christmas is coming

Today uni got all our Christmas decorations organized.

We put a Christmas tree in the lounge room and one in Kt's room.

The lounge room is decorated with beautiful new tinsel and a few old favourite decorations are scattered around the place.

After a brief nap in the afternoon, he tackled the outdoors, putting pretty lights up on the front of our house.

Suddenly it feels like Christmas time!!!

Kt and I wrapped some presents to put under the tree and I finally finished sorting out the linen cupboard.

It looks lovely and neat now ... hopefully it will stay that way.

Think I will take a photo of it so I know how it SHOULD look! LOL!!!

The sewing machine and over locker will not fit in the linen cupboard after all ... they will have to go up in the high part of my wardrobe, but that should be fine.

I still have a few sewing odds and ends to sort out ... and I still need to empty the vacuum cleaner and clean its filter and then of course vacuum the house again and empty the vacuum cleaner again ... but I think I can tackle that tomorrow.

I have found some great storage containers at crazy clarks and Kmart, and have spent a fortune buying lots of these ... but I think they will help to sort the clutter better since they are see through and each one contains specific things.

On Friday we went shopping together at Officeworks (love that place ... my new favourite store) and uni and I found a great little desk for Kt, a nice new chair to go with her desk and floor mat to go under her chair.

We also bought a filing cabinet for me to keep my records in. (I have been wanting one for ages!)

We were on our way to Super Amart next to look at getting an extra pantry for downstairs and also new cupboards for our bedroom, but were unable to enter the store as they must have had a fire. All the staff were out the front of the building and a fire engine was in the driveway.

So we came home and will postpone that part of the shopping for another day.

My tail light damage should only cost about $270 to fix and that should get underway some time next week, so things are sorting themselves out one at a time.

temporarily cut off

I seem to be temporarily cut off from my main email addresses at the moment ... am hoping this will sort itself out on its own.

So if you have sent me any emails today or yesterday I will not have received them.

You can try my live address instead I should be receiving mail there.

I had a good day yesterday sorting through Kt's stuff. I have been purchasing clear plastic storage containers to put all her Lego, little people farm animals, etc in. These containers are small enough to slip in under her bed and each one is for one type of toy so I am hoping to restore order to her stuff and avoid having to spend hours searching in various different places to find x my little pony or y farm barn/tractor etc.

I will probably do the same for some of my stuff eg bellydancing gear etc that is not being used at the moment.

Under the bed in a dust proof container sounds like the perfect solution.

I really do find it hard to get rid of things or throw things out ... especially if they cost a lot of money in the first place, or would cost a lot to replace if I change my mind and restart an activity later down the track.

I'm not too keen to sell stuff on eBay anymore because I did tend to spend a lot of time there and would easily find other things to spend my newly made money on ... and that kind of defeats the purpose of clearing your house of stuff only to bring in new stuff!!!

Yesterday while I was out shopping for storage containers it started to pour with rain!!!

My clothes got an extra rinse out on the line ... my garden got a much needed soak ... and to my delight it rained heavily on my way home from the shops too so I was able to get my car washed for free.

It still had a fine mist of dust on it from the last two dust storms, but now it looks fabulous!