Following the breadcrumbs...

Saturday morning, I was sitting at the kitchen counter having my "Bible time" (that's what I tell Jenny I'm doing when I'm having my devos), and I had a "brilliant idea" pop into my head - completely unrelated to what I was doing at the time. I hit the "pause button" on my devo time and grabbed a scrap piece of paper and jotted down my idea along with a few sketches to help me remember what I was thinking, then hit "play" on my devo time.

When I was done with my devos, I grabbed the scrap paper and headed into the den/office room to see if I could find some supplies that I would need to attempt to create the idea I had. This is what I found...

See my desk hiding in there? That's where I do all my scrapbooking and stamping. Can you tell why I haven't done any in almost two years?











Looking at the mess that was the den/office, I decided that it would be a good day to tackle the room. We had gotten a phone call from the Salvation Army earlier in the week letting us know they'd have a truck at Owens on Saturday, and I had two boxes of stuff from our garage sale earlier this summer that was sitting in this room just waiting to be taken to charity. So I moved those boxes in front of the door, so we HAD to do something with them!























Then I started to break down all the empty boxes we had sitting around the room - somehow we had declared this room to be "storage", and we tend to "store" empty boxes.

Once I had some room to work, I sorted through the boxes of baby clothes to determine what I could take to sell at the Kids Market next month, what I really wanted to keep, and what I could add to the boxes going to SalVal.

















At one point, I found an old bank and ended up spending a few minutes sorting coins and bagging them to take to the bank this week to add to the kids' savings accounts.

I finally "finished" around 3:00pm (not quite sure what time I actually started, and I had a few breaks throughout to take care of the kids and whatnot). I still have a few things that need to find new homes, but the room (and my desk!!) are now useable again!!!


































Eventually, the office stuff in this room will be relocated to the dining room (since we don't actually use it as such) and this will become David's room. But, for now, it's actually a useable work space again, and we are THRILLED!!

Q4U: What room in your house needs a major overhaul, sorting, etc? What is one thing you'd like to be able to get out of your house?