Of Desks, Nooks, and Crannies

My digital elph has officially come home to mama, and so (camera in hand) I give you......the rest of my "keepin' it real" story from Wednesday's "Gilding the Lily" post.

Okay gang, I promised you my desk, and here it is, messy as always;

but that's just the beginning of the story.

You see, I'm stashing various Christmas presents

in every nook and corner of my office.

And my office has a lot of nook and corners.

Even my chair has Christmas presents on it.

(The garbage bag, however, has clothes to be donated.)

And these aren't Christmas presents, either; this is church stuff:

some paper and a printer that I couldn't lift, so I hid it...Badly.

The dining room is another gift-staging area...among other things.

(The Christmas dishes happen to be a gift to myself.)

But these gifts really are for other people. Trust me.

And so are these...Honest.

I know, it's not ideal. But the closets are full, so I'm reduced to nooks and crannies for Christmas storage. And I think I'm just about to run out of room. The big question is this: Where am I going to hide all this stuff when the recipients come home for Thanksgiving?

The answer? In the attic. (Sssssh. Don't tell. It's a secret.)