Life ... organized?

LIfe has been a little crazy around here since the new year. Jason and I were both sick .. and it keeps threatening to return, a state I deny with copious doses of vitamin C, tea, and chicken soup.  Being the kitchen witch that I am, I tend to treat with love .. though when I get sick it's a whole different story. Then the whole house suffers. Which is where we are coming back from now.

In addition to this, both Jason and I really needed some form of storage for our various crafts; his including bookbinding, spinning, weaving and knitting, mine including knitting, spinning, sewing and mixed media crafts. So a trip to IKEA was made, and after much waffling .. along with him laughing at me for being excited to be in IKEA (it really is one of my favorite places for some reason) .. we decided on an irregular EXPEDIT unit like this one:

Let me tell you .. this 90-pounds of bookcase is a very sturdy unit. We have them turned on their sides instead of upright, which suits our needs much better. In addition to this, we picked up some of their KASSETT boxes:

The small ones I have in green and white, and the long flatter ones in black and white. The small ones I keep inks, stamps, paints and colored pencils and crayons in, and the long flat ones store my papers and ephemera right now. The unit has plenty of space for everything, in fact, though I'd like a few more boxes and baskets to store things like ribbon (of which I have a ton) and fabric scraps and current projects.

I'm still job-hunting, and have pretty much decided that if I can't find something soon, I'll be working with a staffing agency for a while, just to have some money coming in. It's getting to where we're stressing overmuch about money, and that makes tensions high around here. I discovered a man I used to work with when I was working at Best buy for Mosaic is apparently the manager at the local Staples, so I put in my application and need to probably call to check on it Monday.

Now that we have our storage, the house is starting to get a little more organized, post-holiday. It usually takes me a month or so to get everything dealt with, decorations put up, etc. I'm well on track this year. Just have to take down the snowflakes in the windows (reluctantly) and get the tree over to my in-laws' house, since they keep it for us for the year. Our attics just down have the space to store the tree, sadly. I'm working hard to keep the kitchen straight and clean too, because as I well know, if my kitchen's not tidy, I'm frazzled and my whole life is a mess.