My Hand Bendy Useful Thingy

I'm not sure what the correct name for this is, but it is terribly useful! It's a sort of holdall thingy with lots of pocketses and smashing bits to put stuff into.

As you can see, the front pouchy bit is quite excellent for the instant retrieval of pens. 

Inside is a plethora of handy bits and zip pockets to stuff stickers, rulers, paper clips and piles of other essential decorating items. 

I managed to get this for about £3.95 from ebay, so it wasn't even particularly expensive, but it is one of the best little storage/organising items ever.

It also manages to hold a lot more than you'd think!

The Pocket Malden - Continued

Since the sorry tale of the first attempt to obtain the Malden Pocket which failed miserable, I do now actually have one of the little blighters, and very lovely it is too.

The photo doesn't do it justice, and shows it as being a bit of a dark sludge colour when in fact, it is a bright and quite luscious purply purple.

My main reason for buying it was to just have it because it's so lovely, however I had to come up with a fairly believable excuse. After a few seconds of careful thought, I convinced myself that I NEEDED this to keep beside me so I wouldn't have to to the effort of walking the few steps to the kitchen (or more likely) rummage through the piles of stuff that had buried the A5 Metropol (see previous post.) Also it would be tremendously useful and convenient to sling in my bag on the odd occasions that I ventured outside. The idea also was for it to be used like a purse too, considering it's handy large pocket which runs behind the cover.

Here are a few random photos of the internal delights. 

Unfortunately I've stuffed it so much that it doesn't close any more, so I'm thinking of using it only as a sort of wallety type thing. Which obviously means that I absolutely must get a replacement for my bag. I may go back up to the personal size again. I'm toying with the personal Malden. I would probably need a new bag though as well to compensate for the extra size...

The softness and size of the pocket Malden is really quite joyous and I love the fact that it can double as a purse too! 

The Happy Place of the Metropol

This is my A5 Metropol which is kept in the kitchen and is the main filo for pretty much just about everything relevant to scraping my way through the days and weeks. If it doesn't get noted or put in here, I will totally forget about it. Guaranteed.

Until recently it was assigned to the kitchen table, but kept having to be moved every time we sat down to munch. The poor thing would get shoved on the other table where inevitably stuff would get dumped on it and before you knew it, it was buried under a pile. Because of this lack of visibility I'd forget to look at it and check what was happening over the next few days as well as not putting new notes in, which therefore would also be promptly forgotten about thus completely contradicting the whole point of having an organiser in the first place.
In a fit of uncharacteristic tidying last week, I made a nice new shiny place for it on one of the worktops where no longer would it suffer the indignity of being cast aside to the oubliette that is the dining/craft table.

So far, this has been an incredible success, other than when I completely failed to take a note of the hairdressing appointments that had been arranged for yesterday. But in all fairness, they had been made before the wonder of the new permanent place.