Friday, March 14, 2014

A New Organizer

     Before I begin, I must apologize for my absence. For some reason, that I don't understand, my computer will not pull up Blogger. So, I am attempting this post on my phone. 
    Lately, I've been really feeling the clutter around my house, so I turned to one of my favorite Web sites, Pinterest. There are so many great links on how to organize your home. Over the past few days I've been putting these tips to the test and so far it's been easy, fast, and beautiful.
     I need to take more before pictures. It was truly terrible before and though it's not perfect it's been a vast improvement that even my husband noticed and liked. 
     The following pictures are of my pantry. It's thin and deep, and really difficult to organize. 

       
     I bought the bins at Bed Bath and Beyond about five years ago in an attempt to organize something else that we have since redone. In the meantime these have been sitting in a corner collecting our junk.

    The above picture is of the top half of my pantry. As you can see, the top shelf with the cereal is pretty messed up. The middle shelf needs some work but the bottom I cleaned out and labeled.
      This next picture is the cupboard above my washer machine. We've been using it to store our plastic-wear. It was a huge mess
. Bowls and lids would fall out every time we would open the door.

The clear bins are actually empty dishwasher and laundry detergent containers. I printed out cute labels and put them on fun scrap book paper then taped them to the boxes. I have one for sqare bowls, one for round and one for the lids

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Wall Iron Ons

      Another Pinterest gem.
     Like a lot of people out there we are renting and when you rent you are stuck with plain, boring, white walls. Yes, you can hang pictures, but those leave holes in the wall that you have to repair when you move. I was so exited when I found this next fun project. You can also find it here: http://thisthriftyhouse.blogspot.com This woman was a genius!

     Right now we are living in a two bedroom condo and we have two children of two different genders sharing the second bedroom. So when I found out that iron fun pictures onto they're walls I was ecstatic!
     The only thing I had to buy was the heat 'n bond. It was very cheap. $3 for a yard and a yard goes a long way.
I Googled clip art images in the theme that I wanted.
 I then enlarged the image and traced it onto parchment paper. Parchment paper is fantastic for tracing onto. It's not waxy and it's transparent.
 I have a bunch of scrap fabric which came in really handy for this project. This is when I whipped out my heat 'n bond. I used my parchment pattern to cut out my shaped onto the heat 'n bond and fabric.  
 I ironed them together to be sure nothing would come apart.
 And I ironed my owls and monsters on the walls.
  Owls on my daughter's side of the room...
  and monsters and my son's side.

     This has been a fun and cheap project. I plan on making more owls and monsters to reach across each wall, but for now three is cute and adds color and character to their room with out damaging the walls.
     This is a Trisha tried and true!

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Clean Mush

Whilst searching Pinterest one day I came across this little gem. You can find it here playcreateexplore.com

 
CLEAN MUSH
 
Materials
Cheese Grater
1 bar of Ivory soap
2-3 Rolls of Toilet Paper
1/3 C of Borax
Warm Water
Large container or bowl
Optional: Spoons,Cups,Mashers, Scooper

What You Do
Let your child unroll the toilet paper rolls while you grate 1 bar of soap using cheese grater
Add remaining ingredients and put all materials into a large container or bowl
Add enough warm water to saturate the mixture
 
 
The site suggested having your toddler help mix it all together with their hands. My son had no interest in that. All he wanted to do splash in the soapy water.
Once mixed together my son had a pretty good time but I did have to watch him carefully the entire time to be sure he didn't eat any of it, which he did try to do. The soapy smell was pretty overwhelming and clean up, was not very pleasant either. It was not easy getting all the goop out, even if it was soap and toilet paper. I had to wait until the kids were asleep and take the plastic tub to the bath tub.
I have mixed feelings about this one. It was such a pain to make and clean up after that I might have to deny this one.