Brrr… it’s a chilly 21 degrees here today. So, Pinky and I decided to take advantage of the cold and we made an ice candle holder for outside. It was super easy and it looks so pretty and simple. I could see a bunch of these lining a walk or driveway, assuming the wind wasn’t too intense.
If you want to make your own icy candle holder, then never fear. Hear are the easy peasy directions.
Supplies:
1 Medium Plastic Container
1 Small Plastic Cup (A Dixie cup may also work.)
Water
Tape
Fill the medium container a little more than half full with water. Submerge the smaller empty cup in the water and tape it down so that it is floating no more than an inch above the bottom of the medium container. Freeze and remove to reveal your icy candle holder.
Hello Dear Readers! Wow, have we been super busy around here. I have so much to update you on, but hardly anytime, so I thought I would go over some of the highlights of our past week.
-Preparing to move is hard work! Especially when you are doing it by yourself with a 5 year old attached to one leg and 2 furry golden retrievers hooked to the other. Chris has been in Boston working for over a week and I’m certainly not complaining one bit, but doing all of this by myself has been somewhat trying. Luckily, I’ve had my friends and family to count on and they’ve really helped me to keep my sanity. Thank you!
-Last weekend, we had a special visitor. My step-bro came to visit us from Chicago and we had a great time.
While he was here, Chris was lucky enough to score us some great seats at a NHL game and Pinky had the time of her life. (So did the rest of us!)
The Players:
The Cuteness:
The Zamboni:
The Loves:
The Video: (Excuse the messed up spelling. Video editor was on the fritz and decided to chop off the last letter on some words!)
-I’ve successfully unclogged a drain, put air in my tires, and moved a large dresser down a flight of stairs by myself.
-I realize that these accomplishments are small compared to what I want to do and what others do on a normal basis.
-I plan to finish patching and painting, change out our light switches and sockets, tile our foyer and upstairs bath, revamp the previously mentioned dresser, and pack the rest of our belongings before Chris comes back home. (I’m a glutton for punishment.)
-The Container Store has too many things that I want. Seriously, that store was created with me in mind. This, this and this all came home with me today, along with many other smaller items. They didn’t have my shiny trash can in stock and I’m waiting on the shoe thing until we move.
And I just wanted to add that Walmart has the best smelling Fresh Cotton candles, ever. Buy one. Now.
With our impending big move to the East Coast, I decided it was time to start planning some organization for the new place, even though the new place is not technically picked out yet. I have a lot of ideas of how I want to make our stuff more functional and accessible and the first part of this organizational journey was to go through and purge the stuff we already have. That included clothes, decor, furniture and even a few toys. (No worries, the toys were broken or missing pieces.) We ended up having to make several trips to donate stuff that we no longer wanted/needed, but now the house is less cluttered.
To keep our clutter to a minimum in the future, I’ve been eyeing several storage solutions for our new home. Click on the photos below to learn more about each product.
I plan on buying several of these baskets and painting them white to go into a shelving unit which will store toys in Pinky’s room.
Hopefully we can keep her toys wrangled, especially if we use these cute little tags I made to go on the baskets above.
In the kitchen, I would love this shiny waste receptacle.
For Christmas, I received several of these white bins as a gift from my lovely parents. I think these will work great in the pantry to keep all of our dry food corralled.
Moving to our the master bedroom, I would love to convert all of our existing plastic clothes hangers to these sleek wooden ones. We did this in our coat closet and it looks so much more cohesive now.
I also think it would be nice to own this cute white shoe cubby. At least it would be better than the laundry basket currently housing all of our out of season shoes.
So, there you have it. Do you have any organizational secrets that you are dying to share? Recommendations? Let us know what you think!
