in order

This little china cabinet is finally  the way i like it. 

It's filled with my buffalo dinnerware that i used/collected during my catering days. 

until now most of it has been in the basement.

back in december our basement flooded during the rainstorms that hit us.

I lost my entire magazine collection.  i know.

but anyway, over the last 3 weeks i've been slowly going through everything in the basement and being ruthless in my purging.

below is what the basement looks like almost empty.

you can see that it's a not very big.  it measures about 8' x 8'

all our sporting/camping equipment and any household run over has to fit in there because we don't have a garage.  i know.

i guess there is a reason they call it junk


 

so after going through every rubbermaid bin, sorting and tossing like a madwoman, i was able to get it all organized and now all the dishes are inside the house. 

Then i had to go through all our books and try to get them to fit into this cabinet since the other cabinet is now holding my dishes.  are you keeping up?  donating books is probably the hardest thing for me to do.  i love books but since i'm now a big fan of the library, i realize i don't need to own them all.

 i realize all this is boring, but this is what i do when my husband is away.

so now the dinnerware is happy, the books are happy, i'm happy and the salvation army is happy.

oh and i found this red and white striped pillow cover that has been missing for like a year. 

so that made me really happy too.

and i forgot to take a picture of the basement all neat and clean.

xo

janet