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New Year’s Resolutions – Bringing Sanity into the Bungalow

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Happy New Year everyone!

One of my resolutions this year is to get our house more organized. The scattered toys and endless clutter are making me positively crazy (as is renovation burnout, but that’s another topic for another post.)

Lately I’ve been thinking that if our house felt less chaotic, I might be able to enjoy it a bit more. So, to that end, I’ve been trying to establish a workable storage system upstairs in the playroom and in the girls’ bedrooms.

toy basket from Chloe's room

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What to do about soggy hats and mittens…

Friday, December 5th, 2008

While checking out these adorable mittens on Etsy (oh, how I love Etsy!):

Adorable mittens from Etsy

…I had a thought. Remember this post from awhile back, where we discussed using the Deka curtain rod from IKEA to display kids’ art work?

Well, it occurred to me that this same Deka curtain rod could also work really well in a mudroom or back hallway as a way of hanging soggy snow-covered mittens, hats, socks and scarves up to dry. Click to continue »

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