It's 3am & I Can't Sleep

Today I stumbled across Benita's blog, Chez Larrson and I would rather not admit to how many hours I spent reading through her archives. I'm not saying it wasn't pleasurable, it was (maybe too much!) and so, little was written or worked on in the way of my thesis. I was up until 2am pouring over Benita's beautiful posts and I have now tried to sleep for almost an hour but I can't because I can't stop thinking about her beautiful, organized home and all of the changes I want to make to mine. I want to wake up tomorrow and dig in!

I can't though. I shouldn't. I MUST wait until PT (post-thesis). Not sure I can though. Maybe I can use a few of my ideas to motivate me to get some thesis work done. Do a little thesis work, and then I can 'reward' myself with some home organization and improvements? Sounds perfect. Here is my list:

1. Find some sort of 'legs' to place under the white shelving piece on my side of the closet to keep my sweaters out of reach of the dust bunnies.
2. Move the newspapers and newsprint I have been collecting by the front door to the balcony where they will be more handy to use to line our compost pail
3. Hang three pieces of thrifted wallpaper above the couch & then hang our wedding photos
   
4. re-organize under the bathroom sink; clean & use the old yogurt pails and unused large & long plastic container that I have in my stash
5. use the old rubbermaid container to contain some of the rarely-used smaller plastic containers
6. Find some old tins to place around the legs of our basic bed frame so we don't have to keep stubbing our feet on those not so nice roller legs; add some felt to those rollers while I'm at it
7. Remove the caning and get some glass cut for Bruce's bedside table
8. recover the bench in the entrance way with linen from previous Babe owner
9. sort through kitchen cupboards and consolidate
10. organize hutch display behind glass door
    
11. organize wine storage in hutch; find more tubes for storage; cover tubes in white paper
12. go downstairs to the trash/recycling area and rescue that old brown shelf thingy; can it be used for something (on balcony?) even if stood on its end? NOTE:I think the 'shelf thingy' came from a renovated apartment we re-purposed it to create a whole new look for our entry way - photos to come!
    
13. go downstairs to the trash/recycling area and see if there is anything worth salvaging from that old fridge - wire racks or bins? Could the wire racks be used to hang laundry? Dry herbs?
    
14. go downstairs to the trash/recycling area and look for any great "white, clear, plasticky, useful and formerly meant for take-out, ice cream and candy" containers
15. cover a toilet paper roll in paper bag paper; add 2-3 slits in it to keep the large knives organized
    NOTE: I carved up some plastic wine corks instead - worked much better - I'll take a photo soon.
16. bring up the garage sale green lamps from storage; clean them and find something to cover their tops - use Sears gift card to purchase shades? ask Bruce
17. Cut bath mats into two; bind them and use one at the tub and the other at the sink. My feet are cold!
18. add felt bits to feet of sewing machine case - move it to craft area in living room. Clean out old green wooden cooler and put sewing bits in there - will it work as a sewing bench? Make a cushion for it (source soy foam and wool batting).
19. Find a place for to-be-gifted casserole dishes and take-out pans; what can be stored above the fridge now that the microwave blocks it?
20. Find better way to store old cassettes to clear off dresser in living room; what can the old cassette drawers be re-used for?
21. Slip cover chairs; fashion some padding for the arms; paint the legs
22. add l-hooks to the kitchen cupboard doors to hang the cooling racks
23. put honey in syrup dispenser like this one?
24. get some sleep!