We spent all morning sorting and cleaning.
Ryan and I currently live in a three bedroom apartment. We use the master bedroom, we have one guest room and one room is dubbed our “room of shit.”
I apologize for the language, but honestly, look at it:
If you can think of a better name for it, we’re all ears. 
Basically our room of shit evolved over time. When we first moved into our apartment, we had plans to make it an office. Ryan gave me full decorating reign of the guest bedroom and I told him he could decorate our office to his liking.
We discussed many different office layouts and furniture arrangements and kept coming to the same conclusion. We didn’t want to pour money into outfitting an office catered around the current living space when we knew we would want something different in the future. So the room essentially became storage.
Now that I’m working from home, having a nice home office will be crucial and we plan to rent a place that has space for a real office. I can’t wait to actually have a bookshelf and files! Oh the joy!
Love Crafts
Our morning project had us rummaging through the room of shit, throwing away certain things and piling others into stacks to give away or later arrange on a bookshelf or in cabinets.
During the sorting process, we stumbled upon a pile of old “love crafts” from when we first started dating.
I remember leaving a trail of Hershey’s kisses to that sign, which I had propped up on Ryan’s bed with some Valentine’s Day goodies during our third year together.
Ryan made me this valentine himself:
I think there was a picture of us in the middle of it that fell off over the years.
I remember making this valentine for Ryan in my sorority house.
I used a glue gun to adhere those little candy hearts with sayings to the poster board, using their words to help me craft a Valentine’s day message. I remember eating a ton of the candy hearts in the process with my roommate, Laurel. The pinks and whites are the best!
We also found a calendar that I made for Ryan for Christmas one year to track all of our random memories during the following year. (He loved this gift just in case any girlfriends out there are looking for ideas!)
(Note: The picture of us was from one of my sorority’s themed grab-a-date functions. We don’t wear camo gear for fun, I swear.)
All of the sorting and cleaning caused me to work up an appetite!
Lunch
Eventually it was time for lunch, so we took a burger break.
My favorite veggie burgers, served on whole wheat sandwich thins with spinach, ketchup, mustard, relish, tomato and cucumber slices hit the spot!
More cucumber slices marinated in Italian dressing were enjoyed on the side.
Gotta get back to the mess!
Anyone want a free TV?
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Those valentines are the sweetest!
And that’s also my go-to veggie burger..so delicious!
I love the calendar idea! My 1st dating anniversary is coming up in 2 months, and I need some cute gift ideas. That one definitely might make the list!
Honestly, I think everyone has a room of shit haha
And those are SO CUTE!!!
‘the kiss the ground you walk on’ sign is adorable!…and so creative!! Love how into crafts Ryan is too!
You are right, this room just needs a little rearranging like, shelves but it could be great in an office!
Aww, all of your guys’ stuff is adorable. That must be fun to look back on now.
Your food all look so good too. I love your meal ideas.
Aaah, those valentines day gifts are so so sweet 🙂 isn’t it lovely to show the person you love most in the world how much you love and appreciate them in little ways like that <3 LOVE sending them and making them, so they are personal and true to you. I keep all the cards Tom has given me cause they make my heart happy and full and make me smile and feel so lucky 🙂
Loved the room of shit…classic, lol!
Those burgers look so good – I went to Wholefoods in London yesterday and got 4 packets of Amy's American adn California burgers – so excited to eat them! First time, over here, lol! I will be preparing them just like that above…nice 🙂
xyx
hahaha I have an old tv lying around as well.. I should try that trick ;);)
That burger looks really good! Can’t wait to try sandwich thins when I get to the USA..
3 weeks until our roadtrip aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! 🙂
Our guest room is kind of our room of crap – we have to much stuff in there!
We have a room we call “The Hole” where things go when they no other home. We’re about to redo it and make it our living room though. Right now it has these mirrored closet doors, so I use it as my home workout room.
Ahaha, we call our spare room the “crap corral” because all the crap really seems to just corral itself there.
Aw, love crafts. We have ours in a box on a random bookshelf. Can’t bring ourselves to throw them away. Plus, I’m convinced my kids will want to see them someday. 🙂 You inspired me to send my husband a love craft now. I don’t know the last time I worked on a little project like that for him.
I definitely have a batch of things that I saved from an epic love craft that I made my beau the first time I told him I loved him. I occasionally will find post-it notes that I used for inspiration or to write a note to myself, and I never want to throw them away!!
Once, I made my little brother (who’s bday is valentine’s day!) a card using those little sweethearts as well!! I was much younger, and it definitely wasn’t the same kind of love craft you made for Ryan (that’d be illegal and very weird) but it only made sense, since he’s a Vday baby!
You have cute handwriting.
I really like the one with the cand hearts but I can’t really read it what does it say. It’s such a cute idea