Everyday Crafty Goodness

I realized that I’ve essentially put my house on a diet.  It has lost some weight (bags and bags of stuff donated) and I’m making sure that no junk gets put inside the house.  If I keep up the house diet, my house should be mean and lean in no time!

These are the things I’ve purged from my house over the past week.

4 big bags of stuff to the Salvation Army.  Buh-bye.

How did I end up with all these extra flower pots?  These will be going to the Somerville Garden Club yard sale.

I also gave away these small appliances to friends:

Toaster oven

Waffle maker

Dust buster

Crock pot

Lotsa tomatoes from my community garden!  I’m going to have to make some sauce and freeze them before I go down to MD this weekend.

Last night as I was looking at pictures of minimalist homes, I realized that I have too many pillows in the living room.  So this morning I edited down my pillows (by 50%) and here’s a stack of extras that I can live without.  One good thing about living with less stuff is less maintenance.  Now I have 6 fewer pillows to fluff!

Oh, and Molly the dog must be reading my blog because she’s started sleeping in her dog bed again (WTF, she hasn’t slept in it since last year!) … I guess I’m not giving her bed away just yet.

Sometimes you have to buy new things to keep clutter down and save space.  I love this ironing board rack  I got from the hardware store.  Before this, I used to have the ironing board set up in the middle of the room and I piled a bunch of stuff on it.  I think this is the next best thing to having a wall-mounted ironing board and it is definitely much cheaper (best 5 bucks I’ve ever spent).

I don’t have a place for everything yet but I do have a place for all of my hand tools!  I gathered up all the tools scattered all around the house (some were in the bathroom, bedroom, craft room…I think I still have some in my car) and started hanging them on this pegboard I got for free at a yard sale.  I don’t have a system for organizing the tools on this board but I figure having them all in one place is better than having them all over the place.