Hello Spring and hello HMC readers!! This is Kathy from Up to Date Interiors and I’m delighted to be hanging out with y’all today. I have the doors open and curtains fluttering in the breeze! While you start thinking about Spring Cleaning or printing out that gorgeous checklist, let’s do a little housekeeping in the […]
My Dirty Little Cleaning Secret
Are you sure? It’s not pretty… Oh ok, it probably isn’t little either, and I’m not even sure it’s a secret anymore! 😀 If you’ve been reading along for a while, you know that I have no fondness for cleaning. Organizing I can do, decorating I love… but cleaning takes a big fat back seat. […]
5 Easy Steps To A Well Organized Pantry
Hi there! I’m Iris, from IrisNacole.com! I’m so happy to be joining Ursula and you all today to share some pantry organizing tips that I hope will help you out! I have a confession to make though. One of the biggest struggles I have around my home is finding a place for all my junk, […]
Favorite Things (To Hoard)
Just because I believe in an organized, streamlined approach to living doesn’t mean I don’t have a few hoarding tendencies of my own to battle. I find myself going weak in the knees, eyes glazing over, and I’m pretty sure animated hearts pop out of my eye sockets. That’s right, it’s confession time… I have […]
Home Management Binder
I love being my own boss and a homeschooling mom, but let’s be honest, it takes a certain type of personality to do those things well. Unfortunately, about 70% of me is scatterbrained, which means I am not that ideal personality type. Often I feel like a thousand different ideas and tasks are pulling at […]
How To Craft A Cute Binder
Since I’m not naturally organized (or tidy), I have to work hard to keep myself motivated and on task. So I like to pull this little Jedi Mind Trick on myself where I make something so beautiful that I’m excited about keeping it up. I have to do this for my rooms, and I also do it […]
Schedule and Chore Board
Well, it has finally happened. My eldest daughter asked me to create a chore board that is “pre-teen appropriate”…aka she is ready for a big girl chore system, no more cute printable sheets with colorful dots filled in like the ones we currently use. *Sigh* my baby is growing up! Seriously, anyone know how to stop them […]
10 Thoughtful Touches To Make Guests Feel At Home
Be the hostess with the mostess with these 10 thoughtful touches to make your guest feel welcome!
A Guest Ready Living Space
Maybe it is because there are two new babies in the family (yay, I’m an aunty!!), but I have never been more excited for the big holiday get-together! You know what this means? Time to get every room whipped into guest ready shape. There are only so many rooms in the house, and one of the […]
Custom DIY Acrylic Drawer Organizers
I love acrylic drawer organizers, I hate that you can’t find them to fit every drawer perfectly, and that they aren’t adjustable. Don’t you wish you could have the best of both worlds? Guess what? YEAH baby! I get acrylic, and gold, and they are adjustable, and no little corner of space is wasted. Guys, […]
The Perfect Starter Piece
Yay, it’s that time of year! The one where college students step into their brand new dorm room full of possibilities (mostly fungal in nature), and young couples are starting a fall lease in their new apartment. Not to mention those buying a home and moving to a new location before the kid’s school year begins! […]
Sweet Little Homework Caddy
It’s funny how you can see a simple clever solution floating around Pinterest, one you’ve probably pinned 15 times, and then never do it. Well I’m finally going to do it. I’m going to assemble a simple little homework caddy, and if you have kids, you should do it with me! It takes 5 minutes. So why […]
The Most Effective Fruit Fly Trap
That moment when you come home from a long week of vacation only to be accosted in your own home by a swarm of well organized ruthless fruit flies. 🙁 Yeah ok, so maybe it wasn’t an actual swarm, but who knows how organized or ruthless they really are? What I can tell you is that there were […]
A Gorgeous & Effective Cleaning Closet
I don’t relish cleaning…I don’t know why since I enjoy organizing. Creating a beautiful and effective cleaning closet (although it’s more like a cleaning cabinet), helps get me a little more motivated to do the cleaning tasks at hand. What can I say? I’m motivated by pretty things…if it is beautiful, I want to hold […]
The Most Attractive Storage For Kid Stuff
I’m thrilled that my 11-year-old daughter wants her room to be “all grown up”! I confess, I’m excited partly because that room doubles as a guest room, and partly because I’ve been looking forward to decorating a growing girl’s room. So when we started looking for ways to store her toys, I just about died of happiness when […]
