Let the decorating begin!!!!

After a lovely little gathering at Michele's today, I came home to a surprisingly motivated hubby.

We decided earlier on that our Halloween party this year would be held in our basement. Last year, the party felt so spread out across our first floor that it was a little impersonal. Also, the further we get into decorating (ok, ok, there's not THAT much done... but the living room's looking good) the more I dread having to break down the every day and setting up for the holidays. Finally, I wanted to go all out and get an early start, so in order to be able to do WHATEVER I wanted, I needed a raw surface... so alas, we're having it in the basement.

So, taking advantage of Ryan's ready and able mood we attacked the basement.

Since we moved in, we had been using the basement as storage. Even though I had been trying to keep it semi-organized, of course over time things start to break down a little. In addition, we have a small "room" in our basement that was previously our "train" room that we decided would be come the only storage space in the house. So, we moved all of the kitchen storage, holiday storage and the very little general storage we had into the train room and organized it for permanent storing on some shelving we had.

I must say I'm very pleased with the way it turned out!

So now, the basement is organized and ready for some decorating!!!

I have a few new props, our old Halloween decorations and a mind full of ideas to take advantage of through the week and next month. I just can not wait!!