Tackle It Tuesday

It's been a really long time since I have done any scrapbooking. I really miss doing it, but it seems like it takes so much time to get everything out and set it all up, work on a page and then put everything away. Part of the problem is that my scrapbooking stuff is very unorganized. The picture on the top left shows where I was storing my scrapbooking supplies- on a shelf in my storage room. I took all of the stuff out and put it on our foosball table in order to get a better look at what I had to get organized.

This year for Christmas I got this great scrapbook storage organizer from Matt and Ellie (my brother and my sister-in-law). I haven't had a chance to get all of my stuff organized into the organizer yet. So, I decided to do it for my Tackle It Tuesday this week.

So, I went through all of my stuff and got it all organized and into my nifty scrapbooking organizer. While I was doing my organizing I was getting excited thinking of all sorts of pages I can start working on.

These last pictures are my end result with my stuff all organized. Now some week I'll have to tackle actually getting some scrapbooking done.

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Tackle It Tuesday

My Tackle it Tuesday this week was technically tackled last Thursday and Friday. But, I'm posting it today anyways because it's my blog and I can if I want to.

I don't know if I'm the only one- but I have my regular weekly cleaning that I do. And then I have my company is coming cleaning that I do. And since my parents were coming to our house for the weekend for Easter, it was time for the company is coming cleaning.

So, last Thursday and Friday were spent cleaning my house and going to a few different stores to get groceries and other things I needed for Easter. But, for my post this week I'm going to tell you about some of my favorite cleaning products that I used while tackling my house.

I love the Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. If you have ever found something that can't be cleaned by one of these I would be interested in knowing what it was. They are wonderful.

I know this might be considered odd by some, but I actually kind of like dusting. And give me a Swiffer Duster and I actually kind of love dusting. I think the Swiffer Duster is fun and I find myself looking for extra things I can dust.

Last, and most definitely my favorite, is a product I had never used before last week. I used the Mr. Clean Multi-Surfaces Liquid Cleaners in Lavender Vanilla & Comfort. It did a great job cleaning- which of course is important to me. But- it smelled sooooo good. I wanted to keep using it to clean because I love the smell of it.

Anyhoo- it was nice to tackle my house and get it all nice and clean. So, that was my tackle.

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Tackle It Tuesday

Spring is in the air. Or at least, I wish spring was in the air. It's still definitely winter where I live. But, anyways- every year in December I get these snowman dishes out to use during the winter. I decided that since Easter is next weekend that it was time for me to put the snowman dishes away and get my regular dishes back out.

So, I had to put these dishes into their boxes where they will be stored until next December. And then I had to take my regular dishes out of the boxes where I have been keeping them all winter and put them away in the cupboards.
That was my exciting tackle for this week. Hopefully now that it is done I will be feeling a bit more cheerful when I see my plates with flowers on them instead of snowmen.

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Another Tackle

It's time for another Tackle It Tuesday. I sure do love Tackle It Tuesday. It forces me to look around and find something that really needs to be done and then to do it.

So, for my tackle this week I decided to work on our filing cabinet. Usually once the new year starts I take out all of the old files and store what we need to keep in nicely organized Rubbermaid containers and throw away the stuff we don't need.

Since I just realized that it is already March I decided it was time to tackle the filing cabinet.

On the left is the inside of my filing cabinet before. It was packed so full that I couldn't have put one more piece of paper in there, let alone my hand to try to get papers in and out.
On the right is the top of the filing cabinet. And it just looks messy and annoying.

And here we have the after pictures.
As you can see there is now some space in the filing cabinet to add more papers. And, the files on top have room to be stuffed full of useless things I don't feel like taking care of for another year.

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Tackle It Tuesday- Updated

I'm just updating my Tackle it Tuesday list of things to get done:

• Finish unpacking- I usually do this as soon as we get home, but I just haven't had time to do it yet.
  
• Do laundry- wash and put it away.
  
• Go through the stack of mail that arrived while we were away.
  
• Try to respond to all of the emails and comments I have waiting for me.

You'll notice the one thing I didn't finish was laundry!

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Tackle It Tuesday

For this weeks Tackle It Tuesday I don't have an actual project that I worked on. We have been at my parents house since last Thursday, so I didn't have a chance to do any of my tackles that I have planned to get done around the house. Instead since we arrived home yesterday I have several small things I need to get done.

• Finish unpacking- I usually do this as soon as we get home, but I just haven't had time to do it yet.
• Do laundry- wash and put it away.
• Go through the stack of mail that arrived while we were away.
• Try to respond to all of the emails and comments I have waiting for me.

And that is going to be it for my Tackle It Tuesday this week. Stop by 5 Minutes for Mom to see the other participants. (And, stop by my other blog, Livin' With Me to see some pictures of Hailey from this weekend.)

Tackle It Tuesday

I can't believe that it's already my second week doing Tackle It Tuesday. Where does the time go? Anyways- I think this is going to be a very addicting meme. This weekend I was looking around my house thinking about what I could tackle for this week. I came up with quite a list of stuff I want to do, and for this week I picked doing a little reorganizing in my kitchen.

Since Hailey became a toddler most of my kitchen cabinets had to be rearranged to be toddler safe. When I rearranged the cabinets there were some things I just didn't have room for in the higher cabinets. And that stuff ended up on top of my refrigerator. Then while my parents were here at Christmas time my dad installed some cabinet locks to keep Hailey out of the cupboards. (We did leave one cupboard filled with Rubbermaid dishes open for her). So, now I need to clear off the top of my refrigerator and put that stuff back into cupboards.

Another problem in my kitchen is the top of my microwave. For some reason it always seems to gather papers that need to be put away in our desk, bills and receipts that need to be filed, magazines that need to be read, and recipes for the meals that are on my menu for the week. On the left hand side of the microwave is a mug with pens in it (I'm sure most of them no longer work) and Hailey is now tall enough to reach that- so it needs to be moved and the messy pile of notes that is under it need to be taken care of as well. It drives me crazy how messy it looks and so I'm tackling that this week too.

Now here are my after shots. The top of the refrigerator only has a few things on it. The microwave is cleared off. I have put a basket on top of my piano which is at the top of my stairs. Any papers that need to be filed will go into that basket so that I can just grab the basket to take with me when I go downstairs (our desk is downstairs). I also put a little basket on the side of the microwave to keep my recipes for my weekly menu in. It looks much better, don'tcha think?

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Tackle It Tuesday

It's my very first Tackle It Tuesday. How very exciting is this? I hope I'm doing it right- someone please tell me if I'm not. If I am correct the way Tackle It Tuesday works is that you pick a project of some sort that you need to get done. You take some pictures and then post the project that you tackled. Then you go over to 5 Minutes For Mom and sign Mr. Linky and visit the other participants.

And so for my first Tackle It Tuesday (which I actually did on Monday so that I could post this on Tuesday) I decided to make it possible to use my treadmill again. We have a little room off our laundry room and it has a treadmill and a TV so that I can work out. I used to use it everyday- but that hasn't happened in a long time. Recently the treadmill has turned into sort of a dumping ground where I've been sticking stuff that I don't feel like taking care of. I'm usually a very organized person, so it bothers me how this has been piling up. And since I really need to start walking on my treadmill again I decided it was important to tackle this project.

So, here is my before picture:
Now I know it's hard to tell, but there really is a treadmill underneath all of that stuff.

And now my after picture:
So, now I can actually get to my treadmill and I still have quite a bit of stuff stored in that room. I think that big blue dog and I have many happy treadmilling days ahead of us.