 8 am, I gathered up all of the bits and bobs of Christmas
and thoroughly
trashed my beautiful, clean house. Temporarily, I hope.
My dog, Jazz, was wondering what the heck was going on and couldn't resist poking his nose into a few things.
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| "Whatcha doing, Mommy?" |
I decided that as long as I was going through a lot of my Christmas stuff anyway, I was going to try to consolidate it all in one place. And then I decided that I need a smallish project like this once a week. I have a confession to make: My name is Vicki V., and I'm a Closet Stasher.
Although all looks calm, cool, and collected on the outside, lurking behind (and beneath) are pockets of chaos, like
this
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| Hall armoire=future wrapping station? |
And this
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| Master bedroom closet gives new meaning to "Christmas leftovers" |
And
this
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| Pantry: packaged food on steroids? |
So today I resolve to take responsibility, to clean up my act, one baby step at a time. This week: Christmas decor. Next week: The dreaded pantry. Can I truly tackle 52 decluttering projects this year (no matter how small?). Stay tuned!!
1 comment:
What a cute puppy! I am trying to get all my Christmas stuff put away too. I feel like it has to be up through Jan 1 but after that...I just want it to disappear. But I've been running around too much to get it done. I vow that tomorrow it will be gone. Thanks for you nice comment bout my kitchen on my blog. I have thought about painting my backsplash tile but just have not decided if I'll do it or not.
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