Category Archives: Before and After

Organizing my linen closet…..

Today I tackled my linen closet. I have been wanting to do this for so long. Since I had the big kids home today I thought I’d do it today while I had them to chase play with their little brother.
I followed my PROCESS steps. First my plan: I wanted to purge out a lot [...]

Tackle it Tuesday - Lazy Susan

This morning I tackled my lazy susan. I use the top shelf in this cupboard mainly for spices and the bottom cupboard is my baking shelf. However I haven’t organized it in over a year and it was definitely due to be done. I always have to laugh because for a person who doesn’t enjoy [...]

Tackle it Tuesday - Organizing my son’s bedroom

Well I’m not sure if this is cheating or not but my Tackle It Tuesday project has sort of been ongoing for the last couple of days. It was a biggie. My son’s bedroom was a disaster area and was in bad need of some “tackling”. The first thing we did was buy him [...]

Saturday Solutions - Recipes

When visiting my dear friend the other day she showed me her poor overworked recipe box or should I say what used to be a box since the lid was no longer able to close. You see it was full of tiny little scraps of paper with recipes written on them.
Let’s take a look at [...]

Before and After Photos

Last week I posted some advice here for my sister in law about how to go about organizing the cabinet under her bathroom sink.
This is what it looked like BEFORE:

and this is what it looks like AFTER:

Didn’t she do a FANTASTIC job? The pull out shelving is an excellent choice and really takes advantage of [...]

Tackle it Tuesday - Scrapbook Central

This week I’ve been frantically trying to get done a scrapbook album I am making for a friend as a gift. So not only did I finish the album BUT I also cleaned up my mess…..whew….I’m exhausted now! I’d show you the scrapbook but I think my friend reads this blog and I don’t want [...]

Tackle it Tuesday ~ Organizing my kitchen drawer

I’ve stumbled upon an excellent weekly feature over at Five Minutes For Mom. This is right up my alley and I couldn’t wait to participate! If you have been putting off doing some organizing projects because you don’t know where to start how about one project at a time on Tackle It Tuesday! I think [...]