( clean and clutter )

clearly, i like toys.

i like this one a lot.

i visit it very often, but haven't purchased it just yet.

{ it's by xmoonbloom who has some very charming ideas about dressing up cats. }

i wasn't sure where i should put it.

and then patrick pointed out that our house was borderline cluttery.

{ and i'm very proud to say that i did not point out that the mountain of paper, receipts, bike parts, screws and assorted detritus he calls his desk looks a lot more like clutter than my carefully arranged vignettes. i did not say that. nope. }

after i managed to get my lower jaw off the ground,

i tried looking at everything with a fresh eye.

no, it's not helping that my dear sister-in-law is working on living minimally.

{ you can read some of her thoughts on it here }

i do strongly believe in a place for everything

but what else could i put away?! 

art work? nope. plants? they don't do too well in a drawer.

books? most are upstairs on shelves.

a few are on the bottom shelf of the coffee table. hardly a clutter crime. 

but perhaps it's that extra piece of furniture i snuck in.

that's really too big for the house. but i love it so. 

 it's very difficult to assess these things accurately

when you're living in the house. nothing works like a clean slate. 

somehow, i don't think patrick will leap at the chance

to move all the furniture outside and reevaluate where everything should go.

wanna come over and move some furniture?