My World is Brown and Turning Upside Down

I'm not a fan of chaos.  You'd never know it to look at my craft room (or my bedroom for that matter). But what you see there is ORGANIZED CHAOS!  :)  To me, lack of chaos is knowing you can put your hands on anything you're looking for. To an outsider it may be a holy mess, but you know where things are! 

Well, things are not in an organized chaos at our house right now. It's just chaos.  This is the first time in my life I've been handling a double-move - from one house to another. When we moved from Virginia Beach to Connecticut, my company handled our move and we had relocation specialists to help us. Now we're on our own AND we have to pay for it. Big difference!

In addition, even though we are paying the movers to pack us, my husband has it in his head that we have to pack up half the house.  Can you believe he has already packed half the stuff we're planning to take in the cars... and put it in the cars!?Including packing up half our food in the pantry. And did he label anything? NO! We're not leaving for another 3 weeks! I've been spending my time purging and organizing - putting like things together, so that WHEN we are packed, things will be hopefully findable! This is where different personalities come to light. I'm glad I have a sense of humor....

This layout is not one of my favorites. I like pretty layouts and I don't consider this one pretty, but it is definitely where my head is right now, which is a valuable thing to record!  Our challenge was to think of a color and take pictures of those things and journal what it made us think of.  Well, my world right now is surrounded by brown - brown boxes. And while, yes, I AM excited about the move and starting the next phase of our lives, I'm sad to be leaving the house we've been in for the past 15 years, and to be leaving the friends I've made here. I look out the window and think to myself that I'll never see that tree that blooms in the spring again. But there will be new trees, and a new house to decorate, and new friends. So this is a rather dull page, but hopefully in a few weeks you'll see wonderful COLORFUL pages from me about my new home!

I used one of the new circle tiles from Snap n Crop (I KNEW there was a reason I bought brown!!) and I also used the free download calendars. Too small to really read what happened each day, but you can see how busy we've been!