Repurposing a filing cabinet

So my darling hubby got two filing cabinets from a storage unit and he wanted to throw them away.I begged for them and finally, he relented. He just cannot see what I would want to do with filing cabinets! Well, this week I got help in taking them inside the house.I gave my little daughter one(who plays teacher every single day!) I have as yet to work on hers.
Well, here is what I did to mine in my office/craft room:

I cleaned it out and put some good ole elbow grease. Finally,I took some wallpaper we had remaining from years ago (no,I hardly throw away stuff-some of you know what I mean). I then stuck the wallpaper on both sides with Mod Podge. Good old Mod Podge-always there for me..haha!

Then,I used scrap circles punchouts which I had laying around.I'd punched these out with a scalloped circle punch. The paper is wallpaper-hehe. Then I Mod Podged those to the front.All because I am too lazy to take an X-acto knife to cut the handles out from a rectangle piece of paper.I love shortcuts, don't you?

I still have to give a final coat of Mod Podge to really seal all those circles in and put some labels on the drawers but here are some of the pics:

 

Organizer from an old baking pan

I hate to throw away stuff and maybe that is why I have so much junk around me.I always feel that there is a use for them.I have a round baking pan that was starting to show rust and wanted to upcycle it,so I took a  used candlestick.You can get them at the dollar store or maybe at yardsales and flea markets.I was trying to figure out how to get rid of the rust and concluded that hey, maybe sandpaper would work.It did.

Next, I Mod Podged a picture onto the inside of the pan where I had smoothened with sandpaper. The only thing I did not like was there was a few ripples after Mod Podge-ing. I still have to get the hang of doing it right but you get the idea.
To glue the pan to the candlestick, I used Elmer's household cement. I will post more on the organizer as I work on it.

A little productive today

Well,after making some heart shaped blueberry muffins for breakfast,I was able to do some laundry,check through emails,cook some baked fish, grits and fried squash (which was picked fresh from the garden minutes before), I was finally able to get down on some sewing. I took an ordinary pillowcase and converted it to a baby pillowcase and added a pink ribbon trim.

I made these blueberry muffins from the Martha White muffin mix and heart shaped silicone baking molds.

I was going through my inspirational projects sheets that you get free from craft stores and decided to hang them on a piece of yarn so that they can stare me in the face as a reminder of all what I need to get accomplished. I just strung them on and some I attached with clothes pins so that they would be easy to remove if they have a pattern on it or if they are of priority to make.

Organize your child's artwork and letters

My daughter loves to draw and sometimes, she makes these cute love letters or brings home some of her work from school.I hate to throw away these reminders of special moments so I went ahead and created a special organizer for the important ones.
I used a binder and page protectors and just slipped the work in. I even put one of her work (the heart shape) on the front of the binder which came with a plastic covering. I really like this idea because it becomes sort of like an album or scrapbook of memories and the page protector really helps.

Decluttering again

So yesterday I struggled to do some decluttering and organizing.My chest pains and back pains were aggravated but I was so tired of seeing a mess. I got some of my stockpile from couponing a bit more organized (no,I am not an Extreme Couponer but I do try to use my coupons when there are sales and stock up). I was also able to re-arrange my office/craft room.

I still have upstairs to organize but I have to do that another time.It is on my Christmas cleaning list.