Tidying Up Kids' Clutter

It is not easy to have an extremely tidy home when you have kids. My kids are always playing and bringing out their toys and stuffs. I get tired picking up after them especially when they always get something new from the cabinet to play with.

The only way to tidy up is to have lots of tidy up containers. I get the kids to pick up all their little toys and put them according to sizes. Sometimes I look up home improvement websites to get ideas on how to tidy up kids' toys without putting them away indefinitely. It is important to have large cabinets that can fit toys of any sizes and shapes. Once the kids cleared their toys and place them in the boxes, in it goes into the large cabinets. And the floor is free of clutter. More tips about space saving can be found in luxuryhousingtrends.com if you need more ideas.

Blinds and Shades

I have been meaning to do up the extra room as a study or reading room. It is important to keep this room clutter free since we do have a big collection of art books, cookery books, and lots of kids' storybooks. Currently, we have curtains in the room. The sun shines into the room brightly in the afternoon so we need to draw the curtains to block it. However the wind that is blowing into the room is so strong that my curtains are blowing violently all over the place knocking things down.

To solve this problem, I am considering installing a fuss free sunshade. One of my friends recommended me a link to a shades blog. I was a little apprehensive about installing blinds although I liked it's fuss free and streamlined look. Also the impression of blinds are that not only are they expensive, they are also difficult to install. But I was wrong. In this site, I found some Cheap Vertical Blinds that would have cost me three times more. Also, my fears about measurement and installing woes were all featured here in detailed and the correct way is written out clearly step by step.

My VAX Under Utilized

I am in a spot over what to do with my Vax vacumn cleaner. I bought it about 8 years ago thinking that I'd be using this for the best time of my life. It was quite expensive compared with the other vacumn cleaners.

The Vax vacumn is powerful and can use it wet or dry, and do mopping, cleaning upholstery, and more. More? I've never gotten past vacumn and the mopping. I used it few times on my sofa and some parts of unreachable corners of the house before. But basically I think this thing is just too damn big and clumsy to handle. But when I was using it years ago, it was fine. Perhaps I was fitter then. Now I have it stuff in the corner of my store area and refuse to even catch a glimpse of it. It is now covered with a large plastic bag because it IS A WHITE ELEPHANT AND IS COLLECTING DUST!

My Store and My Vax

Gardening and Positive Effects

Scenes of nature prove to be a great source of destress for the young and old. Having a garden patch at home can be beneficial to one. When one potters about in the garden, it encouranges physical movement of the arms and the body. It is a good form of exercise.

Growing plants in a garden or building one is an art itself. It involves lots of planning, structure and allocation and the composition of a well landscape garden yield benefits like personal satisfaction as well as praise from friends and family. Share your beautiful gardens and enthusiasm by entering your creative masterpiece among the ones who share you passion by being friends of Fiskars. From garden products, contests, gardening/pruning tips, it also helps to nurture the passion of gardening and lots of ideas for a healthy clean and green environment.


In a recent contest of Fiskars 2008 Project Orange Thumb, view the gardens of the people which have been selected based on their creative expressions, concept gardens and passionate work.

Of Garages, Sheds and Storage Space

I get excited when the topic about storage comes to mind. I love storages, from the large to the small ones. I just cannot get enough of it. I would purchase those storage wares from a dealer and keep them in my storage cabinets. I also would get those middle size or large ones to store books, toys, old clothes and my collections of bags and green bags too.

I like to have storage spaces in and around the house. There is a place for everything. I definitely would like to get a home with lots of land all around. I was on this website that actually sells large storage sheds and garages. That would be ideal! I would love to have a shed outdoor for my hobby, to paint or craftwork. Setting a room for painting is not my kind of idea since I hate to have to clean up after a painting. And paintings can take months to complete so I definitely need a shed or garage space to do that without bringing it into the house.

I would also would like to set up a little play shed for my girls too. Having a kids' shed means the kids can have their own space and playhouse. If you hop over to browze Lidget- a company that specialises in Sectional Garage, you can see that a garage or shed does not equate to boring or industry looking. In fact Lidget has some interesting ones with textured walls.