31 Days to a Clean and Organized Kitchen, October 2013 : ScatteredSquirrel.com

Day 1: Getting Started

Welcome to Day 1!  Are you as excited as I am?  If you’re just joining in, I’m spending the month of October battling my arch nemesis, otherwise known as my kitchen!  All month long I’ll be tackling small organizing projects, building cleaning tasks into our daily routine, and I’m finally putting together my Kitchen Binder….

Easy DIY Jewelry Organizer | ScatteredSquirrel.com

Easy, DIY Jewelry Organizer

Can you believe July is half way over already?  Where oh where does the time go?  I’ve been keeping busy by tackling all the little organizing projects that sort of got pushed aside throughout the school year.  And I’m FINALLY tackling our master closet.  I’ve been wanting to get in there for a while, and…

family room organization, making do with what we have

Family Room Mini Update

  I’m stilling plugging away at changing things up around our home.  The more I see the rhythms of daily life flow around us, the more able I am to make changes that I hope are steering us in the right direction.  At least on the organized end of things.  Having the right system in…

Ribbon hung on a message board to hold notes and reminders.

Family Message Center

A few months ago, I shared how I made some small changes to the coffee counter in our kitchen.  You can see that post here.  In that post I mentioned that having our family drop-zone on the counter made sense there.  I like having our family calendar somewhere that I can see it often.  I…