{I Love Organizing}

My husband is gone to Kansas to visit our step daughter Laney, so after my baby Lily goes to bed for the night I have all of this free time to do projects that I would normally not have time to do. So I got back on my organization challenge from a bowl of full of lemons. Its a cleaning and organization website that I love. If you want to check it out, she is listed under my favorite links section. You've seen what a mess was made with my spices.....

BEFORE: AFTER: .......and the amazing spice system that I am now using.
So that left this drawer empty which allowed me to do this. Ohhhh so pretty.

Previously I had all of Lily's baby food in a cabinet. It was hard to reach, I could never see what food I had in there and when I would pull one out, they would all fall out. I have an entire months supply of baby food, that is easy to see. I only like to do my big grocery shopping once a month and then on a weekly basis I just get the basics bread, milk, eggs, fruit, veggies, yogurt. That kind of thing. I have found that I use more coupons when buying bigger amounts, I use my really detailed grocery list and buy things only on the list or things that we can stock up on that are on sale. And really, going to the grocery store once a month is much easier than going weekly. When Lily is no longer eating baby food, I can turn this drawer into her snack drawer or lunch system. Also an idea from a bowl full of lemons blog.

That project didn't take very long so I decided to tackle another item on my to do list, Brad's Hats. My husband loves hats. He wears them to match every outfit he has and even has matching shoes with all of them....he's worse than a girl I swear. I have tried many different systems to display his hats. On a shelf, took up to much space. Behind the door on a hat rack, takes too long to hook that hats on it and it looked so sloppy. Then I put them in a bag away in the closet, that just made my husband sad since he couldn't see all of his awesome hats. What could I possibly do in this space?

BEFORE: AFTER: So I came up with this idea.

Brad's favorite hats are now near the closet, out of the way, and organized looking. Happy husband and happy wife. I used clear thumb tacks and spaced them out evenly. Not only that, but I think it looks decorative and makes the space useful. So when Brad takes a hat down to wear it, you don't even see the thumb tack. My husband is 6'4' so he can reach them easily, and hang them up when he is done wearing them. Notice the Canadian hat, its my favorite since I am an awesome Canadian! I can't wait to tackle more projects to come tonight, it feels so good to have order in our home. I also can't wait for Brad to see what I did when he gets home. I think he'll really like it :)