Christmas "Stuff" Organized

Well, Christmas is the most wonderful time of year, but dealing with the aftermath of Christmas is another problem. Am I right? 

A Southern California Outdoor Christmas Party

There is something wonderful about living in Southern California - don't get me wrong, I look fondly at your cold, snowy weather this time of year and think it would be marvelous to enjoy that. But, I'm a native Californian {grew up in Northern California Bay Area} and have a grown to love our weather and advantages. If you've never seen our deck and outdoor kitchen that my husband built go HERE to see more - this is where we had our party.

25 Gift Ideas that won't cause clutter!

This year, instead of having someone give you another gift that just takes up clutter in your home {or giving a clutter gift}, why not give a gift that won't clutter up your home? With the help of my Facebook readers, we've come up with 25 gift ideas that won't clutter up your home!

11 Ways to Get Organized for Christmas

The Christmas Season is in FULL swing! So, I'm sharing my own ideas and a few others, to get organized for Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

 

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Christmas Organizing: 10 Ways to get organized before your guests arrive

Christmas is coming!!! It's just SIX days away! And probably many of you are going to have guests coming to celebrate the day with you!

Organizing for Christmas: Gift Wrapping Stations

When Christmas comes, so does the wrapping! Having a nice wrapping paper station - or at least an area of your home that's got your wrapping items organized - is helpful when you're getting ready to wrap up all your gifts!

Christmas Organizing: Christmas Card Display

One of my favorite parts about Christmas is getting Christmas cards and letters in the mail. I actually got all our family photo Christmas cards done a couple of weeks ago and am hoping to finish up and get in the mail soon!

Deck the Halls: Holiday Organizing and Decorating Pinning Party

It's December which means Christmas is only a few weeks away!!! To celebrate, the Top Organizing Bloggers have joined together to host our first annual 

Organizing Gift Ideas

It's that time of year again -- time to figure out what in the world you want to get that special someone in your life! Well, I have LOTS of great gift ideas for you or your special person to consider - that will get you organized! 

I asked my Facebook fans, a couple of weeks ago, what they would want for Christmas that had to do with cleaning and organizing. Guess what they chose? 

Roomba for vacuuming	Dyson Slim	Elfa Closet System	Hoover Floormate
Neat Receipt Scanner	Maid Service {natural cleaning}	Silhouette for labeling	Professional Organizer in your area
Norwex Cleaning Rags	Oxo Containers

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Christmas is coming! Are you prepared?

Christmas is coming!! Have you even started thinking about it? Are you prepared for what is coming? Well, Thanksgiving is next week and BAM! Black Friday starts and we're supposed to be ready for that! 

For the last two years, I have given you a whole bunch of ideas for organizing your Christmas! Have you seen them? Here they are, should you want to see them again:

Merry Christmas from Organizing Made Fun!!

I am so grateful for each and every one of you who stop by OMF to see what I'm organizing next - and hopefully you are motivated too! I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas from my family to yours!

I also want all of you to know that the very reason WE celebrate Christmas isn't about Santa Claus or presents. We believe that the whole purpose for Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus. And the whole reason He was born was so He could die for us on the cross - Easter is another of my favorite days!

If you've followed me even for a short time, you may know that I am a Christian. I believe in the Bible. If you think you're a good person and you want to know more about Christ, please click here. 

 

Have a very blessed day with your family and friends! 

Merry Christmas!

 

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Organized Christmas: Little Extras and Tips

This is the very LAST day of our Christmas Organizing series. Christmas is just TWO days away! Yikes! I've had my kids home all week with me and it's been a blast doing lots of fun things together.

I wanted to show you a few tips and tricks I had for this year's Christmas decorating. One of my favorite decorations came in a Harry and David gift box that my hubby got as a gift from work. 

 

It's actually everything put into one box. Now see how it looks!

All the small boxes inside the big one makes it an excellent and easy way to store it. If you get some pretty boxes or wrapped presents this Christmas, you could replicate something like this.

It makes putting it away a snap, too!

Another thing we did this season was to string lights outside over the deck. We have yet to build a permanent structure over our deck - mostly due to money and more so: time! Most of the year we keep a large pop up tent on the deck to keep the sun from killing us inside the family room. Below is how it looked last year with the pop-up still up at Christmas:

The lights look so lovely at night, but we had a hard time figuring out how to string them to nothing this year! Since the fireplace has nothing tall to attach them to and we didn't want to drill a hole in there either.

 

So, I found an old umbrella stand - which is heavy - and suggested we do something with that. He found a plumbing pipe and put it over the top of the umbrella stand and drilled in a strap and used a caribiner clip {I had to look that up on Google}. Hubby thought I was brilliant - well, maybe he didn't SAY I was brilliant but I'm sure he was thinking that he was smart to marry such a brilliant woman! Ha, ha...

He attached the other side of the string of lights to our outdoor speakers - which, if you know my husband, is an absolute MUST outside...and if you remember our inside surround sound system he put in earlier this year, you'll know it's important. He also used a caribiner clip on the speaker to hold the lights. 

Some fun stuff! I really like it - it's beautiful and even with our crazy Southern California winds this month they didn't have any problems staying put. Happy organizing!

 

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