Organizing, Part 2: S.P.A.C.E.

This is my bare bones method for organizing of any sort.  It has transformed my hectic world into a fluid & fun experience!  The S.P.A.C.E. concept is something I learned from brilliant organizing guru Julie Morgenstern, author of Organizing from the Inside Out.  This system reduces each item in your world to its purpose in your life, creating vacuous space and facilitating fluid function. YAY!

First, thou shalt analyze the area to be made magnificent.  Refer to Organizing Part 1: Get Real with Your Needs.

Sort

Pull out everything in the chosen area and sort strictly according to how you use each item....K....

Purge

Recycle, throw out or archive or store anything that hasn't been used recently.........Mmmmkay...

Assign a Home

Group the keepers according to how you use them and assign them homes where you use them.  Use sticky notes.  Now you will know what, if any, storage container-y things you might need to get.  Make a list.  *I will list my favesie organizers for different areas of the home in a future bloggy thingy.

Contain

Get the containers you need, put your goodies in them. Put the goodies where they go. Label them if there is even the slightest doubt about the obviousness of what goes where. Labels on people: Not Good. Labels on people's stuff: Way Good. *teehee*

Equalize

Keep up on the putting of things in their places day by day. Your system is set to make

that easy, so stay committed. A space for everything and everything in its space! 

Live it, love it, DO IT!!!  It will make your life so fluid.  YAY!!!

Organizing Part 1: Get Real with your Needs

You have to get real with what your needs are before properly organizing any space, especially your personal clothing closet because it's such an extension of you. This is time to get out a sheet of paper and actually list or bubble graph (my fave) answers to each of the 4 questions that follow.

What works for you? What are the areas you know you got it going on, both in life and in the area you are organizing? What about this space makes you smile?

What doesn't work for you? What are you consistently misplacing? Is there any thing you never have a place for? Is there anything that you can't do because of the clutter? How do the disorganized spaces make you feel? If people visit,

do you sketch out about what they might see?

What is super crucial to you? What makes you? What moves you? What do you need to have ready to go at any given time?

Why are you doing this? Make a list or graph or collage or something like that of all the blessed lightness you will enjoy when your space is organized. Hang it in the space until the project is done (or keep it up if its pretty).

Now you will have real intention behind your organizing project & it will be fun & enlightening, & long term functional. YAY!!!! 

Making Kombucha Home Brew

So, recently I had an excessively fermented kombucha scoby and a buildup of empty store bought kombucha bottles in the recycling bin.   This was my cue to get back into home brewing kombucha- it's the best anyways.

Here you see a close up of the overgrown scoby. 

Like everything, it starts with water:
Boil water.  Make tea.  Dissolve sugar into tea.  Allow to cool completely.  Pour into glass gallon jar.  Add scoby & mother liquid.  Top off with water to fill jar.

This is the original recipe I got from the local soul sister that gave me my original kombucha culture 2 years ago.

I used 3 green and 3 black tea bags. I used organic unbleached white sugar even though I've heard straight white sugar works the best because its so purified.  I should note that everything I used in the process I cleaned with white vinegar first.  Vinegar is awesome for cleaning!!!

The brew.  In three weeks I will have some magical living tea!  Yay!!!!  I'll keep you posted....