Bookshelf

Yay, the bookshelf is all cleaned off. I don't know why I let it get so out of control:

Oy! This is embarrassing! Looking at this old picture you can SURE see a change. I took this picture yesterday- and have been slowly cleaning it up so today when I finished I didn't see much of  a change, but now. EW.
Stop looking at that. Here look at the new clean version.

 Much much better. Okay, so I didn't clean up much on the sides- to the right Is our very overflowing trash can. Like I mentioned, there's  no room in our big outside bin, so the cans inside keep getting more and more stuffed full. Anyway, I'm much happier with the improvement. In case you're wondering, that's our "junk drawer" on the bottom left corner. As a kid, we always had a designated junk drawer where things that had no home (ie batteries, rubber bands, tape, playing cards, etc...) could go. Now I don't have a junk drawer- and yet I still have things that have no home. Not having extra drawer space I had to get creative and so this box was invented and found its way to the bookshelf. It works quite well. And my hole puncher on the floor normally goes on the top of the bookshelf in the very right side, but my nativity scene is there for the holiday season. It's there in the first picture too, but you barely see it. What's the point of a decoration if you can't see it?!