Mrs. C Does Stuff

I am not a morning person.  It takes me forever to come to my senses.  Many days I wake up in a total state of confusion.  My routine usually includes me stumbling into the bathroom to run my bath water and then shuffling to my closet to see what to wear. Growing up, my parents knew this about me.  My mom always made sure I ironed my clothes the night before for the next day.  On weekends when I had time, I would iron clothes for the entire week. As an adult, I am trying to get back into the habit of ironing my clothes for the week.  I am also trying on the outfits before I iron them to make sure everything is comfortable and fits correctly.  There is nothing more aggravating than putting on what you think you are going to where to work and it doesn't fit or there is an unnoticed stain somewhere. So, I have come up with an organizational solution to help me prepare clothes for the week.  On the back of my closet, I put five Command adh...

I happen to collect a bunch of those sample bottles of perfume.  I don't wear perfume often enough to really have a go to one.  On the occasion when I do wear perfume, I like to experiment with different ones.  Before doing this project, I had little bottles all over the place.  Now I have one place for all of them. Notice in the picture above, I had to go back and re-glue the interior fabric on the right side.  I did not notice until I looked at the picture that some of the brown box was still exposed.  Although I had to fix it, I figured you would still get where I was going with this tutorial.  For starters, I took a small shipping box, and using Mod Podge, wrapped the box in fabric.  First cut the top flaps off the box.  Then cover to outside of the box with fabric. It took a little time to get the corners just right, but you can work with them until you get them flush with the sides. I used the Mod Podge to adhere the fabric...

I was so inspired by the pantry at the House of Smiths blog, I wanted to organize our own pantry.  Click here to see her gorgeous pantry.  The items needed to be visible and accessible.  I spent an entire day organizing this pantry.  I did not paint the pantry, but I did put down some black shelf liner. I found these nifty little woven baskets on sale at Bath and Body Works for a $1 each.  It was a steal, I bought a bunch of them and use them in various areas all over the house.  For the pantry, I used them to hold saran wrap, plastic bags, aluminum foil and other similar items.  I also used them to hold cupcake tins and extra vanilla extract I had on the second shelf.  On the third shelf, I put all of my powdered sugar in one of the baskets.  And on the last shelf, I put snacks in the basket. For dry items such as sugar, flour, bread flour, wheat flour, I used glass Anchor Hocking containers.  I ordered them from Bed, Bath and B...