Your home has a lot of moving parts. Check out these tips for moving, DIY house projects, organization, and tips to be the best mom you can be to your teenagers!
If you’re deciding on dorm vs off campus housing, here is an easy way to learn about the benefits of both living on and off campus. My daughter, Justine, has spent one year in a dorm, a year studying abroad, and two years in off campus housing. In this post, she shares her experience living…
This DIY Wood Tray has been very versatile and come in handy to use for many occasions! Originally, I built this DIY Wood Tray to use for my son’s band merch table. It works great to hold Stargazy Pie hats and CD’s. Then, I decided to make use of the tray between shows for other…
Send a Halloween Care Package to college students or anyone you’d like to surprise with a little Halloween fun! These Halloween Care Package Ideas For College Students are ready to help you create a box that will bring a smile to your student’s face. What do you give a college student for Halloween? The best Halloween care package includes…
Do you have a coat closet that you’d like to turn into a mudroom nook that’s functional and pretty, too? We recently learned how to turn a coat closet into a mudroom nook and are ready to share our process with you! Our coat closet was fairly organized, using file boxes as shelves for shoes…
There’s a lot of stuff that needs to be stored in your garage and if you work it right, you should be able to use your garage as storage space and for its intended purpose of parking your cars! These garage organization tips will give you ideas on how to organize your garage so you…
When we moved our daughter into a dorm room, we had just about EVERYTHING on the campus ready dorm room lists. We wanted her to be prepared for anything! However, a lot of that stuff came home, at the end of the year, without ever being touched. Now that it’s our son’s turn to move…
Learn how to paint a kitchen table in order to give your old table a new look! My daughter and her roommates lived in a small house close to their college. It was so small that they didn’t even bother with a kitchen table. Instead, they ate their meals sitting on the couch. After living…
Moving is a big deal! Learn how to pack for a move in order to make your move as smooth as possible. The trick is in the preparation. If you do the hard work now, you will be happy when it’s time to unpack! Create a staging area. Create a space, ideally close to the…
My wood scrap pile was growing out of control so I decided to find projects that would help me use some of that scrap wood. Then, I found the 731 Woodworks Bench For Beginning Woodworkers and realized we could totally use a small DIY Bench for our entryway. I rummaged around in the garage and…
Learn how to refinish chest of drawers, the EASY way, with just a few supplies and minimal time! Back in the 70’s, when I was in elementary school, I moved from an orange shag rug shared bedroom, with my sister, to my own small room with green shag carpet. My mom found a used dresser…
My sister had a new house built and, after the movers arrived, I got to organize her kitchen! Organization is kind of my thing. It’s like a giant puzzle and, if you catch me standing in the middle of the room, with boxes everywhere, staring into empty shelves, just know I’m putting the puzzle pieces…
Send a Sunshine Box to anyone, at any time of year, to brighten their day! These Sunshine Box Ideas and Printables will make your Sunshine Care Package EXTRA special! We have an extended family member who will be in the hospital for a lengthy amount of time. He has three little kids, at home, who…
When sleep evades you, it may be time to start a Sleep Diary so you can look for clues of what’s keeping you from getting a good night’s rest. What is the purpose of using a sleep diary? According to the Mayo Clinic, 3 in 10 US adults don’t get enough sleep. When sleep becomes…
When you can’t spend Christmas with friends and family, in person, you can do the next best thing … send a Christmas Party In A Box! You may not have the opportunity to celebrate Christmas with many of your friends and family but you still want to do something special for them. The Christmas Party In…
Someone asked if I could create an In Case Of Emergency Information Sheet because she would be living on her own, soon, and wanted to make sure she would have emergency information handy. Who Is The In Case Of Emergency Sheet For? Anyone could benefit from having their emergency information, close at hand. This Emergency…
The most overlooked thing to organize is probably household manuals. They usually sit, untouched, in a box or drawer, wasting space. That box is such a mess that, even if you needed to find a manual, the LAST place you would want to look is in that box because it would take you way too…
My son is starting his freshman year of college and, since all of his classes will be online, he has decided to study from home the first quarter. In an effort to make studying at home more exciting, we decided to turn our guest bedroom into a study room and went desk shopping. The cost…
A friend of mine talked about making sweater pumpkins and it intrigued me enough to turn my favorite sweater into sweater pumpkins. Even though that favorite sweater was threadbare and had holes, I was STILL wearing the thing because it was just so comfy. It is super EASY to make Sweater Pumpkins out of an…
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