Hairclip Organization/Display

One of the things I love about being a stay at home mom is finding time for little craft projects, especially ones that make my life easier and more organized. My daughter has an ever growing supply of hair clips and after a while it was just getting overwhelming so I decided to make a hair clip organizer/display for all her cute clips. I even started making some of them! You only need a few things for this project and you probably have them lying around so you won’t have to purchase anything.

Here is why we needed to do something!

Supplies:

Hot glue gun and glue sticks

ribbon, any color but not too narrow, 1/2” or more

A nice plastic hanger, child size or adults depending on how many clips you have

Several large buttons, no need to match

I would assume most people have these things lying around, I just got a wild hair one day and decided to do it with things I had around the house. You can make it as fun as you want just by picking cute ribbon and buttons!

First step is to cut the ribbon to the desired length, I cut mine two different sizes.  I cut 5 pieces of ribbon, two of them about 12 inches and three about 18 inches. There is no set size, whatever works for you. You can see a picture below, (3rd one down) of how I arranged them.

Next warm up your hot glue gun and glue your pieces of ribbon to your hanger, see picture below. I glued the ribbon to itself and to the hanger so the ribbon wouldn’t slide on the hanger but you can always glue it to itself if you want them to slide along the hanger.

After you have the ribbon glued to the hanger glue your buttons to the bottom of the ribbon to prevent the hair clips from sliding off the hanger. See picture below.

This is what mine looked like when I was done……

How CUTE is that?!?!?!?!

Here are some of the clips I made her…….they are really easy!

If you decide to make one I would love to see it! Share it with us all on my Facebook page, I can’t wait to see your craftiness!

~Bonnie

Other crafts by Bonnie

Butterfly Footprints

Toddler Craft

Craft Cabinet Organization

Trick or Treat Plate

Thanksgiving Tree

Mudroom Reveal

When we bought our home in 2009 we were thrilled it had a mudroom, it was small but useable. After a few short years we were finding it harder and harder to function in it with our growing family. We really realized it in the winter with all the snow stuff and when the kids started going to school. So we finally made the decision last year to go ahead an tear down the old and make a new one but much bigger. One of the previous owners of our home had built the mudroom as an after thought and added it on off the kitchen and into the garage. We also have a big pole shed so we only needed enough room in the garage in the winter for out family vehicle. So we made the dimensions of the new mudroom as large as we could and still make it functional as a garage.  I will spare you all the crazy building pictures and get right to the beautiful, functional mudroom we now have. We started the project in April and I have just now put the final finishing touches on it, I am a very indecisive person at times. My wonderful, amazing, and talented Dad and husband did all the work and I am so proud of them! I think this may be my favorite room of my house, anything that makes my life easier as a mother is so worth it!

I hope you enjoy seeing it!

Here is a look from the garage walking into our new mudroom:

 

In the picture above the garage is behind me and our kitchen is to the right……..

In the picture below is what we see when we look from the kitchen into the mudroom:

The beautiful hutch you see in the pictures was given to us by my husbands parents, it was his grandma and grandpa’s and I always remember thinking how beautiful it was. I am so lucky to have it in my home and look at it everyday, it is one of my favorite pieces of furniture!

Below is another picture of the hutch and also some of the decorations I did. We bought the window at a Habitat for Humanity resale store and I sanded it down and painted it. I like the look of older things but with a fresh coat of paint on it! I bought the shutters at the same place as the window and spray painted those, they were plain white and they needed a little color. I think I paid $10 for all three pieces!

This is just looking back the other way……….on the left goes into the kitchen and the door straight ahead goes out to the garage.

This little area is for the kids!

I bought the bench and put cloth drawers in it for the baby’s shoes, now he can get them out all by himself! Each one of the kids has one of the cubes on the right for their hats and mittens. It looks cute and then everything is put away and still looks nice, and they can all reach their own things.

Below is just another view, it shows the coat hooks for the kids to hang their backpacks and coats on also.

The other thing we wanted to add when we redid this room was a nice big walk-in closet! We use it for pantry overflow, shoes, more coat hanging options, and much more! I tried to keep it real, rarely are the shelves perfectly organized, but that is why there is a door on it!

 

I hope you have enjoyed peeking into my home as much as I have loved sharing it with you, if you want to see more check out the links below for more of my Home Tour!

~Bonnie

Tour of Outside

Kids/Main Bathroom

Master Bath

Master Bedroom

Master Bedroom Walk-in Closet ~ Thrifty Thursday

Colton’s Room

Laundry Room (also a remodel)

Laundry Room Tour & Reveal ~ Thrifty Thursday

Well it is finally here, my big laundry room remodel reveal! We have spent a couple months getting this ready, what I thought would be a quick weekend project has become much more. It is way more time consuming to do a remodel than I was thinking. Anyway, it is done and it was so worth the wait! It is beautiful yet functional! So to give you an idea of what it was like before so you can truly understand the change I will show you some before pictures. It was functional but just barely…….see for yourself.

So there it is……functional but awful!

Below are some of the pictures during the remodel……..In this one my husband has built a wall where it used to look into the storage area of our basement.

Here is the frame of the laundry basket shelf my husband built.

And what would we do without some little helpers!

And here we are getting tons of help painting the floor!

And now for the final reveal!

This is looking in the room from the doorway.

My folding table and baskets to sort everyone’s clothes. This is one of my favorite parts!

A set of shelves and a hanging bar.

This is looking back out the way you come in. On the left is under the stairs, I just hung a shower curtain up to hide it.

This is another thing I love, it’s a really simple way to hang up mismatched socks.

Here my father-in-law built boxes for the washer and dryer to go on.

And here are some of the things I keep on my shelves, my favorite laundry soap!

I sure hope you have enjoyed seeing my laundry room tour and remodeling reveal! I had fun sharing it with you! I would love to hear from you, leave me a comment below & follow me on Facebook!

~Bonnie

If you enjoyed this post check out some other great ones:

Linen Closet Organization

Kids Bathroom Tour

Beef & Broccoli Stir Fry

Welcome to my Home

Baked Sweet & Sour Chicken

 

 

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Linen Closet Organization

Hi! I have been MIA all week! It has just been a busy, crazy week and this is the first time I have been able to sit down and blog! I am taking a little detour on my home tour……this is still part of my home but just a closet not a room, its kind of part 2 of last weeks post about the kids bathroom, it’s  their linen closet.  There is nothing better than having organized spaces in your home. It makes you feel accomplished and productive, at least it does me. I organized this closet a couple weeks ago and it is still perfect, having the right tools for organizing helps so much! You can clean closets over and over again but until you have a PLACE for everything it isn’t going to stay the way you cleaned it for very long. So my first step was to find some bins of varying sizes……..and something to label them with.

Nothing fancy, just some bins I found at Target and a roll of labels and a marker. I also love clear bins so you can see what is in them and locking lids for this closet was a must because it is the kids linen closet.

Here are some pictures of what it looked like before…….

Not too messy but it needed a face lift!

So I put things in labeled bins…….

Hand sanitizer…….

Toothbrushes……yes we have a mild obsession with toothbrushes.

I keep them on hand and and wash them in the dishwasher and then the kids can have a new one whenever they want.

Travel Kleenexes…..

And a bin for all our travel soaps and creams, I keep them on hand for guests.

It is almost hard to believe that only a few bins can make such a huge difference, but it really does! I also understand that you can’t do everything at once, bins are expensive! So what I do is one cupboard or closet at a time. This closet cost me about $20 and 20 minutes of my time and now it is clean and much more functional. Take a look……

Here is a side by side before and after……

I sure love it! Share with me your favorite organization tips in the comments below and come say hi on Facebook!

Thanks for stopping by and I would love to see your projects linked up below!

Bonnie

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Welcome to Thrifty Thursday!

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Laundry Room Sneak Peak ~ Thrifty Thursday

Good Morning! Well here it is ! Your sneak peak at my laundry room. I still don’t want to reveal it all because it isn’t quite finished yet. We are trying to do it on a budget so we are watching for sales and deals and buying things as we can afford them. But we only have a few things left to do and I can share it all with you!

Below is one of the shelves my handy hubby installed to put all my supplies on and a hanging bar.

Here are the boxes my father-in-law built to put my washer and dryer on, these are wonderful!

And last, here is a counter for folding!

It isn't quite completed but I am loving it already! With a big family I spend a lot of time in my laundry room, it is so nice not having it in a dark basement room. It is still in my basement but is now bright and cheery and very functional!

Please share your thoughts with me! Leave a comment below or visit me on Facebook, I would love to hear what you think about my sneak peak at my laundry room!

Bonnie

Also, it is Thrifty Thursday! Go ahead and add the awesome projects you have been working on!

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