Did you watch the Emmy’s Sunday night? Modern Family on ABC pretty much swept their categories.
Love their houses. Here are a few highlights.
Production designer Richard Berg gives a tour of the sets for the Emmy-winning comedy about the extended Los Angeles family. Photography by Danny Feld/ABC. Courtesy of Architectural Digest
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Modern Family. Courtesy of Hookedonhouses.net
Two Things.
Did you know if you open your windows and clap your hands you empty the negative energy from your house?
Trust me. What do you have to lose except negative energy? Plus it is MONDAY…
We did it.
AND did you know that getting rid of 21 things frees up the energy in your house?
I did it. Just don’t tell my boys.
The energy in the play room is PHENOMENAL. 21 things gone.
Monday’s challenge. Open your windows, clap your hands, and get rid of 21 things.
Positive Energy is waiting.
By Kawsar Ali. Designtech.info. Check out his fall page. Gorgeous.
I can’t believe it is Fall (almost). Autumn. Harvest. I know “out with the old, in with the new” is what we say when one year ends and a new one begins…but what about with seasons? Can we still say that? I mean summer is all green and fresh and hot and mossy and in your face–and then fall comes and it all sort of withers and waits. For Spring and new renewals, right? So out with old and prepare for new. That would mean that Fall and Winter are Prep Time. So now what? What are we prepping? (I’m going to end every sentence in this paragraph with a question mark, except for this one.) How about what we want to change. Ok, no question, this is a proclamation, a statement, a call to action.
So with that said–now what? My little corner of the internet hones in on happiness at home. That’s where I’ll start. That’s where I’ll continue. Keep reading. We’ve got prepping to do!
Happy brand new season everyone.
Jen
Camping. The word brings to mind a myriad of thoughts and memories.
There was the time I camped on Assateague Island. Their official bird is the Mosquito. For real. That’s a good story. My husband is rolling his eyes as he reads this. The bottomline is we camped in a swamp in the summer. There wasn’t enough Deet to make that a pleasant experience.
Then there was the time I camped in the Daintree Rainforest in Australia. In the rain. Spiders are large there. They call them tarantulas.
I “camped” in Europe. Under a white plastic bench on the bow of a ship headed to Greece while Ivan Drago (remember him from Rocky) and all of his commrads danced and sang around us. For real. I also “camped” in Zurich, Switzerland, outside a 30 foot statue of Michael Jackson, and then there was the parking lot in Athens. All lovely experiences.
I camped in Virginia where the weatherman said it would be unseasonably cold that night. Whatever. Unseasonably cold in October should NOT mean snow flurries.
And then there was the famous Mudslide of 2012. Well famous to those of us who camped on it. Awesome.
Oh gentle reader I do love camping.
Remember these?
I’m determined to get this pesky project done that has been living on my to do lists for years. Sort pictures. Just typing that puts me to sleep. I don’t want to do it. BUT what is even more irritating is looking at the boxes of pictures, the envelopes of pictures, the piles of pictures that need to be sorted. I abhor clutter and piles. I keep trying to “organize” how the boxes, envelopes and piles “look”. Maybe a bigger storage bin with label maker tape? Or matching photo boxes with labels “For Album” will make this better. My second son was born in 2007 and somewhere through that pregnancy all ordering of photos ceased. My oldest son has many photo albums to see how he has grown etc… until 2007. My youngest son….nothing. I’m doing this for them and for the sake of my to do list. And for gosh sake if you have any printed pictures of me and our family do not send them! At least not yet.
I have consulted many as to the best way to do this. What I’m looking for is fast. Ain’t nobody got time for scrapbooking. So here’s how this is going down.
Imagine an auctioneer reading the rest. We might as well start now being fast. (Heminaheminahemina)
Put all the pictures that need to be sorted in one place.
Get boxes that you can use to sort the pictures by year–these will only be used temporarily.
Label each box by year–in my case I had boxes from 2005 through 2013.
Label additional box(es) “Friends” or “Extended Family” depending on your needs but keep it to one or two boxes. If we over categorize we will go crazy and this will not get done.
Now what I do is have a marked time on the calendar every Tuesday, for example, from 9-11:00 am. I call my girlfriend, who is doing the same project, the phone is on speaker, the Today show is on, and the coffee mug is full.
Nesting Spot for Picture Dump
I pick up a stack of pictures and start dumping them by year. Don’t know the year? Guess. Better than the mess you’ve got now.
When time’s up I clean up and do this again the following week.
Clean Up
Make sure the boxes stay labelled by year. Stack it up and stash it out of sight until your next appt slot on the calendar. Gretchen Rubin from “The Happiness Project” talks about how unfinished projects make her UNhappy so she picks one and works on it for 15 minutes every morning until it is done. Just pick a time and stick to it.
Pick up the pictures and dump them one by one.
When you get them all sorted by year—and I’m not here yet—but when you do THEN figure out how you want to keep them. I have already decided that I am going to make albums by year–thrown in willy nilly but contained by year. The pictures that don’t make the album are either getting tossed (if they are bad) or I’m going to store them in picture boxes labelled by year. If I get crazy maybe the pictures will get further sorted by month–but that’s a long shot. I’ve had no time to deal with this for 6+ years–I don’t want to get so complicated that I can’t complete it and it remains unfinished forever.
In the future, once I get this organized, I’m going to keep a standing photo box labelled by year with dividers in it by month. If the picture makes it to the printer then it immediately will get “filed” in the box. Then there is a method. Later if I want to do something with them, great, but if not at least it is orderly. And most importantly, my sons, later on, will be able to ask me what they looked like when they were 6 and 8 and I can say look in the photo box labelled 2013–September.
Thanks Steph and Renee:)
