From The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde:
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early,
or be respectable.
Happy 36th Birthday to my partner-in-crime!
From The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde:
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early,
or be respectable.
Happy 36th Birthday to my partner-in-crime!
I am planning to create a super-amazingly-awesome craft area for me and the kids in the basement but, at the speed that renovations happen around here, the kids will probably be in college before that happens. Enter: the cloffice.
If you’ve spent any time browsing blogs or Pinterest, you probably know what a cloffice is. But, for those of you who don’t, it’s basically a closet that has been transformed into an office area. There are many varieties of cloffices out there, and I’ve decided that I want/need one of my own.
Last year we installed two IKEA Botne wardrobes (weirdly enough, a HUGE amount of the traffic to my blog comes from people searching for info about the Botne). That freed up our regular closet, which has been used to store everything from sewing supplies, to homeschooling materials, to paper towels and the vacuum cleaner. Here it is in its current state:
Wouldn’t it make an excellent cloffice? I think so! All it needs is a little paint, some sturdy shelves, and a desk. I can’t wait to blog, work on homeschool plans, and do some serious research for my last(!) undergraduate course in my own little space.
Here are a few examples of really nice cloffices that I will be referring to for inspiration:
From Shoestring:
From IHeart Organizing:
And, from The Mustard Ceiling Blog:
From “Mean Free Path” by Ben Lerner:
I finished the reading and looked up
Changed in the familiar ways. Now for a quiet place
To begin the forgetting. The little delays
Between sensations, the audible absence of rain
Take the place of objects. I have some questions
But they can wait. Waiting is the answer
I was looking for.
When it is so cold outside that you literally cannot take a breath, winter is reduced to…
…waiting for spring.
Right now Lillia is working on finding her place in the world, drawing prolifically, enjoying The Lord of the Rings, and pining for winter snow.
Right now Zane is working on a couple of molars, interacting with new little friends at playgroup, doing a lot of cooking, and perfecting his sister’s name — it’s not easy for a baby to say a name with so many L’s!
