Day 8 - Get your A$$ organized ... the Coat Closet ... so easy :)

Before:  Kinda messy ... however I did a huge purge before Christmas, I noticed a few ladies that were asking for warm winter coats on Kijiji so decided to weed out what I hadn't worn in a while and gift them ... I couldn't believe how many replies I got ... made me wish I had a dozen coats to give to people in need ...

AFTER: Shoes on the shoe rack, shelf straightened up ... I only wish they will all be this easy :)

Day 7 ... Organize the pantry ...

If you haven't taken the 21 day Organize challenge yet ... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! ... you're house is so clean? oh yah? I dare you to post pictures :) ... seriously, go to A bowl full of Lemons , and get inspired and motivated ... on to my pantry ...

BEFORE: to be honest, typically for me it's not that bad ... sorry :( ... but on a day to day basis only 1 or 2 things fall out onto my toes, and that's pretty good ... lol ... note Cleo, sniffing for stuff that has fallen out of broken bags, sad but true ... there's about 1/4 box of spilled Rottini tri-colour pasta down there ...


AFTER: Wowza!! Beautiful! Combined, Filled, Re-Jarred and Tossed ...



My Favourite Project: Transferring a bunch of stuff that was in bags with clips to some vintage Gem jars & Mason Jars that my Dad gave me ... Love the ones with the Glass tops ... Filled them with beans, cereal, chick peas, raisins, cornmeal and more .... and didn't cost me a dollar :)

Top Shelf: topped up my baking containers (sugar was empty, whole wheat flour was almost empty), tossed the stale crackers & cereal and restacked ...

Bottom ... Made the vintage 70's canisters accessible; they contain healthy snacks for the little boy, swept out the bottom and WOW!!

21 day Organize .... Day 1 Catch-up Junk Drawer ...

I don't have a junk drawer ... I have 3 ... and technically none of them are junk drawers, but they get pretty junky ... My kitchen only have 3 drawers (weird hey), 2 big deep ones and one for utensils ... so needless to say they all get extremely messy.

BEFORE: Bottom Drawer ... wow, no wonder I never know whats in there!

A few fun vintage tools I use ... food grinder, potato 'ricer' and decorator/cookie press ...

AFTER: Okay, it still looks kinda messy, but trust me, I know where everything is in that drawer now, purged & move some other things, seems a waste it's only half full now ...


BEFORE: Middle Drawer, mostly tea towels, dish rags, zip-lock bags, cling wrap, tinfoil and a bag of bags/straws/twist ties ...

AFTER: nicely stacked, found my handmixer (yay), found a stash of batteries (yay), found CHOCOLATE (double yay)


BEFORE: Utensil drawer .... the picture speaks for itself ....
AFTER: now the knifes are happily with the knifes and so on and so forth ...


and where did all these extra knives/spoons/forks come from ... and what do I do with them now? I better learn how to weld and put together a windchime or something ...

21 day Organize ... playing Catch-up with day 5 ... Under the SINK!

BEFORE: Basically my organizational routine is 'quickly open the door, toss whatever you need in & close the door quickly before something falls out' then pray you don't need it again for a long long time ...

there are a few cleaners of which I am making the switch over to all natural cleaners; essential oils, baking soda & vinegar are my staples .... no paper towels, note the BIG stack of rags ... Plastic Bags are kept for future uses (not to be tossed) as I have an ever growing stash of reusable bags at the back door and grab they when I go shopping ...

Progress ... how does the floor of the cabinet get so icky?

AFTER: Okay, I forgot the contact paper ... I don't have contact paper and I wasn't running out to get any , I'll keep an eye out when I'm 'treasure hunting' for some ....
other than that ... looks purty dang good :)

Dress the Dresser ... Yay!!!

Day 6 of the Getting Organized challenge ... get motivated, join the challenge with A bowl full of lemons ... I have to get caught up as this is my first day ... hey I only took the challenge yesterday ...and I do have Day 5 done also, I just have to post it :)

Well ... my messy little secret ... my dresser, my catch-all, my I'll put this away later ... what? I just close the bedroom door and no one knows! :) ... My bedroom set is a hand-me-down from my Gramma ... some of the drawer guides are broken so if I'm not careful a bruised toe can be the result ... I've often thought I might paint it to spruce it up a bit ... a bit more motivation is needed ... oh - plus I haven't had the mirror on since we moved into the house in 2005 ... It's in a closet, somewhere ...



Now, I have to make it clear that I did not skip the 'clean out the drawers' part ... I did just do that last week, mostly due to the fact I couldn't close most of them ... so they have been purged and sorted and folded, socks all match, sweaters with sweaters, jammies with jammies ... the only 3 drawers that didn't get touched are the 3 on the far left, which are hubbies ...

I found that mirror (there's actually supposed to be 2 and they stand up tall) but my son has one in his room ... I thought it might look good on it's side and I have to admit I really like it. I cleaned the dust bunnies with my homemade kitchen spray, then gave the whole thing, sides & front of drawers included a good rub with Lemon Oil, fancied it up a bit with some knick knacks ... voila - isn't it pretty ?