Happy New Year!

I think 2017 will be a banner year!

Those of you who know me, know I'm an idea person. I love ideas...thinking them up, twisting them around, talking them through, making them perfect in my mind's eye.  This usually leads to lots of projects started, but not nearly as many finished. My word for this year is Completion. 


These are some of the projects I'd like to complete this year to share with you:

The Memory Budget

I get a lot of questions about how we afford to go on so many vacations.  So I thought I'd share our method regarding the finances and philosophies behind it.  We call it the Memory Budget.

Big Changes on a Tiny Budget

The budget...your best friend, your worst enemy.

We custom built our home, but ran into a VERY expensive snag during construction so a lot of minor details were scrapped.  It's been 3 years and I need to finish things up.  I'm going to work on the house project over the summer of 2016.  I must note here that I have a lot of materials to work with, and much of my work will be deciding what to keep and what to send to the thrift store. I also work part time. Time is a precious commodity!

Pattern Storage

If you sew, you understand the never ending circle of doom called storage!  I'm still working on a solution for fabric, but today I'll share my victory over patterns...

The Lavender Fox Boutique

Marla, over at Always Nesting, is featuring her Woo Hoo Wednesdays...check out all the great projects!

Once again, I jumped into this project without remembering to take a before picture. Sigh. Well, this was another closet with 2 sliding doors. It was difficult to access everything and very dark. There was only one long hanging bar/shelf for clothes. Part of the problem was there is a ledge taking up 1/3 of the closet and the bar was hung too low to hang shirts or pants without dragging on the ledge. Overall, this closet was an organizing desert!