Good idea! I will put it on his list! My handyman calls me “mom” because I told him that I was either going to have to adopt him to get him to do everything on my list or else put him in my will! 
@photojenn Great observation…yep, water problems are probably the biggest issue (seeing how I have two leaky faucets and one toilet that needs replacing!).
Curtains are hemmed and furniture is in! Still need to move the rest of my supplies down and organize but I have a studio! 
I am so happy for you! It looks not only functional but beautiful!
Woohoo!! Congrats! Can’t wait to see what you make in your new space. 
I finally put together the post about my studio 
Finished painting the last wall in the bedroom! Mudding the ceiling/paneling gap and skim coating part of the paneling took a while. But I just finished painting. Tomorrow we can return all the furniture to its permanent home. There is still a bit of trim to finish, but I think we have a solution for that. Whew.
Pictures soon.
Doing big messy clean-outs here but also little stuff, like mounting these 3 magnetic spices jar sets!
It might be a little job but it’s a big improvement in your day to day life! I also really love those spice jars, looks like they are really practical as well as nice looking.
You are smart to do big, messy, not so fun things with the house and then add some projects that are fun and make life happier! Love your prioritizing good tasting food with your spice collection!
I did so many things today! Mounted hooks, tiebacks, & a key rack I scored on FB, hung curtains on ring hooks, changed drawer knobs, organized pantries & storage cupboards, added lighting. It’s starting to look like us in here.
I also spent the day nesting. I finally took down the Christmas tree and got everything Holiday packed and back in storage. Then I sat gazing admiringly at the giant empty space left by the tree and longed not to refill it. lol That prompted an all day game of Living Room Tetris which ended up with an entirely new furniture configuration and the reveal of way too much snack trash under the couch. Some little Kidlet is about to lose her Free Range Snack privileges haha.
I have big plans to paint the room between now and hot weather so I am in the “get rid of everything that isn’t working anymore” phase of decluttering. And we’re adopting 2 young cats next week so I’m in the Kitty-proofing stage of housekeeping this week.
After a week of having all the Christmas decor taken down and put away, I noticed that I did not have all of the Christmas decor taken down and put away, after all. Ugh. One thing was left out. I have to get it down and take it out to an outbuilding, climb up in the loft (not attic, more like a mezzanine kind of thing) and find the appropriated tote for it.
Otherwise my household projects are more of the maintenance kind, like yesterday I took apart the filter/aerator parts on the bathroom sinks to descale them. These things are satisfying in their own, low-stakes, kind of way.
I, too, have found the One Thing that remains at large after all was stored away. Luckily for me, I do not have such a journey to return it to it’s hibernation. Still, it will sit in my room for a little too long anyway haha.
I tried so hard to focus on scanning for such things this year! And this is one I have never forgotten. I will probably get it all they way put away soon, because we have a dog training coming on Sundays for a few weeks which is helping me tidy up more often.
Seems like a lot of us are in “after-the-holiday” cleaning/nesting mode! I also left out part of my metal holiday tree collection but I decided they could be left out all year, so that is what I am doing. Everything else is put away in the basement in totes so I am not about to go find the tote to put these three little trees away! ha
I am managing to get through more boxes of decorative items now that I have two pieces of furniture that have display space. I am finding it difficult to know what to do with decorative items that have no home…my sister says I should let them go, but I might change my decor throughout the year (I get bored or something!)…so I am going to see if I can find space in a closet for them. Do you think that is wise or should I just get rid of them? I am talking extra vases, extra pottery, extra figurines, etc.
Transitional storage is very smart! If you go looking for that box because you want something out of it, you know you actually do feel like keeping whatever you remembered was in there. If you don’t ever think about the stuff in there, after a year you’re safe to give it away 
When we moved from PA to NC, there were at least 30 boxes that I didn’t even unpack. I didn’t have room. When we moved back, I told myself that I would either make the room or let it go. Many of the items are Japanese pottery, tea sets, saki sets or kokeshi dolls handed down from great grandparents, to grandparents, to my mom, to me…when I unpacked them, it was like seeing everything new again and all the stories came back to me.
We’re spending the day moving everything out of the boy’s rooms because the remodel begins tomorrow. I am so not ready for this.
@AntBee, I too am dealing with a free-range snacker who has dumped a shocking number of cheerios into my sofa.
lol You guys crack me up!
I find cat treats and cat toys under my sofa, but I am not sure I can control that.
Have fun wrangling your free-range snackers…ha
Look, I know I’m a weirdo about this & keeping it up for literally decades has been a real struggle but I’m glad I did it because the kids as teens only cheat a little bit with it to this day. Unpopular with most who hear it but it’s become habit for all of us.
After living in the country with all the accompanying mice, ants, etc, & having lived in a city area overrun with rats & cucaracha, I made it a rule that food & drink (except water in a sealed vessel) only be consumed at the dining table. No snacks anywhere else, ever, for anyone. Ok popcorn for movie night but vacuuming happens that night or the next day. Finding food in the couch would give me a panic attack. Seriously, the cockroaches traumatized me. They have NO boundaries, not like mice that have the decency to run & hide at least. I lived in Toronto’s Kensington market and omg, some of those bugs were an inch or more long shudder.
Pantry item are in glass jars, I mean everything except bulk flour which is in a big sealed tub. I am paranoid about this, I know.
