GETTING ORGANIZED - CLOSET

Here is another post in my series of getting organized.  With a new house comes trying to organize all your things so they work in your new space.  I have a lot of jewellery, mostly thanks to my amazing husband that has good taste in jewellery. I need a place that is easy to store it and in view or I forget what I have and end up just wearing the same 3 pairs of earrings.  I have a great little jewellery box that is about 10 years old that I have totally outgrown so I started thinking what could I use for my jewellery.

A few years back I had seen at the One of a Kind Show in toronto a wooden jewellery rack by Bijoux Display Company that you can hang on your wall.  I never got it because at the old house I really did not have room for it, but now that we have moved it works perfectly in my closet. And voila all my jewellery perfectly organized and easy to find.

MAMA BUY A NEW ONE...

Grandma bought C Monster this shirt about a year ago and well this week when we tried it on it was too small.  For the first time he had a fit he started crying and was very upset that his robot shirt would no longer fit him.  This was a first; he has never really cared about clothing.

So I told him I would see if I could find a new one for him.  See this came from the One of a Kind Show in Toronto, so no guaranties that I would find it again.  After googling the name on the tag I found the artisan that made the shirt and contacted them to confirm they would be at the show this coming spring.  Not only did Petra from Kiki Kids Wear confirm they would be at the show she offered to place a shirt on hold for me to ensure I get one in the right size.  Thank you Petra.

On another note in the clothing world C Monster is definetly turning into a fashionista these days.  This morning he wanted to select what he was wearing making certain the colours matched.  As he was putting on his t-shirt he looked at it carefully and said:

him :  "Mama I can't put this t-shirt on"

me: "Why"

him: "It's not perfect"

me: "I don't understand what is wrong with it"

him: "the picture is not all the same colour"

me: "show me I don't understand"

him"look mama there are crakes in the picture it does not look right anymore"

The image on the shirt was starting to crackle and fade, I think I am heading for trouble....

One of A Kind Show

Yesterday Grandmama, papa, C Monster and I went to the One Of a Kind Show. It's running at the Exebition Center until the end of the weekend. This is one of my favorite places to shop and to get ideas from.

C Monster was a champ and listened very well to us all morning and afternoon (well until he passed out in my arms during a nursing break. For those of you with kids big or little the show is ready for you. First little ones get in free. They have a nursing room with lots of chairs and change tables; they also have a microwave for those of you that are bottle feeding.

For the kids 2 and up there is a complimentary child care center (you get 1 1/2 hours free) it's a first come first serve - keep that in mind. We talked about dropping C Monster off for a bit but I just could not bring myself to do - he was having lots of fun running around with his papa.

What did we get?

• A Watch from Patina Canada for me.
• Extra funky underwear for Geoff by the candi factory.
• A wooden tractor for C Monster from Thorpe Toys. - let's talk about Thorpe for a second. I love their toys C Monster now has the tractor, the plane, the boat and the car. You can really only get their toys at shows (you can order them via email but the shipping is more then the toy) The plane was around 13$; the tractor 10$ and the one person car was under 5$, the boat was around 13$. The quality of the toys are fantastic - C Monster is pretty rough with his stuff and these are all surviving very well.
• A Nugs for C Monster. - The gut selling them said they were extra solid as long as you stayed away from the ones with the long legs and arms. So far it survived many throws... lets see if it keeps up. These were just so cute and C Monster really loved them.
• A modern and stylish tea cozy from Tenacious Life. - This is something we had been looking for, for what seems forever.
• A Dragon puzzle for C Monster from Sleepy Hollow Creations. This is C Monster 3rd puzzle from Sleepy Hollow. They are mode from wood; and when I asked her about her paints she said they are all food grade. If I remember correctly the dragon was 24$ - the quality and hours of amusement C Monster gets from the puzzles make it money well spent.
  
• For our sweet tooth we got honey and honeycomb from Honey Pie. I want to try to make honeycomb ice cream.

Worth a mention

We would of loved to buy everything we saw that we liked but at-last our pocket books and the environment can not handle that. So here are a few things we though about getting but did not - some of wish I did buy, but the good conscious consumer in me told me I did not need them.

• L'Atelier du cheval de bois; he has some of the most beautiful hand crafted toys I have ever seen in made in Canada. We stared at them for a very long time but could not justify buying C Monster any of them as he already had tones of everything.
• billy would designs; innovative and creative jewelry and accessories made from recycled and reclaimed wood. I so wanted the EarWings.
• Stand Up; not only is this clothing company trying to make a difference in the world with donating a portion of each sale to help various causes world wide - they offer very fashionable funky designs for t-shirts. We both wanted one of their shirts but could not justify adding another t-shirt to our already overflowing dresser drawers.

If you live in Toronto you should definitely try to check out the show, I now actually try to wait till the show to buy stuff we need - I just finished going without a watch for 3 months because I wanted to see what would be at the show.