I know I've expressed my deep love for organization on here before. It's a real, legitimate love that makes my heart all sorts of happy. On the flip side, the opposite of organization, (would that be chaos?) is enough to make me crazy. I'm a straight lines person, everything in a place, in neat little rows. It's something I really have to work on, because we all know life can't be like that, all of the time. Or so I've been told. Multiple times. You can only imagine my level of frustration when I opened the drawer in my kitchen to find this disaster. Here's the thing, I've organized this drawer (and the one below), the random kitchen utensils and gadgets drawers. But, then they … [Read more...]
DIY Cupcake Stand
As promised, I'm here to deliver the cupcake stand tutorial. My husband may be a bit of a perfectionist, not when it comes to picking up his dirty cltohes, but building something? Yes. This is unlike what I would do in so many ways. First, he doesn't use any hot glue. Second, he uses a saw and other power tools. Basically, it's legit. (Don't worry, you can purchase pre-cut circles and wood glue.) It's also rather large. You may find that the dimensions are too big for your liking, in that case just start with a smaller base circle. I wanted it to be large enough to use for future events, but the top tier does screw off, so it gives me a little room to scale … [Read more...]