{"id":2868,"date":"2011-06-24T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T22:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2011-06-24T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T01:33:47","slug":"what-i-did-before-my-summer-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2011\/06\/what-i-did-before-my-summer-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"What I did *before* my summer vacation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all started seven years ago.\u00a0 Seven years ago, we took a guest room and turned it into a nursery.\u00a0 Lots of stuff from the guest room migrated into the craft room.\u00a0 Sometime later, I sort of cleaned it up so it was partly usable.\u00a0 Then three years ago, we took an office and turned it into another nursery.\u00a0 Lots of stuff from the office migrated into the craft room.\u00a0 With two small children and a small business, I&#8217;ve had no time to try to clean it up, though I have made a couple of half-hearted attempts over these past three years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last summer it looked like this:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_messy1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2870\" title=\"craft_room_messy1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_messy1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_messy2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2871\" title=\"craft_room_messy2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_messy2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_messy3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2872\" title=\"craft_room_messy3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_messy3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And really, it&#8217;s only gotten worse since then.\u00a0 Much, much worse.\u00a0 Two weeks ago I decided I was either going to have this room cleaned up before school let out, or I was going to rent a dumpster, park it outside the window, and throw it all out.<\/p>\n<p>This is what it looks like today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_clean1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2873\" title=\"craft_room_clean1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_clean1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_clean2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2874\" title=\"craft_room_clean2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_clean2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_clean3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2875\" title=\"craft_room_clean3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_clean3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_clean4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2876\" title=\"craft_room_clean4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/crafts\/craft_room_clean4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(We won&#8217;t talk about how much I&#8217;ve neglected the rest of the house in order to get this room clean.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a project for this weekend!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started seven years ago.\u00a0 Seven years ago, we took a guest room and turned it into a nursery.\u00a0 Lots of stuff from the guest room migrated into the craft room.\u00a0 Sometime later, I sort of cleaned it 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