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In an attempt to regain my sanity after hitting the mother of all roadblocks, I decided to take the advice of a few fellow bees and super smart hive members. My first plan of action was to lay out what needs to be done. I love lists; I love crossing things off and feeling accomplished afterward (yeah, sometimes I write things down I already did just to cross them off. Want to fight about it?), and I always feel better when I know how far my progress is and how much further I have to go.
My brilliant solution? This bad boy is now proudly hanging on a door in our office (it’s okay if you laugh, Mr. Cloud did, a LOT).
Fifty-six items to do with room to add, if needed. While it might look overwhelming, it actually calms me down. Now when I think, ‘what’s next?’ I can just look and decide which task looks bearable that day.
Okay, from this angle it does look a little scary.
What steps have you taken to pull yourself together and even get a little more organized in the process?
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LOVE this!!! And I love making lists too…terrible habit and my desk at work is always covered with post it notes 
Great idea!
Did you do that by hand????
If so, open an etsy shop or something because there is NO WAY I could create something that neat!
Your handwriting is super cute!
I loooooooooove lists, too. My problem right now is that for every one or two items I check/cross off I add two or three more things I need to do. I’m keeping my list on my computer for now and then when I get a little closer to time I think I’ll make a giant to-do list (is it wrong that I just got REALLY excited about making a giant one?!).
I LOVE lists! And although I love crossing things off, I also like a neat clean list…so I re-write/print the list every once in awhile! My wedding to-do list is on my iPod Touch, because papers get shuffled/crumbled through my purse and lost in between post-it’s…..so it’s safe! I’d love to see everyone’s lists, maybe there is something I’ve forgot?
I have to make lists for everything, otherwise stuff gets jumbled in my head and not done. I’m still pretty far out, wedding wise, and taking a planning break to regain my own sanity, but I have a feeling as I get closer, the back of my front door may look just like this.
I am not a list person, but I am going to have to be come the start of this school year to keep myself organized
love this list. you have great handwriting too!
wow what a great list! i wish mine were so organized. It’s a scribbly mess on my fridge!
I think you should make a font from your handwriting! It’s so pretty!
Miss Cloud -
In a future post, would you mind sharing every item on the list?
I need to make a similar list, but it’s so overwhelming, and I don’t want to forget everything!
Is that your handwriting?? If it is, I am SO jealous! I have total chicken scratch…
One thing I did when I hit wedding blockage was go through all my lists and folders and binders and torn-out-magazine-pages and whatnot and just purge everything that was a definite “no.” Bought the dress? All these dress notes, sketches, and pictures can go. Sent details to the florist? Eight pages of DYI boutonniere instructions straight to the recycling bin.
It was great–it felt like a fresh new start every time, and making the binder smaller every once in a while made the whole thing less overwhelming.
We also have BIG paper with a list hanging right on our wall!
Not sure how you made your list Miss Cloud but it does look great! For those whose handwriting does not look that great, you can type out whatever you need on your computer, save it to a jump drive, take your jump drive to Kinko’s and then will enlarge it right the and there and print it out to about any size you want for really cheap.
We did our Table Seating Chart this way and it was under $3.00 for a 14 x 20″ print out. Framed it in a beautiful black frame, added some embellishment, put it on a fancy easel and it was so easy!!!
I have a special list notebook just for the wedding (and grocery shopping too). Does that make me a nerd? I also have a special list in Word and then also glance at The Knot checklist as well. I figure that I might as well cover my bases.
that’s a little overwhelming. I probably have that much left to do too. But what I did is print off some blank calendars and added 1-3 things to do for each week of the calendar. That way I know when I need to do things and I won’t get overwhelmed or leave the hardest things till the end (which I would do if I just had a list in front of me). It involves my fiance more too - we both just look at the calendar for the week and he can see if he is supposed to call anyone or if he can help me with anything.
Love it!! Don’t feel bad about adding things to the list, just to cross them off! I do the same thing!! I love that feeling of being able to check something off of a list.
beautiful list! do you mind sharing what’s on it…i’m in november, too! i can get an idea of most of the items, but i am getting a little cross-eyed!
I LOVE LISTS. I have a “master list” and a bunch of smaller lists breaking each project down. It feels so good to check things off! Bonus of having multiple lists - multiple checks!
Seconding the request for you to share the details of your list.
Wow that is some list. And as others have mentioned - nice handwriting!
All I have to say is- WOWZA!!! That’s what I needed to get organized!
I LOVE the list. You have impeccable handwriting and symmetry! I’m jealous.
Wow. You are one organized woman! Right now I have things written on specific days of the calendar. I tried doing a bigger list, but I would procrastinate the things I wasn’t really looking forward to, and some of those got done WAY past the deadline..
Love it!!!!!! I want to do it myself but I’m scared what the Mr. will say….
Great list!
What’s a bridal tea finalization?
You have awesome handwriting. I’d hang that list up in MY house.
This might be good for the fiance to SEE how much we need to do (and how much I’m doing!).
I love your list. It feels so great to cross things off a list. I’ll probably have to make one of these when I get a little farther along.
Whoa, that’s daunting. I don’t think I’d want to write mine out for fear of a nervous breakdown.
I thrive on lists! I feel so much more productive (and satisfied when I cross/check the tasks off!).
Holy crapola! I was going to ask where you got this printed b/c I *love* it — but I think you handwrote this! Seriously — I super heart lists, and this is gorgeous 
Now I just need to figure out how to make one, but for tasks/chores
Its huge! I LOVE IT! bigger list = more satisfaction when you cross things off!!! Yay
Thanks for all the complements! That is my handwriting, just with a few sharpies (I love a good sharpie!) But my secret was lightly lined poster board, I do not write that straight! Michaels sells it, it’s like a graph but you can’t see the lines unless it’s up close!
@Mary Kate: To be honest, what is on this list probably won’t make sense to anyone but me, I even had to explain some of the items to the mister! I would say carry around a small notebook for a few days and as you think of things write them down, then go make the big list. And leave room! I have already added 5 or six things since I made ours!
@ktdid: That’s such a great idea! I love kinkos, is it bad that most of the employees at my preferred location know me by name???
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Mrs. Cloud, Richmond
Age and Occupation: 25, Sales Rep
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Customer Service Manager/DJ
Engagement Date: February 14, 2008
Wedding Date: November 2009
Venue: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart & The Jefferson Hotel
About Me: Mr. Cloud and I are Yankees planning a Southern wedding to show our families from Boston and New York our fabulous city. We are complete opposites, resulting in a wedding to include bridesmaids in pearls and groomsmen in Adidas shell toes. I’m a sorority girl at heart with strong addictions to my blackberry, cherry Chapstick, Coach purses, the Boston Red Sox and our fur baby, Bella. I can’t wait to the throw the party of our lives and of course, marry my best friend!
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