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 ]
The guest room closet FINALLY gets organized!
Our guest room closet. It held a lot of stuff. Like bags and bags FULL of stuff. Everything from clothing, to crafty things, to sewing materials, to fabric, to guest toiletries, to things we didn’t know what to do with. When it came time to have guests stay with us, it was a miracle I was able to clear one of the hanging bars with about 6 inches of hanging space – that’s all they’d need right? And they won’t judge the mess, right? RIGHT?! Here’s what it looked like in all its glory: It needed some attention. It took a few days for me to figure out what to keep, what to give away and how to categorize what was staying. I also wanted to make sure that I had a system I could maintain when it came time to accessing the things that the closet would now store. So my ... [ 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 ]
