My 30 before 30 List Update aka This Girl has been Workin

I'm here to update my 30 before 30 list! I know a couple of you will be surprised that I completed some tasks on this list but to you I say " stop hating, haters." Most of these tasks were completed because my parents are coming into town tomorrow and I have to meet Momma Rosa's high standards. Now on to the completed items:

#4. Organize my home office desk and #5. Decorate my home office walls.

Okay this task was sadly a year in the making. I like to say our house is small and storage is limited so we liked to just put all our crap in the home office. You might ask "Hey I thought you had a garage?" and I'd say "Have you met my husband? He is a home wine maker and the garage is our makeshift winery." Duh, what else would we use our garage for? Let's take a look at some before pictures (please don't judge or report me to hoarders.)

Before pictures:

Yea it was a hot mess in there! Now look at the new and improved home office.

After Photos:

I love how it turned out! I added my Ikea shelf and my new bulletin board. Now I'm all inspired and can start making Matt's wine labels.

#8. Organize/decorate the floating shelves in our living room.

I was a bad blogger and didn't photograph the before of the shelves, my bad. Nothing drastic really changed, I rearranged some of the items and added a couple of books for height. I like the balance of the shelves more now. I'm trying to work with what I got as far as decorating goes at the moment since my cash flow is more like a trickle.


#10. Take an art class.

I took a calligraphy class in San Francisco and I loved it! And contrary to Mike's statement it wasn't filled with 80 year old grandmas. Some day people will realize I'm way more hip than 80 year olds. Almost everyone there was around my age or younger. There were only 2 older ladies. Calligraphy is awesome but something that takes years and years to perfect. I hope to work on it here and there and get halfway decent at it. My next art class I want to take is letterpress printing. Now I just have to find the closest senior center ;)

So there you have it my friends. I have completed 4 items off my list. Sure its June and I have 26 more items left, but slow and steady wins the race. I think I'll have 3 more items completed by next week.