Monday, July 15, 2013

Spice Drawer Makeover!

Happy Monday everyone!  I hope you all had a wonderful and crafty weekend.  I know that I did :)  I've also taken the time to re-structure my weekly blogging system!  Hurray :D  Until now I haven't really had a system for figuring out what to blog about.  So for the rest of July I will be testing out a new, weekly schedule.  So here it is:

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 tried to keep the bottles all lined up like this but they would inevitably get all messed up and I'd have to straighten them out again.  Not fun.  So I set out to do a budget friendly, DIY makeover!

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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