july opam

I am a bit behind with my OPAM (one project a month, inspired by the amazing Tara Whitney, a favorite photographer of mine). July's project was super quick but really needed to be done.

Behold the junk drawer. The catch-all for anything and everything that doesn't have another place.

At least it is more organized than it was. We'll see how long it stays that way.

August's project is also a quick one, which I will post soon. I am currently working on this month's project, which I am actually really excited about. I will hopefully be done soon so I can share.

June OPAM

No, I didn't forget about OPAM for June. I'm just a little behind. (I don't feel too bad since Tara is behind as well). My project for June was to fill the empty space on our living room wall. Here is what it looked like before:


And after:



I had some of our photography printed and then I framed it. I think I would prefer one long shelf instead of the two short ones so that we could lean three pictures against it but this works for now. It's nice to have that done. I will share my before pictures of my July OPAM soon.

PS I just learned how to make my pictures big on my blog. Let me know if the layout looks weird at all...still learning a few things.

June OPAM - Before

For those of you who don't know, I am following Tara Whitney's One Project a Month challenge. Here are my before pictures for June:


This empty wall space in our front room has been driving me crazy for some time now. We bought the shelves to put there about six months ago, I printed pictures and bought frames to put on the shelves about a month ago, but we just haven't put it together yet. So this will be my project for June, to help motivate me to finish.

seriously?

This is my "I went to the dentist today and he gave me bad news" face. As it turns out, I have FIVE cavities. I brush and floss religiously so I was not happy with this news. I think my teeth are just cavity-prone. That's what I've decided.

Okay, what I am going to share with you next is not easy to share. It takes courage. But I am all about keeping it real, my friends. And for that reason, I am going to show you what I did yesterday. Let's start with the before pictures. (Brace yourselves.)















Yeah. Pretty bad. I'm afraid things like our closet are not at the top of my propriety list while I'm in school. But this week I don't have anything due so I decided to tackle this project. (And yes, you did see some moving boxes in there. And yes, we did move here over a year ago.) Also, I made the pictures small on purpose. I may be keeping it real, but there are varying degrees of said realness.

Luckily I had Squeak to keep me entertained during this project. As soon as I hung this organizer up, he ran and jumped into it.

And now for the after pictures.





Do you know how happy I am that this is done? I walked in our closet at least three times last night just to stand in there and smile. Horray for clean closets.

Also, I really don't think I would have taken the time to do this without these motivating posts here, here, and here. I love Tara's idea of OPAM (one project a month). I have the best of intentions to follow her in this endeavor...considering that Summer is around the corner, I might actually do it.