Please explain to me how kitchen drawers can collect so much crap?! Over the years, ours housed some unique kitchen pieces, duplicate kitchen tools, kitchen tools I thought I needed, kitchen do-dads I wanted, etc. Every time I was in a store with a kitchen gadget section, I was sure to buy one. And Pampered Chef - I bought A LOT of their stuff. Things I felt I couldn’t live without – a citrus zester? Sure! A melon baller – of course! A dough dowel? I can’t believe I never owned one! (Have I mentioned I’m not much of a chef?) So when it came time to find something, unless it was an everyday item, good luck! It was time to purge. This is what each drawer looked like after it was emptied: And this is what the contents were of one (yes one!) drawer: Purging, which ... [ Read More ]
A pretty way to organize your business cards!
I was lucky enough to attend the Haven Conference in Atlanta a couple of weekends ago and I had such fun meeting amazing bloggers (in person!) and collecting their fabulous business cards. But coming home, I hated how jumbled they all were so I set out to organize them. I was at Walmart the other day with one item on my list: kids shampoo. But I checked out the stationary aisle (because I can never go anywhere that has stationary supplies and not take a peek) and that's where I found this very cute photo album: (Check it out here online although it seems to be an in-store only item) Organizing business cards in a photo book is not new but this one was just too adorable not to share (the material is coated with plastic so it’s durable too!) And at $9.96, what’s not to ... [ Read More ]
An easy way to make basket liners!
Baskets. My other half says I’m obsessed with them. I’ll totally admit that. They hide store so many sins and when you have them all looking uniform with pretty labels, what’s not to love?! My latest project is re-organizing one of our junky closets (a post on that is coming soon!) and I found these baskets that I wanted to re-use for the space: Some of the liners were so old they were coming apart at the seams and no manner of washing these (previously) white liners was going to make them white again. So I decided to find the quickest (laziest) way for me to make basket liners. I went on Pinterest and while there were many ways to do this, they all involved measuring and cutting quite a few pieces and then stitching them all together. I was impatient and experimented. I took ... [ Read More ]
How to fix a damaged shelf edge!
This was one of those things that could either have been a waste of time or work really well. I'm happy to say it was the latter! Some of the shelving found in our closets were chipped and damaged. Most of it was melamine shelving and seeing chunks of it flake off the edge made the shelving look old and ratty. I started Googling how to fix it. The first option was an obvious one - replace the shelving. But most of them were nailed, glued, (cemented!) in place and removing them would require sanding, a new paint job, finding new shelving, installing them, etc. More steps than I was willing to commit to. Option 2 was using iron-on melamine edging. But having to chip away at the remaining shelf edge to get it all off was not how I wanted to spend my evenings. What was my ... [ Read More ]
Hello world!
I can't believe this is my first ever post! This is so thrilling for me and I hope you'll enjoy the next 462856478265786247856 posts I plan on writing as much as I will enjoy writing them - without further ado, I'm about to push "publish" on my first content post! (Yay!) ... [ Read More ]
