Pallet for Home

A short while back I ran a giveaway from UPrinting.com.  The nice folks over at UPrinting.com were so gracious that they offered me a customize letterhead for myself.  Well, if that wasn’t fantastic already, I entered and won a giveaway from another wonderful blogger. 

(For the life of me, I can not remember the name of the blog.  I feel horrible.  If I won from your blog please leave me a comment so that I can give proper credit.  Remember…. my poor memory is the reason I blog/journal.)

With a little Photoshop magic…. okay an entire Saturday morning, I designed my two custom stationary letterheads.    Then it was as easy as 1,2,3 to upload to the UPrinting site and have it printed! 

UPrinting is so flexible with their designs.  You have several options to create your own letterheads, use there online templates or create your own in another format (Photoshop is just one option).

I’m sorry I sound like a infomercial.  I am just surprised that not many of you entered the giveaway.   This is is a great giveaway!  If you are hosting a giveaway from UPrinting.com, please leave a link in the  comment box.  

I hope that I inspired you to enter in a giveaway to create your own or even a gift stationary.

 

I don’t know about you but I am a major list maker!  And as much as I try to stay organized with list on either my computer and/or smart phone (which I also do), I still love good ole’ fashion pen & paper!!! 

Now, I need to create a custom holder for my stationary. 

Just another thing to add to my project list!

Okie dokie…. Here’s a project that I started a few weeks ago and just finished up over the weekend.   It all started when Sherwin Williams announced one of their fabulous paint sales and I got the “itch” to paint.  I looked at my daughter and asked her to help me clean out the dining room because I was going paint!  With all of her teenage sarcasm, she politely rolled her eyes and reminded me that I already had several projects going on that I need to finish first.   But what to do when you have the “itch”…..

I figured I would sneak in a quick paint project using up some of the left over paint I already had.  I decided to tackle the two closets in the foyer.  When you see the before pixs you understand that there was nothing quick about this project.

Yep, you read that right…. I have not one but two closets in my foyer.  One was used as a coat closet and the other has severed different functions over the years (holding Mary Kay products when I was consultant, an extra pantry in my coupon craze days, and most recently, a storage closet for some of the smaller accessory not currently being used).

What I needed to do in order to make these closets function better is to change their order.  The accessory closet is now the coat closet and the coat closet now holds the accessories.

See the nasty wire racks in the before photo?  I am slowly replacing each of them with solid shelving! 

Each closet was cleaned out, painted, and organized.

I used MDF board to create the bracket and the shelf.  The coat rod was something I had floating around, it just need to be cut down to size. 

Now the vacuums and their attachment have a home that’s easy to get to!  *If you are in need of a vacuum I would highly recommend the  Dyson!  Not only is it the best vacuum I have ever used (and I have tried many over the years from $200 to $2000) and this is the only vacuum I will ever own!  It is worth every penny!!!  Not only is it a great product but it the customer service at Dyson is by far the best I have ever witnessed.  If only every company modeled after Dyson.  Okay, I’ll get off my soap box (for now).

Closet #2

I am so ashamed to even show you the before photographs.  I am not even sure how that closet got that state?  I believe when I started remodeling the foyer everything that was in the way got placed into this closet!

Ahhhh….. look at all those lovely shelves!!!

and what did I use all that shelving for?

Accessory Closet

Here is the a little photo showing me nailing up the brackets.  I’m lazy and only paint the sides that will be seen. 

The top shelf. 

In the before photo you will see about 4 foot of space not being used.  I was going to add one more shelf to the top but it works well this way for tall lamps and candle sticks.

Organized and pretty.

It’s going to be so nice to have most of my accessories in one location and easily accessible.  I still have to store larger photo frames and mirrors in the attic.  The only downside to this closet will be the lack of exercise sense I won’t be running up two flights of stairs!

Just as I finished placing all the goodies back in the closet, my husband stated that it looks like a store.   Maybe this closet will serve as “shopping therapy”  at times when the budget is tight?!?!   

You’re right…… PROBABLY NOT.

lol

One of my goals this year was to get organized. So this post is so helpful!!! And I am hoping we can talk Anna into sharing more organization ideas to help us get our lives on track.





Some of the other ideas on Anna's site are: 

The Original Scrapbox.com  is giving away one EZ View Craft Desk (value $595.00 U.S. Dollars).






On September 23, 2011 The Original Scrapbox will give away one of these beautiful desks!
Hop on over to each of the participating bloggers for your chance to win a fantastic prize and more entries to win the grand prize giveaway of the EZ View Craft Desk.









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Jen is my bloggy bestie.  We run The CSI Project together, Crafterminds, and we are doing a web show together in the fall.  Yet I have never guest posted on her blog.  I wanted to have the perfect project before I posted here.  Well that day of perfection will never come.

These are perfect to throw in a beach bag for wet suits.  They are also wonderful to have in your car for summer road trips.  Whatever you reuse plastic bags for having a container full of them looks a heck of a lot better than stuffed in a drawer.  Plus they are so much more portable this way.



I figured out how to fold them so that they are interconnected and one bag comes out at a time but pulls the next one out a little.

Supplies:

12 plastic grocery bags (I used Target ones)

coordinating fabric

Empty wipe container

Fabric Mod Podge

Foam brush

Spray adhesive

scissors or rotary cutter

quilting ruler

1.  Grab a dozen bags and flatten them out pushing all the air out.





2.  Fold them in half again pressing all the air out.



3. Overlap the handles onto the top of the previous bag.  Do this for all 11 bags lining them all up into one big row.



4.  Fold the first bag’s handle upward.  This will be your middle and the first bag you pull out of the container.  All the other bags will be connected to this first one.



5.  Now tightly roll up your bags tucking in the new handles as you roll.





6.  After you roll up 12 bags you are ready to insert them into your wipes container.







7. Tuck the first bag’s handles through the top.  Now you are done.







9.  After it is dry cut it to size.  For one of the Lysol wipes containers I cut mine 7 1/8” x 10 3/8”.  Then glue it in place.  I use a spray adhesive because it is quick and easy.  Overlap the pieces one over another. Adorable and practical! 






Here are some more summer fun ideas if you want to come to my house for a little bit: