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Organizing

How-To Make French Enameled Numbered Tags

July 24, 2010
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I can’t take credit for this very clever way to make your own French enameled tags.  Rachel at One Pretty Thing  found this project and shared it on her site.  I read the post and loved, loved, loved the tags and couldn’t wait to make them to label my kitchen baskets.  Gail, at Can’t Stop Making Things came up with this project.  She used brass [...]

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In Artful Order

June 25, 2010
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I am a visual girl…I like to see things, pretty things, tactile things, organized things.  I love office, stationery, and art supplies.  I am not a tech-ie and don’t want to have everything including the kitchen sink in my computer files.  I like connection, hands-on to all my contacts, links, codes, passwords, urls, user names, [...]

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How-To Make the Almost Perfect Pencil Holder

June 21, 2010
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I wanted to thank everybody for leaving me so many nice comments and e-mails about my studioffice.  A few of you asked how I made the pencil holder.   I responded that I would try to find the instructions.  I had SUCCESS.    I had to figure out where I filed it.  I looked in my files under -  instructions, project [...]

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Trash, The Dollar Store, and Me

June 16, 2010
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I am one of those people who is not afraid to stop my car on the side of the road to pick up other peoples cast-offs.   I find it very adventuresome and love transforming my finds into functional pieces.  Best of all – it doesn’t cost me a thing.  I found this hollowed out dresser in [...]

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Spring Cleaning FUN!

March 30, 2010
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Day 6 – The Give-A-Way        Stylish Rubber Gloves + Turquoise Crystal and Button Earrings   To Win :  Leave a comment telling me your best cleaning tip or a great product you use that makes the task of cleaning easier.   To leave a comment, just click on the word “Comment” at the [...]

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Zoom Zoom Zoom – A Craft Cart on Wheels

February 21, 2010
How to make a craft cart on wheels

Earlier this week as I have been sitting in front of the television watching the Olympics, I made some decorative items.  I had stuff, supplies, and trash all over the place and thought – there has to be a better way to bring all my crafting supplies next to the sofa in a neat and orderly way.  I needed a cart of [...]

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My Crafty Craft-Table Cachepot

February 17, 2010
Crafts made with Recycled Materials

What can your do with a soup can, curtain hooks, those pesky advertising inserts from magazines, and a few beads?  You will soon find out. One of my favorite blogs is  Blah-to-TADA.blogspot.com.  Claire writes for a newspaper and was asked to write a column about how you could take stuff you would normally throw out and make something desirable from [...]

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My Studioffice – Part 1

February 14, 2010
Using a door as a desk

I had promised back before Christmas that I would post about the other half of my studioffice.  This is the area across from the partner’s desk that I posted about here.  Now you can see how this room’s other half lives.  This is Part 1 of the creation of my work table.   The room is a rectangle with two [...]

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How To Make Wipe-Off Labels for Organizing Your Stuff

January 13, 2010
Free Printable labels to download

  When paging through the  Ballard Designs catalog a few years ago I came across little enameled re-writable name plaques.  They were white and outlined in black.   They were Oh, so French, and Oh, so expensive!  I thought of so many uses for them, but knew I couldn’t afford them.  Not wanting to feel deprived of adding [...]

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How-to make a Lid for a Basket

January 11, 2010
How to make a lid so you can stack baskets

 I like many of you - am in super organizing mode. The New Year always deserves a fresh start and I am going through every room of my house purging all the clutter and organizing the rest.  One way I try to tame what is left is to place the stuff into decorative baskets.  I use them in my pantry, [...]

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