So, how are we coming? I said I’d post photos, but first I had to clean off the horizontal surfaces; of the coffee cups, the files stacked by the computer for reference, the toys stuck up high were K can’t reach them, the toys strewn about the floor in the hopes K will play with them instead of the big boy’s toys (choking hazard city)…This is in no way how it looks all the time, it’s the un-embarrassing version that won’t make DH feel all crawly up his spine. As this post did last year.
So: the shelf DH gave me as my very own (generous man! and I’ve got more desk drawers than he does too!)
My desk space, with peanut butter jars on top with petty ribbons and do dads. You can buy pretty jars to keep embellishments in at Michael’s, but as I always buy the same kind of peanut butter, and they always use the same jars, this was a no-brain-er, yet still pretty and uniform. Mostly. I also saved some spice jars, because they were pretty. If I were going all out on the scrapbook-y way of life, I’d have re-covered the tops with patterned paper, but as my circle cutter got schmaltzed this year, and the jars are kept where only an NBA player could see the tops of them, I didn’t do it.
The computer desk is the same except that the middle left drawer is no longer stuffed to capacity with old receipts, and it is moved away from the wall so I can get at the shelves without emptying them from the side. My Grandma William’s dress form that I have not used in 7years is in the corner, with the trash can, harder for K to get at it, she loves packaging.
DH’s shelf, and closet computer set up.
The computer in the closet is his experimental set up, where he tries fun Linux things, and does stuff too complex for me.
Hopefully the boxes of books on the floor, which I artfully avoided photographing, will either go to the Friends of the Attleboro Library Booksale, or eventually get back on our bookshelves when we buy tall bookshelves from Ikea, soon.