January always seems to be a month of decluttering and organizing around here.  January and right before school starts.  As I close off my businesses for last year I start fresh for the new year.  Part of the process this year included a long awaited shelf from Hubby.

This is the final result.

When we bought this house six years ago, I asked Hubby to put some shelves in this half wall so I could use it as a mini office in the kitchen. Well, that never happened. And as my piles of papers and things that I need handy every day grew bigger and bigger, Hubby finally saw what I needed.

It all started when he cut a hole in a different wall to let the water from our leaking roof drip out. And since he was already cutting holes in walls he realized that it was now or never and took a stab at the shelves. He did a little tweaking and the end result is an area for me to put stuff away! Hooray for me. Of course that doesn’t mean that the top shelf only houses my laptop, but thankfully I can work there without risk of things falling on the floor (as they happened to do before).

Now that I have happily been using this space properly, I have also been working in my real office upstairs.  Not a space I use often enough, but I am trying hard to go up there and work every day even if it is farther away from the coffee machine and fireplace.  Laptops can be hazardous.