by Sasha on September 26, 2008
Here is my second idea for using grocery packaging around the house for organizing. Feeling inspired the other day to start knitting again, I pulled my needles out of storage. I like to have access to them where I can easily see all the sizes. Last year I kept them in a colorful, hand-blown glass vase from Crate & Barrel but darn it, I forgot to bring it with me when I moved. So thinking about that vase inspired me to wash out a pasta jar, peel off the label and use it like a vase for my knitting needles.
by Sasha on September 25, 2008
In the last few weeks, I’ve discovered some great organizational uses for my grocery packaging. I started buying strawberries every week at my local farmer’s market and felt bad throwing away the green plastic containers. I decided to see if they fit in the shallow top drawers of my IKEA Traby cabinet (pictured above) and they DID. It’s a win win for me. I keep buying strawberries which are full of healthy antioxidants and I keep filling my drawers with these useful containers to keep all the small loose items in order. They are especially great to keep all those gadget cords in order. So look at my fabulous results below!
It’s genius! huh?!
by Sasha on September 24, 2008
Ok! so I know I’ve been lagging on the posts lately, but only because I’ve been busy again with a large scanning project and I’m just trying to plow thru it as “fast” as I possibly can. Scanning is like watching paint dry. As you know I finished the huge task of scanning 2500 family slides. Well, now I’ve moved to negatives and photos and many other categories of memorabilia that will fit on my scanner bed. I’m thinking of many fun ideas to create Blurb books out of my scans. Stay tuned in the upcoming weeks and months and I’ll show you some of my creations that I will be creating and ordering from Blurb. So I apologize for the delay but it’s not because I’ve run out of ideas. Lately, I’ve been having fun around my apartment coming up with really inexpensive organizational ideas that I’m pretty excited to share here. With the crazy financial crisis happening right now, I know we can all use some cheap ideas for organizing our homes.
by Sasha on September 10, 2008
I had the pleasure of receiving a comment from Emma Pezzack, creator of futurenatural.com. She pointed me to another great organic beauty resource she created. It’s a blog style site for reviews of organic beauty, fashion, and style items. Check it out sometime…tons of useful and up to date information.
organicbeautyview.com
by Sasha on September 3, 2008
I started reading a new blog I thought you all may enjoy called ecofabulous and I’m adding it to my blogroll. And thru the site I found an online store for natural beauty products, futurenatural.
Started by a 20 year beauty and fashion industry professional I’m definitely interested in making some purchases. Little by little I’ve been trying to find more natural replacements for all my beauty items and toiletries. I don’t recommend going crazy and buying all new stuff just because they are natural. Use what you have and as you run out maybe you’d like to try out a natural/organic alternative and see if it works for you. Just like I try to limit the amount of things I purchase and bring into my home I also try to limit the amount of man-made chemicals I put into or on my body.
I’ve been successful in replacing most cleaning products and beauty items such as face and body moisturizers and toothpaste. So now I’m looking to replace my makeup choices. I have sensitive skin as well so I’m hoping by finding natural alternatives I can eliminate some of those reactions that occasionally occur for me.
ecofabulous.com
futurenatural.com
