THE Mudroom

THURSDAY:  Yeah!  Another Creation!

My laundry room was teeny weeny once upon a time.  Then my amazing charming hubby granted me my wish to have a mud room.  He built onto my laundry room using extra garage space and turned this......

into this!

Lockers galore!

Everyone has plenty of room for coats, sweatshirts and pack backs.  

A place for every shoe. 

My hubby says that this room will sell our home.

I say that this room will keep me from ever selling.

Click here for my cabinet redo.

Click here for my shelf redo.

A little something for the eyes.

Real life after a quick pick up.

I love my mudroom hubby!

Click here for my simplified dish collection above my lockers.

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Extending Laundry Space

TUESDAY:  Yeah!  A Creation!

Here's my laundry command center.  

Each child has a basket.  

Wait, I have 5 kids not three.  

Time to expand.

Take down old shelf.

Put up wider shelf and all 5 baskets.

I'm happy.

My kids...not so happy.

A little added prettiness.

Laundry - undoubtedly loads of fun!

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Shelf for Treasures

TUESDAY:  Yeah!  A Creation!

Here's a transformation that took no effort and it was easy and simple.

I found this little shelf for $2 at the thrift store.  I had big ideas for it with a bead board backing and other fancy stuff,  however, the simplicity in me won out or maybe I was just too lazy.  Instead I pulled the cutsey heart board off and gave it a quick spray paint.  I didn't even bother to cover it all - the green still shows here and there.

Look how great it holds my junk treasures.

This sits right above my sewing table and is just right for me.

I love using old canning jars to hold stuff.

The smaller bottles on the bottom shelf are salsa jars.  

I covered the lids with burlap and wrapped it with fabric - cute!

A place for everything.

Recipes Galore!

THURSDAY:  Yeah!  Another Creation!

Organizing my recipes into ONE book!

How many dishes do we really make from our mighty collection of recipe books anyways?

This is my nutty recipe collection.  

I can't tell you how many recipe books and magazines I've squandered.

I really only use 1-2  recipes from each publication.

This is what my stash does to me.

It gives me gray hair! 

I need a binder to hold all my true and tried recipes.

One book to be right at my finger tips.

Used tabs to categorize my dishes.

Bought pocket sheet protectors off the Internet. 

The 4 pocket page holds 4x5 cards.

The 3 pocket page holds 4x6 cards.

Awesome daughter made me some personalized recipe cards off the computer.

Transfered my favorite recipes on the cards and slipped them into the pockets.

Printed recipes from favorite sites and slid them into large sheet protectors.

Allrecipes has tons of recipes.

Our Best Bites is another yummy site.

I just found The Girl Who Ate Everything with great recipes too.

About every 6 months I add new recipes to my binder.

Now when I cook and bake I ONLY refer to ONE book.

Triumph!

No more gray hair!

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