Welcome to My Closet.

I am opening my closet, now that it's complete, thanks to my dear friend Rachel for getting down to business. One day we were hanging out and she was telling me how much she loves organizing. SOOOOO I asked her to step up stairs and see what she would do to my closet. She was probably cringing at the sight. Long story short for the next two days we de-cluttered. It was actually really fun catching-up while organizing, highly recommend it! Andrew was in shock that I put my friend to work, I reminded him that she likes doing it and she offered. He thought I was taking after my dad and putting guests to work. I reassured him that was not the case. 

Check out before...I told you it was bad!!!

 Rachel working away. 

BEFORE!

AFTER!

 BEFORE

 AFTER

My make-up is organized by products. 

All my eye products in one drawer, face products in another, and so on. 

 Inside the storage closet...

 seasonal clothes...swim suits, boots, extra bags, anything wool or heavy goes in here!

 view from the storage closet. 

the way I see it...

Carrie is so wise. 

My closet was a struggle and a work in progress. First, Andrew put the rod up to hang my clothes. We made the mistake by buying a bunch of those set-up rack things...they sucked, don't buy them, they are made to old 5 shirts and who only has 5 shirts? The rod from Home Depot worked great because you can customize it to the size of your wall and only cost a couple bucks, saved so much money and hangs way more clothes. Tj Max once again came through! I got all my organizer pins and decor came from my fav store. Side note don't ever by clear jars (holds my brushes and lip-stick) from Target, Tj's is the cheapest...only $5-$10. The shoe racks on the doors are my favorite! You can see your shoes perfectly while taking up no space...huge plus!

Categorizing by pieces is the most helpful when getting ready. Have all your dresses together, then all your skirts, then blouses, and so on.  THEN make sure all your dresses are put together by color, so when you go for a black dress, all of them will be together, and so on. 

It's a lot of fun to have an inspiration board as well. Anything you see in a magazine or Pinterest put on the board for future reference!

Also if you have any fashion books put them together for decoration and reference. My favorites are Lauren Conrad's book Style and all Nina Garcia's books!

 I love getting dressed in this closet. I love the feeling organization gives you.

Thank you Rach, I couldn't have done it without you!

Mini Golf Defeat!

Mr.'s brother, Christopher, is in town, which means family competition is necessary. First we feast on pizza before the big brawl. The traditional mini golf game happens every summer, however, they like to think of it has the PGA tour. I hold my breath and hope I can get out of the game alive. There are two titles you can win, Team Winner or Single Winner. It's more complicated then you would think. Do you take the top score of each hole per team or do you add team member scores together? 

Such a controversy. 

We divide in teams, Andrew and I, Martha and Christopher, 

while Stan tried to win the SINGLE WINNER title. I thought my family competitive, BUT you haven't seen competitive until you have been apart of the Schumacher family. Before I knew better, I thought family games were filled with laughter and fun. Now that ideology is thrown out the window. Long story short, Andrew and I won the team title by two! Christopher beat me for the single title by two! Andrew couldn't live with the fact that Christopher beat him for the single title so they had to go back for rematch aka revenge. Andrew won. The end. Can't wait for next year! 

 Andrew's new iPhone case. 

Had to document the rules of this hole...such a controversy every year. 

 Adding up the card, without a calculator, math teacher refusal. 

Notice that Stan and I got a hole-in-one! 

What a game! 

P.S. I wanted to clarify that Christopher was not part of the "Schumacher Boys" struggle in this post. He was actually all for pictures and very into it! :)