That time again - My To Do List!

My mind is all over the place lately so I need to sit down and concentrate on one thing at a time.  Unfortunately that means deciding on what those things are and setting some priorities.  This will make my husband very happy as he is always rabbiting on about if there is a job to do then "Write it down!". The things that get forgotten and weeks may pass before I get around to doing that five minute task which nags me constantly.

So in the spirit of starting off with a positive attitude, here is what I've achieved so far:

1. Made a dental appointment for my daughter during the holidays (long overdue!).
2. Made a doctors appointment for my pap smear (about six months overdue - and in the interests of my fellow bloggers' reminders to us all to get checked, consider this a reminder to you too!).
3. Made an appointment with my optometrist for my checkup (about a year overdue).
4. Get my dog's hair cut (except he now looks like a skeleton).

Poor cold Sydney!

This is all I've come up with so far.  Now here's my To Do List (funny how this subject crops up before school holidays almost every time!):

1. Do product reviews that are in the pipeline.
2. Read some of the books that are piling up around my bedroom (damn those school fetes!)
3. De clutter desk (supplied before shot below, I haven't even sat at it yet, probably because I haven't got a chair).
4. Clean out wardrobe (and hopefully discover a big gap that needs to be filled with new clothes!).
5. Decorate garage so the kids actually want to use it as a rumpus room.
6. Make our home more stylish, or at least make an attempt at decorating it the way it deserves.

This is disgusting, nothing like the ideal I pinned here

Some of these things I can solve by just getting stuck in and also by getting advice from blogs such as My Big Nutshell and Urban Style Hunters (which had their pop up store launch last Sunday and which I attended and am excited as to where they are heading with just the kind of lovely things I adore).  They also told me the four little, old Sebel chairs I have in the backyard are quite valuable!

Found thrown out at school. Aren't they cute? (Please ignore the weeds)

This will hopefully put some things out of my head tonight and leave the final week of the school term free to actually achieve things off my to do list at my day job!  

So do you have a to do list which just happens to turn up just before the holidays, every time?

*Joining up with Essentially Jess for IBOT*

Day 17 of 30 Day Photo Challenge: Something I have too much of and is taking up unnecessary space

Most of us have way too many clothes. We collect them by the cupboard full, some of us even have whole rooms dedicated to them. Who could possibly wear all these clothes all the time. Because that's the thing, some of us (OK me!) wear a few things all the time and buy something new when I have to go somewhere special. But I've stopped that lately and even feel guilty if I buy something that's not out of an op shop or passed on to me. But I still have a wardrobe full of clothes and shoes I couldn't turn down from friends and sisters as that would be wasteful. But what's wasteful is how I'm clogging up this huge wardrobe (well it's huge compared to all my previous wardrobes). I need to follow Nicole Avery's or Katrina's example and be brutal and cull, cull, cull! [As you can see by the colour range in there, I'm an Autumn. What about you?]