I'm so excited for this tag! Several of my friends have done it already and I've read their entries and just thought it was so cool. So thanks to Nicole, here's my version.
I was asked to take pictures of the following 10 things. But there was a catch -- no prepping, primping, or picking up. The point is to see how these things/items/people exist in real life. Take your camera and just go for it.
{I read Nicole's e-mail for the tag invite just before church and didn't have time for the assignment. But as soon as we got home I went to work!}
1. my fridge- nothing too exciting here. Though, as I'm looking at it I'm wondering why we have 3 used gallons of milk (there are 2-skim and 2- 2% jugs in the fridge). hmm.
2. a closet-- it's my closet. It's small, but it does the job. The stuff thrown on the top shelf is in desperate need of some organization.
One special or unique thing about my closet is the hangers. Almost all of our hangers were covered in yarn by my Grandma Margaret. I remember watching her sit in her chair with two balls of yarn in her hands, 2 wire hangers tied together with rubber-bands & held between her legs, while she did this criss-cross looping action. She made hundreds (possibly thousands) of these hangers and gave them to everybody for years and years. I once heard grandma say that her doctor told her it was good exercise for her hands/wrists and it helped with her arthritis. I love these hangers. Not only are they nostalgic for me, but the clothes don't ever fall off!
3. kitchen sink-- wow, it's clean! And there aren't any dishes sitting in the left-hand sink waiting to be washed by hand (which is usually the case).
4. toilet - our master bathroom toilet. Um, ya. I don't know what else to say.
5. my favorite shoes -- Patent leather, black piping, buckle detail . . . so cute. I got these in April and have since received many compliments on them.
6. my favorite room -- the scrapbook/guest room. This room is just off of the family room and I pop in and out of here several times a day. I love that it's so close to the action of family life, yet provides a quiet retreat when I need it.
To the right is the guest bed, which has a trundle underneath. When our parents come we pull it out and make a comfy king-size bed. Sitting on the bed right now is a vinyl project I'm working on for my dad (half-way done!). And the curtains and pillows were made with fabric from IKEA.
Then, to the left we have the scrapbook/computer desk extraordinaire! Wow, this looks pretty overwhelming (and there's a whole other shelf that I couldn't get in the shot). I guess I don't usually stand back and look at it like this. Eventually, I'd like to replace some of the see-through drawers/containers with solid white boxes (similar to the photo boxes on the far left). Make it a little more visually pleasing.
I'm sitting in that computer chair right now!
7. what my kids are doing right now -- the boys are getting changed out of their church clothes. What a good boy, Conner has already hung his clothes back in the closet.
Anna is digging through the church diaper bag. And looking a little cross-eyed?
8. laundry pile -- Not too bad. I did all the laundry on Friday and one load on Saturday. I love my laundry room too! We installed this shelving from The Container Store and it is wonderful -- it gives me a place to hang the ironing. The laundry basketsare also from TCS - white for whites, pink for colors, and black for darks.
9. self-portrait -- in the mirror after church. See the black box sitting on the counter-top? It's hair-cut day for all the boys. As soon as I finish blogging.
10. dream vacation -- something like this.
tag: mom, heidi, becca, lisa, & katie
