The Weekend Organizing... Live and In Color!

Here's some of the dry pack the kids and I did last year. We could get quite a few cases done in less than an hour! Jake sould do the lifting, Jessi would sort, Kayci would do the lids and I'd do the filling! It was great teamwork and talking about why we have food storage. This room has been the dumping place for lots of stray stuff, but we can see the floor now!

The Snowflakes flew away, and Easter eggs took their place... they turned out pretty cute!

Jake even got in the action... you can see from the background, he still has a ways to go... but he did a great job.
This is a shelf I designed for my sewing room. They had a similar one on Good Things Utah, so I changed a few things and now I feel like my sewing room is in better line for the jeans quilts the kids want for Christmas! It harder to carry around than my knitting, so it'll have to be a weekend in of quilting...

The shelf has magnetic board for patterns as well as magnetic containers. The jars on the bottom are screwed under the shelf at the lid. I have everything I need and it's pretty cute, too!

The kids know if they use the fabric scissors for paper... there WILL be blood!

I really do appreciate all of the talents that I have been taught by my mom. She instilled a creativity in me while I was a very young child. The laundry room growing up was like Christmas to me. She had everything there that you could ever want to stir a creative brain. Fabric, ribbon, pins and my first sewing machine.

I was 8 when I made my first "smock top"... gathered at the yoke and everthing. I spent many afternoons at "Alice's Fabrics" just smelling the fabrics, looking at the colors and texture and imagining what I could make. Mom only had one rule... she would buy me as much fabric as I wanted as long as I finished the project first. Alice and I would share tips and I spent hours looking through pattern books. (I was a geek! TOTALLY!)

Thanks mom, for encouraging me to make my part of the world a bit more beautiful.