Official Pin Head

It's official, I'm a self professed Pinterest addict.  There are not enough days in the week for me to possibly complete all of the ideas I have found on Pinterest.  If you haven't checked out Pinterest yet I highly suggest you do!!

I recently completed two of the projects I had found on Pinterest, both were pretty easy.  One is a simple picture frame turned dry erase board!  I wanted it in our kitchen where I constantly need to write things down we need at the grocery.  I felt it would be great to use for reminders but also a way for Adam and I to write notes to each other.  As an added bonus I hadn't thought of, it also worked well to keep Madelyn busy drawing pictures the other night while I made dinner.

I simply found a pretty black frame I liked and purchased some burlap, then all you do is cut the burlap to fit the frame and put it in like a picture and put the frame back together.  Buy a few dry erase markers and you have a cute board.  Love it!!

The second project I wanted to do was to organize all of my necklaces, I have a great jewelry drawer in our dresser but they kept getting all tangled up.  I saw an idea on Pinterest that showed a bathroom towel rack with shower hooks to hang your necklaces from, I liked the idea but didn't want to put extra holes in the wall or have them hanging out in the open.  Adam gave me the idea to use a shower curtain rod instead of the towel bar.  I decided to put it in my closet behind my clothes, each morning I can pick out my outfit and have all my necklaces right there.  I installed one of the tension shower rods with the shower rings and then hung all of my necklaces.  No more untangling them each morning!!

Thank you to Pinterest for the ideas!!!!

Pantry Re-Do

Some of you may know that my sister and I had started a blog together a while back where we were sharing recipes, DIY projects and miscellaneous other things.  Well, as you may have figured out that blog has since gone by the wayside, I mean I barely have the time to keep this blog up, let alone a whole separate blog.  So, I decided I would use our family blog to share all things that are our family...not just Madelyn updates.  This is one of those updates!!

We don't have a very big pantry in our kitchen, yet it had become overwhelming with all the disorganization.  I couldn't tell what we had and I knew some things that were shoved to the back probably needed to be thrown out.  So I decided it needed to be cleaned out, I literally took each and every last thing out of that closet pantry.  I wiped the shelves down and then began my throwing away process, surprisingly I only had a few items that had expired, mainly can goods.  I put the items we use the least on the top shelf, let's face it, no one in our family is winning any height awards.  I decided to take all of the granola bars, bags of popcorn and other snack things out of the boxes and stack them in a basket.  I also made Madelyn her own little bowl of her treats like fruit snacks, applesauce pouches and of course Oreos.

So I organized everything and now it appears we have NO food!!  I mean it's amazing how much room the boxes things come in take up, it's a good thing we recycle because I had a ton of cardboard to get rid of.  I also learned that I don't need any white balsamic vinegar, I had three bottles.

Here are the before/ after pictures!!  I realize this is only exciting to a few people, for me it's the little things in life I guess...like an organized pantry!

 

BEFORE

AFTER