I recently decided to find out what Pinterest is all about and asked a friend for an invite.
Huge mistake, I am now addicted. ADDICTED I TELL YOU. It's such a wonderful way to keep ideas in a fun way. I don't know about you, but I bookmark stuff in my browser and pretty much forget about it. Like, immediately. But not only do I go through and pin neat stuff, but I go back and do them. And, it spurs my own creativity! I love it!
For example, I have seen a number of re-purposed canvas shoe organizers. One that was used to hold cleaning supplies and one that someone used to grow an herb garden! Both of those ideas are so smart and made me start thinking.
My house is 400 square feet. This is not a joke. So space is prime real estate. We have kind of been collecting an amalgamation of sorts on top of the spice racks. Which are on top of the microwave. Which is on top of the fridge.
This is after I cleaned everything up. I did not want to unclean it up for a before and after picture, sorry. (Say hi to Adam who's finishing submitting a paper, "Hi Adam!")
After seeing genius re-purposing of shoe organizers, I had a brilliant idea of my own! We have three doors in our kitchen. One to the back deck, one to the basement and one to the bathroom. The back of the door to the basement was just sitting there, a blank canvas, waiting to be useful.
So.......
Ta-da!
I took anything that was in a random place in the kitchen and put it in here.
All of my Weight Watchers snacks, coffee filters, our asinine amount of tea, equally asinine amount of popcorn and many other things are all neatly labeled and in their spots. I felt so accomplished! Usually, for some reason, I leave my organizational COD at work but I brought it home and I don't want to stop! As full time work still eludes me, I can only do it a little at a time. Also, the basement is not a finished basement. And it's winter. In Michigan. So it's cold and I don't go down there for long periods at the moment. But, I will get there, and you will know it when I do!
The floppy pieces of paper are only temporary. I tried making my own adhesive plastic cases to stick on each pocket, but the contact paper wasn't sticky enough. So tomorrow I am headed to Jo-Ann's coupons in hand (50% off, woo!) to get some thin plastic that I am going to be sewing on so that it's as easy to change the label on the pocket as it is the contents.
I leave you with more pictures of my DIY, of which I am so proud!
Huge mistake, I am now addicted. ADDICTED I TELL YOU. It's such a wonderful way to keep ideas in a fun way. I don't know about you, but I bookmark stuff in my browser and pretty much forget about it. Like, immediately. But not only do I go through and pin neat stuff, but I go back and do them. And, it spurs my own creativity! I love it!
For example, I have seen a number of re-purposed canvas shoe organizers. One that was used to hold cleaning supplies and one that someone used to grow an herb garden! Both of those ideas are so smart and made me start thinking.
My house is 400 square feet. This is not a joke. So space is prime real estate. We have kind of been collecting an amalgamation of sorts on top of the spice racks. Which are on top of the microwave. Which is on top of the fridge.
This is after I cleaned everything up. I did not want to unclean it up for a before and after picture, sorry. (Say hi to Adam who's finishing submitting a paper, "Hi Adam!")
After seeing genius re-purposing of shoe organizers, I had a brilliant idea of my own! We have three doors in our kitchen. One to the back deck, one to the basement and one to the bathroom. The back of the door to the basement was just sitting there, a blank canvas, waiting to be useful.
So.......
(How do you like the quilt batting shoved into the crack on the right? Keeps it much warmer upstairs!)
Ta-da!
I took anything that was in a random place in the kitchen and put it in here.
All of my Weight Watchers snacks, coffee filters, our asinine amount of tea, equally asinine amount of popcorn and many other things are all neatly labeled and in their spots. I felt so accomplished! Usually, for some reason, I leave my organizational COD at work but I brought it home and I don't want to stop! As full time work still eludes me, I can only do it a little at a time. Also, the basement is not a finished basement. And it's winter. In Michigan. So it's cold and I don't go down there for long periods at the moment. But, I will get there, and you will know it when I do!
The floppy pieces of paper are only temporary. I tried making my own adhesive plastic cases to stick on each pocket, but the contact paper wasn't sticky enough. So tomorrow I am headed to Jo-Ann's coupons in hand (50% off, woo!) to get some thin plastic that I am going to be sewing on so that it's as easy to change the label on the pocket as it is the contents.
I leave you with more pictures of my DIY, of which I am so proud!
A liiiittle closer
Oatmeal!
See? Asinine amounts of popcorn. And my lunch bag.
Temporary labels fastened with paper clips.
Aaaaand what I came back to find after taking pictures. Stinker.
If you would like to join me in my addiction, shoot me an email through the contact me link in the side bar.
Love and hugs!
P.S. To all of the traffic coming from sopastrike.com, welcome, and I hope we continue to be successful in shelving SOPA and PIPA. Poke around and I hope you find something to keep bringing you back.
2 comments:
Pinterest has totally changed my life! And that of my children, my husband, and my dog. Speaking of, your dog looks sorta like Baby Dog Daughter. What kind is it?!
@Dumb Mom We think that she is a boxer/vizsla (vish-lah) mix. We adopted her from the local shelter, but when we search for boxer/vizslas, she is identical. And she acts like a vizsla hard core, she is like velcro! We love her to pieces!
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