Your Pampered Chef Home Office!!

[Teresa Lynn]

funny thing is my office is the room with the least baskets. (EXCEPT kids rooms, they refuse to allow me to put any in there) I have snuck a few to the game room and they carry them back down stairs Once I got the bug, I was "terminal" . My kids call me a basket case.
I tell them everyone should believe in something, I believe I'll buy another basket.
Teresa

 

[jenniferknapp]

I have never seen a LB basket...they look so nice!!

 

[pamperedalf]

Teresa, your office looks so nice & organized that just inspired me to do some more organizing.

 

[Teresa Lynn]

An Advanced director friend tells me I'm so organized because I'm too lazy to look for anything.
She can call my husband when I'm doing a show and he can find whatever she needs.
After seeing the pictures so BIG (again I apologize) I thought yikes I need to clean the office up. I haven't been in here to do PC since I submitted my last show on Dec. 7

 

[pamperedalf]

Oh boy if that's dirty, I am definetly not sharing pics of my office you would die.

 

[dannyzmom]

Oh boy if that's dirty, I am definetly not sharing pics of my office you would die.

I was just thinking the same thing

 

[pamperedalf]

Carolyn, I am so glad that I am not alone.

 

[Teresa Lynn]

my kids have diagnosed me as OCD!!they laugh at me because I vacuum & do laundry everyday they think I'm definately not normal. Looking at the pictures I could see things that needed straightening (postcards, catalogs etc)
Other peoples messes (as long as it isn't at my house) HA! don't bother me so post away!!
I always want new ideas too
Teresa

 

[pamperedbecky]

Wow, Theresa, those were awesome pics and I'm so jealous! Not just of your organization, but those baskets. I REALLY want to see others' messy offices so I can show my husband!! It irritates the heck out of him that I'm messy. I swear I try to keep organized, but it piles up. I do have a really cool office area in our finished basement. I will really try to take a picture tonight. Too bad I just started trying to clean it up before I read this thread because it's looking a little better. The other half of my office is on our kitchen island. THAT gets out of control where you can't even see the top of it and it drives DH absolutely batty. As some may have read, he got me the services of a professional organizer for my birthday (my idea and I think he went for it because it will benefit him too). It's only a 4 hour chunk of time, so I doubt it's enough, but I'm going to try to "clean" for her first. Like cleaning for the cleaning lady...crazy! So, if I post this picture, it'll be a good before picture. I love how my office is set up, but I seem to be running out of room. I think it'll be a better use of space once I tackle it.

I'll try to post a pic later. Great idea!!!

 

[ange13]

Hey Theresa--if your Longaberger consultant ever quits, let me know--my husband is signed up to sell it--mostly for the discount!!! And January is 20% off all basket sets

I like the look of your office--mine is similar with the baskets, and its a very nice office with the furniture and all--just has papers every where cuz hubby doesn't know how to purge!! If it were up to me--the place would be very clean. most of the papers laying around are his. mine are at least in neat piles!

But, seeing your office makes me want more baskets!!!! Guess what I'll be buying this month!!!

 

[Teresa Lynn]

Becky,
it's funny how you mentioned having an organizer come in. A few years ago several PC friends hired me to come in and set up their offices so it was workable for them.
My biggest tip is when I bring the mail in I sort it over my LB trash can then we have a hanging file folder and I file each persons mail int heir folder.
I can not stand clutter.
Teresa

 

[pamperedlinda]

Okay....here's mine!Since you all were posting your pictures it inspired me to straighten my office up (just a little!). So here are my pics. You'll see my desk area, credenza, and the storage closet. The large pile on the left side of the desk belongs to DH! And the picture on the monitor is my adorable son!

 

[pamperedbecky]

Great idea with the file folders! I may have to use that one. I am better about throwing any junk away in the garbage cans out in the garage---even before I come in.

You should do the organizing as a side business! That or sell LB yourself. Too bad you don't life by me or else I would have hired you because you know exactly where I'm coming from!

 

[erinyourpclady]

my kids have diagnosed me as OCD!!they laugh at me because I vacuum & do laundry everyday they think I'm definately not normal. Looking at the pictures I could see things that needed straightening (postcards, catalogs etc)
Other peoples messes (as long as it isn't at my house) HA! don't bother me so post away!!
I always want new ideas too
Teresa

I do laundry, vacuum and clean everyday as well!! I am the same way about other peoples messes. It is just my house that has to be spotless! Ever seen "Sleeping with the Enemy"....my neighbors joke about me being that obsessive!

 

[Jilleysue]

I am absolutely loving this thread. I couldn't wait to get back on and see if there was more pics just to see how people organize. I love those baskets. I have a few myself. Looks very colorful.

Oh for those of you who don't know how to post pics...
Go to advanced right below....


Hit the link that says Manage attachments, and then you can browse your files for the pics that you want to attach.
Does that help at all?????

 

[Jilleysue]

Well if this thread has done anything, we have all cleaned up our desks and PC work areas a little huh??? HAHAHAHA!

 

[dannyzmom]

Well if this thread has done anything, we have all cleaned up our desks and PC work areas a little huh??? HAHAHAHA!

Nope - not me...mine is still disgusting and I STILL have a 4-day-old cup of half-drank chocolate milk sitting on it.

 

[Jilleysue]

Nope - not me...mine is still disgusting and I STILL have a 4-day-old cup of half-drank chocolate milk sitting on it.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jilleysue]

I do love all that colored paper. I need to get myself a shelf like that.

 

[ChefBurke]

Jilleysue YEA I'm SOOO Glad yall are having fun with this thread!! I started it because I am remodeling my "office" Once all the trash Is cleaned & it still looks crazy I will post pics-cause its only fair since I started the thread LOL. Yall will see before & finally AFTER pics of my office!!! I am soo organization-challenged! I long for it but it seems out of reach when dealing with a tetthing-now sick baby!!AHHHH!!!! But I did go to joann fabrics & found my fabric I wanna use for drapes! Sooo I'm picking a color from that! My mom is a crafty lady! Sooo We're thinkin corness(cannot spell it!lol) boards for the window treatments. I am attepting to upload the fabric samples to here... Let me know yalls thoughts.. I am leaning towards the longer green one- the texture is neat & I like the leafy print on it.. so my walls are looking to be a bright energy green!!

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/McKennasMommy_2006/officefabric002.jpg

Hope it worked out... I got one other way:
<a href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m78/McKennasMommy_2006/officefabric002.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a>

 

[ChefBurke]

Ok sorry so big! So I'm thinking of leaning towards the geen one... what do yall think!? And painting the walla the light green on the one leaf & accenting with the other colors...

 

[Jilleysue]

I like the one you picked. The striped would be too colorful for me and personally I don't like blue. I really like nuetral paint and then I can change the accents. That is what I always do in every room. I am tooooo picky to do colors on walls...my lord I would be painting every week. You can see the color in my pics, I had an interior decorator pick it out. I change candles and pillows to go with my mood every season.....LOL Bright colors, dark colors..just depends. You can see above my office I have a small window, I am going to do a valance for some color to brighten that area, but I am sure I will switch that every month...HAHAHAHA. It's bad enough my color for my PC business is purple. My stampers are purple, file folders are purple, labels are purple, forms are purple....God I am insane...LOL

 

[ChefBurke]

Jill,
Oh i see your a fellow floridian! So you know all about our dreadful weather!lol Yea I know different colors send different vibes in spaces so I think I'm going green, ohh bring me money!!! LOLlol how funny my fav color is PURPLE!!! I should organize all my stuff to be "purple as my signature color"(like shelby on steel magnolias)

 

[ChefBurke]

I overall want to make the space productive so I can buckle down & work & have time to bring a toy in for my babygirl to play on the floor if mommy needs to get work done! Right now its disaster so if she crys out runs mommy!!!!!

 

[Jilleysue]

Lite purple accents such as folders and stampers and labels with that green would be pretty.
Yes I am in Florida. Originally from Maine but love it here.

 

[pamperedbecky]

Wow, Theresa, those were awesome pics and I'm so jealous! Not just of your organization, but those baskets. I REALLY want to see others' messy offices so I can show my husband!! It irritates the heck out of him that I'm messy. I swear I try to keep organized, but it piles up. I do have a really cool office area in our finished basement. I will really try to take a picture tonight. Too bad I just started trying to clean it up before I read this thread because it's looking a little better. The other half of my office is on our kitchen island. THAT gets out of control where you can't even see the top of it and it drives DH absolutely batty. As some may have read, he got me the services of a professional organizer for my birthday (my idea and I think he went for it because it will benefit him too). It's only a 4 hour chunk of time, so I doubt it's enough, but I'm going to try to "clean" for her first. Like cleaning for the cleaning lady...crazy! So, if I post this picture, it'll be a good before picture. I love how my office is set up, but I seem to be running out of room. I think it'll be a better use of space once I tackle it.

I'll try to post a pic later. Great idea!!!

Ok, I'm posting some pictures. I actually spent some time filing receipts from shows over the past few months, which used to be spread out on my desk and "peninsula" area. It's crazy! I'm meeting with the organizer on Jan. 25th, but now that this thread has inspired me to get more organized, it won't be as bad as I thought. I'll have to post the after pictures. Someday I'll take a picture of my island once that gets covered again.

Wow, after taking about 30 minutes to mess around with this, hopefully you can see the dang picture. I had to shrink the heck out of the pictures for them to post.

 

[dannyzmom]

I feel so much better now...Becky's area looks almost as messy as mine!!!
I woudl upload pics but it keeps saying my pics are too big - help? Maybe my MESS is too big!!??!

 

[pamperedbecky]

I feel so much better now...Becky's area looks almost as messy as mine!!!
I woudl upload pics but it keeps saying my pics are too big - help? Maybe my MESS is too big!!??!

Ha ha ha!! I was going to laugh if someone told me it didn't look that bad. Good, that makes me feel better. I'll tell my husband I'm not the ONLY one who has a messy office.

Through my picture program on my computer, I had to keep shrinking it before the upload thing would take it. Just try to shrink it through whatever program you have to manage photos, then re-save it under a different name and try uploading that.

 

[dannyzmom]

Ha ha ha!! I was going to laugh if someone told me it didn't look that bad. Good, that makes me feel better. I'll tell my husband I'm not the ONLY one who has a messy office.

Through my picture program on my computer, I had to keep shrinking it before the upload thing would take it. Just try to shrink it through whatever program you have to manage photos, then re-save it under a different name and try uploading that.

I don't know how to shrink pics
Hell - if I knew how to shrink things I'd shrink this freakin mess!!! LOL

 

[pamperedbecky]

I don't know how to shrink pics
Hell - if I knew how to shrink things I'd shrink this freakin mess!!! LOL

LOL!! Yeah, me too! Well, maybe someone who's more familiar with computer stuff can explain it better. I'd love to see your pics though! Email them to me if you feel like it.

 

[Jilleysue]

Oh Carolyn..do I have the most fabulous pic shrinking link for you and everyone else. This will take hours of stress and work from your life. Kevin just found this for me the other day and it is the best thing I have ever found. I shrunk 145 pictures the other day in literally 1 minute. Let me find it. You all will love me....THIS IS GREAT !!!!!! You down load your pics, wherever they are, hit select all, right click hit resize pics and viola...smaller pics. Oh let me find the link..let me find it. Be right back.

 

[dannyzmom]

Oh Carolyn..do I have the most fabulous pic shrinking link for you and everyone else. This will take hours of stress and work from your life. Kevin just found this for me the other day and it is the best thing I have ever found. I shrunk 145 pictures the other day in literally 1 minute. Let me find it. You all will love me....THIS IS GREAT !!!!!! You down load your pics, wherever they are, hit select all, right click hit resize pics and viola...smaller pics. Oh let me find the link..let me find it. Be right back.

hmmmm...I would prefer a program that would shrink my mess...LOL

 

[DanielleQ]

doesn't irfan view resize prints?

 

[Jilleysue]

No excuse now, resize your pictures PEOPLE!http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

This is a tool that microsoft created to resize all your pictures. My lord, if everyone doesn't jump for joy. My BF found this and I was like yeah right, it won't work. So he sent me the link and it down loads it 2 seconds. You won't even notice it on your computer. Once you go to the area where your pictures are, select a number of pictures or one. Put the cursor on a picture and right click, you will then see the option (oh this is great), RESIZE and you can pick what you want!!!

Can you believe it??? All of the sudden you have smaller pictures of whatever you want. I pretty much kissed his feet the other day. It resized all pics in literally 1 minute.
Took hours of time and stress from my life.
Hopefully I put the right link on. ENJOY!!!!

 

[DanielleQ]

Jill, you might just be the happiest girl I know!

 

[Jilleysue]

hmmmm...I would prefer a program that would shrink my mess...LOL

That would be a JILLEYSUE...Fortunately....You have that...HOORAYYYY.
I'll help ya anyway I can. That's the least I can do....Label maker in hand...LOL

 

[Jilleysue]

Jill, you might just be the happiest girl I know!

HAHA, Why Thank you. I really try to be. Little things please me. I didn't know my cooky personality showed thru so much....LOL

If at anytime you could see me get stressed out when I use to resize hundreds of pics, you wouldn't think soo..but I do try...hehe

 

[dannyzmom]

OMG - I am doing it...I am showing my mess - LOL
Attached is my nasty desk - my postcard organizer - and my new colored paper racks...
Ya'll are never gonna speak to me again after seeing my desk...

 

[dannyzmom]

Look!! You're all speechelss!! I scared you all away!

 

[dannyzmom]

That would be a JILLEYSUE...Fortunately....You have that...HOORAYYYY.
I'll help ya anyway I can. That's the least I can do....Label maker in hand...LOL

Okay - so when are you available to come over & overhaul my office? And what do you charge per hour? LOL

 

[jenniferknapp]

the paper racks and postcard organizer are great!!! and your desk, you have your work cut out for you! let that be a 2007 resolution ....and we will be waiting for an after photo!!

 

[dannyzmom]

the paper racks and postcard organizer are great!!! and your desk, you have your work cut out for you! let that be a 2007 resolution ....and we will be waiting for an after photo!!

You'll be waiting til 2017 - LOL

 

[Jilleysue]

Carolyn..NO charge of course...The laughs I think we will have I think will be plenty..just tell Evan to have that dance ready..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH..
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

 

[ange13]

Wow!! You're right Carolyn--you need someone to help rescue you! Although I have to say, mine has looked like that in the past! I've been doing the touch it once file system for over a year and it's amazing how it actually works!!!! (now if only the hubby would adapt to it!)

I just got a new camera, so I'll try to take pics tomorrow and see what I can do to show you my office. It's not pretty-but I love it. the furniture was a bribe my hubby wanted a laptop to himself, I wanted furniture--we both win!!!! Now if I could just get rid of the guns hanging on the wall--i'd be much happier! (you'll see when I post pics!)

 

[dannyzmom]

Carolyn..NO charge of course...The laughs I think we will have I think will be plenty..just tell Evan to have that dance ready..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH..
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I'll supply the chocolate and we can sing karaoke while we organize - LOL

 

[dannyzmom]

Wow!! You're right Carolyn--you need someone to help rescue you! Although I have to say, mine has looked like that in the past! I've been doing the touch it once file system for over a year and it's amazing how it actually works!!!! (now if only the hubby would adapt to it!)

I just got a new camera, so I'll try to take pics tomorrow and see what I can do to show you my office. It's not pretty-but I love it. the furniture was a bribe my hubby wanted a laptop to himself, I wanted furniture--we both win!!!! Now if I could just get rid of the guns hanging on the wall--i'd be much happier! (you'll see when I post pics!)

What's touch-it-once?

 

[Jilleysue]

Right now I am organizing my lap top. I have folders labeling Mailing #1 with everything I will send, Mailing #2...etc, so I can just click and adjust the names. This will be quick and easy. If something new comes Along I think I will just put them in a folder labeled other Hostess Packet Info.

 

[ange13]

touch it once, basically means what it says. when you get your mail for example, you open it then file it right away--bill paying area, garbage, file folder, etc. then it's done, you don't have to look at it again ever! (unless you need it!)

I used to have piles all over my desk--things that needed filing, paid, something done with it, etc. and I'd get to those piles maybe twice a year. so needless to say they were pretty big and an all day or week adventure--something you're never looking forward to doing. now I only have one pile for my receipts during the week and I always make time normally on sundays to enter them into PP and file right away. theoretically my taxes will be easy to do this year since i've kept up with it! that reciept pile normally takes about 5 minutes total--sooooo much easier than a day or more!

good luck with it--it really has saved me!

 

[jenniferknapp]

You'll be waiting til 2017 - LOL

I think someone plays too much netwinner! hehehe

 

[dannyzmom]

I think someone plays too much netwinner! hehehe

::::faint::::

 

[Jilleysue]

HAHAHAHAHA, Now that was FUNNNNYYYYYYY!