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Snow Day ❄️ = Game Day ♟

Nothing makes my organizing-loving heart happier than hidden storage. We hid four-foot deep drawers at each end of our game table banquette bench to hold ALL of our board games. Giant rubber bands allow us to store games on their sides while keeping the lids securely in place and all the pieces safely inside.

These are the rubber bands I used (affiliate links):

12” Rubber Bands for large game boxes: https://amzn.to/3J46l7H

7” Rubber Bands for smaller games: https://amzn.to/3GgQcd6

Friday night is Family Game Night! What are your favorite family games?

The kids recently discovered the original Clue, but tonight we’re playing Harry Potter Clue, with moving secret passages and lots of other fun twists.

If 2021 had an episode title, it would be “The One With the Unfinished Projects.”

I started the year with the goal to transform each space in our basement - including a makeover for our family room/game room, a major update to our basement bathroom, and a complete remodel of our home office. In the end, I only finished 1.5 of those 3 spaces. And I’m proud of that! For maybe the first time, I let go of my self-imposed deadlines and didn’t stress about it.

We finished the family room/game room makeover early in the summer. Rather than immediately started on the next project, we decided to spend the summer months enjoying the new game room with the kids. When fall rolled around, we started on the bathroom project expecting it to be quick and easy, but life got in the way. We finally finished the renovation piece of the bathroom right before Thanksgiving, but I still need to create and hang all of the artwork. I could have added that to the already long list I have things I had to accomplish between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I gave myself permission not to.

I’ll get to it in January… or maybe February and I look forward to finally sharing the finished space with you when it’s done. But in the meantime, I’m just happy that the bathroom is no longer orange. 🧡🤣

How it started and how it’s going! Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, and Happy Holidays to all!

Packing away pumpkins🎃 and bringing out the trees🎄. If there’s one thing I love more than holiday decor, it’s organized holiday decor!

Adding a wall of IKEA Billy bookcases in our living room last year not only gave us lots of display space, it also added tons of much needed closed storage.

Organizing Deets: iDesign Kitchen Binz from The Container Store hold all of my bottle brush trees and so much more! These are the same acrylic bins that I used to organize candles in another section of the bookshelves.