Morning's Light

It's Friday!  Such good news.  Thanks for your words of wisdom for me about the junior high girls.  I'll keep it all in mind.

So excited – as if it were Christmas!  I'm going to IKEA tomorrow (two hours away) with my sister in law Maya, niece Mimo and with Elena.  [Whenever the name Mimo comes up in conversation, Elena gets a faraway look in her eyes, sighs and says softly, "I LOVE Mimo!!!".  Tomorrow Elena and Mimo can have a long conversation all the way to IKEA.] 

I'm going for some colorful items for my apartment but also am on a mission to organize the supply cupboards in the office.  Here are some photos.  What do you think would organize these cupboards? (I'm transferring the photos to my new iPod Touch (thanks www.theprintedblog.com)..so that I can refer to them while at IKEA.) In the photos below, the bowls and the basket are my two attempts to bring order out of chaos.  The guys in the office love it and have raved about it. They'd probably faint if the entire cabinet was in order.

Here's where everyone can scoop up the amount of binder clips they need and can be on their merry way.  The bowls are from our kitchen, so I'm going to buy something in a similar size to replace them here.

From Day One on the job four years ago, I craved organizing these supplies. I wasn't handed the assignment until 2009. Consider this the official series of BEFORE photos.  

Bottom row: rubber bands, pens, pencils, CDs, CD envelopes, white out, pencil lead.  Middle row: binder clips, paper clips, batteries in the basket, post its and staples.  Top row: Lots and lots of printer ink. 

Bottom cupboard holds sheet protectors, legal pads, more binder clips, yellow pads of various sizes, notebooks, and expanding folders. 

H E L P.  What would YOU do with this big lump of untidiness??