Utterly Shameful ~ but am I bovvered?

I dont give a stuff :) I been in this house now since end of September, I've decorated all but three rooms, got all but 1 room how I want it and only have about 24 more boxes to unpack (which are tucked away nicely in the shed) so to my way of thinking, who cares that my dining room is like Bosnia? I don't!! :)
My bedroom is a very big double, I have a large corner desk in there, a triple wardrobe, a chest of drawers, shelf unit plus my double bed and bedside units (ok and a couple of boxes! tut) and I still have plenty of room to do the happy dance (which is a daily ritual...to count my blessings!) but for all good intentions I cannot settle in there to do the scrapping I planned to do. So bit by bit my dining room, which doubles as a storage area for my ebay stuff, has become a combination of 3....dining room, craft area and storage area....last night though I decided it was just not going to work and something had to move out...so the ebay stuff is going to charity tomorrow!! :D Priorities n all that!!
I did, however, manage to sort out two boxes of ribbons last night whilst talking to me mate Sonia (**waves**) who happens to live just a couple of miles away so to me I was rather tickled that we'd sit for hours on msn yapping!! Got to be chick thing eh?!! Lol So, in the end, by about 1am I ended up with 8 draws (the rest are still being emptied!) of ribbons sorted into colours...here's my PINK drawer.....



I figured i'd share what the dining room looks like right now...after i've spent an hour and half tidying it, de-rubbishing it and well, making piles of the piles!! :)

Of course there has to be somewhere close to hand for those essentials! All I have to do is twist my neck and look what I have looking at me? Hmm competition there Duane!! :D Not really babe...I know which side my breads buttered!! ;)

Does stuff multiply when you add space? Hmm would really like to know how this lot got on this chair...cos I really dont remember putting it there!! :(

The reason for the big tidy up? Cos I trashed the room after working on this lil baby. It's a paper bag book (good ole tesco mushrooms!!) covered with Fancy Pants cardstock...dont ask which one cos I forgot! I covered one side with the dots or the stripe, and the reverse with a plane but matching plain cardstock. The Winnie the Pooh card hanging inside there is from a notebook I have, over 500 different designs and styles in one book, so I thought i'd trim them down to fit as inserts to the book. I've cut little shapes to make a tag on each insert and covered the back with a matching plain cardstock. The inserts are intended to be for journalling, or if used in a cj can be used as the sign in tags! For me this is going to be my planner, I missed three appointments this week and cannot afford to do that, so I need to get organised with a book that is appropriate to what i'm doing (official appointments have an official grown up black book or file!!) . The inside of the bags is an ideal place to store extra info, business cards etc and its all in one place. Perfect!!
This is not going to be a class on my site but if anyone wants instructions for the book i'm happy to share, just email me or leave a comment n i'll get back to ya :)

So, here we are, Sunday morning, its freezing cold, I'm missing not being in church and i'm sitting here when I should be getting in the shower n getting dressed. I have family visiting today so had to stay home, which is a mix of pleasure and not so pleasure but hey ho, cant have it all can we?! I have prepared dinner, which today is going to be beef casserole. I have decided that regular sized dishes are just too much for the three of us so each week I cook a couple of meals, put them in foil containers and freeze them. That way we each have what we fancy, especially when I do lasagne, cottage pie, sheppards pie, fish pie, spagetti bolognaise etc. I dont use processed foods so this is a good way to ensure the kids get all the goodness they need and i'm even able to hide the peas!! Now that is what I call MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! Hehehe
Now I need to thaw out, after chasing the dog round the garden in the hope of dislodging his constipation I think i'm more unfit than I care to admit to! You know its bad when your running round and your still cold!! Doh!!
Who likes One Republic? Oh sheesh....he's HOT!! Not a patch on my Duane though..but still HOT!! Just thought i'd share!! :)
Debsxx