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i am a pretty darn good weeder...but NOT with the mags - i have so many Dwell, MSL, Real Simple, Sunset, Do It Yourself, Budget Living, ETC...i once started to tear out and file in a binder...but then i just had a binder instead of a magazine, so there was no point! also it is almost impossible to tear out pages, as there is always something on the back of one page i want in another file, or something that just makes me keep the darn mag. i will always just love to browse the pictures - MSL is always beautiful and timeless just to LOOK at. i am at least trying to weed slowly thru some i have fewer of that i love less, and those i leave in my condo complex laundry room. i'm just lucky i have a big ole attic that is also my studio!

grrr...the link doesn't take me to the actual image to see...

sounds like an inexpensive & simple ikea frame would be just the thing for your Van Gogh print! if nothing else, for probably $20 you will have it protected and hangable until the day you decide to frame it in a "better" way...if that day ever even comes. i actually have a Van Gogh poster in a simple/inexpensive frame in my guest room...and guess what...i love it just because it is displayed simply and not on my "to do" list or getting damaged somewhere as a piece of clutter. go for it!

i am going to tile a bathroom backsplash

i have to modify this one a little - i live in the mountains and will be going grocery shopping tomoro - have cleaning products on my list - it was time to restock anyway. i already buy a lot of "green" products, but did some reading/research to see what else i could learn about good ones. will also get flowers, we have a couple of great flower shops (& even our grocery store) in town. as for the floors, well, my house is just too big to do that all at once. instead, yesterday i spent some time reading & researching, and came up with a cleaning schedule/plan that i am going to try out - it is a 2 week rotation of cleaning tasks, doing one floor each week. i am going to start with no more than 60 minutes a day, and just get as much as i can done, so i don't chuck the whole plan from cleaning exhaustion. i have to assume that as time goes on, things will ease up, if i can keep up with things instead of letting them get so bad that everything is an overwhelming job. so this weekend i did a lot of random but important cleaning tasks (like the front door/window, both toilets - ICK, ALL the laundry including some blankets/etc), and i am feeling really good about the cleaning plan.

posting after the fact, but...projects...that is a good one, wake me up when it's all over! about 10 years ago, i literally completely designed, did the construction drawings for, supervised construction of, and did much of the construction of our house (i am a designer and my husband is in construction). needless to say, there is still some construction yet undone (: so i have more than i care to admit of that yet to do. AND we are also in the middle of finishing our basement. AND of course i also have all kinds of more specific/small projects like everyone does - hang art, window coverings, closet hardware, pulls on cabinet doors, etc etc ETC. so i made a list of the latter, which are things at this point i think would be easier to accomplish and would actually make a more noticeable difference anyway, while at the same time getting rid of some clutter that is sitting around, like window coverings that are waiting to go up. then at some other time i can get back to grouting the fireplace and staining the basement floor when i am feeling like tackling a big dog. (:

a great idea & reminder that a little bit a day is a great goal for all of us, however we need to tweak it for our own lives (:
i do want to make one comment re: the laundry - i DO "attend to" laundry every day, and that does not have to mean "DO a load". i just go into the room, transfer whatever has collected in the basket into the washer - if it is full, i start it, if it isn't, i don't. i am also not too picky - i have whites and "everything else", so the whites don't get done until a whole load has built up in the hamper. i don't own finicky fabrics that can't handle any washing/drying temp/method, hang everything that can be and don't worry about folding the rest, it just goes in drawers (workout clothes, socks, underwear, etc). i also own enough kitchen towels, napkins, underwear, socks, etc that laundry never "has to be done". so on a daily basis, maybe i do a load, maybe i put away a load...just checking on it and doing something helps get it done in tiny steps i don't even notice over the week and i never face a pile. BUT i also am lucky to have a washer/dryer in my home, and space to work...i know laundromat is a whole other system.

i do pinterest for my self and no one else, so i am not concerned with how anything looks to anyone else, so that makes it easy. also i don't put a description or notes on any of my pins, because the whole point is that for me it is a bookmark that i hit to go to the source, so... i guess i feel like i'm not trying to steal, or advertise or anything except "bookmark" favorite things, recipes, diy's, ideas of my own so just the act of pinning the pic/link for my later use is my whole point and process. maybe this is different if you are a blogger/advertising or something like that.