I’ve been working on getting Hailey’s playroom organized and this was my latest project:

This is one of the shelves in Hailey’s playroom before.  There are two rows with bins that were just filled with a variety of toys and the bottom shelf has books.

This is another shelf with toys on the first two shelves and books on the bottom shelf.

And this is one of the shelves afterwards.  I organized all of the toys into bins and then took pictures of what was in each bin.  Then I used contact paper and put the pictures of what belongs in each bin on the front of the bins.  This will hopefully make clean up easier- if Hailey knows where everything goes she can put it away easier.  I forgot to take a picture of her other shelf but it looks similar to this one.

I haven’t posted a tackle in a loooooooooooooong time.  And I need to get this tackle done, so I am posting about it as motivation to get myself going.  Here is Hailey’s playroom before:

It’s a mess!  Part of the problem is that Hailey constantly takes books out and I don’t consistently make her put them away.  Another problem is that the bins on the shelf have all sorts of stuff thrown in them.  I’m going to organize them- Barbies in one, Legos in another, etc. Then I’ll take pictures of what is in each one and put the picture on the bin.  That should make clean up easier since Hailey will know where to put things.

I started working on it this evening and it looks much better.  But I am going to have to finish the bins and pictures tomorrow.  I’ll be back with after pictures.

At the beginning of the week I posted about the tackle I was doing in Hailey’s playroom and I posted pictures of the big mess.  Here are the after pictures:

In the above picture you can probably see that the bins on the shelves are still a mess.  I actually did some more work getting those organized.  I dumped everything out and sorted and put away the toys.  Then I took pictures of the toys in each bin and then put a picture on the bin of the toys that are in the bin.  This should make it a lot easier to clean up the toys since Hailey will know where to put the toys.  I’ll post some pictures of those after shots later.

I haven’t done a Tackle it Tuesday since February when we were getting ready to sell our house.  Since then we have sold our house, lived with my parents for 2 months and FINALLY had the closing on our new house.  It’s a long story- but we were supposed to stay with my parents for a couple of weeks before the closing on our new home.  It didn’t exactly happen that way.  But- anyhoo- we have finally closed on our new house so we have some things to tackle.

First up- painting- we (and by we- I mean Rich, my mom, my dad and Brooke) painted the living room, dining room, hall, foyer, and Brooke’s room.  That is done and I should have pictures to show but I don’t.  I have before and during pictures, but no after.  The big project has been doing the hardwood floors- my dad and Rich have worked really hard to take the carpet out and sand the floors in the dining room and the our bedroom.  That isn’t done yet.  It takes a while for each coat of polyurethane to dry so this is a long process.  We plan to shampoo the carpets next and then finally move in.

So0- that’s what we’ve been up to!  Stop by 5 Minutes for Mom to see what everyone else has been tackling.