Idle Hands....

...are probably the best thing that can happen to my house. Staying home for a few days is driving me crazy....so when stressed-I organize, and reorganize, and reorganize some more. Just when Jim thought he'd figured out the latest layout of the kitchen, I changed it on him. While he was sleeping and working, I was pulling stuff out of every cabinet, running to Wal-Mart for new containers and making a hell of a lot of noise. He can sleep through anything, I swear! I have a problem I know..but there are worse things in life.

I decided to redo the pantry. It's too deep and narrow and tall. Overall, a pain to get things out of for a short person like myself.  Usually my projects begin at the worst times and start with the simple move of one item. Needless to say, I never have the foresight to take a BEFORE picture. I started pulling everything out of the pantry and heard Anthony say 'Whoa! That's a lot of stuff!' Then I remembered to take a picture.

Contents of the pantry

More things from the pantry

How does it all FIT in this TINY space? (PS Why does blogger flip my pictures?)

Starting to put it all back.

Slowly but surely--nevermind I probably rearranged it 15 times while doing it.



One of the other cabinets. Whether you believe me or not, I have seriously limited my stockpiling of food.



Baking Stuff is a little low...I've made a lot of things lately.



I LOVE these baskets...they hold all kinds of stuff and you can still SEE what you have!

Which is handy when you have every flavor of Jell-O

I was trying to place 'like' things together. This is my half done baking area. The containers on the left are the previous storage containers. I say previous because I have redone them about 4 times in the past two years. The containers on the right are the ones I moved to. Mandie's sister owns Vinyl Attraction and is making me custom appliques for labeling the jars! Woo Hoo!


DURING: Baking Stuff

After (Kinda): Can't wait to get my new labels!

Bought some new spice jars to organize all my sprinkles. Turns out they don't fit! (anyone want to tell me how to flip pictures?)

And I also found this surprise...my can of icing exploded. Nice...

Did I mention I LOVE glass containers? So pretty much, I overbought and didn't want to take them back. So I thought up things to put in them. And then rearranged them another 15 times.

But I feel better after all of that. Jim says he doesn't have to put up groceries since he doesn't know where anything goes anymore-AGAIN. Jim also said, "I don't know why you bother buying something cheaper to save money. You aren't happy and spend more money buying other substitutes. Just buy the first thing you really want." All I heard was....spend our last dime if that's what makes you happy! Hee hee...he's lucky I can't and refuse to pay full price for anything. Until the next kitchen redo....