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A Life You Organize: The Disaster Pantry – 2014

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I’m going to air some of my dirty laundry and I hope you won’t judge me!  The photo above was taken yesterday morning in my hot mess of a walk-in pantry!  Believe it or not, I had actually organized this pantry last January on my annual household organizing blitz, but by December, it had de-evolved into madness.  Part of the problem is that I have a Costco membership!  I love to buy in bulk, but the problem with that is I had acquired more stuff than I knew what to do with!  So, yesterday, with an entire day set aside to reorganize this pantry, I was finally able to cut through the mess and set it to rights!  And, this is what it looks like now!  I am so excited that I can finally walk into the pantry without tripping over things! Here are the steps I took in order to get it together! Last year, I invested in some clear containers to hold items like flour, sugar, nuts, snacks.  I ended up using a …

Setting the Thanksgiving Table

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Whoops!  I blinked and it’s already November!  How in the world did that happen?  Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I’m not ready yet!  Being somewhat housebound since my surgery, I hadn’t had a chance to look for Thanksgiving and Harvest decorations until late October.  Now, I don’t understand what happens around here, but it seems that unless you get your harvest decorations in August, all you’ll find in October are few picked-over knick knacks and an explosion of Christmas!  I don’t know about you, but I really like Thanksgiving decorations and I’m not quite ready to be thrust headlong into Christmas yet! Since the offerings at the store were slim-pickings, I decided to do something a little different this year and settled on a simple, white and green Thanksgiving table.  I found two preserved boxwood topiaries at Homegoods and paired them with small white pumpkins (I love those) and white pumpkins with green and orange stripes.  I set them on top of a beige table runner and placed some candlesticks and jars with …