Organized sink and additional projects down the pike!

With the exception of a tweak here or there I am finally finished with my under kitchen sink makeover!! 

Remember the before?

I kept waiting for the sun to come out so I could take a better picture (hence the reason this post is sooo late...lol). Other then a caddy for the items in the front I am very pleased with my new set up. I purged so many items from this cabinet that its ridiculous. I would show you the box but its slightly embarrassing! I will say that most of the items were purchased by my hubby who is always looking for a bargain and tends to buy it in bulk if he can get a great deal (remember the Shout?). I love that about him most of the time but it does make keeping the clutter at bay a challenge. He's been told to only buy my top favorite cleaners from now on. I will do a post on them very soon. 

We also tend to but the large bottles of products and I have strategically placed them in the very back since they are only needed when I refill a bottle. My "extras are in a medal container behind that strip in the middle of the cabinet. To the right are floor related products and in the middle are my daily grab items. The stacked blue boxes are from Target (my new best friend) and were only 3 bucks a piece. They hold a lot of misc. items (wipes, extra cloths, scrubbies and sponges). Right now I have newspaper down on the cabinet bottom but I hope to get peal and stick tiles in the future. I must say its a lot less creepy looking under there and I know right where I need to go when I'm looking for something.

I also utilized the inside door area with hooks and a towel rack I picked up a while ago at Marshall's in their home section. Other then the caddy and the tiles for the cabinet bottom I am done with this project!! On to the next cluttered space!!! LOL

Which in my case is the Laundry room!! Need I say more?

But thanks to Targets big home sale this is going to be a breeze! Pinterest has been a great source of inspiration for tackling this room...finally! Now to just get motivated to pull out all of that stuff, purge and organize it. 

The next project will take me into the new year as I try to convert my oldest daughters room into our guestroom, Thanks to Target's big sale I snagged a comforter for $13 and a set of sheets for less then $7! The color theme is gray, aqua and yellow. I hope to paint most of the room a smoky gray and accent one wall with the aqua blue. I have my eye on a yellow chair at Target but the price would have to go way down for me to buy it so I'm looking at other options.

Umm, yah...way down! LOL

I did less Fall decorating that I thought I would do but that will be posted in an upcoming blog post. I skipped September favorites but I have every intention of getting back on track next month and next week I will post my thoughts on my October Ipsy bag! Anybody else have any household projects in the works? Care to share?

Fall Cooking!

I'm still working on the organization under my kitchen sink. I'm taking my time and really thinking about what I want to keep under there and how and what products I want to use to organize with. Hopefully after living with a few more weeks I will have something to show you all!

It's been almost a year since I reorganized our pantry. It still looks pretty good but I do think its time to edit out some stuff that may have passed their time/expiration period. I think if I had done this from the start my pantry would never have gotten into the condition it did.

I finally broke down and created a house management binder! I fought this tooth and nail, especially doing a weekly meal plan. I'm so glad I changed my mind because this has made cooking a lot more fun. Now if I only felt that way about cleaning! lol

All jokes aside. Having a plan has made it less stressful when it comes to cooking. I plan a week out the actual meal (just dinner in our case) and at the start of that week I pull out my grocery list and buy only the items I need for that week. Hopefully this will eventually cut down on waste and the mess that is my refrigerator some time! This is becoming increasingly more important now that I'm actually only creating meals for Marc and myself. 

My mom came into town this weekend. I don't know what got into me but I caught the cooking bug and went a tad crazy! By the way this was my families first time having Sriracha! 

Starting with baking my second ever batch of banana bread. Now I'm not throwing away those ripe bananas! lol

Having this baking basket in my pantry has been a godsend! I just pull the while basket down and when I'm done it all goes back in and is put away in a jiffy! 

Next to Pinterest YouTube is the best place to get recipe ideas. I picked up this guacamole recipe after watching it on Benjimantv .

Not bad if I say so myself! 

Have you ever had frozen grapes? Don't ask me why but this has become a favorite snack! My family doesn't agree! lol

I also made homemade lasagna. With sauce from scratch! And I used the lasagna that you can just bake without boiling it first. I don't think I will ever go back to using the other version again. I use to make lasagna more often but that was the one step I hated the most! I also made mom breakfast every morning (including Sunday which I never do). Yes, it's officially fall if I'm baking and cooking! lol

Especially if it includes making homemade hot soup!

The only thing I haven't mastered is baking cakes and pies! So when I'm craving pies ( my favorites are sweet potato, pecan, key lime and lemon meringue). I like pies so much I've been known to ask for a pie for my birthday instead of a cake! So what's your favorite things about fall? For me its the weather, decorating, fall attire and of course the food! 

Fall organizational projects

Now that Fall is officially here its time to break out the fall decor ( which also means Christmas decor is not far behind). So in order to get ready for all of the holidays ahead I'm trying to tackle a few projects that I've had to put off do to my injuries. Of course you all know I just finished the upstairs linen closet and now I've started in on the dreaded sink!

Lets face facts...this is a scrabbled hot mess! I started by pulling everything out! And I do mean everything!! The next step was to sort, purge and clean!

So far so good! I may still purge a few more items and I need to find new homes for the things I took out but still would like to keep. The next step is to figure out what type of containers to use in order to give it a more cohesive look without compromising on the organizational aspects of the area. Y'all know me..it's no fun if I can't make it look pretty! lol 

I did find a solution for one problem I was having. I love that my make-up and jewelry has a more defined space but I found my jewelry would end up all over the house when I would come back from church, an errand or a trip. The past two weeks I have been at a conference ( one week) and we just wrapped up a week long of events at WABC. So needless to say my stuff was everywhere! I had baskets left over from our women's workshop this summer that I got from the dollar store. One is going to my moms house so that I have something to tote my toiletries in when I stay with her. One is under my island in the kitchen and is holding the tops for my glassware. The third one now is the "dumping" ground for my jewelry each night with the understanding that at the end of the week I return the pieces to my jewelry cabinet.