Organise My Home Challenge - week 2

Welcome back for another week!  Hope your benchtops are still in ship shape order.  Ours is thankfully, but should add that our house went on the market last week, so it kind of has to stay clean!!!

Anyway, onwards and upwards.  This weeks challenge is still in the kitchen.............

Week 2:  Organise kitchen drawers and cabinets

1.  Declutter - your drawers should be able to open and close smoothly.
2.  Sort out duplicates, broken items, EXCESS items, orphaned lids or containers, things you never use
3.  Remove anything that doesn't need to be in the kitchen
4.  Sort what is left according to how often it is used.
5.  Give the drawers/shelves a good scrub and rearrange everything back in its place according to how often it is used.

Again, sit back and enjoy your sparkly clean, easy access cupboards/drawers.

When Mum Can't Be Bothered Cooking Tea............

And its Friday night - Fish & Chips at the beach, running from the waves and throwing stones it is.

Last night I just plain couldn't be bothered cooking tea (home made burgers for our takeaway night - we alternate between burgers and pizza) so decided fish and chips at the beach sounded like a much better idea.  The hubby was stoked!!!

I don't think the Crazys had moved so fast all day!  They LOVE going to the beach to run from the waves and throw stones, but add tea to the mix and Fish & Chips and that's just a whole new level of excitement.

Um!?!?!   Have you ever seen a SQUARE sausage in a hot dog??

Getting the technique

Hmmmm a bit big perhaps dude?

Portrait time (with reluctance)

With even more reluctance hence being blurry

Attempt at family portrait, timer style - shambles!!!

Lots of running, lots of sand, home for a warm shower and bed!  Perfect evening

Unbelieveable

Organise My Home Challenge..... Photos

Week 1:  Kitchen benchtops and sink

Before

Our collection corner!

There are ALWAYS dishes

After.......

YA!

So thrilled the floors even got a mop!!!

Now to keep it like that.

Organise Your Home Challenge

I have decided to join up to a organise your home challenge - well sort of.  I found one online that took you through 52 weeks of challenges but when looking through them there were a number that didn't relate to me (pets, attic, basement etc). 

So instead I am making up my own.  Instead of 52 weeks, I have cut it down to 35 weeks.  I did wonder if maybe I make it a one month challenge but really don't think I would complete some of these in a day - or I would just get plain sick of it.

Each week on a Monday I will be setting the challenge and showing a before and after photo.

Join in if you need want to :) Leave me a comment so I know you are joining in

So are you ready, set, go ...........

Week 1:  Kitchen benchtops and sink

Put unused/or sometimes used items away (breakfast spreads, teapot, kids artwork, mail etc)
Do the dishes! (try to have a dishes free benchtop at least twice a day)
Clean all benchtop appliances
Tend to any plants with a good trim, water and spruce up
Give all surfaces a good scrub
Sit back and admire a clutter free benchtop

Washi Tape - FINALLY

I have been reading lots about this thing called washi tape and how great it is to use (for what seems like anything).  Well I found it and its here in NZ!

Check it out at http://www.washinz.co.nz/ it is so cool and you really can use it for nearly everything.

Creating Memories with Crazy 2

It dawned on me today how little time Crazy 2 gets of my attention.  Its not that I ignore him, I guess I have just always figured he would play on his own while Crazy 1 was at kindy, so that I could get on with housework things.

So today I decided housework can take a back seat and we just played for 2 hours.  He was most impressed that Mum could make a garage out of Duplo and knew how to make truck and car noises.  The astonished look on his face was priceless, and a nice reminder that they are only little (and think you are just the bees knees) for a short while - so down tools and play.

Just excuse the I'm filling my pants stance!

Oh and again!  Duplo city in the making

Big Trucks house

Little digger/bulldozer/don't really know
what it is house - complete with magic doors

Slim cars house complete with missile
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