I just love the way the sunlight comes in like that in the morning and like hits
all the plants. I think it's so pretty seeing it on the leaves. Lately I've been
more anxious than usual to the point where I logged off Instagram for a couple
of weeks. Just so things can be a bit more quiet. I noticed when my mind is messy
my habitat seems to follow. My wardrobes gotten a little bit out of control so
today I'm going to make myself a nice cup of tea and I'm gonna make some
breakfast and after I get my work done I'm going to dive straight into that
wardrobe and I'm going to reorganize it and make it all neat and nice - both
myself and Mitch's clothes.
Okay, so it's a walkthrough or joke don't laugh you'll probably see my bathroom
through the background there a couple of times while I'm filming this. So I know
it's not crazy bad but it's just more messy than I would like it and at the
moment his clothes are all mixed in with my clothes in the hanging section. I've
got bare coat hangers in there which I like to move to the laundry so I can put
fresh clothes on when they are done. The shoes have become Mitch's dumping ground
and I have some containers that I want to fill with some Summer clothes. I also
just want to neaten things up and take out anything that doesn't belong in there.
So they're Mitch's socks, underwear, kind of drawer, his shorts and his pants and then
these ones are my baskets but I've just thrown things in that don't belong
in there like when I put two jumpers in my basket it ends up being full. This
side of the cupboard has also gotten a little bit messy because we don't really
have any kind of structure for it so I'm gonna put that structure there.
Firstly, I'm going to take out the items that don't belong so when we first moved in I
just put some of my camera gear in the cupboard but now I do have a proper
place for that to go so I'm just going to move these things out of the way and
the reusable shopping bags need to be tidied up as well. This house doesn't
really have very much storage at all.
My favourite way to declutter or
reorganize an area is just to empty out everything and start from scratch.
These are the storage containers that I bought. I used to use vacuum sealed bags but
I haven't had them since I lived in Brisbane so I'm just gonna use these
little containers. Anything that is Summer and that we're probably not gonna
wear I'm gonna put in those so they're still accessible and I can easily open
them if I need to.
I really like to use the one in one out rule when it comes to clothing. Over
last year or so I've sort of be migrating my style to softer neutrals. Everything
used to just be black or white but now because I buy a lot of linens a lot of
them come in natural fiber so I'm including a bit of that natural and some
browns now as well. I believe this is the Marie Condo style of folding
where you fold things and then stack them vertically so you can easily
distinguish what's what. This is all my active wear just in the one draw and
that way I can easily see what I have when I need to get something out.
Sometimes I feel like when we're not in a spot where we feel like looking after
ourselves it tends to transfer to our environment as well and sometimes when
we fix the environment it makes it easier to look after ourselves again. I'm
just folding up my t-shirts now so I'm standing the basket on the end so it's
easier to stack them like this.
.. and yes that's all my t-shirts except for the couple that are hanging on
hangers. Look at Mitch's pile, dear Lord.
If you didn't think I was a control freak before you may think it now
because I'm about to color-coordinate our wardrobe and make sure that all
colors are sitting together.
.. and I tell you what, investing in good quality hangers is so worth it. I've had
these ones for five years now - they've got a nice little non-slip sections on
the side, they're really sturdy. I'm just gonna take the ones which are empty and I'm
gonna move them into the laundry so clean clothes.. I can put straight on
in the laundry.
OK, this section is looking this so much better already.
This is one of those things that was bugging me for so long because we have
to walk through our wardrobe to get to our ensuite so I saw it all the time but I
just didn't have the time or like the mental energy to go and reorganize it so
I'm just so happy that I did and I also jumped in and made sure that I cleaned
things properly as well.
I've always loved taking these little removable
3m hooks and displaying my hats on them. It's something that I've done for years in
every apartment that I've lived in. I just think it's a neat little feature, it
stops the hats from getting wrecked and I've got my bags hanging up on a little coat
rack as well so the handles don't get out of shape.
This is a slipper section only! The shoes are back where they belong. The out of
season clothes are in that container, spare bedsheets are up there. The reason
that I'm putting them out in the open is because we changed bedsheets twice a
week because I'm bad at discipline. The dogs sleep in the bed, what can I say.
So now
we have my active wear up there, Mitch's active wear here, I've got our
shopping bags, Mitch's shoes down the bottom as well. The ones that didn't fit
on our shoe rack near the front door. So we've got Mitch's pants in here and then my
overalls and pants in here. These are my shirts like my vintage tees and just
some other cotton tees. Then we have Mitch's tees and then you know the socks,
jocks sort of combo at the top. I feel so much happier with how this area looks now it
really just needed to be reorganized and I think even in the process of doing
that it helps you declutter your mind at the same time because you have to be so
present and focused on the task at hand. I know I know I get lots of questions
about where particular items are from so like half my stuff is vintage because I
like to just be a bit more sustainable with the choices and then some of the
other stuff is new so whatever is new I have linked on my blog. So this is my
personal journal if you haven't seen that before and I use Squarespace to
host it so you can see my fashion favorites page on there and everything
is linked and I absolutely love using Squarespace for this. So I've made
a little scrapbook page with the things which are currently in my wardrobe and
I've been using Squarespace for this blog and previously before that I've
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Now I can easily put my active wear on and I'm gonna get ready and do a workout. I
hope you're well and I hope you're taking some time to look after yourself. It's so
important to step back and do that sometimes I think if you want to hang
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next time, bye.