Hi everyone! I wanted to show you a scrapbook paper wreath I made for a little neighbor get together before I pack it up!
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Michael’s had scrapbook paper on sale for 7 for $1.00! I always stock up when the price is low! Buying at the lowest possible price for future use works with not just food! 🙂
We had a few neighbors over to say goodbye before my house got piled high with boxes. So I broke out a bin of fall stuff since it’s easy to put back.
This wreath cost me less than $2 to make since the scrapbook paper was on sale and I had the other materials!
Moving Update
Our lease at our new house starts October 15th and our closing on this house is the 22nd. So we’ll start to take a few things over every day (it’s in another town about 20-30 minutes from here). But the mover’s aren’t coming until the day before closing.
Yes, we will be renting! The last time we rented was over 20 years ago. So I’m sure it will be an interesting adjustment (especially since I’m not allowed to paint) 🙂 . But we are looking forward to having a smaller house and yard and paying waaay less than our mortgage here. Plus if something stops working – it’s not us that has to fix it. Did I tell you that our water heater gave out Labor Day Weekend and our inspection was Labor Day! Let’s just say I will be very happy when everything is over!
We signed a one year lease so we’ve got the next year to decide what we want to do and where we want to go!
Any moving tips you’d like to share? I am color coding the boxes so I hopefully won’t have to tell the movers where to place the boxes when they unload.
Love the wreath:) Moving isn’t fun to me! The last time I moved, we put all the boxes in the garage and I took them in as I was ready to unpack! Having all of the boxes sitting around waiting to be unpacked makes me crazy! Enjoy your day dear friend, I can’t wait to see the new place:) HUGS!
Thanks Theresa! I hadn’t thought about that. I may do as you suggest with the main level rooms and just have them take the bedroom boxes upstairs (don’t want to go up and down the stairs). Thanks for the idea!
What a sweet wreath, and it looks so easy to do too. I’m glad you have found a new home to live in and hope all will go well with your moving and the transition from one place to the other. Blessings to you, Manuela. Pam
Thanks Pamela!
Cute wreath!
Next time I move, I will be renting also. I am tired of dealing with repairs, etc.
Thanks! It does get to be a bit much doesn’t it!
We’ve moved a few times and so I can share! Last time, we did as Theresa suggested with the boxes. My dh didn’t want to be stumbling over boxes for weeks! I hated it, though. If I needed something, it required a minor miracle to locate it. Also, don’t bother toouxh with color coding the boxes. I’ve tried this and found that movers don’t like it. Just write the destination on the box with a Sharpie. Otherwise, just stand at the front door directing movers with every single box. I speak from experience! Good luck with your move!
That’s so cute! So you’re renting. It is nice not to have to worry about things breaking and then having to pay to fix it.
Brenda
Love the wreath. I just recently moved. I made sure that the items I needed to unpack first were in boxes marked “OPEN FIRST”. I could set out the necessities and work on unpacking the rest without rushing
Great idea Teresa! I’ll be doing that!
I have one box that I label “Decor” and it holds a favorite painting or two, some candlesticks–anything that specially says “home” for me–and unpack it early on so that our new space feels like home right off.
The wreath is so cute. Leave it to you to be crafting on your way out the door! Sorry about the hot water heater. After our new roof, our very necessary paint job and now a whole new (3000 dollar!!) drain line, I envy you the renter’s right to not have to worry about that. I think leasing is a good idea for your transition anyway. It gives you time to think and plan.
As for moving tips? I can say honestly that we are pretty good movers here. My mom unpacked an entire five bedroom house in an afternoon back when we moved to Georgia, and I did the same with this house of ours, and we didn’t even use movers. We did it ourselves.
I color coded everything just like you’re doing, and every single space in the house got a color.. Then, I made a little chart to hang by the back door telling where the colors went just in case anyone got confused. (We had friends and family helping us.) My husband had sort of “studied” the attics (we have two) and had a plan for where everything would go in them so stuff didn’t just get shooshed up there.
Because we moved ourselves, we didn’t pack clothes. We left clothes on hangers and moved the drawers as if they were boxes.
You amaze me Manuela! The last thing I would be doing in this situation is decorating and having a party. I would probably be freaking out because of the packing! I am afraid I don’t have any moving tips, we have lived in this house 33 years. The wreath is a cute project and I love the little “fall” banner in the center :>)
Oh I’m gong to start freaking out next week. I feel it’s too early for that now LOL! That wreath took me like 20 min to make and it was a nice diversion. We haven’t moved in 17 years so I really don’t know how to pack and move! The mover’s say it’s going to take 8-12 hours to move us!!!! We’re going to start taking things over to the new house before the official move in date so hopefully that’ll cut down on the time. I just can’t imagine dealing with moving for 12 hours! It already makes me tired just thinking about it. 🙂
we just sold our home of 40 yrs last winter and moved into our son’t beautiful poolhouse. It’s not a lot smaller than what we had, but, a little. We love it.
Our son owns a moving company so it made things really easy for us and we only moved across town.
I had the movers to put ea box in the room where it went and it made it pretty easy.
Good luck on your move. I know what you mean about not having such high bills ea month.
Hi BJ!
Lucky you having a son in the moving business! We were told it’s going to take 8-12 hours to move us. I didn’t think I had all that much stuff, but we will be having a garage sale before we move. Hopefully the weather will cooperate!
Such a pretty wreath! Can’t believe you made that when you’re in the middle of packing – I’m impressed! Are you moving into the house (the white one) that you showed to us previously on your blog? Interesting that you’ll be renting. I think it’s a good idea with this economy. Our house will be paid off in 4 years and while that’s wonderful, we’re still responsible for insurance and property taxes – which are approx $600/mo alone – and then like you said, there’s the cost of upkeep and things breaking down. Right now we need new siding, windows, furnace, and central AC! Ha!
Hi Melanie, Yes it’s the black and white house with the porch swing that I showed in a post. That wreath took no time to make – all you have to do is roll a sheet of scrapbookpaper and glue it to a cardboard disc. I would have done a tutorial but it takes so much time to photograph and write each step – I just didn’t have time right now.
This house will be freeing in so many ways. It took my husband 2 hours to mow our backyard last week – this new house it won’t even take an hour to do the front and back. He’s excited about having more free time as am I. I’m finally going to teach myself how to crochet!
I love the scrapbook paper wreath! Congratulations on your move! Not sure I have any moving tips but what a great idea to color code the boxes!
Great idea to stock up on the scrapbook paper when it is on sale, Manuela. Unfortunately, I never know about the sales until they are ending or over. : ) Oh well, I have enough supplies that I need to use before I buy more anyway. Your wreath turned out really pretty and I could see making something like that with the pad of Christmas scrapbook papers I have here.
Wow, the 15th will be here before you know it! I was just saying to my co-workers today that I couldn’t believe it was September 30th. It will be interesting to hear how you like leasing after being an owner for so long. My sister-in-law is going to rent after owning her own home for several years. She just sold her house, too, and is moving to Florida.
It’s been almost two years since we’ve moved, but I feel like I could have written this post. Well, except for the wreath! No way I was in a crafting mood a week before we moved!
We moved from a 2500 sq ft home that we had lived in for 26 years to a rental that was half the size. We also had a garage sale but there was still lots of stuff to be moved and 14 months later we did it again! Of course, that time we had fewer things but it was still a huge pita!
I enjoyed renting though. The landlord took care of everything, including the yard. It was a nice change from what we had been used to.
Good luck with everything Manuela!