Time to get organized....once and for all

I used to be so organized, in all aspects of life, home, fitness, meal planning, work and play, but a new house and two kids later and I have no idea what happened. There just aren't enough hours in the day. Well this is it, I am taking my life back.  No longer will I be a slave to household chores. I am sick and tired of constantly tidying up and not having time for the important things in life! It is so upsetting to everyday wake up knowing that the house is in total disarray and that the majority of my day will be spent putting things away. I would rather be spending my time with my husband, and two sons, rather than worrying about the state of our house.

So I have decided enough is enough. I am giving myself a 30 day challenge to get this house organized once and for all. It is a very daunting task which consists of every single room in our house, so I have decided to break things out into smaller task that are more manageable. For example instead of organizing the entire kitchen I have broken it out into the following tasks;

1) Island Drawers
2) Cabinets
3) Drawers
4) Pantry
5) Fridge and Freezer

It is much easier to just focus on one item get it done and move on. I plan to complete 1 or 2 items on my list every day until my house is completely organized. They say as long as there is a specific spot for everything, keeping your house in order is that much easier.

I started off by listing each floor of the house then break each area down into smaller tasks. I have included my list here, as you can see the list is quite extensive, but totally achievable, especially if you can get you husband and kids to help out it will be that much easier. 
Here is the new moto for our household, by these things are house should always be in order.
 
 
Well there we go this is my plan to get out house in order. Next on my plate will be working fitness and proper meal planning back into my life.  One thing at a time.

Organization Made Pretty

Target is finally open in Canada, WOOO HOOO!  The store closest to us opened last week I couldn't resist going. I felt as though I was going on a trip to the States without the long drive...it was awesome. I am happy to say the wait was well worth it.  Everything in the store is unique to Target, I could have spent a fortune on clothing and home items, but I resisted.

I just love finding different ways to use things, other than how they are intended.  While I was at Target I picked up these really awesome food divider trays, and thought they would be great for organizing other things as well. See some of my ideas for them below. The colours are amazing and the cost couldn't be better at only $2.39 a pair.



  

Until next time....

DIY placemat pillows


I love placemats! I never use them, but I just love the look of them, they are full of wonderful patterns and designs.  So the other day when I was out shopping I came across some placemats that I fell in love with. I resisted buying them cause I know I use them once then get annoyed with them on my table and put them away, never to be used again. Then it hit me! I can make pillows out of them and enjoy them every day!!!

This is a great pillow DIY project as placemats can be very inexpensive, the placemats I used were only $2.49 each.  Can't get much cheaper than that!  I used a coordinating fabric that I had for the back, but you can always buy an extra placemat and just use that for the back.  Below is my placemat pillow DIY. Have fun creating your own!

The first step is to select your placemat and coordinating fabric of choice. 

With right sides together cut the coordinating fabric to the size of the placemat.  Pin the placemat and the coordinating fabric together, then sew together leaving a space large enough to turn the fabric right side out. 

Cut the excess fabric off, then turn the pillows right side out. 

Fill the pillows with stuffing (you will require more than you think necessary to make them quite plush, as you can see below). 

Once pillows have been filled with stuffing you will need to hand sew the opening that you left. 

Viola you are done, a beautiful pillow to accent your room.

Until next time....

14 Free Fonts

I love fonts and I love FREE!  So with that being said I have put together 14 of my all time favourite free fonts.  Enjoy!


Click the name of the font below to direct you to the download.
 

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10 Easter DIY ideas

Easter is almost here, and hopefully the Spring weather is not far behind it.

Here are some neat DIY ideas to help celebrate Easter with family and friends.
 


1) Bunny Pouch
2) Peep Smores
3) Easter Bunny Onesie
4) Tattoo Easter Egg Decorating
5) Bunny Bait
6) Peeps on a Stick
7) Bunny Present
8) Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt
9) Bunny Boxes
10) Pastel Deviled Eggs

Until next time....

Lampshade DIY

Like most crafters I have a ton of fabric at home. I see fabrics that I love at the store and buy them even though I am not sure what I will be doing with them.  Don't judge...I am sure there are a ton of you out there that do the same :).

So anyway, I wanted to revamp the lampshade in our living room so instead of heading to the fabric store I decided to look through my fabric stash, and I ended up finding exactly what I was looking for.

This was a quick and easy DIY.  All you need is a lampshade, your fabric of choice, a glue gun and scissors.

Check out the end result.

Until next time....

DIY postcard art


I wanted to share with you a quick and easy Art DIY I did.

All you need are the following items:
1) Canvas - I got mine from the dollar store
2) Paint & Paintbrush (optional) to paint the canvas in your colour of choice
3) Double Sided Tape
4) Postcards - I got mine from IKEA for about $5.00, but you can use ones that you got while on vacation, received from friends and family or even pick up some vintage ones from an antique shop.





It is very simple project but I think it looks pretty nice - simple and clean.  Also since I used double sided tape, I can change out the postcard anytime I please.

Until next time....

Nursery Reveal

We are happy to announce the arrival of the newest little addition to our family. Parker Stone was born on February 10th at 9:45pm, weighing in at a healthy 7lbs 12 ounces. We couldn't be more in love and blessed to have two adorable, healthy and amazing little boys!


Parker's nursery has been done for quite some time, however things have been very busy around here as you can imagine with a newborn and a 4 year old, so I am just getting to share with you his nursery now. All I can say is I am thrilled with the results of our hard work. Pretty much everything in his room is a DIY. From the flooring to his crib bedding to the art and mirror on the walls. It was a real labour of love. I will have some follow up posts which show the DIY process of some of the items in his room.









Here is the list of DIY's in the room
1) Crib bedding, matching pillow and change pad cover
2) Sweater pillow on chair
3) Thrift store clock turned into mirror
4) Painted dresser
5) Closet makeover
6) DIY paper owls
7) Baby name art
8) Lamp makeover
9) Wall flowers
10) Over the crib art
11) Flooring

Until next time....


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Nursery Makeover - Closet Sneak Peek

Why hello there Folks!

D day (delivery day) is getting closer by the minute, and I have been making some headway into our nursery makeover, so I thought I would give you a little sneak peek of the closet! There is still quite a bit to do in there, but here is how it looks thus far.  I hope you like it as much as I do :)  Let me know what you think!





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