Princesses in Disguise

Okay, so I’m an organizer at heart.  That’s why I was interested in reading It’s All Too Much.  I had no idea how inspiring and motivating it would be!  Yesterday, while my mom and I were running on this energy, we decided on a whim to clean out the laundry room.  And ta-da!  This is what resulted…

Don’t ya just love how everything’s all clean and sparkly?

Now, unfortunately, we forgot to take “before” pictures.  I know you’re dying to see what it used to looked like.  ☺  Just picture it…um…well…worse.  There used to be lots of clutter on the dryer and pretty much everywhere.  We threw away about five bags of trash and saved a bag of stuff for a friend’s garage sale.

Call me crazy, but this is what I call fun!  ☺

To continue with our tour of the rooms we rearranged, here are some before and after pictures of the playroom.

Before: 

(It used to be S and C’s bedroom.)

After:

I believe the toys have been much more managable in this room, all in one place.  We just do a quick tidy daily, and everything stays under control.

As promised, here are a few pictures of the new and improved girls’ room!

Unfortunately, I don’t have a before picture of this room, but I’ll tell you about some of the changes we made.  First of all, there was only one bunk bed in this room.  As you can see, there are now two bunk beds in order to accommodate all five of us girls (six eventually!).  We also put up some shelves and the bulletin board, sorted through many boxes of “stuff” we’d accumulated (and got rid of most of it), and took all the clothing out and put it in the clothing room.

It’s nice for us all to be together, although it does keep us up later at night.  ☺  But, I can’t see us regretting these late-night talks in the future as they keep us close despite the age difference.