Kindle Freebies!!!

Hey everyone, normally I write about a craft I have done or an activity I have completed...you know just SOMETHING.  Well not today.  I have had my blog administrator page up for about 4 days just itching to write something, but between funerals, Church, Music Department responsibilities, kids, husband, and work it has been super crazy around here.  So this is just a quick update on something interesting I found...FREE KINDLE BOOKS!!  who doesn't love the FREE stuff????  So here ya go!  I came across these awesome freebies and just had to share. I hope you enjoy!

The first book is one I have seriously needed since I have been going through closets and under beds trying to get rid of all the clutter my family of five has accumulated in the last two years since moving into this house.  Its crazy!!!  I want bare closets again like when we first moved in!! So I am going to give this a thorough read and see what wisdom I can glean to help me in this quest!!

The Ultimate Guide To Decluttering and Organizing Your Home 

So you know what happens when you start going through closets and decluttering??  You make a MESS! and since your focusing on reorganizing the deep cleaning doesn't seem to get done as much as you would like.  So my next read is this one to deep clean after I have decluttered!

The Easy Way To Clean

Next is a book that I found fun and interesting.  Even though we don't celebrate Halloween I LOVE and anything about costumes since I have some VERY imaginative children who love to play dress up.  As well as a drama department in our church who is always needing costumes for the next production. So I was excited to find this free costume book that even has instructables!!

Easy Halloween Costumes

Then by the same authors is this free Halloween Food book.  Umm, FREE RECIPES??  LOOOOVE,  and I can use them for things other than Halloween.  so... SCORE!

Halloween Food

I hope you enjoy these freebies as much as I plan to. Please feel free to share in the comments any freebies you come across.  I love a good bargain!!

I hope you have a great day!  And God Bless!!!

A Whole New Beginning

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Not only are we at the beginning of a new year, but each day brings a  new beginning.  Will today be a day I procrastinate away and get not enough accomplished? Will today be a super productive day that I when my head hits the pillow it will be with a sigh of satisfaction that I squeezed every bit of my time and effort into accomplishing all that I intended?  For most of us the majority of our days are actually one where we go to be having accomplished some of our goals, but still have some undone.  Now here's truth time for me...Lately I think I have been in the procrastinating camp just a little too much.  It is time to get my rear in gear!  With this being the beginning of a new year and month I am setting goals for myself.  Some Daily, Monthly, and Yearly ones, but for now I am going to touch on one of my monthly goals.
This year I want a different room to be de-cluttered and organized each month.  Counting bathrooms, bedrooms, living, cooking, creating, and dining spaces that will be 10 rooms which equals 10 months.  I will take the month of June off since I am gone the majority of that month, and December because we all know re-organization will NEVER happen in that month (Well at least around here)!!!!
I think My first room will be my Master Bath.  It needs a good scrubbing/redecorating/painting.  It has multiple problems that need to be addressed.  As for the color scheme it is currently and interesting combination of mint green (tile the old kind that goes halfway up the wall and isn't going anywhere unfortunately),

(Sorry for the flash, but in order to see the true minty greenness it had to be used)

tan walls that have water lines from water dripping down them due to a combination of no venting in this old house and a hubby who likes to wake up by showering for at least an hour in a steaming (literally) hot shower, old gold hardware that I have been meaning to replace since we moved in a year and four months ago, cream trip, and bronze and chocolate accents.

I forgot to mention the ugly old (the silvering is starting to come away on the bottom of the mirror. Not bad, but enough to drive me crazy) contractors mirror and florescent bare bulb lighting fixture.

Since I am intending to turn my Master Bedroom into a cool welcoming oasis of gray, black, and white the Master Bath is going to be gray walls, mint green tile, and black and white accents. Other improvements are going to be a fan/vent to combat the whole steam issue, new towel racks and light-switch plates,  a new mirror or frame in the current one (I'm leaning toward framing the existing due to I'm cheap monetary issues), and a new lighting fixture (A MUST!!!).  Also going to improve storage issues with some additional shelving. I think it's going to look really great, and I cant wait to get started!

Oh yeah, I got an AWESOME Christmas present that my hubby was so excited that I asked for (its one he actually enjoyed shopping for).... drum roll please.... a Jigsaw!!

I cant wait to make so many things with it!  One of the first is going to be some decorative shelving for my reworked Master Bath!  This saw is AWESOME!  It will cut through just about anything, cuts angles, and decorative curves.  I cant wait to get started!

So with all this built up excitement and anticipation lets see how this month of organizing the Master Bath goes, and move on to the next room.

What are some of your Yearly, Monthly, and Daily goals for this new year? I would love to hear all about them!

Have a great day and God Bless!

Bows coming out of my EARS!!

Hello my name is Chantelle and I am a Bow-a-holic.

Or rather, I love for my daughters to have every outfit topped off with a complimentary bow.  Since my girls have 1500 outfits each that means 1500 bows each for a grand total of 3000 bows (okay there is some slight exaggeration going on , but that is a close number).  I first tried an AWESOME idea that a friend of mine had come up with to re-purpose one of my husbands ugly old ties and clip them to either side.  It worked great until I ran out of room and had to start a second tie.  Then I had bows that had lost their clips (I could still use them by sticking a hairpin through them) but no where to put them or way to attach them when they weren't being pinned into their hair or until I could re-attach a clip to them.  Or bows would get knocked off onto the floor and forever jumbled with their shoes (the ties were hung in their closets).

OH the frustration of getting two girls dressed for school and not being able to track down a bow that they had worn just three days before because they didn't put it back on their bow tie. 

Enter a quick shopping trip to my local Dollar General where, SCORE, I bought this garbage can for $1.50!!

As you can see its hot pink which perfectly matches my girls crazy room and will perfectly match what I am slowly trying to remodel their room into

See some great examples of what I'm wanting to do here. 

You know something like this:

Anyway that is for a different post altogether.  Back to the mess of bows. This is about a 1/3rd of the bows:

So We started clipping all those bows onto the mesh. 

As you can see in the picture above the clips that have the pinchy release clasps (yes that is the technical name for them) and any barrette style we did clipped on the very top lip of the Bow-Can.  Simply because we were able to close the clips that way and they would stay attached.

And we clipped more

My daughter LOVED this project and I let her do the majority of the clipping.  Cause, hey why not, its keeping her happy and entertained! 

On top of that when we finished that 1/3rd she went in search of the other 2/3rds.  So we had a MAJOR hair bow round up in our house today with awesome results. 

Here's a close up of what the inside looks like with the bows clipped on.  The Bow-Can, as its now known, has most of the bows attached in an easy to see way and the ones that didn't have clips are inside rather than clipped to the outside.

The Bow-Can is sitting prettily on the top of their dresser and now, I can find the bow we need for the current outfit at a glance and a twirl of the Bow-Can.  I am considering turning it upside down, and putting it on a tall candle holder or de-commissioned lamp from the thrift store.  Making it look more like a bow light shade.  I would lose the storage capacity of the can, but it might be worth it for the cuteness factor.  Oh well, we shall see what I can come up with.

Hope you find something ordinary to re-purpose, and turn into an extraordinarily useful of beautiful part of your life.  Leave me a comment letting me know how your projects are turning out, or your thoughts and ideas on this one.  I would love to hear from you and will respond.

Have a great and Blessed day today!