All the stories I'm hearing about what everyone is doing in the new year have me feeling like a slacker. You know what I'm talking about right? All those good things people are endeavoring to accomplish because it's a new year. Things like resolutions to be more physically fit, or read more books, or learn how to do the fox trot.
I decided if I put my mind to it, I could do one teeny little good thing to make myself feel less slackerish. I proposed to Chris we tackle the PANTRY since I had to find a place for the new Kitchen Aid anyway. This little pantry had become a catchall mess within the first 3 years of moving into our house and needed attention.
I wish I had taken a before photo so you could see how much better this is. If it isn't totally obvious. Which it is to me.
Alas, you will have to take my word for it. Chris will also testify to it... as will any houseguest I have asked to retrieve something from the pantry in the last 2 years.
I felt so good when we were done I am now considering challenge #2.
Messy drawers. The bane of my existance. I am going to try to tackle them before next January but it could be that one good purging a year is all I am capable of.
Excessive neatness is a sign of compulsive nerditity. I'm with you, one good purge a year is best.
Posted by: Violet Cadburry | 01/15/2013 at 10:21 PM
These drawers look like a great journal to me!!!
Posted by: cheryl miller | 01/16/2013 at 07:56 PM
Carol, your blog is one of my absolute favorites. The photos are always beautiful, I usually laugh out loud at your funny comments, and I look forward to reading it each day. Thanks so much! PS: I have never commented on a blog before!
Posted by: Fran Anderson | 01/16/2013 at 08:44 PM
All the way with you on that one.......one thing at a time!......I'm seeing those napkins and I know there's a story for th journal there! I always stick something that has been used as a prop or part of a project that I have videoed in my journal. Just a little eye candy. I have a photographic memory, a tiny snippet of something will bring a flood of memoris...tfs
Posted by: Marianne | 01/16/2013 at 11:39 PM
Your pantry looks great. The bane of my existence is my studio. Piles of stuff everywhere. I'm tackling it this month. Fingers crossed that I succeed in straightening it up. ;-)
Posted by: Judy H. | 01/17/2013 at 12:48 PM
Oh I so love pantries and yours looks delightful. We had a walk-in pantry when first married and I so loved just walking into it, choosing what was needed and then closing the door knowing what magic was behind it. I remember it fondly. This lasted maybe 1 year. Will have to see if we can create one now 50 years later. Thanks so much for all your sharing. I love visiting.
Posted by: cynthia | 01/17/2013 at 07:41 PM