Easy Baby Hair Bow Hanging Closet Storage

Baby girl might have a few too many hair bows & headbands, but really, you can never have enough, right? She needs one to match every outfit and occasion!  Finally, I found the perfect solution to hold everything!  This closet organizer is double-sided so it actually holds twice as much as what I have here. 

I love that it fits perfectly in her closet so it doesn't take up a bunch of space in her room.

Brilliant! I'm so happy to have some organizing done for the new year!

Craft Room Reveal

This room was been a work in progress for about 2 years and then I suddenly realized I never shared it with you! If Hubby can have a man room, I get a craft room, right? It also doubles as a guest room when people stay over, but I can share : )

Here's what the room looked like before. Nasty window treatments and just a place to hold random crap that didn't have a home.

It was hard for me to do crafts in such an icky room!

Goodbye ugly old fan!

Hello bright and colorful room! My vision with this room was fun & energetic with lots of bright colors. It's the only room in our house that's girly and filled with color.

The striped bedding was the influence for the rest of the decor. The curtains are actually made from the bedskirt fabric that came with the bedding set. Since we have trundle beds, we didn't need the bedskirts, so I recycled them into fun curtains. See the tutorial for this style of curtain here.

This bookcase is a leftover from college, but it works perfectly as a nightstand. A lot of the items here are fun crafts I worked on during the past year.
Easy Fabric-covered lamp shade
Flowers in a Coffee Mug
Fabric Tissue Box Cover
Mini Canvas & Easel

I love all the fun throw pillows that coordinate with the bedding. I couldn't resist buying them!

No craft room of mine is complete without a tv because we all know I'm a tv addict. The dresser is a hand-me-down that my sister got and then it was passed to me and begging for a makeover. It was ugly & brown so we repainted it a couple summers ago.

Here's the sewing area and my little chair cushion makeover. The chair cushion was refashioned from a throw pillow I bought for the bed.

Dorky, but I love our new closet doors! These used to be ugly mirrored doors that made the room look so dated. We updated all the hallway doors to white 6-panel doors, so we decided to coordinate all the closets too.

Not everything in those closets is for crafts (I also keep some older clothes in there), but about half is filled with supplies and I love having them out of the way. The removable labels
were a fun project I did last summer and, of course, they match the bedding too!

Our closets had the Elfa system in them when we moved in, so these wire drawers are perfect for storing fabric. It's so nice to have it all organized instead of in piles and boxes!

So this is my little girly hideout and I love it! It's so fun to work in there with the sun shining in, Kitty sleeping on a bed, and I can watch tv while I work!

Craft room organization

As I organize my craft room, I wanted to come up with ways to store my supplies so they would be neat, clean and easy to get to.

Remember my last post about the cute labels I made for these plastic storage totes?


I want to show you the rest of the organization ideas I came up with in the room. I filed all my patterns and instructions for projects I've done in these file folders.


When we moved into our house, each room came with a set of Container Store wire drawers in every closet. Score! So instead of having all my fabric in plastic bags and huge boxes, I separated them by color and put them in the drawers.


These are quickly getting filled up!


I love how this looks and everything is so much more accessible.

If you'd like to see some of the other craft room projects I've done, go here for my DIY curtains, here for my sewing desk chair makeover, here for the pretty dresser makeover, and here for the coffee cup flower pot tutorial.

Linking up at these fun parties!

Craft Room Organization

All my craft supplies were a mess before I started organizing. I have so many half-finished crafts and random supplies from every little artsy interest I've ever had. I even worked at Michaels in high school and still have a lot of stuff I bought back then.

So as I was hard at work updating our craft room/guest room, I came up with an easy idea to store all my stuff. Look, Kitty worked hard too.


Anyway, I wanted to store all my stuff in plastic totes with labels. For months, I searched for cute labels that I thought would work, but nothing really caught my eye. So one day I realized I could design labels to match the bedding I bought for the room. (See the sheets above that Kitty is sleeping on.) So I designed these labels below and printed out a few sheets of them.


My next dilemma: how do I get these labels to be removable in case I change what's in each tote? My solution: contact paper


Using spray glue, I glued 3 sheets of labels onto contact paper.


Once the glue was dry, I cut them out and named each one.


And here they are looking all cute in my closet






I love that I can find anything I need quickly and it's all hidden when you walk in the room!

A little spring cleaning...

While I waited for the patched wall in the bathroom to dry last week, I had some time to do some spring cleaning.

You may have noticed that I added a few things on my blog. It's funny how most graphic designers are great at web design and html, but I suck at it. I never took a class in web design in college because I wanted to focus on print design. Kinda regret this decision now, but thanks to my friend, Google, and some great tutorials, I was able to figure this out pretty easily.

See above?
The magenta buttons below the heading are compilations of all my recipes and crafts I've shown on here.

See below each post?
I added a LinkWithin. I love this features on some of the blogs I visit, so why not add it to mine?



And another area that got some major spring cleaning was our walk-in closet. While I'd love to buy new clothing dividers and shelves for this area, what we have now works pretty well. I just have a LOT of clothes and they get messy when I start pulling things down to try them on.

Long sleeves & short sleeves on the top
Capris, dress pants, jeans, shorts, and skirts on the bottom

Purses and bags in yellow crates on the top shelf

Ok, I have a LOT of sweaters...but I promise some of them are almost 10 years old! These get so messed up when I start pulling them down, so I refolded everything and organized by sleeve length and thickness.

Boots, gym shoes, heels, and the crate in the corner for dry cleaning

This area has recently become fun again now that it's warm. Flats, sandals and flip-flops galore!

And speaking of spring cleaning, I wanted to show you the awesome giveaway I won recently from In My Own Style. It was my first visit to the blog and I randomly won these fun cleaning gloves and pretty turquoise earrings! Thanks Diane!

Have you done any spring cleaning in the past few weeks?

My current obsession

I have a confession: I am obsessed with laundry rooms!

In honor of my current obsession, I've been looking for some unique ideas for organization and DIY makeovers for laundry rooms. (Stay tuned for more laundry room blogs as I have a lot to share!)

Uptown Girl turned her ordinary laundry closet into a cute laundry bar! The machines are underneath the curtain and her cleaning supplies are hidden in the canisters.


Make a laundry hamper from old window screens.


DIY Drying Rack from Centsational Girl. She loved this design from Ballard and then made her own! Amazing!


If you have to hang your laundry, at least make it more fun with these easy decoupage hangers!

And another hanger DIY from Ashley Ann...


Polka Dot Pixie's flea market finds added some color to her laundry room.


What a big difference a can of paint and some new flooring can make! Check out Paula's transformation below.


Make your own laundry detergent using only these few ingredients below.