DIYInspired mail sorter: a tutorial | bright and blithe I always feel better greeting the new year with a clean house. At least, as clean as our house gets. It seems I’m in a losing battle with our mail. It ends up heaped in the office where things are buried, lost, and forgotten. I’ve tried different filing systems but they never last. Materials:unbleached cotton fabric coordinating thread 1/2″ wide elastic or ribbon (depending on where you’re hanging it) safety-pin off-white cardstock Steps:1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Whether you add elastic or ribbon at this point is entirely up to you. Like this: Like Loading...
150 Dollar Store Organizing Ideas and Projects for the Entire Home Organizing Kids Drawers with Canvas Boxes If you have relatively young children, you may spend a lot of your time rifling through their drawers helping them to find what they want to wear. Instead of piling everything up in drawers, you can add small plastic or canvas containers that will keep their clothes perfectly organized. These come in all sizes and will fit into any dresser drawer. Portable Spice Kit Organizer You can make a take-along portable spice kit with a very inexpensive pill carrier. Great Idea for Bath Toys Kids love bath toys. Organizing Craft Supplies with Recycled Cans Recycled cans are great for organizing paints and other craft supplies. Craft Organizer Boxes Keep Hair Supplies Tidy Craft organizer boxes (or those larger pill organizing boxes) are great for keeping hair supplies and accessories perfectly organized. Clear Plastic Cups for Organizing Cords Looking for a way to keep cords and other electronic accessories organized? Great Belt Organizer from Clothespins
The Kurtz Corner Creative Recycling: Old Tin Cans into Functional Furnishings Tin cans are the subjects of many arts & crafts projects, frequently reused as the bodies of little tin robot soldiers or other kitschy knickknacks. This designer has taken the same classic object but added a useful and more minimalist twist – a set of simple plastic lids that make an old tin can able to serve a new function. From tea, coffee, sugar and other kitchen storage containers to soap dispensers and pen holders, these designs by Jack Bresnahan bring out the remarkable elegance of what one might previously consider a purely functional form. Not to wax too ecstatic about a simple cylinder, but somehow the silver shine and ribbed sides of the tin cans take on a new luster in the presence of these purposeful white tops.
{Organize Your Home} Round-Up I am a person that loves to be Organized!! It makes life easier and its refreshing to me to organize things around the home. We are living with my parents right now so we don't have a lot of space and some days I feel like there is just so much stuff everywhere and its not organized because I don't have many spots to put stuff. I decided that it would be good to see what others are doing out there to organize their homes to help me out right now and especially when we move into our own place...hopefully later this year!! Here are 40+ Ideas to help you Organize Your Home! Shoe Storage @ Unknown Junk Drawer Organization @ Unknown Silverware Tray Tooth Brush Organization @ Unknown I hope these ideas helped you as well as they have helped me!! Happy Organizing! Joining the Following Link Parties
Pretty Handy Girl DIY: shoe rack for a tight space Hi there, for this post I’m collaborating with 3M DIY. A few years back I made a shoe rack for the tiny corner by our back door which is the only place to put shoes when we enter the house. There isn’t enough room to fit a regular rack and the space is tight enough that I wanted to avoid having anything hard that I (because I am clumsy) could bang my shin on as I am reaching for my coat or hurrying to shut off the house alarm. At the time I took some inspiration from a designer rack (that was tragically built too long to fit into our space) and set up a series of short shelves that the toes of the shoes perch on. We’ve used it for the last, wow, five years but of course it very quickly went from the spot to hold four pairs of shoes to the spot where we unceremoniously dump about ten pairs. I’m happy with the result but I’ll admit it was more complicated to build than my earlier version. Click through to see instructions. You’ll need: Mark holes to drill in the backing Drill holes Sand Ta da!
Turn your flash drive into a portable PC survival kit If you're using your flash drive as a vehicle for simple file transfers, you’re missing out on one of the single-best roles one of these wee data buckets can fulfill. Indeed, hardcore enthusiasts know that simple flash drives are perfect portable repositories for all the software that can breathe life into an otherwise ailing PC. All the web apps in the world won’t help you when your PC breaks down or falls prey to a particularly nasty piece of malware and refuses connect to the Internet. In this article we’ll show you how to load out a USB drive with everything you need in case of a PC emergency. PortableApps The first thing you’ll want to install on your drive is PortableApps—a free, open source platform for installing desktop applications on removable media, like a USB drive. PortableApps maintains a list of hundreds “portable” versions of popular free programs, designed to work without installation. Chrome Portable Spybot Search and Destroy Portable ClamWin Portable Malwarebytes
Crafty Nest 24/7 Bebenta Sa'yo, Life-Changing Clothing Organization Tips 75 Extraordinary Uses for Baking Soda Baking soda is a chemical compound that appears as a fine powder. It releases bubbles of carbon dioxide when it interacts with an acid and a liquid. It’s most commonly used in baking, where it acts as a leavening agent. The following are 75 other uses for baking soda aside from making muffins soft and fluffy. Health Uses 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. In the Home 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. In Cooking 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Cleaning Purposes 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. The most amazing thing about baking soda is that it’s very cheap.
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