~spring cleaning ~ Spring cleaning! I love it! It’s a fresh start for a new season. Spring cleaning starts with the freezer. The freezer is where all half consumed bag of veggies go to well… freeze. Until they get to the point where I can’t distinguish between a bag of frozen pasta sauce and well a [Read more…]
How to Contain the Frosting Mess
Hi everyone- You know how some of the best ideas happen by chance. Well in the weeks leading up to Halloween I was on a donut bender with all of the Halloween parties. While decorating donuts with frosting I had more frosting on the counter than on the donuts. Here’s my suggestion on how to contain the [Read more…]
Celebrate the Season with Pillows!
Hey everyone- I am in a bit of a pillow-palooza at my house! My sister recently sold me on the classic down pillow. She was a northwest girl for a few years and she embraced her inner sweater and down vest self! Seriously! They put feathers in everything up there! So she got me to [Read more…]
How to Organize Math Problems
Can you believe it is the new school year! Geez! I am reposting this suggestion on how to better organize math problems (think columns, those annoying addition mistakes because your columns were not lined up- sorry I am having a flashback)! This suggestion was provided to me by a high school math teacher for my [Read more…]
DIY Dog Toys
dIY dog toys Our Bernese Mountain puppy recently celebrated her first birthday which technically means she is not a puppy. The issue is Chloe (aka Chlo-jo) does not know about this milestone and her once cute bad habits are getting quite costly. She is a bit mouthy- not the sassy type- but rather her love of all non-living, [Read more…]
Dual purpose drywall anchor & screw
dual purpose anchors | 2 minute Tuesday Hi everyone- I am so excited for this 2 minute Tuesday find! The thought of hanging up anything weighing more than 8 ounces causes me to break out into hives. This dual purpose drywall anchor and screw combo changed my life! Seriously. I have too many of these [Read more…]
How to remove a shelf or trim and not take the drywall with it…
Well, this is a quick tip I wish I had discovered before this happened in my daughter’s bedroom. This is about 2 hours into a repair job when I was left with gaping holes in the drywall while removing a built in desk. Here are some pre-existing shelves in our daughter’s room we removed when we [Read more…]
Zots .. globs of glue
Zots | Weekend Finds How’s this for an intro: Zots.. it sticks around longer than Zits! Ba dum cha! And, this is why I never had a chance in advertising! I found these at Michaels (I think) for one of my son’s science fair project. Which, let’s face it, even those of us who “are [Read more…]
Labels Organize Everything
How many of you own a label maker? I have several label makers and the ultimate label maker: the Silhouette. Labels calm me. Seriously. Labels are my go t0 strategy to organize a desk, drawer, closet or refrigerator. I {may have} labeled the fruit bin in the refrigerator just in case the family couldn’t recognize [Read more…]
Shim Solutions
Shims | 2 Minute Tuesdays Hi everyone- I couldn’t think of a good post title for a shim so I just went old school with Shims. Who uses shims? They are great for leveling height differences but did you know you can use them to save the drywall? Sidenote: do you say sheet rock or [Read more…]
Fun & Easy Bathroom Ideas for Kids
If you have kids boys you hate bathrooms! It doesn’t matter if they are two or forty two! Some mornings I need disposable gloves and a hazmat suit. And, the moment you reach to raise the toilet seat…. I can’t stop the visual! I will never understand how a towel never meets a towel bar, like [Read more…]
Thrifty Patio Lighting in Minutes
Hi Everyone- We are addressing multiple issues in our yard! We have outdoor lighting but we have a few pockets in the yard and our patio that have little or no light. With a new puppy I wanted to have some way of finding her for her midnight bathroom breaks! So I snagged a few of [Read more…]
Garbage Can Storage Ideas
Question: are your garbage cans stored inside your garage or outside of the garage? I have a lovely recycling can that I would love to store outside, but I’m not so sure my neighbors would love this next to the garage: don’t judge my trash! I found a few favorites of garbage can storage ideas for [Read more…]
