Project for the week.

So, I have my material/cut list.  Here is what I need:

Boards

(7) 1X2X40"
(2) 1X2X38 1/2"
(4) 1X2X18"
(2) 1X10X48 (for the top)
1 1/2" screws
120 grit sandpaper
liquid nail
wood filler
Stain

square

pencil

safety glasses

drill     

countersink drill bit

My project for this week is to reconstruct/modify a cabinet that I have had for years into a kitchen island.  After weeks of brainstorming, I think I have come up with a plan to accomplish this task. 

Today I will draw out my plan and make my material list.  I am going to go to Lowes and lay the material out on the floor (yea in the store) to get a visual as to how it will look.  I am going to have Lowes cut all the material to size and I will do the constructing. 

Here is a picture of the cabinet before it's transformation.

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Pinterest has some great idea.

I love Pinterest.  Do you PIN?  I do daily. 

Well while I was on Pinterest on Friday I saw the perfect décor for the blank wall entering my kitchen.  So I decided that I wanted to do the same thing.  It is one of favorite quotes. 

 

So I spent Saturday looking for the letters.  I finally found them at Hobby Lobby in Wilson, NC.   I used thin paintable wood letters.  The letters are 4" tall and they were 2 of the same letter in a pack for $1.49.  The cost of all the letters I needed was $20.40.  I have letters left over that I will use for another project.  I am using left over paint from where I painted my kitchen.

 

Here is a picture of the wall before applying the letters.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the wall after the letters applied and painted.  I decided to paint the letters the same color as the wall because I wanted the quote to speak to me quietly and not shout at me.  I love the way it came out.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



What do you think of this?  I may do this on some of my other walls.  Hope you enjoyed this.  I would love to hear your comments.  Have a great day.

1Love

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One room complete - Master Bath Cabinets

I finally cleaned out, purged and organized my master bath Cabinets.  It is done, finished.   Man, I had a lot of products (hair, bath and other products) in my bathroom.  A lot of the bottles were almost empty.  Why I didn't discard them earlier I don't know?  Who knows.  It is just as easy to discard at that moment you empty it as it is to put it back in the cabinet.


Here are the before pics: 

All organizing product use are from the dollar store.  Although I would love to have them all the same color, the sizes don't match for my needs. So varies colors it is.


Here's what I used:

2 green large storage binds $ 1 each

After pic of same space:

  

 

2 Medium Red Binds 2/$1

4 Small Red Binds - 4/$1

3 small baskets with handles - 2/$1

 3 green oval carry totes - $1 each

3 small square plastic storage containers with lids $1 each

7 storage boxes with hinged lids $1 each

I did not take before pics of the vanity drawers but here are a few completed pics.

After I am completely satisfied that this is working for me, I will go back and label everything. Total cost $20.00. Not bad.

I hope you enjoyed this post and as always, I am interested in knowing what you think.  What are some of your best organizing solutions?  Please comment, provide feed back, suggestions.  Also share this blog with friends and subscribe to my blog for future post.
As always, have a wonderful blessed filled day.

1Love!

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The mess that is my night stand.

If your night stand is anything like my, what a disorganized mess.  There are things in my night stand that just should not be there.  It has become impossible to find things that I think I've placed in there. So today I am tackling the mess that is my night stand.

Top Drawer

Okay wait the entire night stand is not a mess.  See, these are pictures of the bottom two drawers, which I keep organized and neat most of the time.  The bottom drawer houses my PJs and a few other things. The middle drawers has my unmentionable, lol.  You know what they are.

To keep the middle drawer organized, I used small drawer organizer for my socks and medium plastic organizer for my bras and panties. I purchased the medium ones years ago from Bed, Bath and Beyond.  I purchased the small ones about two weeks ago from TJ Maxx.  There were 3 in a pack for $2.99.  I don't recall what I paid for the medium ones.  

Middle Drawer

 

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Bottom Drawer

 

I am a sockaholic. Yea, I said sock.  I loads of socks.  They are right now located in 3 places. I keep about 6 pair in my night stand, so if my feet get cold at night, they are close,  some are in my chest of drawers and some are ing a small basket in the closet.  With the exception of the few inmynight stand, my goal is to get them all in one place, in the chest of drawers. 

But today, I am working on my night stand. I've also have the shelf liner that I will be using in the bottom of the drawer. I purchased it from TJ Maxx for $5.99.  There are two rolls and it covers about 30 Sq feet.

I took everything out of the draw and wiped it out with a damp sponge.  Covered the bottom with the shelf liner and decided what I need beside my bed. 

And here is the finished product.  Drum roll please. 

After but before placing my ipad and laptop cooling pad in.

After placing ipad and laptop cooling pad in

 



After - Top of night stand

Need to find pics for the picture frames

Now if I can get out of the habit of throwing everything on the night stand at the end of the day.

Oh yea, by the way!  I've done so more organizing in the fridge.  Go to my refrigerator organizing blog for the update. 

Thanks for stopping by.  If you like my blog, website and organizing, please share and comment.

Enjoy and as always, have a wonderful day. 

1Love!

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Closet overhaul A Work In Progress.

I am in the process of overhauling my closet.  This is going to take some time.  I have already performed 2 rounds of purging.  I am by no means finish with this overhaul but so far this is what I am left with.

The first few pics are from the orginal state of my master closet before I did any purging. 

Phase 1:

 

 

Ok, Don't judge my mess.  LOL

 

 

 

The next few pics is a quick look at my closet a few months after the first purge.  

 

 Phase 2:

Shoe Racks

 

 

 



Scarves on Huggable Hangers Pant Bar

 



 

Phase 3:  I will purge some more.  I will separate the short and long sleeve tops and group by color.  I have already separated the long pant/jeans from the capris.  May add a few more shelves for shoes.  The tub with the green top above has most of my summer shoes in it.  I would love to get them all out.  

 

I actually made a video but for some reason, I can not get it to upload.  I will continue to try and solve the problem. 

 

Thanks for reading my blog and as always 1LOVE.  Have a wonderful day. 

 



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Organizing Manuals

Today's project is to organize all my manuals that I have around the house in varies places.  I want to contain them all in one location so that I am able to find them when I need them.  This is a good idea when you have forgotten how to operation something that you had not used in awhile or if you are like me, you have not took the time to learn how to use something to it's fullest potential.  I have many items like that latter. 

I know I have other manuals somewhere and as I locate them I will include in this binder.  Actually, I probably will start another binder as this one is already full.  I will continue to update you on this on going project.

I hope this is helpful and as always if you have any comments, suggestion or question to leave them. 

Before - This is how I stored my manuals before I organized them.

Here are the items I used:

1 1/2" White Binder          

Document Protectors

Plastic Dividers

Sharpie Marker
Wilson Jones Spine label

Determine how you want your binder to be organized.  I put each manual in a document protector with the exception of the small ones.  I separated them into two categories:  small appliances and electronics (i.e. camcorder, digital camera). And grouped them together in one document protector.

 

I also placed the product registration card and the receipt in the document protector along with the corresponding appliance manual.  Note:  I registered my appliance online but I am keeping the registration card because it has the model and serial number on it.  The numbers sometimes rub off the appliance, so it is important that you maintain this card). 

 

Place a tab divider between each document protector.  Wrote on the tap with a black sharpie what was contained in the document protector behind each tab.

 

With my computer and printer, I made a label for the spine and a front cover for the manual.

 

 

And here is the finish product:   

 

 

As always, I hope you enjoyed.  Please leave a comment, suggestion or question.

1LOVE!

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The Kitchen!

Yesterday, I started working on organizing my kitchen.  This too will be done in stages.  I will be an on going process.  Because I don't have everything, I think I need on hand to organize my entire house, I have to organize in stages.  I  need to plan what I am going to do, how to do it, have some idea what products I need and then shop around and purchase them.  Because I am trying to organize on a budget, well I guess I should since that is the name of the website, LOL, I have to take my time and find the best product at the most budget friendly price. 

So this is the first cabinet in my kitchen, that I tackled.  The first picture is not the cabinet at it's worst.  I had already cleaned it up a little before, before I decided to make this a full organizational over haul.

 

 

 

The next picture is the final organizational product.  If I must say so myself, it came out very well.

 

 

 

storage jars



 

 

Where I got the products: 
Top Shelf:  Container on the left came my TJ Maxx.  Set of 5 seal tight containers for $14.99
White basket on left came from Big Lots many years ago.  I don't remember the price. I saw them at Target this week.

Middle Shelf: Assortment of jar.  The 3 larger jars on the back row came from Carolina Pottery in Smithfield, NC.  First one on the front row, I already had.  2 smaller ones on the back row and the smaller one on the front row came from TJ Maxx.  $2.00 each and the mid size one on the front row came also came from TJ Maxx and was $3.00  Guys, I had never thought about looking in TJ Maxx for such items.  I will not sleep on TJ Maxx anymore.

I made a video on the products that I purchased from TJ Maxx.  I will try to upload it soon. 

Bottom Shelf:  The 2 wicker baskets came in 2 different sets of 3 baskets, that I purchased many many years ago from Lowes Home Improvement.

You can also find nice food storage jars at Hobby Lobby, Michaels and Walmart.  Of the 3 I found Hobby Lobby to be the least expensive.

One cabinet down 10 to go. 

Comments, suggestions or questions are always welcomed.

As always have a wonderful day.  1LOVE!

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