Normally I spend New Years holiday's decluttering. Instead of spring cleaning, I do a major clean up around New Year's and the 4th of July. Normally these are days that I have off, that my ex usually worked, and I never had plans that were fun. This year I was invited to my boyfriend/ex-boyfriend's parents house for the weekend. (My boyfriend is also my ex-boyfriend prior to my disaster of a marriage, it's a long story) So no decluttering for me this year. Then certain areas of my condo started bothering me. Mostly the craft area. When I moved in I put all of my craft stuff in the closet in the den (really the 2nd bedroom), but its so dark and cramped in there that I couldn't find what I needed. I decided to fix that by moving things around, and it's gotten out of control and taken over my life. But my craft area looks great now.
That's a picture from when it was still in progress. I took a cheap bookcase and attached 4 cheap closet organizers, added backs and painted them. Then I organized my craft supplies in fancy painted boxes (USPS flat rate boxes...free) and cheap (80%)
Christmas painted tins.
For $30 all of my craft supplies are organized and the best part is that it's in my living room/dining room, which is very under-used. And furthermore, it blocks the ugly fireplace and the gigantic porn mirror above the fireplace. Seriously, that mirror is 5.5 feet x 5.5 feet, and hideous.
The downside to this is that I had to rearrange some furniture, and it's still an ongoing process. Mostly because I've decided to paint all of my furniture. I blame Kristen @thefrugalgirl.com. All her fault, I swear.
And then I found Pinterest while searching for advice on painting the furniture. I have a bunch of projects in progress, and even a few that are finished, like these:
My yard sale bar stool/plant stand. $0.50, painted and stenciled.
My superhero logo "COEXIST" sign.
Family picture display. Supplies on hand, photo prints cost 10 cents each at Walgreens.
I hope I've inspired/amused you with my projects, and as I finish up the rest I'll be sure to post them.
