Getting a bit more organised and a little bit less cluttered

Beertje returned with high fever from school and hence our weekend plans had to be changed.

I gathered my courage and started the much dreaded chore to reorganise our cupboards in the living room. I have to admit that since our new cabinets in the living room have been made, we still hadn't used them and that the cluttered racks that they are supposed to replace or still in the living room with all the clutter on top of them.  And the children's toys seem an endless stream of boxes that stack up until they become a big mess as well.

So I spent the afternoon washing our amazing amount of glasses and organised them in the new cupboard while Jan and Kabouter sorted out old toys so we can donate a few boxes to a home for placed children that my company regularly helps.

One old rack found a little spot in the hallway near the coat rack to store the children's school backpacks so they don't need to be thrown on the living room chairs anymore. 

The boys constructed yet another storage for toys ...the last one we can fit in, which helped to get out all the boxes piled up on the other cupboard and gives us hopefully sufficient slack with the anticipated arrival of new toys over the holidays season.  A new bookshelf on the mezzanine gets rid of the curver boxes full of kid's books and enables the return of our book boxes that are still in the garage since our attic renovation. 

A lot of good and hard work but we're not quite done yet.   But it's a good start.  What has been done, is done. Unfortunately the 2 most cluttered racks are still there.  The issue is that there are several dozens of children's craft works piled up there and we don't really know how to handle those well. We have no attic anymore, so piling them up in boxes doesn't solve much either.   Any ideas? I guess I'll take photographs of them all, maybe make a little picture album ....but what to do with the originals?  Any other choice between trash or storage?