About Me I am a creative person who believes that our homes are our haven and they are an outer expression of our inner selves. I also have a strong passion for self-growth and cultivating community among women. A Woman's Haven is a place where I gather the things that inspire me such as my home, crafting, thrifting, photography and my family. Let me introduce you to the family... My Daughter My Son Our newest edition... I hope you enjoy your visit to A Woman's Haven! You can find me here also... My Guest Posts: A Woman's Haven has been featured here: Pretty Organizing Project GalleryHow to Organize Shop Pretty Organized Product Picks! This list contains affiliate links & may result in a nominal commission. I only recommend products that I truly love, but please be sure to read the reviews & decide what works best for YOU! :) Legal Info Disclosure of Material Connection: I received one or more of the products or services mentioned in some of my posts for free in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Pretty Organized is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
Remodelando la Casa: Pretty and Organized The weather has been so beautiful, it's great to work outdoors. I'm doing little projects like this one in the garage where I can enjoy those nice temperatures! I'm finishing things in my daughter's bedroom, these baskets are going to go there to help her keep the room organized. Let's hope she uses them! But of course they had to be dress up to go to my girly girl's room. The plan: Painted stripes and a tag The materials: Paint, painters tape, spray adhesive, scraps pieces of wood, wooden tags, chalk paint (I used Self-Stick Chalkboard Sheets), jute twine. Tools: Drill The painters tape is placed around the baskets to form the stripes. Spray paint the taped area, covering the areas you don't want to paint. The scrap pieces of 1/4" plywood were painted white and two small holes were drilled on each side. The tag was secured to the basket with jute twine. The baskets ready to be fill up with stuff. If you want to check them in her room, click HERE. Easy, right?
Recipes, Kids Crafts, DIY Ideas, Tutorials And More March Challenge: Project "Household Binder" {Link Party!} All free printables mentioned within the post are now expired and available for sale! Please check out my Etsy Shop for a large selection of personalized printables to fit all of your household organizing needs! Thank you! It's been thirty-one days of Household Binder heaven! Let's recap why the Jones abode is sure to run smoother as a result: 1. 2. Now instead of digging through individual mail stations, all current school related materials are located in one easy to find location. 3. I also took full advantage of having pockets in the binder divider tabs! And the other is a great place to slip those billing statements as they come in the mail and need to be paid: Now, twice a month when we pay our bills, we can go right to the Finance tab and log our expenses and send out our payments. 4. I also added a baseball card sleeve for any business cards we accumulate along the way! 5. I didn't want to forget about our Bentley, since he is just like a kid to us! 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Daily Routines: Make Your Morning Routine Smart - How to OrganizeHow to Organize Do you know those naturally organized people who seem like they keep their houses clean without even trying? The ones who always seem relaxed and calm and on top of things? It’s not that they are just miraculous human beings — it’s because they have solid daily routines that they have internalized and turned into habits! When you are consistent with daily routines, you can train yourself to complete tasks on autopilot. Starting your morning with a smart routine can really set the tone for the rest of your day. Actual conversation between hubby & I: via Twitter Sooo….how does a non-morning person function successfully before lunch? Part One: Have a Plan DO try to be the first one awake. DO try to complete the same tasks in the same order every day. DO plan for efficiency. DO use your routines to help make the next part of your day run smoothly. DO use checklists to stay on track! via DON’T try to add too much. Example of an Efficient Routine My Morning To-Do List: READER TIP (Nancy V):
Laundry Room Makeover Today I’m so excited to show you my laundry room makeover. I started this project in January this year, and finished in May. Unfortunately, since it was before I started blogging, there aren’t any in progress photos to show you. Enough said, right? Before the makeover, this is what people would see when they walked by the laundry room: Yup, a closed door. Yikes! But I’m very happy to show you what people see when they walk by now. Tada!! I fell in love with them the first time I saw them in the Ballard Designs catalog, and I’m so glad I did. The paint on the walls went from Benjamin Moore HC-8 (Dorset Gold) to HC-87 (Ashley Grey). As did the bead board that comes about two-thirds of the way up the wall. Two separate pieces of wood combine to make a nice big molding on top. Looking up, there are a lot of things to see. I had ordered two of them, and one of them broke in shipping. Do you like how I said that like it was no big deal? Can you guess what I did? Moving on. Next is the sink.
junebug-dress-sew-along-part-1-pattern And now for the Junebug dress tutorial/sew along. (without much fanfare apparently) You’ll need: 1-2 yards of fabric, depending on child’s size. I barely scraped by with one yard for my 2T size 6 buttons-for the pattern I provide no larger than 5/8″ thread, sewing and pattern making stuff (ie sewing machine and paper) You can download the free 2T/3T pattern here. Ok, if you’re not using the pattern, let’s get going and make your own! This will be the back piece of your bodice-so trace the back neckline. Next, cut out your back piece, and trace it again. Then cut out that pattern, trace the back piece again, and draw your bodice flap pattern. Then I drew a sleeve shape like this one for my gathered sleeve. There. Tomorrow: bodice and buttonholes!
You Asked: Label Me! One of the most popular questions I have ever gotten here at IHeart Organizing is..... "How do you make all your labels?!?!!?!" Everyone who knows me, knows I am a little label fanatic. Oofta, so sorry my friendly readers, I know this is SO overdue! My secret weapon, Microsoft Excel! So here is a quick step by step play of what I do to make a quick label, or 542 of them... For this quick play by play, I am going to make a label for little girls play clothes, since it's a label I have never personally been able to make for my family of boys! {Blogger shrinks down my images, however, at any time you can click on it and it should enlarge for you to get a better view if necessary. 1. 2. I had chosen to rotate the label straight up and down, using the green button. 3. I chose to do a Picture fill and select a pre-saved pink floral background to fill in the label {I found a background image through Google, saved it to my computer and found the file to use as a label filler}. 4. 5. 6.