Medicine cupboard

I am still de cluttering. I think its a never ending process.

Here is my meds cabinet before

And ta-da. The after.

This is an inexpensive way to clean up. I just used ice cream containers. All you need to do is eat your way through 2 litres of ice cream then recycle the container. I wish chocolate came in 2 litre tubs.

Busy, busy, busy

I have been MIA for the last couple of days as I'm sorting out my craft room.

YES! You heard me right. C.R.A.F.T. R.O.O.M.

Now I know your picturing something like this.

I wish. Its more like this.

Ok, ok. Not quite, but it is a tiny room. About 2.5 mtrs long and 1.5 mtrs wide.

But it is all MINE! I have been clearing out all the boxes and crap we had stored in it so I can move in. Yep. I'll probably never leave. So that's my goal for the coming week. Make it liveable.

What does your entry say?

My Your Home and Garden arrived and one article stood out.

If you were seeing your entry/front of house for the first time what would you think?

Hhhhhmmmmm. Pretty gross if you ask me.

As you can see it is muddy and cluttered.

Can't do much about the ugly front door (we are going to get a new, scratch resistant,

black one.... someday).

So I scrubbed and cleaned and sorted out the shoe graveyard

I added a cute puppy for good measure and 'voilà' a clean and tidy front entrance.

Now to keep it this way.

Books, books and more books

I think Emily from Inside a Black Apple sums up how I feel about books perfectly (picture above).

Oh, how I love books. But...... I am trying to simplify my life. My aim is to reduce our books to one bookcase and to use the library more.

I managed to get rid of one box of adults books and one box of kids.

Minimalism

I have been inspired by a blog called Becoming Minamilist.

I am not much of a hoarder, but I do have more stuff than I need, and very little storage.

So I'm paring it down. Today I gave away a box of plastic kitchen stuff

and tomorrow I'm going to a clothes swap. I wonder how much I will come home with though?

Hopefully I won't fill back up these 3 bags.

The past few weeks I have been going through our clothes and have already given away loads.

I think this might be the last of it. I also went through our sheets and towels. I've kept 2-3 sets of winter sheets per bed. I figure that's 1 set on the bed, 1 set being washed and 1 set spare for the accidental wets that sometimes happen (kids beds not mine). lol

I am alive

No, I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth.

My camera is not speaking to my computer at the moment (they must be in a tiss with each other) so.... I can't load any photos.

I have been a busy bee. I finished the January Cloth from sew-funky's blog and will be starting on the February one.

I have been putting together the families 72 hour food kit (in case of earthquake etc) that I found a website called Food Storage Made Easy. It has these great baby steps to help you along the journey of food storage.

You could also check out Everyday Food Storage as she has great ideas and recipes like one to make your own condensed milk. I have made it, and guess what? It really does taste like condensed milk.

I have still been following the Organising Queen and have decluttered my kitchen.

So as I said, I have been busy, I just can't post pictures :(

Friday declutter challenge

The Organising Queen has set down the latest decluttering challenge.

The utensil drawers!

So this is my before photo

and my after photo.

And another before photo ( don't ask me why the photo is on it's side)

and the after photo.

Yey! It's done. Hope it lasts for more than 5 mins.