 and welcome back to my channel and to Vlogmas. So today I'm up pretty early. I have a couple projects that I really want to get done today and my little ones are still sleeping so I thought I'd get a head start. Well, they're still in bed. I got my coffee made and today I really want to tackle my junk room which if you guys watch my vlogs you know that it's actually our family room. I'm working on redoing it and stuff but it's kind of become a catch-all and I've had Christmas decor and Christmas gifts sitting down there and then recently I lost a lot of weight so I have like clothes that need to go on Poshmark all that stuff. But before I get started I wanted to tell you guys that this video is in collaboration with the Alaskan mama vlogger and Amy is a mom of five. She does a lot of fun vlogs and things that different content that is very similar to mine but of course in a very different setting and she is so sweet. Her and I have actually gotten to text each other and learn to know each other and I am really excited for you guys to go check out her channel. So whenever you are done watching this video don't forget to hit the link below in the description box and go watch her video and find out what she did clutters today. So my home is in three levels and I'm currently upstairs but our family room is kind of in the basement level so I guess I'll take you down there and show you the mess. Okay so here is the situation and my goal is that in January I get to start working on actually making this a functional family room so mounting the TV all of that. I showed you guys this mess in a vlog last week I think it was and I said I'm going to get this done get it tackled so we have all kinds of things going on here I had redone the flooring upstairs and this is an extra pack that needs to go back this is clothing that I need to go through and decide what I want to put on Poshmark boxes to wrap Christmas gifts in extra Christmas decor that needs to either be put away or put on display. Yeah literally anything everything my lights for filming and taking photos just yeah it's such a disaster so I think I'm just going to go ahead and get started hopefully I can get a good amount done before my little ones wake up and if not I'll probably just be working on it through the day oh and one more thing I wanted to mention before I actually start is this closet the point of this closet is to organize my decor whenever it's not in season or whatever so that's part of this project I really want to get this organized and get some of this stuff put in here I keep like non-holiday decor in here so my normal decor that I just like to exchange out but like the holiday decor whatever I don't generally use I put back into bins and that goes into our basement on shelves but this here is kind of just things I like to rotate so the first thing that I did is I just took all of the bins that I could that were empty from having Christmas decor in them down to our basement shelving and just cleared out a lot of the bigger stuff that really went in our basement I don't even know why it was sitting in here other than maybe it was just in holding I know somebody had commented on my video that I talked about the room being a mess and said that they called it a holding room which I thought was kind of appropriate since it just kind of holds things still they need to go to the right place so I lit a candle and then I got started in on divvying out the stuff I wanted to put on Poshmark and then the things that needed to go to the thrift store and then some of these books I actually like to wrap books that I'm not currently reading I like to wrap them with like brown paper or just kind of you know any kind of neutral looking paper and so I was just going through those and deciding which ones I wanted to wrap to put on my bookshelf so you're seeing a little behind the scenes of how I take pictures for Poshmark and hopefully I have a bunch of this stuff up until you guys see this video but I just like to get a neutral background so I grabbed a throw blanket and lay out each piece of clothing or shoes or whatever that I'm gonna put on and just snap my pictures it's really simple I mean if you guys have never used Poshmark I highly recommend it and again my closet link for Poshmark will be below so after I took pictures of some of the Poshmark things I went ahead and started wrapping some of my books sometimes I use some tape and you'll see me use tape on some of the books and then sometimes if the cover is a little bit of a harder cover I'll just wrap the paper inside of the cover and it kind of holds itself there I just love this way of styling books and it just makes a bookshelf look a lot cleaner instead of having multiple colors and I've been slowly collecting different ones to use on this bookshelf and my built-in bookshelf upstairs and then I got into the closet and this is I would say organized chaos I feel like there's so many different shapes and sizes of everything that it just kind of I do my best to organize it and I'm always pulling things in and out but at least it's I guess a little holding place for me all right guys I'm really happy with how this turned out I feel like I can finally get closer to my goal of getting this actually set up and getting the furniture one of the things we have to do before we get the furniture is this carpet needs to be actually like stretched and tacked down correctly it's just actually laying in here right now it's kind of new carpet we didn't we put it in not that long ago it just needs to be finished putting in correctly but over here I just put these are Christmas presents those are Christmas presents those are stocking stuffers and then this was that Poshmark stuff until I know what sells and all that and so all of this stuff will in the next few weeks kind of diminish to nothing and then over here these are just pillows that I want to use down here in the on the couch and whatever furniture I decided to get and then in here this closet is never perfect because the decor pieces just there's so many different shapes and sizes of everything so it's just more so like keeping it somewhat cleaned up and not too tumbled together so up here I just have everything like all of my wall decor type stuff leaning so I can quickly pull something out if I'm working on a project and then here's some bigger pieces and then up here I have a lot of florals like those are spring and summer florals so of course Christmas is going on right now so all that is tucked away and then the other thing is too is we do have shelving in our basement and I have some things that I keep down there as well this is just more a little bit easier access for me and I didn't really have a lot to put in this closet so I decided to just do this with it I'm really happy with all the progress that I made today and I hope that it gave you guys a lot of motivation also don't forget to go and check out Alaska and mommy vloggers video as well the link will be in the description box and my girls are eating breakfast and I need to go and help them finish up but if you're new to my channel don't forget to hit that subscribe button and give this video a like and I love you guys in the new world video