Monday: DIY Home Improvement
I have a couple projects lined up on how to spruce up my apartment with DIY projects! So I will use my weekends to work on some of those and update you all on Mondays with what I did and how I did it. I'd love to be able to inspire some of you to do the same!
Tuesday: Create-a-Long
Originally the idea was for a "Knit-a-Long" day but that limits me too much!! This Tuesday (tomorrow) I will be discussing the very first "Create-a-Long" with all of the details for us to create a project together! And every Tuesday I will be posting updates with what I have done so far and what my goal is to have completed for the following Tuesday. Get excited because I know I am!
Wednesday: Wacky-Wednesday Kids Crafts
One day every week will be dedicated to a different craft just for kids! I won't be able to include pictures of the children I have completing my crafts (I'll be crafting with the children I babysit and, since they aren't my children, I don't want to post their pictures on the internet). But I can hopefully get pictures of the crafting process without showing their faces :)
Thursday: Products for Sale
I do want to keep all of you updated on the items I have available for purchase (both on Facebook and on Etsy). So I will be dedicating my Thursday posts to a different item each week. With lots of pictures and information of course :)
Friday: Free Download
For now this means updates on the baby binder :) Once the baby binder is complete I'll either have to think up something else or pick a different topic. So for now a new download for the baby binder will be available every Friday!
So today is Monday! And that means it's time for a "DIY Home Improvement" post!
I follow a blog here that I am obsessed with! iHeartOrganizing. Jen, the author of this blog, is fantastic! If you haven't checked out her blog you honestly should. I was checking out her blog the other day and she had a post about a DIY project one of her readers accomplished. She completely re-organized her spice drawer! One glance and I fell in love. I mean this was beautiful! And I started thinking about my spice drawer. Spice bottles thrown in a drawer next to my stove which end up rolling around every time it opens and closes. Not an ideal situation for someone who wants everything to be organized. So I decided to take on the DIY challenge!
This is what the drawer looked like to begin with:
I wanted to have a pretty drawer liner to help with small messes and to make the drawer look pretty. But being on a recent-college-grad budget has me counting every penny I spend. So I was looking through what I already had on hand and found the perfect solution!
I bought this wrapping paper a few months ago at the dollar store (my favorite place to shop) for a friend's birthday and it's been sitting in my closet since. There is still plenty of wrapping paper left on the roll and I decided that it would be perfect for my drawer liner!
What do you think? I love it! The colors are bright and fun and it just creates a great vibe! Cost so far: $0.00 (but if you didn't have this on hand you could pick up some wrapping paper for $1.00 at Dollar Tree.)
Then it was time to organize the spices! I went to Walmart and bought a pack of 12, 8-oz Mason Jars. They cost me $8.97 ($9.56 with tax). The jars fit standing up inside the drawer which is perfect! So I transferred each spice bottle into a different Mason Jar to give them all a unified look. But when I stuck them in the drawer they still seemed like they would move around a bit (though definitely an improvement from the bottles). Well the pack of Mason Jars that I bought came with one of those cardboard separators so I put that in the drawer as well!
I could have stopped there but I had the DIY Creative Bug in me and decided I wanted to give the jars a little pop of color as well. So I grabbed my Post-It Label Pads (a gift from my mom a while back so I already had them on hand) and cut out circles to stick to the tops of the Mason Jars.
What do you think? Personally I think the DIY Makeover was totally worth it! And it definitely fit within my budget!
Cost of Materials:
- Wrapping Paper on hand: $0.00
- 12 pack of Mason Jars: $9.56
- Post-it Label Pads on hand: $0.00
TOTAL: $9.56
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