DIY & husbands

Unfortunately in my house these two do not go together. Today we had a list of chores that needed doing before winter set in and that we had been putting off. The first involved replacing the felt on the shed roof, now my husband however fantastic he is he is not known for his DIY skills, within 5 minutes of this task I could see it was taking a drastic turn for the worse with the rain pouring down and those mortal words 'well you bloody well do it then'! So me being me did but thankfully he did return with a cup of tea for me and help finish the job!

After a few hours of prepping the garden for winter, clearing out the shed, putting away garden furniture, clearing guttering (see how glam my Saturday is) it was time to chill. I came in to find the two men of the house cosy from their shower snuggled up watching a war movie and as the little lady was at a party I took the opportunity to catch up on my google reader and stumbled across Get organised with Alejandra and found myself gripped to her You Tube videos on different areas of organising. Now this women is super super organised, I think even maybe suffering from OCD. I kinda liked watching the videos but felt they went on for too long. Although watching them did confirm that I needed to buy me a label printer, I have been wanting one of these for ages and having just cleared out the cupboard in the kitchen where the boxes are crying out for labels I thought why not. Plus I love how they look when all labelled.

I shouted to the boys that I would be back in half and an hour and went off to my new favourite store, Staples (I was actually nearly gone an hour and a half)! I set out to research label printers but also wanted to pick up some supplies for organising my recipe folder and also a sneak at the Martha products again.

Only this time I also stumbled across and fell in love with their Arc customisable notebook system. I haven't been happy with my notebook system for work and as my filofax was made redundant last year (I store most stuff on my iphone these days) I still need to make notes when with different clients. The arc systems seems perfect for what I need as you can have zip pockets, different types of paper and business card sleeves (although sold out of these) so I treated myself to an A5 olive green leather cover notebook, dividers and zip pockets.

My new 'arc' notebook system

It is more olive green than the lime green in pic

I also saw some label printer's and was quite keen on one but the packaging didn't really have enough information for my liking so I took the details down and did some more research when I got home. I am pleased to report that after I managed to find exactly the same one on-line for £12 cheaper a purchase was made so now I just have to wait a few days for it to come in the post!

All in all a productive day with the family at home!