For the last 3 months, I’ve pretty much done very little around my home. I didn’t realize that what was going on in the world was having that much of an impact on my life. I was depressed & never realized it.
A couple of days ago, something stirred in me & I realized just how bad I’d let things go. I have to get back on track & I’m starting with a single drawer in my kitchen.
I learned how to do this years ago, when I was 16 & I worked at a restaurant. The nice thing about doing this is that is saves so much time in the mornings & keeps the utensils clean.
I have a habit of jotting down ideas while I’m sitting at my desk. The only problem with that is that I jot the ideas down on just about anything that’s handy. When my desk was filled with post-it-notes, index cards, scrap paper, I had a panic attack. It was overwhelming. I needed to find a way to have all of those ideas organized & easily accessible. This is what I came up with;
I started with a 2″ binder that I’d gotten at Walmart, some pocket dividers, tabs, card stock, page protectors & some notebook paper. I copied all of those little scraps of papers (filled with my ideas) onto notebook paper.
I can’t tell you how much I love how much this project has helped me. I can now find ideas easily & they’re organized by Season & Holidays!
Click on the link below to see how I did this!
Happy Creating everyone!
This is another in my Filing With Binders series. As a crafter, I use a lot of colored paper as well as Card Stock. I used to keep in in stacks, but sunlight can discolor it & it gets dusty. Organizing the paper stacks into binders took care of that problem. All of my colored paper is now neatly put away in a filing drawer & I can get to it easily.
If you’re not familiar with this series, you can find it here, here, here, here & here.
Another project in my quest to get my life organized.
This entire project was started because I had the flu & couldn’t get out to get my best friend a birthday card. We have been friends for 40 years so she understood, but I can’t tell you how badly I felt. This will never happen again, thanks to this binder. It was so easy to put together & everything is now right at my fingertips.
Usually, once I get something organized, it stays that way. But the area under my kitchen sink was driving me nuts. The biggest culprit was all of the boxes of food wrap. I’d pull one out, and the rest of them would go where ever they wanted to go. I needed something to corral them. I’ve been searching on Pinterest, YouTube & the Internet. I couldn’t find anything that I liked. I thought about doing the stack of fence posting that Alejandra Costello used, but I didn’t think it would work for the area that I had. Here’s what I came up with:
I’ve finally finished up my Christmas ornament re-organizing. It’s something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now. The ornaments are kept in our barn (which is actually a glorified, large, 2 story shed). Although the things that are stored in there stay dry, they are subject to heat & cold. The usual labels on the boxes don’t hold up well. They’ve buckled & faded over the years. This year, it will be different.
I thought I’d show you how I organize my earrings. I’ve seen them organized online using framed screens, egg cartons, and even storing them on trays, but that drives me nuts. All it takes is bumping it once & you have a huge mess that can take hours to reorganize. And I really don’t have all that much room to store my earrings like that. If you read my post on Makeup Storage, you know that I like to have all of things close together, so that when I’m getting ready, I don’t have to run all over the place. Once my make-up is on, and my hair is done, the last things I put on are my earrings & watch, and I’m out the door. It’s like a one stop shop.
How do you take all of this and store it in a section that’s 5″ wide, 7″ deep, and 6″ high?
Once I thought it out, it was actually easy.
I’ve been going through a lot of things lately. I’m trying to pare down what I have, and reorganizing what I keep. This time, it’s my make-up that I’m reorganizing & purging. Where do you keep your face? Some keep theirs in a make-up bag, some on a tray, and the Beatles said that Eleanor Rigby kept her face in a jar by the door. I keep mine in drawers.
I’ve found that by keeping my make-up separated in different drawers, I seem to get ready a little more easily. But it’s been awhile since I’ve gone through any of it, or bothered to clean out the drawers. Frankly, they were a mess.
Lately, I’ve been reorganizing things in our home. I’ve been trying to do one section of a room a day/week. It’s amazing how things can get out of hand if you don’t stay on top of them. My office desk drawers did just that. I’m in those drawers constantly. It not only houses my pens, post-it notes, computer vacuum attachments & stationary, but my camera battery charger & the equipment I need for uploading my pictures.
I realized that I was stuffing the cords to my camera supplies into the drawer before I closed it. That’s a good way to ruin them.