UPCYCLING: Storage Jars with Mod Podge Knobs

One can never have enough storage jars in my opinion. I’ve been saving up jars and love how these bright and cheery jars turned out. They’re the perfect size for smaller pantry items.

INKLING: Beautiful & Functional Bullet Journals

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Have you hopped on the Bullet Journal train? Or have you seen the hashtag #BuJo? I only recently discovered this free-form type of planner and I’m in love.

UPCYCLING: Candy Tins to Travel Tins

I’ve saving up these little candy tins so that I could upcycle them into something. I wasn’t sure how I was going to use them but little tins always come in handy.

FRESH LOOK: Rolodex Makeover

I know a Rolodex is outdated and is probably going to obsolete soon but I use mine all the time. I’ve toted it from job to job and over the years collected tons of business cards. One day, I’ll weed through it and maybe even dump it and just use my phone contacts. But for now it lives on my desk and it was an eyesore.

Etceteras: 30 Easy DIY Projects to Keep You Organized

It’s that time of year friends. The time where we get the bug to purge our homes and get organized. I’ve gathered some diy organization projects from my archives that may inspire you to start on the organization band wagon.

UPCYCLING: How to make a faux vintage tin

I think this might be one of my favorite projects I’ve ever made. Well, I say that about a lot of my projects. But this one was so fun to transform. Would you believe this faux vintage tin started out as a yellow plastic corn starch container?

WEEKEND INSPIRATION: Back-to-School Dorm Room Ideas

If you have a college-age kid heading back to school, you may want to use some of these great ideas I’ve rounded up. A lot of the inspiration photos of dorm rooms floating around are not realistic. Dorm rooms are tiny. I have dozens of friends who’s kids left for college last year when my son did. We compared note and photos, texting back and forth. My son lucked out and his school offered dorm rooms that had a little more breathing room than most. He had his own large closet and he and his roommate shared a bathroom with the two guys in the next room. Even still, squeezing everything into a small space is a challenge. If you have a boy, these ideas will still work – just change up the color scheme.

INKLING: Free Printable Menu Planner

I’ve been using a menu planner / grocery list system for years. Long before I started this blog, I created a little half sheet so I could plan out the family meals for the week and jot down my groceries. I decided to update my planner and share my new version with all of you.

WELL-ORGANIZED: Upcycled Jars to Spice Jars

I’m still getting organized. I suspect it’s going to take me all year and by that time it will be time to start all over again. You know, declutter, organize, rinse, repeat. While I was storing bins in the garage, I discovered I had saved several pasta sauce jars that all matched. Hooray for matchy-matchy!

ETCETERAS: Easy 5-Minute Canvas Notepad Holder

I have to confess, I’m a bit of a notepad hoarder. I love pretty notepads and often receive them as gifts. The problem is I love them so much I don’t use them. I’ll grab other bits of paper to jot a note and “save” my pretty notepads.

UPCYCLING: Wax Paper Box to Washi Dispenser

The New Year organizing continues! Doesn’t it feel good to make progress in the clutter battle? Last week I shared a round up of recycled storage ideas and absolutely fell in love with a recycled cookie box idea by Aunt Peaches. So as soon as I had an empty wax paper box I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.

UPCYCLING: 10 Easy Recycled Storage Ideas

With the start of the new year, I’m determined to be more organized without spending a lot on new items. What better way to get organized then by upcycling items you would most likely throw out or recycle? I found 10 fantastic ideas for getting organized and then best part is these are all very easily created. The key to getting organized is to simplify and I’m planning on making several of these ideas.

Homework: Back to School Ideas to Make Life Easier

Where did the summer go? It seems like a minute ago, the entire summer was ahead of us. I had big plans. I was going to get refreshed, organized and ready for fall. And then in a blink, summer is almost over and I’m not refreshed, organized or ready for fall. Oh well, like it or not, fall is around the corner and it’s back-to-school time.

I love all the back-to-school inspiration. I’m in awe of darling bento box lunches with sandwiches in the shape of animals and wonderful embroidered lunch bags. But for me, I need easy and make-life-easier type projects. Back to school means getting organized and ready for the hectic schedule.

I’ve rounded up some ideas that are easy to achieve and some that will make life a little easier as the school activities take over our lives.

SHOW & TELL: Chalkboard Labels with hometalk & Michaels

Friends… you know when a bunch of really good things come together, well, this is one of those events. Combine: Michaels, hometalk & Pinterest and you get one amazing party.

Etceteras: recipe organization

With the new year always comes a wave of cleaning, purging and organizing. I’m not sure what it is that brings that out in some of us but I’m going to ride that wave for as long as I can. I haven’t had time to tackle some of the larger organizing projects, like cleaning out my closet {sigh… I’ll need a full weekend to tackle that mess} but I did get one little project done and I’m thrilled with the end result.

INKLING: Lifestyle Crafts Wood Labels {& A Giveaway}

Die Cut, Letterpress, Emboss… oh my! I’m super excited to share this with you. I’m on the Lifestyle Crafts Home and Organization Studio Design Team. I have a giant love of paper and paper crafting and have been wanting to challenge myself by making more detailed and intricate paper projects.

I’ll be slowly learning how to use the Lifestyle Crafts tools and I can’t wait to share all my projects with you. I hope you’ll enjoy learning how to die cut, letterpress and emboss with me. Look for projects specific to Lifestyle Crafts and We R Memory Keepers once or twice a month.

I also have a fun giveaway to celebrate this new venture. Details are at the bottom of the post.

Extra Credit: spring cleaning inspiration

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After the holidays I was gung ho on spring cleaning. I tackled some big jobs like the wood blinds that are all over my house, the screens that have been collecting dirt and dust all winter and dust bunnies that keep multiplying and hiding.

Extra Credit: get organized with Rubbermaid®

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Over the past few years, I’ve made several storage bins and posted about them. I love to get organized and making little storage bins is a great way to keep clutter at a minimum. I made an E-waste bin to hold dead batteries and other E-Waster until they can be properly disposed of. A pretty blue string box holds craft supplies that I’m currently using. Gift cards are stored in a small paper covered file box and my first roadside rescue displays Washi Tape and craft paint.

Etceteras: fabric covered storage jars

Some craft supplies are too pretty to tuck away in bins and drawers. I love looking at my vintage buttons and scraps of lace and ribbon so I like to keep them in jars.

Show and Tell: a giveaway & craft room snippets

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I wish I had one of those craft room decor posts to show you. You know, the big, beautiful, clean craft room reveals. One of these days when I clean, organize and revamp my furniture I would love to do that.

In the meantime, I have snippets to show you {aka: close ups so the mess doesn’t show in the photos}. Some of these are things I’ve made in my attempt to be organized and they live in my craft room and are used over and over.

Above: handmade business cards all ready to be sent out with thank you notes or shop orders.


A photo of the cluttered shelf above my desk. I spy five projects that I’ve posted about in this tight shot – not counting the pink birds waiting to be reused in another project. It really is time to clean up a bit…


My jar obsession. Plain jars and jars that I’ve embellished. Right side top: Paper Flower Jar Lids. Right side bottom:  Air Mail Jar for stamps

My bulletin board: Left: skeleton leaf and vintage button tacks   Right: post-it calendar {I can easily move my blog schedule around using post-its}

Ewaste Bin – to store old batteries and other ewaste until they can be properly disposed of. Blog Contact Rolodex – paper scrap odds and ends made up the alphabet tabs.  Security envelope junk mail scratch paper.

 

Odds and ends:  Little yellow birds still in the plastic wrap waiting their turn to be used in a project. A print that I won that says:

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams live the life you imagined.

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