I am convinced bedroom closet organizers are made for tall people. If you are short forget it. You are doomed to live in messy and unorganized squalor.
Or at least it feels that way to this short person.
I loved our Elfa closet system when we first installed it. Husband and I can share a closet and not fight over space. It the custom design works but we later learned it sorta doesn’t.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
How to Organize Your Closet and Clothes in Three Easy Questions
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Friday, April 3, 2015
What’s Better Than a Vacation? Winning a MAKEcation of Course!
I have a decent collection of tools and know how to use them but there a number of things I’d like to try but would feel more confident if someone showed me how to use say, a lathe, so I can keep my figures while working on my first project.
I can’t be the only one who feels this way about using tools, can I?
I guess not because Craftsman is holding another MAKEcation event this September Sept. 24-27 in Brooklyn, New York and will teach you how to use all sorts of tools to make really cool things. It sounds like DIY Vacation Heaven!
You can win a chance to go to the ultimate making vacation that will put true makers' blood, sweat and tools to the test, letting you sharpen skills and learn new ones.
I can’t be the only one who feels this way about using tools, can I?
I guess not because Craftsman is holding another MAKEcation event this September Sept. 24-27 in Brooklyn, New York and will teach you how to use all sorts of tools to make really cool things. It sounds like DIY Vacation Heaven!
Last year they taught everyone how to make a wood goblet on a lathe. Learning how to use a lathe is on my Bucket List.
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Monday, March 30, 2015
How to Clean and Disinfect a Yoga Mat Naturally
My husband and I recently joined the YMCA so I can take their fitness classes to rebuild my balance and muscles for my adult beginner ballet class.
Given my recent history of buying a new stuff for working out and eventually quitting, I’m making do with what I have until I get past my ”what have I gotten myself into? I don’t think I like this” hump. In the meantime, I’m borrowing the yoga mat Husband has to do floor exercises at home. Sharing is working well since we use it at different times. It doesn’t hurt that we aren’t cluttering our space with extra stuff either.
Although there is one teeny, tiny problem with two people sharing the same exercise mat. IT REEKS OF TWO PEOPLE WORKING OUT AND SHARING A YOGA MAT.
I became aware of our problem during my secondFace Plant Piyo class.
I became aware of our problem during my second
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
6 Green and Frugal Things for March (and a Few That Aren’t!)
Sometimes I post a list of little frugal things we do each month on my food blog Lazy Budget Chef and thought I’d do it today on Condo Blues. Some of these things are big, most are small. You don’t have to look to closely to see that most of them are green too!
1. Turned off the heat Saturday when it reached 60 degrees ( F) outside. Husband and I did a little dance thinking we were good to go until Fall.
1. Turned off the heat Saturday when it reached 60 degrees ( F) outside. Husband and I did a little dance thinking we were good to go until Fall.
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
15 Unique Garden Border and Edging Ideas
Now that it is officially Spring, I’m ready to start planning our landscaping. I found a bunch of clever, unusual, and some down right weird ideas for garden borders and edging one day while I was researching what to plant and where to plant it.
I thought I’d share because maybe you need new garden borders too.
Or you just like to look at garden p*rn. that’s OK too.
I thought I’d share because maybe you need new garden borders too.
Or you just like to look at garden p*rn. that’s OK too.
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
21 Drought Tolerant Plants for Your Yard
You are getting excited for the Spring planting season?
Me too!
Although I am not looking forward to how much it will cost us to keep a new landscape watered all summer long.
One way to avoid a high summer water bill is to plan my new landscape with native plants. Since I often forget plants need water to grow, they should be drought tolerant too.
Since I know pretty much nothing about native or drought tolerant plants, I'm cruising over to Organizing Made Fun and reading her 21 suggestions for Going Native: Drought Tolerant Plants for Your Yard.
Check it out now and pin it for later!
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Me too!
Although I am not looking forward to how much it will cost us to keep a new landscape watered all summer long.
One way to avoid a high summer water bill is to plan my new landscape with native plants. Since I often forget plants need water to grow, they should be drought tolerant too.
Since I know pretty much nothing about native or drought tolerant plants, I'm cruising over to Organizing Made Fun and reading her 21 suggestions for Going Native: Drought Tolerant Plants for Your Yard.
Check it out now and pin it for later!
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