Not a day too early!

I had a heavy heart this morning as the little people were going back to school after half term, I am afraid to say this isn't the reason for my heavy heart but the fact I couldn't await to drop them off! I always love school holidays, we chill out and go out on adventures together but we didn't get up to much last week and my two turned from easy going kids to ones that just annoyed the hell out of each other which then in turn wound me up! Thankfully we did finish the holiday with a great day in London yesterday.

I work freelance for a local publishing company and cover a lot of projects for them and had to be in their office for a meeting today. I like going in as I really like the people I work with and it is nice to be 'me' again, wear smart clothes and have adult conversation's. With the children being in different schools I used to find the school run and then going into the office, being corporate and then back to two schools runs really stressful but when they started the autumn term I told myself I would not get stressed about it and just make sure I leave plenty of time rather than backing out of the office door still talking work with minutes to spare! Thankfully I have managed it every time I have recently been in the office... yeah!

Once home they were shattered after their first day back and on top of their late night in London the night before (opp's not great planning on my behalf). So it was tea and early bedtime - yeah!

With the house quiet I was looking forward to a night of catching up on my admin. I went to look for something in my kitchen cupboard that stores all my cook books, craft stuff, candles, napkin rings, ribbons, cotton reels, sewing box, etc - I found myself two hours later opening and closing the door to the cupboard repeatedly, admiring my re-organisation - sad I know! Having gone in it for some ribbon the cupboards were in such a mess that I then spent the next two hours organising them. Funny enough I had brought some storage boxes from the £1 store for when I had time to get round to doing this and they were perfect.

Now, I love before and after photos more than anyone (I am so nosey) but as I did not set out to do this I did not take a photo of the mess before I started and it was a mess, but look at it now!

After a major declutter

Loving my new storage boxes

Bottom shelf hasn't changed but the top two have

Think I need a plant or something by the cookery books and then label the storage boxes and it is done! Oh I also then went on and did the under stairs cupboard now this is really dark and dingy so no pics of that but it did include using some more of my new storage boxes!