EnglishRosie's Profile

I've already hung up a few pictures around the house during this month. Mainly on my stairway which I've intended for a mini gallery for a while now. Not quite done but pleased with my efforts so far. So tonight I didnt hang any artwork but I did hang the new clock I bought in a January sale. Does that count?

There's been a few comments about the 3M strips. I've used them for a few pictures around my house as its really difficult to get hooks in the walls without drilling with a masonry bit. British councils built some solid houses in the 50s! I've had no problems but I only started using them a couple of years ago and on nothing too heavy.

I just finished this task today. I ordered a post a key holder from Amazon which my husband put up on the wall next to our cost rack. I also re-purposed a decorative bowl that had been languishing in a box which is on the table by the phone for change and other bits and pieces. Hopefully this system will work!

I just posted on the main task page that I didn't know how to get a third light in my living room. Your bookcase lamp could be the answer.... To Ikea!

Your living room looks really cosy and welcoming. I am also loving the Anchorman reference.

I luckily already have my overhead light on a dimmer switch with a fairly warm coloured bulb (we had to get an energy saving bulb that specifically worked with dimmers otherwise it makes a scary buzzing noise). I also have a floor lamp but that's it at the moment as I don't really have anywhere else I can put another lamp. The living room is on my project list for this year so will see what I can do then.

In the meantime I'm going to get a floorlamp for an empty corner of the dining room as it looks quite bland at the moment.

Eurgh. Been dreading this task. I'm quite bad with my paperwork but my husband is terrible, he never opens anything. We both have a habit of stashing paperwork around the house. Some is on the bookcase, some in the trunk we use as a coffee table and some is stacked by our files with the intention of filing them properly at some point in the future. When post comes in it can be put in any one of 3 different locations!

We pay most of our bills by Direct Debit which means we don't miss any payments and have been setting up as much as possible online now.

I've now got my mail holder to put up in the hallway so at least we can keep post in one place. Junk mail goes straight into the recycling so that's not too bad. I've decided that as we don't really use the files we have I am just going to replace them with some Ikea boxes. It might not be too organised but it will work for us and at least keep everything in one place.

One thing I did do a while ago was put a lot of our appliance manuals onto the iPad following this suggestion http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-turn-your-owners-manuals-into-digital-files-for-your-ipad-166391

I spent at least 5 hours cleaning the bedroom yesterday. I don't think it's ever been this clean. Feels good though I managed to clear a lot of clutter that was bothering me.
However as I have ventured out in the snow my spare room is a disaster zone as my outbox had now taken over the whole room. I'll just close the door for now.
I hope everyone else made some progress this weekend.

I'm in snowy UK South of London. How much snow have you got?

Whoops! Managed to post my comment twice. This is what happens when you try and post comments with dodgy 3G reception.

When I first read this I was thinking to myself "this isn't too bad". I'm slightly ahead with the books as I had a cull of mine last night and my husband culled his earlier in the week. However I didn't think about the bookshelf full of CDs, I guess I don't really notice it anymore. Reading the comments above, it occured to me that they do take up a lot of space. At least 75% have been loaded onto iTunes and as I can plug my iPod into my car there really is no need to keep them. So tonight I'm going to load the remaining ones into iTunes and then send them all to the Outbox.

I'm pretty good with my magazines. I subscribe to Grazia and Ideal Home. When finished I give Grazia to a friend. I've given old copies of Ideal Home to my new neighbours as they have a big renovation on their hands.

Only question now is, what will I put on my bookshelves?

What lovely smug cats.

That's pretty much the expression one of my cats had this morning while watching me leave the house when it was -4 degrees outside.